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To the immigration. the polling ive seen is when people are asked about a potential shutdown of dhs, with all the isis in the air, who would you blame for that? the polling ive seen says republicans by a 20%, 30% margin. >> they learned a wrong lesson from the government shutdown. they think there are no repercussion prss from that. during a midterm the electorate is different. this is why you hear people like charlie dent mark kirk republicans in swing districts saying stop this. they know ther...

Not an isolated incident. in the last two months this is the fourth piece of major legislation that has failed or in three prior cases was scrapped, not brought to the house floor, because it simply fell apart on them. >> does that raise the question that despite winning seats in this midterm, is speaker boehner weaker than he was in the last caucus? >> i think he is allowing himself to be weakened. he nations national board appointments and other appointments outside of this chamber. he is clos...

Whether its issues with police, whether its immigration, whatever the issue is most of the work isnt going to be done by the president or even by the actual members of congress, and so one of the things that the administration has been doing lately is theyve made a couple of moves in their personnel department basically to try to bring on an old legislative hand into the white house a guy named martin paoni to try to work on those relationships because i think thats maybe more important in the n...

Theyre reactionary they use one hand to plug holes in the dam and the other hand to.fingers and blame other people for their own failings. as far as vladmir putin is concerned, there seems to be, they think that he is in a corner and they kind of have him because oil prices have plunged. the russian economy is in such dire straits. i dont know what is a cornered bear do? that man could be a lot scarier now than he was a year ago. >> thats exactly right. also what can republicans do? they just ha...

Worst of 2014. the political world remains in turmoil from the palin family getting into a punch-up at a party to the democrats getting hit hard at the ballot box. washington seemed unsure whether it should grind to an utter halt or spin completely out of control. depending on your party, the best or worst was the republican in the midterm. the gop took control of the u.s. senate, increased their majority in the house and picked up a couple of new governors chairs too. >> lets get it done. >> ...

Think its going to be very, very difficult given the crisis that you were outlining as we began the segment. >> indeed, how do you see it? whats your prediction? >> i agree with doug. >> the two presidents, he worked for president clinton, and i bush. we both know its a heck of a lot better, more fun to work at the beginning of the administration because at the end you are entering the lame-duck phase, and its a very difficult thing to get anything done. i think its going to be really tough for ...

Ties to the hacker group called guardians of peace and was apparently angry about being fired earlier this year. ♪ ♪ trace: well, president obama is dusting off his see e toe pen. the president -- veto pen the president making the comments to npr just as republicans prepare for a complete takeover of congress after democrats crushing defeat in last months midterm. >> i havent used the veto pen very often since ive been in office partly because legislation i objected to was typically blocked ...

We just had an election in november, a resounding narrative, now veto it. >> they can get through keystone pipeline, some really unpopular parts of obamacare like medical device tax, even harry reid was questioning and now the president is making it known he doesnt care about the last election, he probably doesnt care about 2016. >> i thought he was supposed to be the great compromiser. his attitude is amazing after such big losses how you can come in and i know you have been arguing but dont yo...

Economy slowed a little bit. and so you didnt get re-elected. that was a big blow to you too. and then during eight years, then president obama is nominated in 06 and a big midterm like we just had. and its repudiation of obama. how does -- through the prism of, like, historically being in politics so long, how do you explain, the country moving back and forth? >> well, because thats good. >> why? >> well, because it means change is possible. i mean, theres -- any -- i didnt think 2006 was all t...

Letting -- in some way letting his flag fly and pursuing all the initiatives on his own to the extent he can and even pushing the line now that he has no elections and voters to face. >> yeah, i mean does he feel emboldened do you think? does he feel free because he doesnt have the midterm and thats passed and there are no more elections left? >> well, he doesnt feel like he needs to reach out to the republican side of congress. you would think thats the natural move, but president obama hasnt b...