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To the department of health and human services and treated as refugees. theres overlap here. ultimately, as congress has refused to do anything to fix the overall policy problem, the broken immigration system that we have in this country. the president has turned to the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general eric holder, to suggest to the president ways that he as president may be able to try to fix this policy problem on his own without congress. and meanwhile, while working on...

To the department of health and human services and treated as refugees. theres overlap here. ultimately, as congress has refused to do anything to fix the overall policy problem, the broken immigration system that we have in this country. the president has turned to the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general eric holder, to suggest to the president ways that he as president may be able to try to fix this policy problem on his own without congress. and meanwhile, while working on...

Human services and treated as refugees. theres overlap here. ultimately, as congress has refused to do anything to fix the overall policy problem, the broken immigration system that we have in this country. the president has turned to the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general eric holder, to suggest to the president ways that he as president may be able to try to fix this policy problem on his own without congress. and meanwhile, while working on that for the president, the sec...

And for shorthand, lets call it the imperial presidency. you saw the house speaker yesterday saying hes going to sue the president for his overreach on all of these executive actions, executive orders. you saw what the supreme court did today and chuck grassley on the floor talking about it. and what theyre saying is, look, this is a white house that overreaches, that believes in big government, and the president is unilaterally trying to do things that he could not get congress to do. and the s...

Of all the partisan so-called scandals, this is the real one. and i wonder what you think of it having served? >> ive been involved with veterans issues all my adult life. i was council in the house veterans committee many years ago, mentored by the world war ii veterans, and i wrote and introduced this post-9/11 gi bill. the best gi bill in history, im very proud of that. i was surprised when i got to the senate, looking at the backlog, that it was 600,000 people, trying to get their cases adju...

To make a significant change, whether it was accepting the s resignati resignation. i dont know outside of that when you have the american legion as others as well as democrats in the house saying this was the logic cal step here. >> i do think it gives a little breathing room given that i think everyone realizes how complex these problems are and how systemic they are at the va. this wasnt just some act of wrong doing. this was something that dated back for decades and bureaucratic problems. if...

The problems tr with the bush administration. they warned him during the transition, this is a problem were passing on to you. >> he is winding down the wars and he knew this had to be a radical overhaul. and what did he do? he didnt pay attention. he didnt govern. now hes holding nobody accountable. >> if youre an american sitting out there and know a veteran, drive by a va, if you like to have your government actually function, if you saw the president of the united states come out yesterday a...

That hypocrisy revealed the real problem for the gop. its not an image problem. its a policy problem. joining me now are krystal ball and abby huntsman. thank you for being here. >> do republicans really think they can win women voters by showing waives and daughters in campaign ads? >> i guess they think its worth a try. but the thing thats funny to me is its not like republicans have never used wives and daughters in campaign ads before. i dont know any republican daughters who been featured i...

What is my alternative? they dont have an alternative. >> i want to get thoughts on john podesta announced this morning returning to the white house. said to be brought in by dennis plaque done gnaw, chief of staff. what does that mean? >> when the white house is in trouble they tend to move seats around. podesta is very good. im sure they can add a lot to discussions. in the end boils down to one thing, and that is barack obama. i dont think any one staff person going to change the obvious situ...

There was already a ratings erosion problem at the station in l.a., kfi, a great big station that matters a lot to the financially fragile company that owns it, and rush limbaugh. his problem is demographic, as well. because the millenel ials will will spend 1.2, t, trillion dollars, do not want to hear this crazy uncle stuff day after day. all this has left the building demographically. >> is it impossible, terri oneill, for the republicans to recovery if they continue to embrace limbaugh with ...