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Lets been with another headline this morning from the mes, theon ti president unloading on House Republicans and they plan to sue him for executive overreach, calling the move a political stunt and waste of time and money. His weekly address, the president tried to paint republicans as detached from reality, attending to pick americans from gop leaders such as detour john boehner. The speaker unveiled his plans to file that lawsuit against the president. Here is Speaker Boehner on wednesday. [video clip] wife let me make this clear this is not about me suing the president. It is not about republicans versus democrats. This is about the legislative that is being disadvantaged by the executive branch. Not about executive actions. Every president does executive orders. Most of them, though, do them within the law. What we are talking about are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. You will know more about this next week and the following week as we continue to move this issue forward. The comments of House Speaker john boehner. And the president responding to the weekly address our question, have relations reached a new low . Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi of california says this lawsuit is just another diversion from House Republicans desperate to distract americans from their own spectacular dysfunction. More of your calls and comments in just a moment, but first, a look at the other sunday morning programs, all of which can be heard on cspan radio, and with that, nancy calo. Nancy, good morning. Good morning, steve. Some of the topics on talk shows include Immigration Reform and the unaccompanied children crossing the u. S. Southern border, the violence in the middle east, and politics. You can hear rebroadcast of the programs on cspan radio beginning today at noon eastern with nbcs meet the press. Indict, former and congressmen the walking castro, a texas democrat. Id 1 00, your abcs this week. Todays guest asked attorney general eric holder. At 2 00 p. M. , fox news sunday, israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, representative mike michael mccaul, Texas Governor rick perry. P. M. , johnblood mccain and Benjamin Netanyahu. Face the nation from cvs and another appearance from Benjamin Netanyahu and rick perry. Tv talk showswork are on cspan radio and there brought to you as a Public Service for by the networks and cspan. Again, a real rugrats of the shows begins at noon eastern with nbcs meet the press, nation,s face the foxs state of the nationwide on x and satellite radio, channel 120 both of you can download our free out for your smartphone or go online to cspan. Org. Host of course you can also follow cspan on twitter cspanw. Marsha blackburn with this tweet last week on a lawsuit filed by House Republicans the constitution is clear. The president must faithfully execute the laws but only the legislative branch has the power to make the laws will stop michael hasnt this tweet saying the relationship between the white house and congress will only get worse as obama tries to remain relevant. Then from the Washington Post, there is this from eric blake pleasantly,ne speaker banner is not and will never be on board with impeachment because he knows it is bad politics in an election year, as we have discovered before. That puts them in a somewhat awkward position of having to potentially tap down impeachment talk as nancy pelosi did back in 2006, but unlike with below see in todays gop, that could that thinks the gop establishment is too soft on obama. The lawsuit should help speaker banner thread that needle. There might be a lot of conservatives who view impeachment of the rope play, everyone thinks suing obama is a half measure, but it is much harder to accuse banner of being soft on obama when he is currently bringing the guy to court. That is no small thing. That is this morning from aaron blake in the Washington Post. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Caller hi. Thank you very much and of course thank you for cspan. The refugee stories a big topic, and immigrants, people who come near that or whatever, undocumented, but what a lot of americans do not realize is these children, wherever they are coming from, some of them are under great danger. I just read a story of a girl i do not want to go into details too much, it is very graphic, but they did very bad things to her. She is 11 years old. They are coming here because they are refugees. Host sarah, thank you for the call. This is the cover of cq weekly , whatsin crisis driving tens of thousands of children to risk their lives and cross the border. We have john next from new york. Good morning, john. Caller good morning. Well, i would like to say good morning, but we have a definite lack of statesman. A statesman is somewhat a group with their party behind what is best for the country. Right now we have about 537 in washington, d. C. Who will say what is best for my party to get what is best for the American People. I digress a little bit to the previous caller. About these children coming across the border i have several hundred thousand relatives serving in the military, many of them previous wars, needed medical care, they served their country. Until we make sure that they all have a roof over their heads, their medical needs taken care sicknd all of the they basicrights, i do not human rights a lot of think we should bring in a single immigrant. Host thank you. Only go back to the piece in cq weekly. Host lets go next to george shimizu, kentucky, democrat line. Good morning to you, george. Caller good morning. Host what about this relationship or maybe lack thereof between president obama and House Republicans . Caller it is ridiculous to think that taxpayers are going to pay for a lawsuit. It is merely a stun. I mean, the final nail in the sarah palin once in beachwood. They should follow her. Host john from houston, texas, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you. Because well, first off, the major location for founding our country, even though they call themselves the tea party, actually began in revolutionaryin america because that is where people meet to discuss the issues of the day. You dont get a lot of talk like that in taverns. Taverns are totally different. If any of your viewers felt that it was time for i, self a coffeehouse up a bill to draw of laws for the Republican Leadership because they have done so many things that are stalling the american taxpayer from getting their moneys worth. Host john, thank you for the call from houston. Barbara sent in this tweet republicans think it is their job to foil the president and hold this administration hostage. If republicans would do their jobs, executive orders would be less. Harry reid sent out this tweet the president is doing something to solve problems and republicans are suing you because they want to do nothing. That is just sad. Matt lewis, who is a contributing editor for the week magazine, he is also a conservative blogger, says the president s promise of executive action is bad news even for supporters of Immigration Reform, and that includes me. Even though i support Immigration Reform, i support the separation of powers even more, and this president has gone too far inflicting his executive order muscles. That is why matt lewis says im a plodding speaker baiters decision to sue over obamas executive orders, and you should, too, no matter which party you are in. The principle behind the push is dead on apples app can read the full essay online at thee week. Com. Heres more from the president. Ho was on the road [video clip] the truth is with all the actions taken this year, i am issuing executive orders at the lowest rate of more than 100 years, so it is not clear, you know, how it is that republicans resident bush took more executive actions than i did. Maybe it is just me they dont like. I dont know. Maybe there is some principle out there that i have not discerned. That i have not figured out. You hear some of them. All right sue him, impeach him really . [laughter] [applause] really . For what . You are going to sue me for doing my job . Ok. I mean, think about that. Sue me for doing my job. While you dont do your job. Host that was the president this last week. He was in texas. Before that, and colorado as he took aim at House Republicans. Inside the Washington Post is a look at past president s facing to 9062 dating back with john f. Kennedy and morrison with president s clinton and reagan and of course bush v. Gore. Sebastian pain points out Host University full essay online at washingtonpost. Com. In a minute line, don independent line, dawn is next. Be ar i used to republican, and i just changed to independent because i do not understand because my party is wasting taxpayer dollars suing obama and wont pass one bill. Host ronald from louisiana, democrat line. Good morning. Yes, why can boehner host 54 or so votes on the Affordable Care act, but he wont bring one bill to the floor and says that it wont , to block anything be American People need . Host ok, lets go next to joe joining us this morning from south carolina. Joe, good morning. Morninghey, steve, good to you. I want to Say Something about the lawsuit and also since youre talking about executive order. A lot has been said about bush, and of course im independent, a lot has been said about was using more executive orders or action that obama, and that is true, but ive not done the research, so somebody can do it. I wonder how many were used to current law on the books as opposed to obama. That is a key issue with regards to executive orders. Now the lawsuit with boehner, there is a big downside to this lawsuit, and that is if a judge dismisses the suit as frivolous or it has no grounds, that empowers the president even more. He then can go to the podium and say see, i can do whatever i want with my pen and phone. Do you see what i am saying . Host thank you for the call, joe. This is what the house resolution, which was introduced last thursday, looks like, as House Republicans proceed on a lawsuit against the president , and from the president s hometown newspaper the chicago lets gethat says this straight, john boehner, the republican speaker of the house of representatives whose party wants to repeal obamacare plans to sue the president for failing to fully implement obamacare. The president who did everything he could to push the measure through congress refuses to enforce provisions that he signed into law. Who declared it opposite day in washington . Next we will be seeing the tea party demanding higher taxes and nancy pelosi joining the National Rifle association. There are other rich ironies in seeming spectacle. If congress thinks the president is running amok, it has plenty of ways to rein him in. They can pass legislation overruling him, it can hold funding for this or other priorities, it can even impeach him and remove him from of fice, an option Speaker Boehner has rejected. Lets go next to bill joining us from virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Whynt understand how and john boehner wants to sue the president of the United States. Three president obama cannot do this by himself. Do,an only do what he can and if he did not sign those executive orders, where were the be becauseople john boehner refused Mitch Mcconnell has done more harm to hurt america than he has two help america. Host thank you for the call. We go to mike in North Carolina, republican line. Good morning, mike. Caller good morning, how are you . Host fine, thank you, how are you . Caller i am ok i guess. I do not know if the president or i do not know if Speaker Boehner has legal standing constitutionally to sue the president. Method or the mechanism that the constitution and our Founding Fathers allowed for, there were bmps may, but obviously with a democraticcontrolled senate, that is not possible, or at least a conviction. They could impeach, but whatever. For those people who do not think this is frivolous or they take the president at his word that this is a stunt and it is another fabricated scandal or whatever, they are not paying attention, and they are not paying attention to the 11 or 12 Supreme Court rulings over the last few years, many if not all of them unanimous meeting the justices on the Supreme Court sided with the. Ive conservatives basically for lack of a better term slapping down president obama, and the most recent what the hobby lobby ruling, but right before that it was the recess appointments for the National Labor relations board. Before that it was the epa. This goes on and on and on. Visible a clear and overreach by the president of the United States on his powers, and the Supreme Court has made those rulings. Like i said, many of them have been unanimous. So there is a basis here for what Speaker Boehner is doing. That is my two cents. Host mike, thank you for the call. Richardson dennis tweet richard sent in this tweet speaker banner, the house gop is at seven bring percent favorability, you are part of the least productive hours ever. Impeach yourself, sir. Many of you weighing in at the republicans and republicans have a reached a new low . Intrinsic ideological ideas are a root cause of the problem, and Stephen Mcduffie says people are sick of government. And he is joining us, houston, texas, independent line. Hope i get to talk this time because you have a talk about my favorite subjects in you keep hanging up on me and cspan is not right. They ask you what you want to talk about, and it is this and if it is something they do not want to to say, they do not want those of us who live on the bar to talk about this, socalled people talking like that. I got through three or four times and they kept hanging up on me. Host you are on the air, so make your point. Caller this morning im going to talk. First off, all these bleeding hearts, i dont care about them. They are stupid. I think the people should sue obama and i think he should be impeached. Let them bleeding hearts tell themselves these illegals, give they took my grandson and blinded him at his school because they are nothing by gang members. Here in texas, they run the schools here in texas. They run the police department, they run everything here, they run the news stations, so that means they get to do whatever they want, and they will not arrest these people. There is a fellow who jumped on my grandson, and the police would not do anything. They had their own the police department. These people are not coming here for no good reason, and whenever americans stand up and filed her own lawsuit, it is not going to stop until then. Springing for no refugees, it is not happening. My nextdoor neighbor is from honduras, my grandson talk to him last night about any says his family has nothing none of them come here and buy a home from them or nothing, but all of the people in america are losing their homes. Obama is making American People pay for their own medical care. Host annie, thank you for the call from houston, texas. Bill has this one are twitter page speaker banner is the self implosion of the Republican Party. , mr. Speaker. Dramatic pictures as more than 140,000 minority muslims have been forced to live in camps where disease and despair have taken root. This is a story that has been percolating over the last couple of muscles up the pictures and full story inside time magazine. We are focusing on the president and congressional publican. Have relations now that House Republicans have filed a lawsuit reached a new low with the president . Responding to all of this on the campaign trail as he was raising money for house and Senate Democrats in dallas, austin, and denver, colorado this week, mario is joining us from east metals, new york from new york. The lawsuit, believe it or not, i think it might be a good thing because it goes against the president and democrats, he is not really showing up on the whether you are a republican, democrat, white, black, he is just not showing up and doing his job. If that is what they have to do to make him do his job and engage him look, he does not even speak to his own democrats. Anybody to camp david. He doe