Well be back next sunday morning 11 00 and 5 00 eastern. The latest buzz. Im chris wallace. President obama sets off a furor, sidestepping congress to shield millions of illegals from deportation. The president has taken actions he said are those of a king or empore report. Ted cruz is leading the charge against president s actions. Will the executive order fix a broken system . We will talk with a top advocate, how democratic caucus
chair. Did president obama break the law . The president has no Legal Authority to grant legal status to people here in the United States illegally. We will ask Texas Attorney general and governor elect abbott who says that he will sue the president on behalf of his state. Nuclear talks with iran stall ahead of the deadline tomorrow. We will ask our panel about chances for a deal. Our power player of the week telling the intimate stories of people on the street through photographs. Why do they open up . I think because im genuinely interested and i am a stranger. Right now. On fox news sunday. Hello again from fox news in washington, dc. We begin with breaking news. Mayor marion barry, mayor for
life in washington, dc, died. He was taped smoking crack cocaine in a Washington Hotel roof after serving prison he made a remarkable comeback winning election to a final term as mayor in 1994. He was 678 years old. The town of ferguson, missouri, is bracing for the grand jury decision on whether to charge Police Officer wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. The sources close to the investigation tell fox that announcement will not come until tomorrow at the earliest. Now an update from fox news correspondent in ferguson. Mike . Yes, the command center has not kicked into action and police are operating in 12 hour shifts already despite the likelihood the announce in the will not come. Barricades have gone up with the grand jury meeting and that is where the county police are headquarters and downtown ferguson, stores are boarded up
and many of the owners have never rebuilt since the places of business were ransacked this summer. It is important the people out of towners or whoever comes in, or people that are here, people that are not wanting to protest peacefully or want to cause confusion need to know this is an aftermath to the confusion. And area gun stores are cashing in with sales up 300 percent because of the insecurity. Every Single Person coming into the room including this morning, have said they are buying firearms simply because they are afraid of what will happen after the grand jury makes their decision. The demonstrators are still out just about every night. Last knife, 75 of them blocked traffic and confronted police. In major clashes. One person was led away bound in zip strips. The grand jury has the opportunity to charge wilson with a range of four different charges starting with firstdegree murder, down to involuntary manslaughter. However, four on the jury agree the shooting was justified, if that happens, he will not then be charged. Mike, thanks. With the stroke of a pen president obama moved to shield some four million Illegal Immigrants fromeningpart from being deported. Republicans are planning their response. Texas senator cruz is one of the sharpest critics of the action. Welcome back to fox news, senator cruz. Good morning, always good to be with you. I want to separate what the president did from how he did it. The president says that high is using his discretion to go after the bad guys and not parents of
people who are in the country legally. Fell loans fell ons, name family. Criminals, not children. Grand member grand members not a mom working hard to provide for her kids. We will prioritize like Law Enforcement every day. That is wrong with that policy . The notion that this is just discretion of the prosecution is nonsense. The constitution gives congress the authority to establish our Immigration Law. What the president announced is a wholesale refusal to follow our Immigration Laws and enforce our Immigration Law. For four to five Million People illegally here he is in the job of counterfeiting immigration papers really is no local authority to do what he is doing
but he is giving Work Authorizations and claiming unilateral authority. Second, the memo he put out, not the speech, but the memo he put out to the department of Homeland Security says they are not to enforce Immigration Laws other than for violent criminals and a few discreet categories but most of the twelve Million People here illegally the president is instructing the executive branch no longer enforce the Immigration Law. It is a stunning and sad display of a president declining to honor his constitutional obligation to take care the laws be faithfully executed. I will pick up on that because we talk about policy and i want to talk about the process and the fact the president is doing this by executive action. He says that there is a long precedent for chief executives to do that. Take a listen. The actions i am taking are
not only lawful but the kind of actions taken by every single republican president and every single democratic president for the past half century. Senator, president reagan and president bush 41 granted legal status to a 1. 5 Million People in this country illegally. What is the difference . As a matter of constitutional law the claim the president just made is frivolous. I would note he acknowledged 22 times over the last five years, over and over again, he had no Constitutional Authority to do this until suddenly he decided it woulden politically beneficial. The difference with reagan and bush they were working with congress in implementing congressional statutes. Congress can change the Immigration Law. The president , in the course of executing the Immigration Law, can put congressional will interest affect. The difference is this is not a president who wants to work with congress but, rather, a president openly daying congress and i cannot put it any better than saturday night live put it last night where they reprised the old schoolhouse rock, you remember, how a bill become as law and they had the president bushing the bill down the steps of the capitol because we no longer need the steps and the constitution for how we pass laws because the president new is claim unilateral authority that the constitution does not give him. The danger of that, chris, it is not just on the substance which is very damaging to working men and women across the country. It is a far broader danger for anyone concerned about liberty. If this president can goes his own Immigration Laws the next president can impose his own laws whether it is immigration, tax, labor, environmental, we stop having a constitutional
system of checks and balances that has protected our liberty and we move to unilateral executive authority using the president s own word, the power of a monarch or an emporor. Then the question is how to respond and there is a split in your party. As i understood you are saying the republicans should vote to fund the government in all departments but one, attaching an amendment to funding for the department of Homeland Security which handles immigration taking back or rescinding his executive action. The thought is if he vetoes that, he is responsible for shutting down the department. The problem is that is almost expect what you did with the government shut down cross the entire government in october of 2013 in obamacare and it backfired badly on your party. Chris, look, i would suggest
a simple proposition across this country, republicans campaigned saying if you elect a Republican Senate we will stop president obamas illegal amnesty and a suggestion to my colleagues and friends in the Republican Party, we need to honor what we said and we need to do what we said two weeks ago on the campaign trail. Would you is that what you would do sir we have limited time; that what you are saying you would do . You would attach a rider to funding for just the one department of Homeland Security . I have laid out a detailed systematic plan for what congress should do. Use the constitutional checks and balances we have to rein in the abuse of power. Step one is the incoming majority leader should announce if the president implements this lawless amnesty, the senate will not confirm any executive or
judicial nominee other than Vital National security positions for the next two years unless and until the president ends the lawless amnesty. Sir, let me, if i may, pick up on that because are you saying the senate should refuse to confirm the president s new none knee for nominee for attorney general and leave eric holder who do you not like, in that position longer . Chris, what i am saying is use the constitutional checks and balances we have to rein in the executive. If you read the federalist papers, our framers talked about a president that would behave like a monarch that would rule by decree. I understand that i am asking a direct question. Would you block the confirmation of the new attorney general and leak holder in the job . In my view the majority leader should decline to bring to the floor of senate any
nomination other than Vital National security position. That is a serious and major step. It is a power the majority leader has and no one else has any ability to change it. If the majority leader announced it, it would impose real cons on the president and the administration. The second check we have, the second constitutional power is the power of the purse. We should fund one at a time the critical priorities of the federal government but, also, use the power of the purse to attach riders. We have to demonstrate the campaign words that republicans used on the trail were more than talk and we are willing to away our commitments. You are willing to shut down departments and willing to take the back lack . It did not work well with obamacare, sir . Let me point out, at the time you and a lot of folks in the press said, what a disaster it was to stand up and fight on obamacare and it was going to cost republicans the majority
and it would cost seats. Let me point out we just had a historic election we won and it will be nine seats in the senate and we retired harry reid and we have the biggest majority in the house of representatives since the unanimous the unanimous 20s and the number one issue campaigned on was obamacare and, listen, it was a mistake for president obama and harry reid to force the government shut down but it was not a mistake for republicans to stand up and fight on obamacare and not original did the disaster that a lot of folks predicted not happen it was the biggest victory we have had in a long time. Republicans need to do what we say we will do and not just have a lot of empty smoke. Senator cruz we will have to lobby it leave it there. Always a pleasure to talk with you. Now, for the other side, we will bring in the chair of the house d caucus congressman
becerra. Welcome back. Good to be here. You and senator cruz agree on that thank you is about all we agree on. The president wants to focus on felons, not families, but look at the record. In 2011 and 2012, the last years which there are numbers available, the government processed 100,000 parents of United States citizens for deporting. That is 15 percent of total deportation. Are you saying, is the president saying, the government, yes, we could have caught criminals and more gang members but we decided to go after parents. No. What the president is saying, because the law is broken we dont have a priority in what we should do with the broken laws. We should try to focus on going after the criminals because we
we know there are will whys here without documents. Rather than go after the families go after the felons. It is clear what he is trying to say. It is breathtaking to listen senator cruz talk bout all these things that are incorrect and wrong it is legal if the president to take executive action, it is common. As the president said every president since eisenhower, every single president , has taken executive action not just executive action but on immigration. I will pick up on that in a moment. In his speech, part of the question is the president is saying i will go after the bad guys not the family and he talked about tougher enforcement on the border and offered no details in his speech or did he in the memo that accompanied that speech. He did. Let me ask a couple of questions. He did. Let me ask a couple of questions. Is he sending more agents to the border . Is he building more friendses . He is creating more virtual
technology to patrol the border . What specifically is he doing to crackdown on illegal border crossings . President specifically said he will take resources if he cannot get more resources from congress, he will take the resources he has and rather than use them in the interior to go after families, he will use them to go after felons and put them on the border. You say he put people there when this was the influx, the summer of the accompanied children not about putting more. It was not a matter of apprehending the chip, they were coming. How many more agents will he put on the border . He has not specified. We will build more resources . If the Congress Gives him the resources. He will take executive action and ignore congress and ask for money. If congress is unwilling to act and it has been 17 months
since congress would take action to fix the system on immigration and he said in january in the state of the union if congress will not action, i will. For the long of the time we have known he is going to act. It is no different than what any budget has done. What president s reagan and president bush senior did. Here is the difference. I think senator cruz is right about this, reagan and bush 41 acted after a major Immigration Reform bill was passed in 1986 and he was cleaning up after what they d this president is going around congress and ignoring that. Show me where in the constitution says you can have executive action if you do in
three daze or three years but not three years and one day. Come on. How long has it been since the comprehensive immigration. That is what happens, you have a situation where congress has been unwilling to act. The Senate Passed the bipartisan bill. The house of representatives has been sitting on it for 514 days. The president is saying, if you will not act i will do what i k. Here is the point more than downtown times cruz says 22 times, the president said he didnt have the authority to do exactly. That is not true. Would you let me. It work better if i ask the question. The president said that he didnt have the authority to do exactly what he did this week. No. Take a look. Im the president of the United States not the emporor of the United States and my job is
to execute laws that are passed. Right. He cannot change a law. He can only execute them. The Supreme Court has recently, two years ago, said that president has brad broad discretion to ask. He was specifically asked, cant you do something to small split up the families when you have a child and he was asked exactly this case, you have a child here legally, dont deport the parent and he said, i am not a monarch or a king, i can only do what Congress Allowed me and he was saying he could not do it, and said it 22 times. He said he could not change the law and Hopes Congress would act and when he took action you mischaracterized it. He did not grant legal status to a single soul but is referring the deportation. All of these folks are deportable. Why department he do it in
2013 . He was hoping congress would pass the Senate Bipartisan bill. When he said i cant do this. He said he cant change the law and that is true. He has the discretion to try and make a law work better and smarter. The solution is simple it is not to impeach the president. That abusive. No one is talking about that but the democrats. Newt have one branch of government to so another and it is certainly not to shut down the government as senator cruz is implying but to pass a law. Here we are, 17 months since the Senate Passed the bipartisan. Let me say in this case executive action is trumping congressional inaction. This is game changer that will help us get this done. Always good to talk with you, too, sir. What do you think does the president have the power to take
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