not and john boehner has made it clear. this is not about the volume of executive actions, the context of these actions, and what happened now is that you have a president who has exceeded his authority. he took an oath to faithfully uphold laws enacted and in many cases he has unilaterally amended and enacted statutes and in doing so has taken power away from the legislature so john boehner i think is doing in a an effort to defend the institution of congress and that he believes that this is something that it's their duty to uphold as part of the constitutional oath that they took as members of congress. >> paul, do you see this as a noble attribute of the speaker and the republicans, or is this just a naked political move? >> well, maybe in between. it may be a canny, savvy, smart political move. john boehner is a smart guy and good legislator. kevin knows him so i don't want to pretend to him. like all speakers he cares