skills close to getting 218 votes. cole, you just heard from and other members of the team are quietly making calls to rank-and-file republicans just to be safe. even if boehner isn t deposed as speaker, he will start the new congress back on his heels a bit because of this rebellion. john and christine. senator dianne feinstein calling for changes for the government barring torturing detainees. a five-year investigation into the use of torture by the cia after 9/11. she just sent a letter to president obama calling for better oversight. she plans to introduce legislation in congress to outlaw torture and ban the spy agency from detaining prisoners. the embattled president nieto is meeting with the president at the white house
sadly, it distracts from the message. we should talk about the republican agenda. about the possibilities now we have senate about keystone and fixes on obamacare and trade and regulatory reform. those types of issues. instead, on the opening day of the republican congress we have republicans at odds. that s unfortunate. steps on the story and doesn t accomplish anything productive. reporter: the argument cole and others make is you cannot replace someone with no one. there is no other republican who raised as much money and campaigned for as many people or has the skills that come close to getting 218 votes to be the speaker of the house. cole, who we just heard from and other members of the team i talked to say they are quietly making calls to rank-and-file republicans. if boehner isn t deposed as speaker, he will start the new congress back on his heels a bit because of the rebellion. john and christine. dana thank you for that.
the new republican congress we have republicans at odds. it steps on the story. it doesn t accomplish anything productive. reporter: the argument that cole arnd others make is you cannot replace someone with no one. there is no other republican who has raised as much money or has the skills or leadership to come close to getting 218 votes to be the speaker of the house. cole who we just heard from and other members of the team i talked to say they are quietly making calls to rank-and-file republicans just to be safe. if boehner isn t deposed as speaker, he will start the new congress back on his heels a bit because of this rebellion. john and christine. thanks, dana. embattled leader of mexico president nieto is meeting with the president at the white house. the mexican president is under fire at home where drug violence is raging and corruption charges
are making calls to rank-and-file. if boehner isn t deposed as speaker, he will start the congress back on its heels a bit because of this rebellion. john and christine. thank you, dana. dianene feinstein is calling for new measures. the outgoing chairman of the senate committee spearheaded a campaign of the use of the enhanced techniques after 9/11 of torture techniques. she sent a letter to president obama and said she will introduce legislation to ban the spy agency. and beating back isis fighters for the town of kobani. the kurds now control 80% of the northern syrian city after recapturing the government square. 14 isis militants reportedly killed in monday s battle.
branch that s being disadvantaged by the executive branch. and it s not about executive actions. every president does executive orders. most of them, though, do them within the law. with a we re talking about here are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. joining me now from philadelphia is michael smerconish, political commentator and anchor of cnn s own smerconish. boehner isn t revealing any details about this lawsuit. and i can tell you from our reporting is because he doesn t know what the details are yet. they haven t figured out exactly what they re going to sue about, which executive orders. even when they figure that out, they want to have the house authorize it so it s not boehner versus obama. it s the house of representatives versus the executive branch. but let s just talk politics here. what would be the political impact on this in the short