president clinton respected it in terms of blue dresses. it is not you went there. it has to be dealt with here and now. we ll leave it on that, that was pretty good. let s move on to the irs. ryan, can the american people trust the irs if they can t even be accountable to the e-mails? what s going on? seven employees are under investigation. seven hard drives crashed. zero are backed up. the commissioner of the irs is a democratic donor who gave $80,000 to democratic campaigns, including five of them to president obama. he doesn t contact the department of justice, doesn t contact the congress or the fbi. all right. those are serious problems. i m going to let steve respond, but take a look at what the president said this week. sometimes the news that s coming off, it just these are just washington fights. they re fabricated issues, they re phony scandals that are generated. it s all beer torts, the next
congress. my make of it is subterfuge. they re doing nothing here, so they have to give some aura of activity, that really needs to be an adult in that room, of the republican caucus. how serious should the white house take the power abuse accusations? joining us now, republican strategist, ryan derdusky, and steve laser. thanks for being with me tonight. steve, is that the case? i don t think. if you look at the judicial measurements of whether a president is using his executive authority, things like executive orders and signing statements, he s used the fewest executive orders of any two-term president, on track to, since grover cleveland. 1897. i m not sure where republicans are getting this idea that he s misusing his executive authority. all right, you see it? he has a right to do as many executive orders as he wants, but it s what he s doing executive order on. he doesn t have the right to do an executive order in the attempt to frustrate a law so
best long-term interest of the congress. my make of it is subterfuge. they re doing nothing here, so they have to give some aura of activity, that really needs to be an adult in that room, of the republican caucus. how serious should the white house take the power abuse accusations? joining us now, republican strategist, ryan derdusky, and steve laser. thanks for being with me tonight. steve, is that the case? i don t think. if you look at the judicial measurements of whether a president is using his executive authority, things like executive orders and signing statements, he s used the fewest executive orders of any two-term president, on track to, since grover cleveland. 1897. i m not sure where republicans are getting this idea that he s misusing his executive authority. all right, you see it? he has a right to do as many executive orders as he wants, but it s what he s doing executive order on. he doesn t have the right to do
best long-term interest of the congress. my make of it is subterfuge. they re doing nothing here, so they have to give some aura of activity, that really needs to be an adult in that room, of the republican caucus. how serious should the white house take the power abuse accusations? joining us now, republican strategist, ryan derdusky, and steve laser. thanks for being with me tonight. steve, is that the case? i don t think. if you look at the judicial measurements of whether a president is using his executive authority, things like executive orders and signing statements, he s used the fewest executive orders of any two-term president, on track to, since grover cleveland. 1897. i m not sure where republicans are getting this idea that he s misusing his executive authority. all right, you see it? he has a right to do as many executive orders as he wants, but it s what he s doing executive order on. he doesn t have the right to do
president clinton respected it in terms of blue dresses. it is not you went there. it has to be dealt with here and now. we ll leave it on that, that was pretty good. let s move on to the irs. ryan, can the american people trust the irs if they can t even be accountable to the e-mails? what s going on? seven employees are under investigation. seven hard drives crashed. zero are backed up. the commissioner of the irs is a democratic donor who gave $80,000 to democratic campaigns, including five of them to president obama. he doesn t contact the department of justice, doesn t contact the congress or the fbi. all right. those are serious problems. i m going to let steve respond, but take a look at what the president said this week. sometimes the news that s coming off, it just these are just washington fights. they re fabricated issues, they re phony scandals that are generated. it s all beer torts, the next