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That's the support he's going to need. >> reporter: he's also about to head to china and japan for key talks. what bind is not doing, fund-raising that would be poor political form this early in obama's second term. analysts say there are two other things biden hasn't done that may help him. he was sidelined by senate majority leader harry reid during stalemate talks. and he was almost nowhere to be seen during the disaster of the obama caroleout. >> he ask look back and point out things that went actually well. i think he can point to a record of accomplishment. being involved in the affordab...

We have address the diet, and former vice-presidential candidate, sara palin, who says we need to stop this nonsense opposite and for all. all part of our special coverage live tonight on fox business network. and we're waiting to hear from the president of the united states. a minute away. why the thinking that republicans are going to bed a a disadvantage here might be a bit premature. explain jane. >> certainly the short-term expectations is that the republicans will be blamed. but this is obama's second term. during the 1995 shutdown it was clinton's first term and he was up for re-electio...

Scandals that the obama administration was sort of having to deal with all at once. remember back in may it was scandal overdrive, right? you had headlines like this one from the "ap" -- "obama's second-term agenda waylaid by controversies." do you remember this period in the spring, right? the early summer? trio of controversies roiling washington, emboldening republicans, a establishment willing to second guess the white house. so, one of those was benghazi, which is still a tragedy and a terrible terrorist attack, but it has never really caught fire as a partisan scandal or as a democratic ...

What this also is doing is it is really pummelling obama's second term. he's already very unpopular. he's being shown as a weak and ineffective leader but this -- the idea that the executive branch can just unilaterally say, we're not going to actually implement these reporting requirements and we're not going to do the finds. there's a real question here of whether or not the executive branch even has the right to do that. that's something that's haunted the obama administration since he took office. why does the executive get to put us -- get us -- to put us at war? why does the executive ge...

Enough. if he gets -- if we get to the end of obama's second term and he did health care in his first term and does immigration reform in his second term. >> if. >> immigration reform looks like it has a fairly good chance. it has a reasonable chance. >> a chance. >> a chance. won't people look back and say actually those were fairly big accomplishments for the president? that's two pretty major pieces of legislation to be remembered for? >> i'm not saying that it's been an inconsequential presidency. i would add to that climate change. if he's able to get at least part of what he wants to hav...