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Just a week ago, jay carney was standing at the podium calling these plans substandard. bob was saying, they were terrible anyway, they shouldn't worry about keeping them. now they want people to keep them? aren't these plans illegal? aren't they in violation of his law? >> with the law that he created? by going around congress and then change and now wants to change back? i'm not sure where he is. he used the executive pen more than i do when i make my notes here. so he golfed through fast and furious. went to vegas while benghazi was still burning. hours after his big fix to obama care, he's...

Interpret it the narrowly tailored way that wouldn't give benefits? if that's the case why didn't chuck hagel stand up, go directly to the president and say i need your help fixing this? if i'm president barack obama i would go out there and say not just for pr purposes, because it's the right thing to do, let's make this happen. you know what he did do this week. he allowed illegals to protest on the national mall. that needed white house approval. he gave funding to egypt with his executive pen, signed the dream act. did a lot of executive orders. he doesn't want to do this for some reason. ...

Administration choosing to interpret it the narrowly tailored way that wouldn't give benefits? if that's the case why didn't chuck hagel stand up, go directly to the president and say i need your help fixing this? if i'm president barack obama i would go out there and say not just for pr purposes, because it's the right thing to do, let's make this happen. you know what he did do this week. he allowed illegals to protest on the national mall. that needed white house approval. he gave funding to egypt with his executive pen, signed the dream act. did a lot of executive orders. he doesn't want t...

Do what he did in his last -- the last two years of this term, which is act through executive order and circumvent the legislature. we've seen him pass a number of legislations through the epa and he uses that executive pen to do it. it's very emperialist. the base will want him to put points on the board and he won't be able to get things through the house and senate. republicans taking the senate is very likely, lips after the nelson retirement we saw. they only need four seats so this is very, very likely to happen. but he might lose and we might have a republican president and then we can ...

Fission the dreamers but also have greater border security. so they are not putting their lives in danger. >> melissa: do you think either the goodlatte bill or the compromise bill become law if they make it through? or is that hopeless? >> i think the whip count on the goodlatte bill for quite some time and the reason it's held up it does not have the votes. they want to read the recent version of the bill. but we are close. this is the best bipartisan way to get through the senate and have something the president supports. >> melissa: are you comfortable with the idea that by virtue of havin...