our guest is brian bennett of the "l.a. times." he will be with us for about 35, maybe 37 more minutes. we are about this potential executive action, which could come as early as this week. mr. bennett, how long is the president been considering executive action, and what brought them to this point? how much work and study brought them to the point where they might do this now? guest: the president started talking about this earlier this year and the president was under a lot of pressure from groups you have been looking at the record of deportations under his presidency and felt like he hadn't done enough to protect families and keep families together. he was getting a lot of pressure from within the democratic party to take some action. when the senate immigration bill was not taken up in a house, the president was under pressure to do what he could on his own. and he asked his new head of the department of homeland security, jeh johnson, and what changes could be made to make it more fair and more humane in the way it operates. h

our guest is brian bennett of the "l.a. times." he will be with us for about 35, maybe 37 more minutes. we are about this potential executive action, which could .ome as early as this week mr. bennett, how long is the president been considering executive action, and what brought them to this point? how much work and study brought them to the point where they might do this now? guest: the president started talking about this earlier this year and the president was under a lot of pressure from groups you have been looking at the record of deportations under his presidency and felt like he hadn't done enough to protect families and keep families together. he was getting a lot of of pressure from within the democratic party to take some action. when the senate immigration bill was not taken up in a house, the president was under pressure to do what he could on his own. and he asked is that his new head of homeland security -- he asked his new head of the department of homeland security, jeh johnson, and what changes could be made to mak

. >> on the next washington journal, brian bennett discusses president obama and immigration policy. paul alalso speak with bergo on the congressional agenda. bradford fitch [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> monday night on the , the columbia law school professor who coined the term net neutrality and how to manage the internet. >> one of the things that is getting overlooked in this generally in the big how are they going to get broadband. no one is addressing that. title to does give the agency more power to do things like mandate universal service, like we did with the telephone service in the 20 century. it collects money, which right now goes to subsidize wrong telephone service. that could be done to create rural broadband service. they could say that we need a universal service program and people need to have broadband. easterny night at 8:00 on c-span2. danford center recently partnered. spoke about the politics of

michael bennett from colorado. brian people who are going to infuels -- infuse new blood in a caucus that has gotten older. the republican caucus has gotten new blood. mike lee tom cotton only 367 37. this is a new generation and bringing the average age down significantly. steve said or you tom cotton was only 7 years old when mitch mccongress was first elected to the senate. tom cotton feels tom cotton -- when tom cotton was born the oldest couple of senators diane feinstein and richard shelby much more than 30 years old. so, that gives you a sense of a generational change in the senate. let me mention in michigan this is another good raeulgs race between an incumbent governor who faced a rocky first term rick schneider and mark shower. snyder looked like he was lady for a while. late polls show it closing quickly. shower has a slot at what would qualify as one of the upsets if he knocks off snyder. but in michigan like a number of other states snyder has been pulled to the right a little bit by his republican led legi

brian bennett. this is in the "l.a. times." shot of the many immigration protests in and around town. you have a quotation from the speaker of the house, john boehner, last week. "we are going to fight the president to thumbnail if he continues down this path. this is the wrong way to govern." they are also talking about suing the administration. how would that work and couldn't be successful you have to -- could it be successful" discussedgress has suing the president before and the suits haven't gone anywhere. they have trouble figuring out exactly what standing congress has to sue the president. it tends to be more about theater and public relations, these threats to sue. the budget discussions, on the other hand, is a real immediate power that the congress has. right now republicans are talking about, look, if obama goes forward with these immigration actions, we have the power of the purse and we can cut off funding to these thisams, agencies that run , or try to cut off funding to the entire g