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Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Friday, March 13th, really, another Friday

to 13th.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz and Hannah Rosen is in with us this week, who is sitting

in for Emily but also is married to David Plotz,

writes for the Atlantic, writes for Slate.

And spend sort of more time with Emily than David these days, actually.

And you were in, in fact, before we started, Hanna was attacking the state of our marriage,

blaming my book for the state of our marriage.

Because we're starting this new Slate magazine talk, you know, several times a day, and you were in Minneapolis.

So, you know.

The, I'm in Minneapolis for 26 hours.

And oddly, it's now as chilly in this room as it was in Minneapolis.

The first topic we're going to discuss is the Obama administration.

Is the president doing too much? He came under some

criticism this week from some very respected business men on that front and politicians as well.

And the second topic will be Obama's rescinding of Bush's executive order governing the use of embryonic stem cells.

And then the third topic will be about the first lady, Michelle Obama, and a variety of things associated with her arms and other things. Yeah, arms. And then we'll have cocktail chatter and we'll all hopefully get out of here and still be married. I mean, I think my marriage is intact pretty much either way. Why doesn't Anne ever come on the Gap Fest? I don't know. She'd be great. It's a good. She was with Hannah earlier this, or was it last week?

Anyway, we'll, maybe we'll try and bring her on. But then. Then your marriage would be unsteady. Speaking of, well, I have no segue. This week, there was kind of this. Can we hold hands, sweetie? No. No, go away. This odd attack on, I'm pretty much just talking to myself here at this moment. There was this attack on the president about whether he was trying to do too much. And it mostly came from Republicans who was saying, you know, he's trying to fix the economy, he's trying to bail out the banks, he's launching a health care initiative, he's giving a speech on energy, he's talking about education. This seemed like a kind of a trumped-up story. But then Warren Buffett, who was a big

supporter of Obama's on the campaign trail and who Obama had name-checked all the time, and Andy Grove,

the founder of Intel, not the founder, but the longtime CEO of Intel, made the same complaint,

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