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Himself, and the republicans and stephanie is absolutely right, 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, ...

Environmental protection agency's regulatory power limiting carbon emissions at power plants, which is a huge thing that he theoretically could do when he feels he has the political capital to do it. >> in other words, that story from "the post" today acknowledging that he intends where possible to end run congress and get these things done on his own time. >> that's right. you know, he does have executive powers. remember when congress wouldn't act on the dream act on immigration. he essentially decreed a version of the dream act himself through his executive powers, and he has -- he can do t...

Power plants, which is a huge thing that he theoretically could do when he feels he has the political capital to do it. >> in other words, that story from "the post" today acknowledging that he intends where possible to end run congress and get these things done on his own time. >> that's right. you know, he does have executive powers. remember when congress wouldn't act on the dream act on immigration. he essentially decreed a version of the dream act himself through his executive powers, and he has -- he can do that on some of these issues but not all. a lot of this agenda will require legis...

Limiting carbon emissions at power plants, which is a huge thing that he theoretically could do when he feels he has the political capital to do it. >> in other words, that story from "the post" today acknowledging that he intends where possible to end run congress and get these things done on his own time. >> that's right. you know, he does have executive powers. remember when congress wouldn't act on the dream act on immigration. he essentially decreed a version of the dream act himself through his executive powers, and he has -- he can do that on some of these issues but not all. a lot of t...

Of getting over the 60 votes or speeding up the process. the house still doesn't move on it, so perhaps immigration gets through this. if it doesn't get through the house, the president will use executive powers that he has. it isn't ever as good invoking the executive powers, executive orders and other things. it will be pretty hard. there will be a lot of public pressure, as the president pushes us. i think they will use the next four years, use the bully pulpit. the republicans are going to say he is out campaigning. i think he is pushing his agenda. he needs to go over the heads of republi...