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It should not look good to any single american. >> the president thinks you guys are unwilling to work with him. we have a do-nothing congress, we cant have a congress sitting around getting nothing done. he says look, maybe im pressing it but im going to have to press it to help the american people have some sort of legislative achievements over the next four years. >> the division of powers is very clear. we dont need a tyrant, a king. the heavy debate takes place in the congress. >> how can h...

Executive powers. this time the president speaking directly to the lawmakers who he wants to bypass. yet democrats not seeming to mind. here is rush limbaugh. >> he basically told them im going to screw you if i have to. if you get in my way what i want to do when i pretend to be dictator, screw up. they stood up the democrat side and applauded. >> our political panel the hills a.b. stoddard abc news political director rick klein and washington examiner susan if a riccio. the democrats dont seem...

State of the union speeches have all the feel of campaign events. thats because the president still has a sales pitch to make to convince a skeptical public that with the stroke of a pen he can move the country in the right direction. after days of promising to use his executive powers, president obama put his pen to action at a pennsylvania steel plant. >> its done. >> reporter: and signed an order establishing a new retirement program. the new m.y.r.a., as the white house is calling them, will...

President obama go in dealing with congress? the article goes on to say, his address will reveal whether obama is serious about testing the limits of his executive powers, or content with using them as a threat. and joining me live, politicos chief political columnist roger simon. roger, how do you answer that? is the president prepared to go to the limit? >> i think he is. i think hes already done executive actions before. he did some on immigration. he did a small amount on guns. but i expect ...

President obama is promising to take on a new strategy in 2014. thats the executive powers. well, in tomorrows state of the union address, the president will reportedly double down on his goals of addressing income inequality and advancing the middle class in this country. as we highlighted at the beginning of tonights program, the president may use his executive power to bypass the congress and get things done. >> the president cant -- is not going to tell the american people that he is going t...

To do some of this new his executive powers. what strikes me is that the media seem to have tuned out what has been a pretty robust debate in this country about how much is too much, the metadata, the eavesdropping on the e-mails, now we learn the nsa has access to text messages people send. but really the presidents been distracted by the ed snowden melodrama, is he a traitor, will he be brought to justice, does he stay in russia. and theres been a lot less maybe because people have moved on or...

About. >> rush limbaugh attacked the president saying the president will use whatever he can. >> he might have a pen and he might have a phone. but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator. and yet thats exactly what it sounds like. >> a dictator to use his executive powers? >> i love that you call rush limbaugh the head of the republican party because in a practical sense that is actually true. the republican party is governed by its media industrial...

On executive order. he actually wrote a book about it. he says that clinton and bush did a lot of executive orders, they werent aougs aougs -- using their full executive powers. this president made it clear he plans on dominating this year. if legislation cant move through congress, hes going to move it through his oval office. >> hes calling 2014 the year of action. all he says that is necessary is a pen and paper. take a listen. >> ive got a pen and ive got a phone. and i can use that pen to s...

A minority and saying if you can call someone who was a servant a dictator, it leaves me speechless. he criticized twitter saying social media is the worst menace to society. the white house is urging all parties to continue to work to calm the situation. what makes it different than anything else is turkey is a democracy. few believe the government is in danger of falling, they see it as a sign of the autocratic tendencies to everyone term-limited and they believe to have his sights on the pres...

Mitch mcconnell bears more of this blame than the president does but we ought to just keep talking about it. we ought to just keep pushing at it, and i think the president can never say its -- you know, its up to you guys now. he always has to have some new activity that he and other people can do to keep trying. >> dean, what about this point, youre president of the united states. you are the president. you have a lot of powers, executive powers. >> you can do it through that and thats one thin...