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White house thing but it 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 kurt...

He is not, i don't think, going to get what he thought would be the result which is a demand for single-payer national health care, socialized medicine let me switch subjects to something you wrote about. harry reid and democrats killed a filibuster on nominees. it had been there for, what, 100 years. >> well, this only inflames -- will will this only inflame part russian intentions and change actually the fundamental function of the u.s. senate? >> the u.s. senate is becoming very much like the house now. the majority rules. and the minority can eat sand. i think that this manassas the presid...

Senate which was meant to be the place where tempers cooled. what is going on right now? >> what is going on is the fulfillment of a progressive dream 100 years old. 100 years ago we were in the first year of the first progressive democratic president woodrow wilson. he did not do at the margins, he criticized at root and branch. he said the separation of powers is inappropriate for the modern age because america to be governed needs more power concentrated in washington, more and more washington power concentrated in the executive bramplg and more and more executive branch power concentrated ...

Senate which was meant to be the place where tempers cooled. what is going on right now? >> what is going on is the fulfillment of a progressive dream 100 years old. 100 years ago we were in the first year of the first progressive democratic president woodrow wilson. he did not do at the margins, he criticized at root and branch. he said the separation of powers is inappropriate for the modern age because america to be governed needs more power concentrated in washington, more and more washington power concentrated in the executive bramplg and more and more executive branch power concentrated ...

>> there comes a tipping point. today was that tipping point in the united states senate. how do we reach this point? we tried to reach agreements, friendly agreements between the republican senate. we tried different ways. one of the last, no filibusters unless there are extraordinary circumstances. that was the phrase. extraordinary circumstances. it turns out the extraordinary circumstance in the eyes of many republican senators was the re-election of barack obama. that gave them free license to oppose his nominees. not just for the courts but for many important executive agencies as well. ...