obamacare, amnesty. all republicans are against obamacare, that only leaves amnesty.so, first, i am not interested, i'm out unless you can tell me he voted against amnesty, and second, you better have somebody pretty good, and, third, make sure it's in a race where we're not going to lose the seat altogether. >> well, thank you very much, ann, for coming. >> thank you. [applause] oh, one more thing, um, if you don't mind my saying, i'm going to be signing. we have some books out there, and there's one sort of crazy things you won't have seen before, thes

what if amnesty doesn't pass? i know the demographics have changed and what do you think where we already where and what it means for the future of the republican party for that matter the democratic party. >> i always say ammesty to includude continuing the curren immigration policy. that is amnesty on the installment plan. we need an immigration moratorium. wages are at rock bottom. if you want to end income quality? stop dumping low wage jobs on the economy. democrats say they care about the poor? they care about their ethnic lobbies, black voters and wall street -- block voters -- and republican party is the party of hard working americans, lower middle class. and we have been the party defended african-americans from the degradation of democrats. and we should continue that. continuing the status quo gets us to the same place: end of america. just a little more slowly. >> i am andrea from san diego, california. you mentioned your hope is the republican party win over the hispanic votes and mentioned the democ

i always mention amnesty including amnesty on the installment plan. no, what we need is a moratorium, 100% right now. wages are at rock bottom. you can't pick up a new york times without hearing about income inequality. you want to cure it? stop dealing a million low-wage workers on the cub. democrats care -- claim they care about the poor. no, no, no. they care about their ethnic lobbies, their bloc voters and wall street. and it's great for them, but the republican party is the party of hard working americans, middle class, lower middle class. as i say, we always have been the party that defended african-americans from the depredations of the democrats, and i think we should continue that. so, no, continuing the status quo gets us to the same place, end of america, a little more slowly. >> i think there's a question over here. yeah. >> my name's app drink ya, i'm from san diego, california. ms. coulter, you mentioned that your hope was that the republican party wins over the hispanic vote, and you mentioned some ways that the democrats have, you kno

the root cause of this is all of this talk of amnesty. if you make your way to america illegally, if you get here you are going to get amnesty, citizenship, and a better life. the human traffickers in central america for the last two years have been using obama's own words as they're marketing campaign. it has encouraged parents to do the unthinkable in many cases and pay these people money to put these kids on that death train as it is called in mexico hanging off the sides in many cases to go from central america to our borders knowing that our laws and the president's executive order, if you can get there they will turn you away. what we have done is created an invitation for people all over the world, particularly central america to make their way to our borders. in now with the president wants to do is first of all ask for this irresponsible amount of money that will change things so that he can make it a battle between he and congress. he is smart politically because the media always buys into this. he said the solution is this gian

what if amnesty doesn't pass? i know the demographics have changed and what do you think where we already where and what it means for the future of the republican party for that matter the democratic party. >> i always say ammesty to include continuing the current immigration policy. that is amnesty on the installment plan. we need an immigration moratorium. wages are at rock bottom. if you want to end income quality? stop dumping low wage jobs on the economy. democrats say they care about the poor? they care about their ethnic lobbies, black voters and wall street -- block voters -- and republican party is the party of hard working americans, lower middle class. and we have been the party defended african-americans from the degradation of democrats. and we should continue that. continuing the status quo gets us to the same place: end of america. just a little more slowly. >> i am andrea from san diego, california. you mentioned your hope is the republican party win over the hispanic votes and mentioned the democr

the root cause of this is all of this talk of amnesty. if you make your way to america illegally, if you get here you are going to get amnesty, citizenship, and a better life. the human traffickers in central america for the last two years have been using obama's own words as they're marketing campaign. it has encouraged parents to do the unthinkable in many cases and pay these people money to put these kids on that death train as it is called in mexico hanging off the sides in many cases to go from central america to our borders knowing that our laws and the president's executive order, if you can get there they will turn you away. what we have done is created an invitation for people all over the world, particularly central america to make their way to our borders. in now with the president wants to do is first of all ask for this irresponsible amount of money that will change things so that he can make it a battle between he and congress. he is smart politically because the media always buys into this. he said the solution is this gian

it's the amnesty talk, it's the amnesty pro proposal.s the lack of administration. >> you came across the boarder as a young pen and you 13e7b9 two months ispent twomonths in . what drew you here and what was your experience in the eight weeks while you were being held? >> for sure, i remember being five years old and seeing my mother hold my younger broker who novembers dead he died in her arms because we didn't have money to take him to the hospital. poverty, violence, i was a victim of gang violence, i was being shot, stabbed for simply being a kid. and i my great today the u.s. in a journey that was horrible. i seen little girls being abused by the [inaudible] and people losing their lives and i made it the to the united states and i am a ph.d student at the university of texas and it's the violence and the war that is happening among people in honduras and central america that is causing children to come to reunify with their families and that's what i d i came to the u.s. to reunify with my mother and now i am a ph.d student at tex

more importantly, hispanic voters don't care about amnesty. they're already in. i mean, the legal ones. again, hispanics support the democratic party becauses they support big government. not because they want their entire country moving here. the democrats know this perfectly well, as is evidenced by obama's specifically spanish language ads. he did not talk about amnesty when he took out ad inside spanish neighborhoods, spanish radio, spanish tv. he said i'm going to give you free health care. if he thought, if they thought, if all the democrats campaign consultants thought that hispanic voters cared about amnesty you think they might have mentioned it? no. this is hoodwinking the republicans to give them more voters. never in human history has one country decided to turn itself into another country. you don't have japan saying, let's be sweden. finland isn't saying, i want to be a little more germanic. i love these countries but i don't want to live in germany. i don't want to live in finland. i don't want to police in japan. i want to live in america. why don

they did not want amnesty. they knew the people did not want amnesty. so no dream act. dreamweaver, he waved his magic wand, and obama unilaterally enacted his own, which created the current crisis we are seeing as illegals are pouring in. to collect what he legally promised them. i do not know if there is any democrats in this crowd, but if there are democrats who may be will watch later, i want to ask democrats. come on. was goingthe one who to part the waters and calm the cities and sink every shot, or whatever that fairy was back in 2008 -- do you really still support the obama doctrine? get a reward. his incentives are invitations. it is going to get worse. and now the forgotten man is working class from all backgrounds, all races. immigrantsand legal are forced to compete for limited jobs and services, against this flood of illegal immigrants. and if you think it is only those precious, innocent on tv,n -- you see them and they are being abused by their parents. any parent who would send them on such a journey, up to america's disintegrated redline -- it is not ju

he says the solution is this giant amnestied. what you see on the borders right now is a small glimpse of what this massive amnesty would do to our country. he is saying he needs nearly $4 billion to deal with about 50 or 60,000 children. what is is going to cost to deal with 11 million once you grant amnesty and get into the processing of these people and bringing them into the american system? it won't work. what it will do is make the situation on the border much worse. back before your time and win our operating in a very few mistakes, but one was believing congress if they gave amnesty to 3 million illegals here is the time that they wouldn't fix the border and fix our immigration system. of all that did was encourage millions and millions more to come here illegally and create hardships that just wouldn't cells of the families they left but hardships for americans, those who immigrated here illegally his coat. in our country of immigrants. to say that our immigration system is based on those who get here illegally is just w

or as it is more accurately understood, amnesty.tly slippery to the left, chuck schumer held the centers senators under his spell. but the house of representatives broke the spell and saved the country and even a few of the senators including marco rubio who is much the wiser for the experience. the former gang of eight individual has shared some wisdom in a letter to president obama saying that after the experience of the last 18 months, i have become convinced that there is no realistic path forward on a comprehensive immigration reform for the foreseeable future. senator marco rubio is not only free of this evil and grace, but he now recognizes the house house of representatives superior immigration reform to securing our borders and reforming our immigration laws and enforcement. the incremental approach to immigration reform that i have supported here for the past two years. he also warned president obama against taking executive action on amnesty. the senator said that it would close the door to any chance of making progress o

you have to say if you vote amnesty we are out. we are

what matters, obama karen amnesty. all republicans are against obamacare so that only leaves amnesty. second we better have someone who can beat him in third make sure it's a race where we won't lose his seat altogether. >> well, thank you very much. >> one more thing if you don't mind my saying i'm going to be signing. we have some books out there and there is one crazy thing you wanted to see where the ann coulter dvds. we are down to less ones. some liberal friends of mine made them because they told me they were doing some boring liberal politician. they said he is born, we do you? it has won awards. i've been seeing it because i don't like watching myself. they are now on sale because i don't want to carry them back on the plane with me. they were $30 there are now $20 or please buy them so i don't have to carry them back on the plane. [applause] a is next on booktv a panel from left form and left-wing progressive conference held annually in new york city. chris hedges cornel west and richard will talk about thoma

. >> with regards to the question, the storage of palestinian armed groups, amnesty international has been monitoring such reports. we have not seen any evidence of gaza civilians being compelled to be human shields as the israeli government has claimed. we've not seen any evidence to support that. noted incidences where hamas members have stored rockets near civilian areas and there are no reports of the several facilities where rockets have been found. those schools were not actively being used at that time. rockets being stored in and around actively civilian populated structures, amnesty international has not found evidence to suggest there are munitions or rockets being stored in facilities where civilians are. >> there is ample evidence by israeli humans rights groups of israeli soldiers using palestinians as human shields. that is never discussed in the media. all of these children and their parents and grandchildren killed this morning had no weapons in their house. >> [inaudible] the argument that hamas hides weapons in active civilian areas has not only been debunked by amne

is again committing to sitting amnesty aside. commit to strong border security and internal enforcement. as we do those things, i think there would be room to deal with the future needs of the country by crude -- by creating a 21st century guestworker program in partnership with employment placement firms. creating a legal avenue for people to visit our country, participate in our economy, and to be able to return to their own country under the color of the law, that would allow our border security personnel to really focus on those who are attempting and would attempt to come into our country outside the law. >> you have often defined yourself as a so-called jack kemp republican. as you look towards the midterms, perhaps towards 2016, how do republicans and yourself address the growing divide between the rich and the poor? do you have to take a different position on the minimum wage? do you have to have a real anti-poverty plan? what is the answer for republicans on these issues? >> i appreciate you mentioning jack kemp. not onl

tracy, would amnesty for millions of illegals amnesty put more legal americans out of work this is. >> well, look, i can't believe this, but most of the people are on visas that are expired and should go back, and that is overstay, but we are not attacking that order, and for them to come out here to get jobs that legal americans are garner i garnering for hurts the system overal >> and john, a tough market for a very long time. what do you think that it would do to that labor market? >> well, yeah. i disagree slightly with tracy, because i don't believe it is going to hurt the job market that much, because most of the illegals here are working in some capacity and a work permit is not going to upgrade their status to sudden ly take americn jobs and if it did, competition is what it is, and come e pe pe stigs a good thing. i really believe that president obama does this. the second-termt president for the last 80 years have accomplished very little, and this president realizes that pretty much his presidency is over. i think that is why he is working on the handicap more than the lead

commit to setting amnesty aside. there will be room to do with the future needs of the country by creating a rational guestworker program. this, creating a legal avenue for people to participate in our economy and to be able to return to our own country under the color of the law, that would allow our border security for snow to focus on those who are attempting to come into our country outside the law. >> you've often defined yourself as a jack kemp republican. ,s you look toward the midterms how are republicans adjusting the divide between the rich and the poor? do you have to take a different position on the minimum wage? you do have an anti-poverty plan. what is the answer. i appreciate you mentioning jack kemp. not only was a hero of mine in the 1980's but jack and joanne became very good friends. they will become mentor and friend until the untimely death. our party was founded by abraham lincoln. simple principle of equality of opportunity. jack kemp understood that. he knew that the message of a society where

what if amnesty doesn't pass? i know the demographics have changed and what do you think where we already where and what it means for the future of the republican party for that matter the democratic party. >> i always say ammesty to include continuing the current immigration policy. that is amnesty on the installment plan. we need an immigration moratorium. wages are at rock bottom. if you want to end income quality? stop dumping low wage jobs on the economy. democrats say they care about the poor? they care about their ethnic lobbies, black voters and wall street -- block voters -- and republican party is the party of hard working americans, lower middle class. and we have been the party defended african-americans from the degradation of democrats. and we should continue that. continuing the status quo gets us to the same place: end of america. just a little more slowly. >> i am andrea from san diego, california. you mentioned your hope is the republican party win over the hispanic votes and mentioned the democr

with amnesty international in the community now. i guess it's the first time in history that amnesty international has been looking on something on american soil. that's extremely embarrassing and shocking. people are very much concerned about that. >> quickly here. based on what you have heard and read, even perhaps what you have seen. the evidence, i guess, in the public domain. look likelihood that charges will be filed against this officer? >> i don't think you can say at this point it's likely or unlikely. i think there's way too much we don't know. and for people to suggest that an officer should have been arrested and charged with murder is really rushing things. it's going take the grand jury is going to have to listen to the different witness accounts, and, you know, the different accounts would lead to different results. the brown family's account of him there with his hands up being shot. that would lead to charges. the police account of brown struggling for the gun and then coming back toward wilson, that might well not

so that we can strain this president from granting amnesty. that's what the american people want us to do. we do that tonight with this bill. we invite harry reid to bring the senate back and put the handcuff on the president's other hand so we can have sovereignty again on our southern border. and i yield back to the gentleman from virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the chair wishes to remind members to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. he gentleman from the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan controls the time. mr. conyers: i yield to the gentleman. mr. cicilline: is it not a fact we are here because the republicans oppose this legislation in the senate and not sufficient votes to move the bill, and that's why we are here. the speaker pro tempore: the ntleman has not stated a parliamentary inquiry. mr. conyers: i reserve. mr. goodlatte: it's my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: i'm one of those who come from the state

all we have ever done is, let's have another amnesty. all dayalk about this long but until we actually address the problem rather than debate the amnesty, we will wind up right back where we were in 1986. thanks. >> rich? >> thanks, genevieve, and thanks to all of you for being here. the heritage foundation has a special place in my heart because way back in the day, i was an intern at the heritage foundation. i was a part-time intern. i like to think this wasn't because heritage wanted to deny to me the full benefits and protections that are due full-time interns at the heritage foundation. sometimes i wonder. i grew up around here. i started reading "national review" in high school. i would smuggle issues into the classroom and hide them in my textbook and read them during class. i would record episodes of "firing line," posted by bill everyy, and focus on detail of the argument and rewind to make sure i was following everything. i wasn't a very well-adjusted or popular teenager. enough about my personal problems. i want to underline w

on thursday, amnesty international said the u.s.ment must immediately end its quantities, saying they are providing the tools to commit further and serious violations. the united states is the largest exporter of military government to israel by far, and according to data made public, arms transfers from january to may of million ford $9.3 guided missiles, 700 $62,000 for bombs, grenades, and munitions. washington,stay in d c. sunjeev bery, welcome to democracy now! can you talk about the statement amnesty has just issued. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. amnesty international is deeply concerned about the continuing shipments of weapons and arms by the u.s. government to the israeli military. on the one hand, you have secretary of state john kerry talking about cease-fire proposal, and on the other hand the united states is allowing the israeli army to restock on the arms and weapons they have used and what are likely to be war crimes. >> on thursday, the u.n. high commissioner for human rights criticized the u.s. for its ro

amnesty on steroids. executive order to end all executive orders. unilaterally grant millions of illegals amnesty. it could happen in days. the congressman will be here in minutes. arizona republican swig effoert do not even think about it. what do you think of this? >> this almost borders on crazy talk. but we have heard some tails from the administration that they full lynn tend to move forward on 4 million to 5 million executive amnesty which is a completely made-up concept. >> all right. we can talk about whether the president can even do this by executive order but 4 million to 5 million, do you know or any of your folks know how they could come up with that number? it because it would represent, you know, a third to half of the illegals here. >> well, our fear is they are going to try the create some sort of bizarre matrix that goes beyond the deferred action -- referred to as the dream act and say if you have been in the country for a certain period of time or done certain things, then you are going to fall into this new special am misty c--

that is clearly not amnesty. so no one -- again, no responsible republican leader, as far as i'm concerned, is advocating for amnesty. >> you know, a lot of people maintain that this is grossly unfair to those people who are trying to go through the legitimate immigration system to become united states citizens. i want you to listen to a sound bite here from shapiro who is a scholar at the kato institute and an american citizen, but it wasn't easy. listen. >> i came to this country at age 18, as i said, to start college. and i was on a series of student and nafta visas for a very long time. finally was able to apply for a green card when i left my law firm and joined cato. from that point, my green card application, because i went in as an alien of exceptionability took the lightning-quick time of 18 or 20 months. that is unheard of on sort of being a nobel laureate or an olympic athlete. so that took 20 months. after that i applied for citizenship five years later, and that took about 5 1/2 months. >> i guess th

>> amnesty international was not kicked out of ferguson by police.n the police asks non-media to leave the scene we decided for the safety of those around us we should also leave. so we walked forward to the front of the line. they shouted us to get down, myself and one member of our delegation, we got down on our knees and another officer waved us through. i'm sure as members of the press you can empathize with this encounter while not necessarily as dramatic as it may seem or has been portrayed, the overall lack of transparency for human rights observers and underscore some of amnesty international's concern not for ourselves but for the community who have gathered here to exercise their rights for peaceful protest and the way those rights have been curtailed. >> tell us what you're seeing an there is heavy attention on eric holder's visit and the media, it's nonstop. what are you sensing is happening today? >> well, i certainly think that eric holder's visit is an important one, and i think that we're cautiously optimistic. now that he's here on t

my sense is it if he gives amnesty of amnesty by his executive order he will have so much chaos in histy in the american public will be in an hour or. lou: it is strange today to see this president, as i say, suave and raised for crying out loud, man who is normally stylish in the extreme, dark suits, crisp, white shirts and red ties. it looks like he reminded me of dan rather suddenly being in a sweater because somebody decided to warm them up for the audience >> for jimmy carter. my concern is, have been around the gamelan time and work for several presidents. i have never seen a president of a press conference on friday to say we don't have any plan. why bother? obviously there's a lot of chaos in the world. he stands up there and says, we don't have a strategy. we don't have a decision maker. the pentagon all assess strategies. there are always options put on the table. we just have anybody to make those decisions peabody said up there today and said, we have no strategy. we are not going to do anything. to a certain extent the messes of the american public a labor day weekend is g

here in the united states amnesty international is calling on the u.s.overnment to stop supplying weapons, arms, military equipment and aid to israel. israel is a major party to the conflict, and it is time to stop the u.s. supply of weapons, arms, and military aid. it is ridiculous the u.s. secretary of state is talking about a cease-fire while simultaneously the u.s. government is releasing more artillery shells and other forms of munitions to the israeli government. just yesterday amnesty international released the latest information on some to wonder $75 million worth of arms, equipment, and other forms of military aid that had been released ranging from rifle parts and cartridges to missile parts and rockets to the israeli government. those $276 million that have been supplied in arms and munitions to the israeli government to not include big ticket items like jets and naval equipment and other sorts of high technology. all of this needs to stop. all countries supplying weapons need to stop immediately, and that includes the united states. in additi

-- the border and amnesty activists?ish we would have had some sort of bipartisan agreement on immigration. that did not work out. the last time we had a bipartisan agreement was back in 1986 under president reagan, and the democratic congress. but nevertheless, it didn't happen. if the president moves on some sort of executive order or orders, we've got to make sure that he does can it under the limitations of the law. again, that -- we don't know what the president's going to do. but we're going to wait to see if he does do something before or after the november elections because there are some conservative democrats that probably are a little concerned if he decides to do this before the november election. but at the same time, he's been pushed by certain folks to do it as soon as possible. lou: give us your best judgment. if this president did issue an executive order and as many are are suggesting, affected -- amnesty that would affect some five million illegal immigrants, did so without national consensus, did so r

special ops forces told amnesty international the following he said we did everything we could to fight for justice but we don't know if there was an investigation we were left in the dark and we're still in the dark now while u.s. military officials state that they take all allegations of misconduct seriously and that full investigations are underway into reports of abusive behavior amnesty international's steve crawshaw believes that the system of military justice in the us is simply flawed the crucial flaws of the system all the reluctance to investigate in the front with military commanders kill themselves. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we need to have external involvement we need to have above all the us or third is the u.s. military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they should not wish to take place on the face then they should really wish to investigate but one way forward is also to have that independent involvement and we can also see a change in the legislation which will make that possible we have not seen not a second. wi

it's not surprising when you give that kind of amnesty you have hundred hundreds of thousands of newllegal immigrants trying to get across -- >> how are they giving that? >> first, the president two years ago suspended the immigration laws as it relates to a class of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who are currently here, and second, mark pryor has voted to grant amnesty to almost 12 million illegal immigrants who are currently in our country. word gets out quickly across the world when american politicians don't have the will power to enforce our borders and immigration laws. that's chief cause of the crisis we see on ore southern border today. >> congressman, if the president as some suspect after labor day holds off deportation of millions of illegals do you think that would be an impeachable offense? >> neil, the house took action last week to prevent exactly that. the senate did not. in fact, mark pryor voted not just to support the president's past -- >> i'm not talking about mark pry you're. i'm just saying if the president did that by executive order, while republ

. >> executive amnesty will set the country completely on fire. i do agree, it might get out the hispanic vote, but you all have red state democrats denouncing the president for doing it, for engaging in unconstitutional action-- >> they are willing to lose those democrats. >> it would poll arrestize-- >> executive amnesty is your word and the word the writer is putting out. but that's not what the president will do. he'll act within his own constitutional with boundaries. let's see what he does. >> is there deep pessimism about the country and the leadership of the country? >> yes, i think there is. >> is that going to influence how people vote? >> of course it will. the single most influential factor on the u.s. is the economy. and we have a slow-growing economy with a lot of people being hurt, lot of people on part-time work, very, very, very weak improvements in their standard of living compared to where they see the, shall we say the upper 1% as the cliche goes. >> yeah. >> so i think that's going to drive a lot of people and it's going to be

the ams amnesty report concludes that only a full reform of the military justice system can begin to solve the problem. in the u.s. involvement in iraq is growing as islamic militants gain momentum in the country's north u.s. airstrikes over the weekend hit multiple locations around the city of erbil intending to keep the militant group known as isis at bay other strikes were intended to defend members of the religious minority from isis attacks american aircraft also dropped food and water for the thousands of years edis who have been trapped on a mountaintop in sin jar but the strikes are just a part of an overall american effort to quell the conflict in iraq while the u.s. says it has no plans to send troops are to use a mirror david brings us more on the obama administration's arming of the fighters on the ground. the obama administration is beginning to directly provide weapons to kurdish peshmerga forces to fight off islamic militants senior officials who announced the decision to the press on the condition of anonymity one say exactly what types of weapons are being sent nor w

welcome back this is our senior national and you amnesty international report has slammed the u.s. military over the torture and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling these apparent war crimes that went unpunished. airstrikes were responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths and the other key source of civilian casualties was an escalation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints or near military convoys the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what is needed to ensure accountability for the alleged war crimes well i'm now joined by amnesty international steve crawshaw director of the office of the secretary general to discuss the findings thank you so much for joining us mr crawshaw now in the report it says that not every civilian death occurring in an armed conflict implies a legal breach under international humanitarian law so the question here is what incidents could be regarded as war crimes during the u.s. military operations in afghanistan. that's correct is that the bottom line in all these things is dispropor

. >> amnesty international accuses the nigerian government. a u.s. general was killed today in an attack against a military camp in afghanistan. >> the incident happened with a gunman dressed in an afghan army uniform opened fire on both afghan and nato personnel in a so-called insider attack. u.s. army officer that was killed in the shooting was the highest-ranking official ever to be killed in iraq or afghanistan war. >> the afghan defense university outside of kabul, high-ranking officers were attending a meeting when a man in their midst opened fire. he was wearing afghan army uniform and was killed in the ensuing exchange. >> they removed casualties by helicopter. >> a u.s. general was killed, and at least 15 other officers were wounded, some of them seriously. they included germans general, three afghan officers, and the number of americans. insider attacks as they are known have been a recurring problem in afghanistan. >> afghanistan is still a war zone. it is impossible to eliminate completely that threat, particularly in a place like afghani

there is every indication he wants to create amnesty, de facto amnesty for as many as 5 million illegal immigrants. we are on the verge of watching a president, are we not, basically subvert the law, in this case, u.s. code section 1325, which requires that a person be punished and that the laws be enforced for illegal entry into this country, punished by the way by a fine as well as imprisonenment. we have reached a point, people use the expression rather recklessly but this is a president who is lawless in a sense he will not enforce the laws as required by the constitution of the united states. >> we do have a president who, in a whole host of different areas, not just immigration, not just obamacare, but enforcing our drug laws, our environmental laws, the laws regarding the disclosure of negotiated deals with regard to the release of suspected terrorists, all of these things are matters where the president is exceeding his authority. that's why it's important for the congress to stand up and use all of the various checks that we have against the president in a situation like this.