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The other side. so why are you making our guys and girls take tough votes when we could make it easier for them? and its two ships crossing in the night. cruzs guys are going to be pushing them forward and mccain is going to be sitting this frustrated as all heck that this guy is supposed to be a leader of the party. its hurting party candidates. >> im probably dating myself. but in decades past, i recall when predecessors of mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner could really rein in the renegade ...

Appointees in second half have been political as opposed to career foreign service. markedly higher than two predecessors what is the effect of this? you get a bundler like noah bryson. responsible for 2012 campaign contributions and has to admit he has never been to the country where he was nominated to serve. ditto for someone like. >> never been to argentina. so the bottom line is i have got to get to nagin is that president obama is appointing ambassadors at a rate higher than bush and cli...

>> what is he doing at the dinner? he doesnt even know how to speak french. >> well, but sharpton is also a very skinny guy right now if you have seen him. >> thats true. he wouldnt eatone of the areass for the watergate special prosecution force. >> give me the facts, rosen. >> we find that 53% of president obamas ambassador appointees in second half have been political as opposed to career foreign service. markedly higher than two predecessors what is the effect of this? you get a bundler like...

Tomorrow. the wheels now seem to be flying off general motors explanation as to why its first ever female ceo is making far less than mother male pred s predecesso predecessors. liz, what did you find out? >> gm is saying any discussion of her pay is premature and flawed. theyre saying essentially mary barras long-term pay, meaning restrictive stock and other types of stock units, will be in the proxy coming out in april. then shareholders have to vote on that portion of her pay at the annual ...

Thats what many americans think and on the face of it, the afghan president has said lots of odd, inflammatory an contradictory things. over the past year he has wondered whether the american presence in afghanistan has done any good at all, refused to sign an afghan/u.s. security pact and called members of the taliban his brothers. this week "the new york times" revealed he had been conducting secret negotiations with the taliban. what can he be thinking? maybe karzai is looking at what happene...

United states of america never defaulted on its debt. >> it wasnt a discussion. these were major budget deals. >> as a democratic strategist, i would like to see republicans keep going back to a disastrous strategy that hasnt worked for them. >> major budget deals. biggest one was bill clinton in 1997. brad, president obama is sort of like pelosi. he says he is going to oppose any and all conditions attached to the debt limit height. like pelosi implies that its illegitimate to do otherwise. he ...

Congress has written and normal and legal and expected and all predecessors have done. it but if he issues a executive evered that does the opposite of what the federal law is supposed to do, as he has done, he is in dangerous territory and has an obligation to explain the will legal basis and i join in senator grassly plea. i dont think the president will do it. >> where has he run afoul of federal law? >> june of 2012. he was concerned that hispanics might vote for rit romney he said all illeg...

Obama by executive order rolled all of those back. the constitution, paul ryan is saying legislatures, they create laws. thanks for the civics 101 lesson, congressman ryan. we understand that. but executive order is enshrined in the constitution. its something that goes back to the emancipation proclamation to when harry truman integrated the armed forces. this is an important part of our history. and lets not mention that president obama has issued fewer executive orders than president bush, th...

Elizabeth price foley. professor of constitutional law at florida international university. thanks a lot for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> what is the president attempting to do unilaterally without congress? >> well, he is trying to do a lot of things unilaterally without congress. let me just say at the beginning, you know, a the lo of people say you know, president obama is only issuing so many number of executive orders and thats a lot less than his predecessors have. i have t...

Raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers, some of them working families for new manufacturing institutes. that all sounds like pretty good stuff to me. >> if you look at the number of executive orders or even other executive actions that barack obama has taken, there are fewer than his predecessors, including george w. bush and most of them are pretty narrow and not sweeping. so, you know, my suggestion for the house republicans is instead of suing, why dont you work with him to mak...