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Rhetoric like this and simply let it go? >> he can do it if he has a very, very conservative base with his county gop. he can do it if he has a very conservative red district. he can do it if his national party, people like reince priebus, you know, fail to call him out on a daily basis. i mean, he can get away with this kind of thing. the fact of the matter is the people who are uttering words of impeachment are people who dont understand the standard of law that it takes to bring an impeachmen...

Mainstream voter who will be voting in a general election looks at that and says you people have lost your minds. but that is what it takes to win a republican primary these days. >> and to really try, mark, to make the president. again, im all for the debate. im all for everybody taking sides. nobody is more passionate than i am about what i believe. but why do we have to act like he is not legitimate? why make him lawless? what are we feeding into in the minds of the american public? >> were f...

You should impeach him. in fact, what theyre base is demanding now from them. >> well, when you look at the fact that calling him lawless because of executive fiat, as they say, look at this. shortly after getting declared president, george w. bush met with congressional leaders in washington. here is what he had to say afterward. >> i told all four that there are going to be some times where we dont agree with each other. but thats okay. if this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot ...

Not be on the hot seat in terms of some of these fake scandals with respect to the republican party. >> oh, wow. see, thats why i love to have you on, because i thought she was talking about the broncos. dana milbank and james peterson, thank you both for your time. >> thanks, rev. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. still ahead, a detour from reality and claims president obamas, quote, lawless with his angle. well talk about it next. the gop lawmaker who threatened to throw a reporter off the ...

President do by executive order so that well all know as we watch what he actually does. >> well, hes done a number of things, i guess, by executive order. you saw in the state of the union he called for the raising of the federal minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. i think thats a good example of something where he hasnt been able to get traction on it in congress because these are people who, for the most part, have not shown a great willingness to work with him. you see pa...

Coming up when "hardball" returns, the right wing is once again challenging president obamas legitimacy, calling him lawless and a tyrant for promising to do something every other president, including ronald reagan, has done. thats ahead. youre watching "hardball," the place for politics. month? $45 a month. wow...no annual contract. no annual contract. no long-term agreement. no long-term agreement. really? really. ok, so whats the catch? there is no catch. ok, im obviously getting nowhere with...

Government is grabbing power that hasnt been there before, and that somehow we better be scared in river city. and this seems to be based upon ideology rather than events or even behaviors of the president. they grab at these behaviors. but they really believe this long before he came into office. and now theyre using him as the worst case scenario. >> right. it feeds into that paranoia. and it also has the effect of shutting down debate. in that clip you played of tim huelskamp, he couldnt come...

To work with him. lawless, a tyrant, like a king. well, lets be clear. these right wingers want one thing, to delegitimize the obama presidency and basically erase him from the history books. also, the late night comedians are also having their say about the state of the union. speaker john boehner, well, he takes it here from leno and letterman. let me finish with where the facts in the christie investigation may be leading us. this is "hardball," the place for politics. so i deserve a small bu...

Presidents are lawless? >> if there is no authority. >> well, why is the right wing freaking out over the president issuing a series of relatively modest actions, something he is far from the first president to do? sadly, if its a pattern from the right in dealing with this and calling into question as they often do his legitimacy, dana milbank for "the washington post" and sam steins a political editor for "the huffington post." dana, this word lawless seems lawlessness like he is some cowboy m...