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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 20th, 2015.

The Does President Obama Love America Edition?

I'm David Plotz.

I'm at Atlas of Situera.

I'm here in Washington, D.C.

John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News is next week.

John is just getting a call from CBS News, even as we speak.

So John will not even say hello.

Emily Bazel.

No, CBS News has to wait a moment because John doesn't want to take that call right now.

That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, the newly relaunched New York Times Magazine.

Emily, congratulations on newly relaunching your magazine.

Hey, I feel like I deserve the tiniest shred of credit, but it is exciting. Thank you.

Do you have any pieces in the newly relaunched New York Times Magazine?

No, I don't. That's why I get a tiny, tiny shred of credit, just merely for cheering on everyone

else. Wow. All right. On this week's Gab Fest, a federal judge says President Obama's immigration executive order is illegal and stops it in its tracks.

Then Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, has made a canny or is it terrible attack on the public universities of his home state? What is he trying

to accomplish with that? And then the Republican foreign policy assault on President Obama,

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