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Hello and welcome to Slate's political gab fest.

The welcome to the cleptocracy edition for December 1, 2016.

I'm Emily Bazlan.

John and David are off somewhere.

I'm not sure where although I did have a great time doing a live show with them last night

that listeners you will hear just before New Year's that we can take a break for the holiday.

And today I am joined by at the moment three people Ruth Marcus, who is a colonist and deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post.

Hey Ruth, hi there.

And Adam Davidson, who is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

Hey Emily.

Hey, and Jacob Weisberg, who is the chairman of the Slate group and the host of Trump cast,

the show that is going on for at least four years.

Don't remind me.

But very much worth listening to.

So we're going to talk about three topics.

Adam is going to join us for the first topic we're harnessing his finance and economics expertise.

And then we're going to let him go because he has a busy day.

And on this week's show, we will start by talking about Trump's business entanglements and conflicts of interest.

They abound what does that mean about how to think about this presidency.

Then we're going to talk about Trump's recent cabinet appointments in particular, his selection of Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

And what that means for repealing and replacing Obamacare.

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