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Executive action. the white house says president obama is suesing his pen and his phone to get around the partisan obstructionism on capitol hill, and he's not going to stop. now republicans clearly see this as a wing issue for them. this focus on what they see as presidential overreach what, some call an imperial presidency so we can expect to see a lot more of this fight, especially since the white house says the president isn't going to back down when it comes to using his executive power. chris? >> all right. we'll following that, athen avrnlgt thank you very much and have a good weekend. ...

It says "the king's speech." i don't think that's a reference to any stuttering problem by president obama who is always eloquent. the left clearly has high expectations for him. >> they do. this crowd is not representative, i think of the public at large. this is a strange moment in american politics. both parties are making this enormous gamble. the republican party has has a huge advantage because the country at the presidential level tends to be center right culturally conservative. for the first time you have a republican party at the presidential level is not leading aggressively on bein...

Pushing. >> the white house saying it will help 28 million americans, right? >> right. >> without that it's -- they will not have that assistance. is it likely that the white house's push for $10.10 will happen? will we see it happening on the grassroots or state by state level? >> back in april, senate democrats weren't able to get republicans on their side to move the conversation forward, to get to $10.10 an hour. mitch mcconnell said if it failed, he was unlikely to bring it up in the new congress. that's going to be a big hurdle. polls are showing about two-thirds of americans generally s...