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Going to pay for the wall. it's not part of the executive action today. juliette, how complicated would it be to get mexico to pay for the wall? >> so as everyone who has served in government knows, an executive order can only essentially direct the executive agencies that are under donald trump's control. that would be the department of homeland security, customs, i.c.e. you don't direct mexico under an executive order. and i think, you know, the payment is relevant. what i'm looking for, obviously, for reasons related to taxpayers, but what i'm really looking for is where in fact this wall w...

Menendez of new jersey. 14 charges of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy and making false statements. it alleges between january 2006 and january 2013, a seven-year period, senator menendez accepted almost $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a contributor who is also a longtime friend in south florida. the indictment says he took those gifts, took that money in exchange for using his power in the senate to help that man's interests. the indictment also alleges that senator menendez used his influence to support visa applications for several of the donor's girlfriends. an...

The indictment also alleges that senator menendez used his influence to support visa applications for several of the donor's girlfriends. and one of the girlfriends' sisters. the justice department said senator menendez quote, allegedly engaged in advocacy all the way up to the highest levels of the u.s. government including meeting with the u.s. cabinet secretary, meeting with the heads of executive agencies and other senior executive officials, and soliciting other u.s. senators, all in order to assist this businessman's personal and pecuniary interests. justice department today also indicte...

Want more power and if i have a do-nothing congress, that has a 9% approval rating, i'm going to take my pen and phone and get it done. >> i can't think off hand of a situation in which it was even considered that something a law -- we would do any way, or where we would take part of a statute and apply it but not the rest of it because it was inconvenient. >> what do you make of this push by republican congressmen to bet eric holder to send them justification of these actions. >> good luck with that. i would be interested to see the legal justification, but it's not his justification but the ...

White house thing but it goes beyond the white house. for instance, in the executive agencies, the environmental protection agency, is implementing regulations that any new coal-fired plant has to have a scrubber. that even the one plant that has it, even the one person running the plant says it is economically unfeasible. >> so it hobbles then. >> instead of putting in place an epa regulation, it can't be complied with. >> it is not just the president but the executive agencies that are part of the presidency. how has the media been covering these presidential power grabs? media critic howard...