>> again, it's a border policy question. governor perry is also raising a competence question. why don't they respond? they may just say i'm just a republican, but i'm the governor and they don't even respond to me. >> this gets into a lot of issues republicans think are good for them politically. one is the issue of competence. we've seen it come up not only with immigration, the recent veterans affairs scandals, things like that. on immigration for republicans, what's interesting is this comes at a time when the white house is trying to pin the blame for comprehensive immigration reform not happening on republicans. this in a way allows republicans to shift the immigration conversation back to the white house and say that things at the white house did are to blame for what's happening at the border. if the president goes forward with more executive actions, we could be seeing similar situations for years to come. >> republicans think they have the upper hand. house speaker john boehner getting a lot of attention. he says he will go forward with