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Basis and policy basis to act where he can on his own. congressman luis gutierrez said the time for waiting is over. the white house delayed jeh johnson's announcement because they want more time precisely because there is this humanitarian crisis. my question to you, john, what explains this rift between democrats in congress saying the president must act and white house which seems to be trying to buy some time. >> what it is, this works quite well together. the democrats are putting pressure sort of on aobama getting reflected back on republicans. even though they've known for six or eight ...

Those things. the supreme court lightly weakened the epa rules on carbon and threw out his recess appointments when he was saying the senate was out of session and no -- >> if you gavel in for 30 seconds that means you're at work. if only i can do 30 seconds of a television show and say i was at work, but anyway. >> i think this is -- it's a part of a broader agenda where republicans are saying the president is trying to do these various bad things but we're trying to stop him. republicans aren't trying pretend they have a positive agenda. now i do think republicans have a problem with not hav...

Yours. so we can't afford to wait for congress right now. that's why i'm going ahead and moving ahead without them wherever i can. >> in other words, the heat wave shows no sign of letting up any time soon. joining me now is correspondent for the upshot at the new york times, josh barrow and washington bureau chief, brightening our day for buzz feed, john stanton. this is what i'm seeing as i read the landscape, john. this is actually really good for democrats. it allows the president to go out there and say, they don't do anything but call me names and by the way, on wednesday it raised over ...

Underscore that thought, susan. republican congressman tom price of georgia, a conservative that the national review last month called boehner's biggest threat, told wmal radio yesterday that the northeastern republicans were to plame for what many conservatives believe was a bad deal to avert the fiscal cliff. listen to what he said. >> the vote is really fascinating. if you look at the votes that were yes on the republican side, there were 85 of them, and 70 of them come from blue states. so i really think, and i have been talking about this for a couple months now, i think this is a red sta...

It some inherent bias? >> well, you could call it bias. i think john boehner was just nervous about bringing up a bill that some of his more rural and conservative members would have a question about right after the fiscal cliff deal. i think he was, frankly, worried that today's vote might have turned out differently, today's vote for speaker might have turned out differently had he done that right then. and so, you know, you could say it's arguable that certainly for self-preservation that was a smart thing to do, but it clearly reinforced this feeling on the part of the few remaining northe...