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With executives orders. once his agenda has been moved to that big white building behind us, is he going to have the patience to watch all these committees and two chambers of congress slowly move his agenda or by march and april is he going to say, guys, what do you mean theres a markup in the senate finance committee? well, whatever, man. get to my desk. this is a new world for him. >> i talked to a senior aide yesterday on the way back from philadelphia. a republican who said, look, he is off...

In news conference from leader mcconnell and speaker ryan aimed at showing that republicans are all on the same page. i ask them if they have differences and they of course want to talk about their priorities, repealing the health care law and tax reform while donald trumps executives orders have been uncomfortable for a lot of them to talk about. there are issues to work through on some of these other issues. a big one, torture, those enhanced interrogation techniques that president trump says ...

All right, gang, today, the first big work day for president trump, the first big weekday of his administration. hes had a fairly busy 72 hours. hes taken steps to suspend a mortgage rate cut, symbolically started chipping away at the affordable care act and we expect the overhaul of a couple of major trade deals. you saw this morning his meeting with business leaders around the country. congress now back to work with the trump agenda kicking into high gear, a lot of action, including some cabin...

Many executives orders, believe me, well be canceling a lot. and lift the restrictions on the production of american energy including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.

Access to firearms? i dont think a president would want to do that. so im quite skeptical. lets look at other things that are in these executives orders. were going to allow the national instant criminal background check system to operate 24 hours a day to make background checks more officials. there will be more agents involved in that process. there are things that i think any future president would have a very hard time logically thinking through, then deciding they want to undo these common ...

He had the biggest forum that congress can give, a foreign leaders, a close ally, for making the case against a big initiative by the president. >> i thought he was saying, look, im a travel guy to the middle east, youre a rube. youre going into the persian bazaars, with the snake charmers and the guys that are going to cheat you. let me tell you, they will always come back on the deal. hes giving advice, right? >> he was says, president obama youre naive. >> he stood where the president of the ...

The presidents executives orders giving effective citizen ship goes away. -- the three-week continuing resolution would have checked this fight going and allowed us to continue to put -- unfortunately that plan was rejected, and more active threats coming into the homeland i dont believe a dhs shutdown is an option. imagine if god forbid another terror attack hits the united states. >> what a surprise. not that in the end the house would have to fold go along with -- >> what do you coy boyce say...

President the opportunity to fund executives orders they consider to be unconstitutional, illegal, allowing some of the undocumented immigrants in the united states to stay here to get some sort of legal status. that is on hold now, ironically, right now on hold because a federal judge in texas said it was illegal for the president to go forward with those executive orders. the administration, the justice department, is appealing that. theyve asked the federal judge in texas to issue a stay. hes...

Now? especially ahead of the mid-term elections? president obama now shifting his messaging from health care and gearing up to sign two new executive orders, at least one of them focusing on equal pay. this comes as the demes lost their first large-scale coordinated message for that launching. ed henry joins us live. how is the white house pushing this particular issue of equal pay? >> reporter: its interesting. executives orders you mention, one of them would make sure that federal contractors ...

Worlds tallest build ing is five and a half feet and you would need many of those and 12 empire state buildings to reach the bottom. it is a trip of about four hours. president obama pushing equal pay for women and plans to signed two executives orders to aim the gender gap between the federal workers. ed henry is live on the lawn of the white house. what will the white house announce? >> the president has federal contacters, not businesses all around the country in terms of taking executive a...