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Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obama's head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something he's not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows he's quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said we're trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. that's a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican president, and there will be another republican president, comes into the press room some days and says, you ...

Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obama's head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something he's not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows he's quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said we're trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. that's a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican president, and there will be another republican president, comes into the press room some days and says, you ...

Were spending on these things before. so how you disentangle this is now on obama's head. can he learn? this is an executive function, which is something he's not starred in so far in this presidency and can he get it together? everyone says and knows he's quite bright and can he learn to manage? because this is -- >> when it was said we're trying to prevent blowing up the insurance markets. that's a rather big deal. i think this is a constitutional scandal. suppose the next republican dent, ent, and there will be comes into the press room some days and says, you know, i really think the capit...

Difficult to implement. so, people don't want to see this get implemented for a lot of different reasons, but the problem is we can't just toss the constitution out the window because it's a desirable result. >> that's not the case here. >> i'm saying this executive discretion he is taking on, if it's not challenged, it's going to stay, and -- >> neil: we just wasted time. >> going to set the press sent for future administrations taking advantage and it's going to be a free-for-all: doesn't make it right. if mitt romney took office and said i'm not going to enforce obamacare, we would have out...

Rewrite the immigration law and give out these kinds of benefits. every time congress looked at it since the mid-1990s they tried to tighten up any discretion and made it clear there is very little discretion and it's tightly confined in granting extraordinary relief. what he has done is shown he can be cowed by a radical wing of his party for political reasons. hijack the congress. >> there is a lot of pent-up anger, mr. stein. but we all know the president has every right to exercise his executive discretion it's done all the time with prosecutorial discretion. president bush did it. what pr...