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Topic, how have we gotten to this point in the country, i argue an empirecal administration. the president has unilaterally decided not to enforce immigration andilaterally decided to change welfare work requirements and then of course making recess appointments when the senate is not in recess. we now have to tell the president to follow the law, the constitution which he has promised to uphold? >> well, there is a lot of stuff you have said there. the administration feels he is acting within his executive capacity and he has the ability -- we would have to go through each of them. i don't kn...

Topic, how have we gotten to this point in the country, i argue an empirecal administration. the president has unilaterally decided not to enforce immigration and unilaterally decided to change welfare work requirements and then of course making recess appointments when the senate is not in recess. we now have to tell the president to follow the law, the constitution which he has promised to uphold? >> well, there is a lot of stuff you have said there. the administration feels he is acting within his executive capacity and he has the ability -- we would have to go through each of them. i don't...

Senate actual gavel into session. the thinking they won't give the president the opportunity to make these kind of appointments. even one republican strategist thinks that the president will be tough to stop on this. >> i can't see any reason or any leverage that the congress would have to that would prevent the president from exercising his executive capacity to make recess appointments. so i think he is going to do it. there isn't any reason politically were he shouldn't. >> reporter: take a look at the reasons. there are potentially legal conflicts here. a lot of this has to do with the def...

President from exercising his executive capacity to make recess appointments. so i think he's going to do it. there isn't any reason politically why he shouldn't. >> reporter: now president obama would certainly not be the president to make recess appointments. there are legal questions exactly what the parameters are exactly what the president's powers are to do this. they are in the constitution but there are questions as to what constitutes a recess. gregg: thanks very much. heather: taking you to russia now a new act of defines from russian leader vladimir putin, the current prime minister...