Rhetoric. Reporter absolutely, michaela, thats right, and the white house reaction to John Boehners lawsuit was swift and harsh with press secretary john ernest calling it a political stunt, a new day for washington dysfunction when its headed for a courthouse. Its a constitutional collision between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. This isnt about me suing the president. What were talking about here are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. Reporter House Speaker john boehner made official what hes threatened for weeks, that hes filing a lawsuit against the president saying mr. Obamas executive actions to change the Health Care Law and other federal programs are evidence of a white house thats out of control. Really . Really . For what . Youre going to sue me for doing my job . Reporter just hours before House Republicans revealed their lawsuit bill the president was sharpening up his defense in texas. Ive got a better idea. Do something. If youre mad at me for helping people on my own, lets team up. Lets lets pass some bills reporter brewing courtroom battle comes as the president and boehner are already sparring over the white house plan for the border crisis, a problem mr. Obama said could be solved with Immigration Reform. Ronald reagan passed Immigration Reform, and you love Ronald Reagan. Lets go ahead and do it. This is a problem of the president s own making. Hes been president for five and a half years. When is he going to take responsibility for something . Reporter even the first lady jumped into the fray speaking to a latino group in new york. Make no mistake about it. We have to keep on fighting as hard as we can on immigration. Reporter it was a rare entry into partisan politics for Michelle Obama as a growing number of fellow democrats complained the president has mismanaged the migrant crisis. This problem has been going on for a long time, and now its been exaggerated by this humanitarian crisis that we have with thousands of children coming into texas and into my state in arizona. Reporter now as for boehners lawsuit the speaker said expect more details in the coming days, but boehners office said that much of the case will center on the president s decision to delay the employer mandate in obamacare without going through congress. A boehner spokesman said that is the best example of the president overstepping his constitutional bounds and perhaps the best chance the lawsuit has in succeeding in court. John . All right. Lets take a look now at this a little bit deeper. Thanks to jim acosta there. Want to talk about the new lawsuit against the president , also the border crisis with our cnn political commentators, democratic strategist paul begala, Senior Adviser for priorities usa action and also also joining us republican strategist kevin madden. I want to start with you here, kevin, because weve been talking for a few weeks about this action taken by the president by the republicans in the house. Initially there was a notion that it will cover a whole rake of executive orders and actions. Now it looks like its narrowly focused on what he didnt do with obamacare. By the way, republicans voted repeatedly to derail, defund, delay every aspect of obamacare. Now republicans are suing the president for delaying one part of it. Why choose that avenue . Well, whats most important for i think this has to do with the legal technicalities of it, but whats most important for the House RepublicansGoing Forward with this lawsuit is to gain standing in a federal court, and they believe that tailoring it to the president s action, not by what he didnt do, about what he did do, about a unilateral amending of an enacted statute. They believe that that is the best way to get standing in a federal court and eventually pursue this this legal case against the president. Paul, when you do read the law that was passed and signed by the president , the language actually is pretty clear, that the employer mandate was to go into effect in 2014 and the president did delay it. Do you think there is legal standing for this lawsuit . Let me say i am a lawyer, although my Law School Dean at the university of texas said if you want to hide something from begala, put it in a law book, hell never find it there so i dont want to speculate as a lawyer. Lets let the lawyers hash that out. I do think the president s lawyers may win this on the issue of standing and it may not. It may go forward. The politics of this, which is my field. The house will now schedule a vote. Requires a vote of the house to sue the president. The democrats are going to kill them on this. They are going to say im going to say it right now. John boehner will find the time to cast the votes to sue the president , but he wont call up votes on immigration vote or minimum wage or equal pay for women or college aid or unemployment insurance, all of which i think would pass if boehner had the courage to bring it up for a straight up or down vote. They are going to get slaughtered on this. I guess maybe hes trying to forestall the tea party but this is a loser for kevthe house. Its disappointing that Congressional Republicans have decided to waste time and taxpayer dollars on a political stunt. As the president said today, hes doing his job, lawsuit or not and its time that the republicans in congress did theirs. Sounds a lot like paul begala, that the democrats might be on the same page. You saw the president more energized about this than ive seen him in a few weeks. Are republicans giving him, your old boss Speaker John Boehner, giving the president an issue he can make some ground up on . Theres two things about john boehner. Hes an institutionalist. He believes very strongly in the congress and its role in the legislative process, and second hes a pretty measured guy, so i dont think john boehner would pursue this, and i dont think he would agree to pursue this on behalf of the house of representatives unless he believed there was a serious constitutional question here, that there is a serious, you know, mistake for the president to overstep his executive authority and take away some of the legislative authority when it came to implementing and executing and upholding the laws of the United States so, you know, i think that the politics of this, to pauls point, you know, are really great for republicans, but i just think that speaks to the substance of the action that john boehner is taking and that the house of representatives will ultimately take. This is an important question, not about republicans and democrats in this congress, but about future congresses and future president s and the balance between those two. No question there have been people who are men of the house, like Speaker John Boehner who care deeply about the institution, men and women of the house who care deeply about the institution and will fight for their rights. Paul, i want to shift now to the issue of the border crisis and immigration. Theres this 2008 law which creates different rules for people coming over the border from noncontiguous nations. There does seem to be members of both parties now who say there could be agreement on altering that law. Why doesnt the president get out in front on this . Why doesnt the white house get out and say okay, lets agree on this small change. Im willing to be first to say this out loud and well get in the room and well talk. Well, he has said that. Hes inched in and backed out. Why back out then, why not inch in and stay in . A couple of reasons. First, im not entirely sure people know exactly what needs to be changed, if anything. This is a really difficult delicate thing. The one law, one of the lessons here, by the way. If i could engrave anything over congress, the one law we cant repeal is the law of unintended consequences. The president has looked at it. There is though this problem that everything he touches the republicans oppose, right . The immigration bill, they wont call up for a vote was originally conceived by george w. Bush, it was a republican bill, so there may be a political reason for him to hang back and let the Congress Just work this out themselves. He has offered very hesitant tentative support for a change. Political reasons to hang back may not be a good reason not to fix something thats a crisis by many counts on the border. Anyway, well see what happens over the next several days if anyone shows a little bit of skin here to make a deal. Kevin madden, great to have you with us. Paul begala, have a terrific weekend. Read those law books. A little Light Reading for them. Now to the middle east, the situation there taking an ugly turn this morning. Israel coming under fire now from lebanon. This is the first time in the conflict that israel has seen incoming rockets from the north. Israeli military responded with an artillery strike. Meantime, israel and hamas militants still trading fire along the israelgaza border. Hamas rockets reaching further into israel, and the casualties mounting. Cnns diana magnay is near the border and we understand president obama spoke on the phone with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and said hes willing to help negotiate a ceasefire. Reporter he did, and this is clearly to try to facilitate some kind of exit strategy for Benjamin Netanyahu before he decides, if he decides, to send in ground troops. Well see whether that attempt to broker some kind of deal comes to anything. For now weve seen various rockets already this morning come from gaza and go over our heads and being intercepted. There have been various intercepts over tel aviv already. The mayor of that area telling people to stay inside for ten minutes because even if there is an intercept the slab nell can call for another ten minutes afterwards, but, of course, the comparative security provided to people here by this iron dome Missile Defense shield is a very different story to the reality playing out across the border in gaza. This morning in southern gaza, an israeli air strike decimates this building. Bulldozers and emergency crews rushing in to help the victims at this latest attack on the fourth day of israels aerial bombardment of gaza. The ongoing barrage killing more than 90 palestinians in recent days. At least 22 children amongst them. Israel amassing more troops along the border with gaza. Already the Defense Forces have called up 30,000 reservists. 30,000 have actually left their jobs, left their families. The spokesman of the Defense Forces told Cnns Wolf Blitzer in jerusalem they are getting into position to move in if they have to. If its required, well be able to mobilize as soon as possible in a professional manner. Reporter in a new video released overnight, hamas military wing says they are prepared for a very long battle and have more surprise attacks in store. On thursday president obama spoke over the phone with israels president Benjamin Netanyahu aboard air force one. The u. S. Offered to help broker a deal while admonishi inin inis against israel. 15 seconds, thats how much time you have to run for your life. Reporter israels concerns brought to the attention of the Security Council by israels u. N. Ambassador. Imagine having only 15 seconds to find a bomb shelter. Reporter while the palestinian representative accused israel of terrorizing the palestinian people, rejecting the claim that it is acting in selfdefense. Israelis running at the sirens caught on amateur video. We need to go under cover. Reporter as rockets from gaza shoot into the sky. Get under, get under, get under. Reporter the aftermath a smouldering vehicle but still no casualties on the israeli side. A very different story from the situation the other side at the gazaisraeli border. Israels Prime Minister telling his people that this could be a tough complex and complicated campaign. Michaela . A terrible reality for People Living on either side of that. Diana magnay, thank you so much for that. 13 minutes past the hour. Christine romans joining us on this friday. I was going to say good friday morning to you. Secretary of state john kerry is in afghanistan meeting with candidates fighting to replace President Hamid karzai. Hes meeting with Abdullah Abdullah and ghani who is claiming a lead but abdullah is claiming fraud. Final results are expected later this month. Still no comment from the white house after germany gives the boot to a top american intelligence official. The move comes after the emergence of two cases of germans allegedly passing intelligence to u. S. Contacts. The situation began to sour last year amid revelations the u. S. Eaves dropped on chancellor angela merkel. She says the u. S. Has, quote, very different approaches to the role of intelligence agencies. Court papers reveal troubling new details about the detroit boy who went missing before being found in his familys basement. 12yearold charlie buttel said he had to do several exercises and would have to start over if he stopped and he feared for being punished again for not completing the workout. More than 14,000 reminders went out to men in pennsylvania, men born between 1893 and 1897 after a computer error of the Selective Service which meant to send the notices for men born between 1993 and 1997. Descendants started getting the notices and called the agency about the mistake. The service has since apologized. Y2k, i knew it would be a problem. A little more meticulous and slower. Contemplative. Well be that way one day. I already am. Lets get a keep of the weather with Indra Petersons who is keeping track of the polar vortex. Everybody can tell how i feel about that. We know there is no polar vortex. Lets stop it right here, but lets talk about why everyone is saying that. By the way, polar vortex, it is always there. Just means theres cool air once in a while like the wintertime did drop down and its not even that this time. What we are going to be seeing are some 40s, marquette by about tuesday will be starting off the morning with a little bit of a bite in the air. Lets talk about why its going on. Jet stream, nice and straight. Thats when the weather is average, the way it should be. Once in a while you get a big storm out there so it kind of looks like a roller coaster. Now, we did have a big storm last week. Its a world, right, not just the u. S. The typhoon took the jet stream like a ribbon which brought it down by the line and what well looking at at the start of next week with the jet stream dipping down into the upper midwest and bringing colder air from canada, not the polar vortex, bringing temperatures a good 20 or 30 degrees. I see you shaking your head, michaela. Highs, 20 degrees below normal, talking about highs in just the 50s, but the farther south you are, of course, you wont be feeling the effects as much. Nobody wants that canada air. Down in the southeast, scattered showers from the next couple of days. High pressure building in and that cold front doesnt make its way in through next week. I went like how you owned it. 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