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Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obamas head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something hes not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows hes quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said were trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. thats a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican president, and...

Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obamas head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something hes not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows hes quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said were trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. thats a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican president, and...

Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obamas head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something hes not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows hes quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said were trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. thats a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican dent, ent, and...

Difficult to implement. so, people dont want to see this get implemented for a lot of different reasons, but the problem is we cant just toss the constitution out the window because its a desirable result. >> thats not the case here. >> im saying this executive discretion he is taking on, if its not challenged, its going to stay, and -- >> neil: we just wasted time. >> going to set the press sent for future administrations taking advantage and its going to be a free-for-all: doesnt make it right...

Rewrite the immigration law and give out these kinds of benefits. every time congress looked at it since the mid-1990s they tried to tighten up any discretion and made it clear there is very little discretion and its tightly confined in granting extraordinary relief. what he has done is shown he can be cowed by a radical wing of his party for political reasons. hijack the congress. >> there is a lot of pent-up anger, mr. stein. but we all know the president has every right to exercise his execut...