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Special counsel can only be accomplished by the attorney general. in this case the attorney general is rod rosenstein acting in the shoes of jeff sessions. however, since 4:00, i've been talking with some legal colleagues -- >> you did some more homework? >> i did. >> that's why i love you. >> there is some school of thought that says because it's a regulation and not a statute, the president could actually overturn a regulation. he could set in motion basically a way to deregulate that regulation, overturning it and issue, using his executive authorities, a new regulation that says the presid...

Of these matters after we've seen the president has had a rough go with congress, a republican-led congress, on all of those issues. so when it comes to health care, not being able to get a new bill passed, the president is using some of his executive authorities, something that certainly people have criticized president obama for using during his eight years, to try to make some changes to health care policy. alex? >> all right, kelly o'donnell, thank you as always for that. joining me now, former white house aide and huffington post contributor, peter emerson, and republican strategist and...

Anniversaries every single day. and yet, congress still hasn't done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families. >> the president will review the slate of administrative changes with attorney general loretta lynch on monday. the white house argues the actions will be within his executive authorities. broad support for tighting background checks. >> change is going to take all of uls. the gun lobby is loud effortl s effortlessly for anyone. the rest of us are going to be just as passionate and well organized and defense of our kids. that's the work of citizenship....

I mean come on, your mouth is going to split in half you keep talking out of both sides of it like this. >> both are true. we can't get off tomorrow, but the president says go back and look at the last couple state of the union address, he's been very pro fracking. that may again, that probably annoys a lot of people on his left and his own party. but the president has vast executive authorities. he could have clamped down, had he wanted to. he's allowed permitting to go forward. he said he's an all of the above policy. we do have to get off oil. no doubt. we're producing so much that the pric...

Correspondent jim acosta has just gotten a segment from his speech tonight. what's it say, jim? >> reporter: i hope i don't have to respond to everything that s.e. said. >> please do. >> reporter: i'll let do you that, dan, exactly. the white house in the last few minutes has released excerpts of the president's state of the union speech. we obviously don't have the complete speech to read to you. going to what s.e. was saying a few minutes ago, the defines the president was going to use, the president might use the word determination to show action because of potential inaction up on capitol ...