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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 13th 2018 at the Trump Economy Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Outlook Subscrier Eye of In Washington DC. Joining me through the magic of Copper Wire is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. Hello, John.

Hi.

And from also the magic of Copper Wire, Emily Bazlon of The New York Times Magazine, who is a new haven. Hello, Emily.

Hello, hello.

On this week's Gab Fest, the fight about who is responsible for the thriving economy and why that matters.

Then the state of the race, I said that in all caps, the state of the race could the Democrats take the Senate? Will they take the House?

Can they do both? Can they do neither?

Then the Trump administration announces a plan to change how it detains families, migrant families, not all families.

I don't know if they're going to detain regular families. God knows, perhaps. That's probably coming.

Who knows? Emily will explain. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And just one final reminder that Slate Day is coming up that is going to be the live podcast experience in partnership with the Texas Tribune Festival.

It's going to be on Saturday, September 29th at the Capitol Factory in downtown Austin, Texas.

We're going to be there with the Trump cast and Amicus and Elgavfest and the gist.

And you can go to Slate.com slash live to learn more. The individual tickets to our show are sold out. However, you can still, I think, get an all-access pass to the whole day, which will allow you to see us as well as all those other wonderful shows.

And a reminder, we, of course, we have a great guest to Ray McKesson is going to be our guest at that show.

So go to Slate.com slash live comes to us September 29th in Austin.

The Trump economy, it's booming unemployment, 3.9% the lowest rate in decades, GDP grew more than 4% last quarter, wages are rising, adding tons and tons of jobs every month.

Unemployment rates for African Americans at the lowest in memory job growth is brisk.

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