strange way to do business. the house speaker is threatening to sue the president of the united states. the president using executive order. what do you make of what we are seeing here? it s unplugged and speaking from the heart. he s frustrated. he wants the last couple years of his presidency to not be made up of nothing. i think john boehner and others nitpicking at everything he tries to do realize we need to fund construction projects and deal with immigration. i think the president needs a slightly tweaked strategy because i think he s right that some of these things are done better working with congress. find out if there s a way to get things done, particularly transportation with congress opposed to trying to go around them. john mayer says we are not
overcrowding near the texas/mexico border. alan long urged people unhappy with the decision to protest the transfer. more than 52,000 unaccompanied children entered the u.s. since october. president obama is doubling down on his promise to use executive orders to achieve results if congress fails to act. he urged members of the cabinet to be creative in finding ways to use his executive authority. john boehner is vowing to sue the president to bypass congress and ignoring laws of the land. president obama is not backing down. i m going to keep on taking action on my own to help the middle class. and they criticize me for this. boehner is suing me for this. and i told him, i would rather do things with you. pass some laws. middle class families can t wait
emotional. george w. bush wasn t afraid to use this action. is the president within his authority to use the language he s using? the language he s using, i agree with mark, unplugged and interesting for us to see him six years in like he s watching a lot of fox news. he s listening to conservative talk radio or watching fox in his free time. what s interesting to me is how he seems to have these feelings in a vacuum but he has no role in arriving at this place where he can do anything with congress. whether or not the american people buy that remains to be seen. he will spend two years speaking to a smaller slice of america, his base. they will write checks to his
library and have success. on immigration, this has gone from being, you know, what i think at one point for a long time was the greatest legislative failure of both parties of congress to the most grave humanitarian crisis in the country. we have tens of thousands of children living in government detention centers. we bring people on this show all the time to talk about refugee crises and we have one in this country and they are children. he is not to blame completely for the fact we are where we are. but, you certainly wish that we had leaders in both parties who could go down to the border. i went to the border with george w. bush a dozen times and bring the focus on the humanitarian tragedy and try to lead our way out of this whether it s executive action or limited legislative action. john boehner is saying
for republicans in congress to do stuff. so sue me. as long as they are doing nothing, i m not going to apologize for doing something. president obama criticized republicans for playing politics with the plans to build highways and bridges that could affect up to 700,000 jobs. people want to see results. and objectively, if you look at the agenda i m putting forward, the things we are trying to get done, like just fix some bridges and roads, it really shouldn t be controversial. not crazy. not socialism. it s not, you know, the imperial presidency. no laws are broken. mark halperin, this is a