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But the senate? its tough. >> trace: thanks, gerry. this is joint base andrews. the president is on his way to minneapolis for a rally. he lost minnesota to hillary clinton, but it was close. theyre hoping maybe now they can swing it. i want to bring in chad pergram. he can give us insight whether or not there is a pathway to legislation in the near future that could put this whole executive order thing to rest. chad pergram, what is your take whats going on in capitol hill? >> theres two bills ...

Sort of -- this executive order thing through the justice department. people like dianne feinstein say you need legislation. so even on this limited step, im not sure hes for real. >> well, i mean, legislation is always preferred over an executive action or a doj ruling, as with bump stocks, it is a small step. fix nics is a positive thing. but at the same time it is a pretty small minor tweak to our nations gun laws. what we need is universal background checks for all gun sales. >> they dont wa...

Country. >> neil: youre new to this and -- i know youre new to this. it might startle you. barack obama signed a lot of executive orders. you think its the whole executive order thing? its just a bad idea? presidents should slow down, if not stop it? >> look, the president has a right to sign executive orders. all im saying is lets talk and confer with folks to make the whole process better. work with our friends, work with the republicans and the democrats. its not only democrats that have conc...

Its something that is a work in progress. its not something that happened overnight either. its a difficult -- when you look at the whole picture, it will take a little bit to get it done. as i said, after meeting with him today, he looks like hes really going after his agenda. >> neil: thanks, joy. quite an honor to meet the president. joy anthis, jwa construction. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: when we come back, the fallout of this and the competing interests as to how wel...

I hope he invites more people in. steve: thank you very much. this guy is from houston. you were down at the inauguration. >> yes, i was. steve: why? >> i have never been. i wanted to be a part of history. steve: you there were to see donald trump become our 45th president. >> yep. steve: how do you think is he doing so far? >> i hope he can keep the energy up and keep going. its a tremendous job that he has to do, but i just hope he can keep it up. steve: you know, he says he is going to build ...

Talk about jamie dimon. these are to reassure people that trump is serious. now, who they pick ultimately, i dont know. i think thats absolutely fascinating. if i can say on the executive order thing, when barack obama became president and the republicans made it clear they were going to block him at every turn, that was their strategy, he expanded the use of executive action. democrats applauded the fact that he did this. but having set that precedent and greatly expanded the use of executive a...

To dagen. its up to the congress. >> gerry is here. >> you dont think a president can decide which is right executive order material? >> no. >> history will decide people go to the courts for this and in the case of fdr, years after the fact, they say you went too far? >> obviously, the president is going too far. thats my opinion. my fear isnt the original list of things we talked about. >> right. >> the bait switch. >> there is a list of taxes he wants to raise on his own. that includes everyt...

He signed an executive order to allow 800,000 undocumented workers to stay here, number one, and congress did not challenge that. what is going to happen, i think, the storyline after tomorrow night, is courts will be very busy looking at what it is he can in fact do by executive order, and theres going to be a lot of it, and hes going to start it right away. >> he already said he was going to do this executive order thing last year. >> i understand the justice department and the white house cou...