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Threat ton throw a reporter off a balcony and also dont expect to maybe see that come back up in a tough re-election year. somehow he survived last time. thats a youtube moment thats going to live for a while for mr. grimm. coming up, making it last. how president obamas state of the union speech stacks up against his predecessors. well also do a little polling in here in a minute. first, white house soup of the day. its chicken noodle. a cold day. a good day for chicken noodle. ♪ [ scream...

House. take a look at this. how has it gone over the last year? one year ago, as the president was getting inaugurated for the second time, right after that re-election victory, look at that, very good numbers. but after a number of controversies in 2013, you saw those numbers really dip down to basically all-time lows for the president. a very, very slight rebound over the last two months, now at 43%-51%. one more number i want to share. how does it compare to his most recent two-term predecess...

The white house justifies it by say they blocked the agenda, i pressed jay carney why the president is not going forward. >> what the predecessors did of both parties which is allowing the state department to oversee a process where this is evaluated. >> the president getting ready for executive --

Pointed out that what the president is doing and what his predecessor predecessors have done is certainly protected under the law. in fact if had e over steps we e not only the congress that can take action but the president, as well. that is what is at stake here for the country. this is not a legal seminar were in, were about governing. >> right, taking action is good, but not necessarily good when you have to do it without the congress. there is a reason we elect those people. we send them to...

The white house justifies it by say they blocked the agenda, i pressed jay carney why the president is not going forward. >> what the predecessors did of both parties which is allowing the state department to oversee a process where this is evaluated. >> the president getting ready for executive --

Pointed out that what the president is doing and what his predecessor predecessors have done is certainly protected under the law. in fact if had e over steps we e not only the congress that can take action but the president, as well. that is what is at stake here for the country. this is not a legal seminar were in, were about governing. >> right, taking action is good, but not necessarily good when you have to do it without the congress. there is a reason we elect those people. we send them to...

Immigration, he basically re-wrote the immigration law by saying if youre here illegally, ill tell you what hoops you can jump through, and i wouldnt deport you. he made up the hoops, congress didnt enact the hoops, he made up the hoops. the environmental protection agency asked congress to enact legislation which it refused to enact, he went ahead and had the environmental protection administration enact that legislation as an administrative rule. >> and the supreme court said he would have a l...

Transportation, the effect on businesses, small businesses in particular, who dont really have a big voice in washington, the national federation of independent business put out a video earlier yesterday, which i thought was very good, talking about the strangulation of small business at the expense of unelected bureaucrats, and congress needs to get something done. the president is making a mistake when he thinks he couldnt do something on the minimum wage. he should have at least tried it in c...

Immigration, he basically re-wrote the immigration law by saying if youre here illegally, ill tell you what hoops you can jump through, and i wouldnt deport you. he made up the hoops, congress didnt enact the hoops, he made up the hoops. the environmental protection agency asked congress to enact legislation which it refused to enact, he went ahead and had the environmental protection administration enact that legislation as an administrative rule. >> and the supreme court said he would have a l...

By two words, macys basement. the governor used his ability and its phenomenal to simply frame issues. the say iing is things can be simple and most of the time theyre simply wrong. you look at the case of a former prosecutor who is bullishly framing media arguments and he got away with what dehere with a lot of tangling of things thereafter. look, it was to avoid a gas tax. that was probably big at the core of it and then thinking you cant go with a tax to iowa. even then they might have been t...