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This president has issued fewer executive orders than his predecessors. >> david, i think its important to note when the president steps into a space that he hasnt gone in before, whether it is obamacare, whether it is immigration, he may not like there has not been congressional action, but he doesnt have the constitutional authority to do it on his own. he has waived the work requirements from welfare reform from 1996. if we dont again push back, you have a president who can waive laws, suspen...

Shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the brand-new u.s. embassy building. and at least t...

>> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the brand-new u.s. embassy building. and at least ten cities in that war-tor...

Big picture, has barack obama gone beyond some of his predecessors in his exercise of executive powers? >> i think unmistakably so. presidents tend to stretch these things and go as far as they can. but when you gut shut down 9-0 by the supreme court, it ought to be a clear warning that youre out of bounds here, buddy. now we look at these instances such as though you cited in the previous segment where the president has simply chosen to postpone or ignore explicit provisions of the law, somethi...

Republicans are asserting prerogatives of congress and democrats like obama realizing he has little chance of getting his agenda through the republican congress are pushing the envelope on the use of executive power to try to advance his goals. >> but with remarkable -- ron, the president hasnt used his executive power as much as predecessors. a graphic shows the history, talk about the republican leadership, reagan, 381 times, you see george w. bush, 291 times and among democrats carter and cli...

Da dana millbank. and amy holmes. welcome, good to see you all. angela, let me start with you. supreme court saying theyve gone too far with some of these department, in particular the labor relations board. what happens now? what are the real implications maybe for the rest of this presidency and the next? >> well, there arent any real implications because a lot has changed since this lawsuit went forth, and since the obama administration challenged the ruling of the court of appeals. so since ...

Been lost. >> but the u.s. archivist who testified before the hill you saw him probably testify, he said the irs in his words did not follow the law in preserving documents as required by the statute for public and official records. so someone broke the law. >> the irs has run an antiquated response to the records act which everyone treats seriously because of the e-mail system. official records in communications are printed out in hard copies. all of the information about taxpayers and their fi...

Saved separately. >> one of your predecessors, shouldnt someone be blamed for this antiquated awful system that allowed official official records to disappear? >> i think the ig is the investigating all of the issues about the hard drive crash. my approach when i parachute into these things is try to fix the problems rather than to figure out who to blame. sometime for us, i asked to review exactly how the e-mail system runs and whether we couldnt convert to a more searchable and retainable e-ma...

Hillary clinton goes about talking about struggles in america through the lens of her own personal experience because that experience is nothing like the average americans right now so that i think is going to continue. i dont think this is something that is going to be an absolute roadblock, but at the very outset of her steps back into the political arena, it is certainly -- she has created an incredible challenge for herself going forward. >> lets talk about the latest battle between house re...

Healthcare unilaterally. bill: turley says fist dwarfs if not all of his predecessors. >> i think you can make a case for that. the supreme court rebuffed him on that. so far the supreme court hasnt rebuffed obama on a lot of these things. at the end of the day there is a reason why this hasnt happened for 240 years is that congress normally asserts its by acertaining its own power. not by asking a court to protect it. martha: some high water causing big problems. bill: north korea threatening r...