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To do some of this new his executive powers. what strikes me is that the media seem to have tuned out what has been a pretty robust debate in this country about how much is too much, the metadata, the eavesdropping on the e-mails, now we learn the nsa has access to text messages people send. but really the president's been distracted by the ed snowden melodrama, is he a traitor, will he be brought to justice, does he stay in russia. and there's been a lot less maybe because people have moved on or decided even when they go shopping or google, people gather so much of their personal information...

About. >> rush limbaugh attacked the president saying the president will use whatever he can. >> he might have a pen and he might have a phone. but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator. and yet that's exactly what it sounds like. >> a dictator to use his executive powers? >> i love that you call rush limbaugh the head of the republican party because in a practical sense that is actually true. the republican party is governed by its media industrial complex. the media way really drives the policy a. the reality is that republicans have not had an...

On executive order. he actually wrote a book about it. he says that clinton and bush did a lot of executive orders, they weren't aougs aougs -- using their full executive powers. this president made it clear he plans on dominating this year. if legislation can't move through congress, he's going to move it through his oval office. >> he's calling 2014 the year of action. all he says that is necessary is a pen and paper. take a listen. >> i've got a pen and i've got a phone. and i can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action, administration action that moves the ball forw...

A minority and saying if you can call someone who was a servant a dictator, it leaves me speechless. he criticized twitter saying social media is the worst menace to society. the white house is urging all parties to continue to work to calm the situation. what makes it different than anything else is turkey is a democracy. few believe the government is in danger of falling, they see it as a sign of the autocratic tendencies to everyone term-limited and they believe to have his sights on the presidency. allies are campaigning for constitutional changes to give the post executive powers. you see...

Mitch mcconnell bears more of this blame than the president does but we ought to just keep talking about it. we ought to just keep pushing at it, and i think the president can never say it's -- you know, it's up to you guys now. he always has to have some new activity that he and other people can do to keep trying. >> dean, what about this point, you're president of the united states. you are the president. you have a lot of powers, executive powers. >> you can do it through that and that's one thing -- >> kind of the whoa is me, you guys are hosing me, people eventually don't want to hear it,...