bob cusack from the the hill. bob? i guess you heard us talking about you.ed about the president's new found freedom as you call it on the paper on the hill. i want to ask you. the president was supposed to start at 1:30. what is going on behind the scenes. is the president running through the answers or is he off doing something else right now? >> he has a habit of running late to these things and there is a lot of preparation. and there are easy ones that will be dominated by the sony issue as well as cuba and one other issue that you haven't discussed is key stone. and when is he finally going to decide on key stone. that's one of the things that republicans will send to his desk early. it has the votes in the house and senate. and the question is will he sign it? there is a lot of flurry of paper work going on and he has a habit of being tardy. >> in terms of the white house press corps. how are they coming up with the questions. you only get one shot and you want to ask the question that makes the newscast? >> you are talking about to the bureau chief a

bob cusack and washington examiner chief political correspondent byron york.s a significant number, 68%. when you talk about chipping away at checks and balances you are talking about chipping away at democracy. >> we found that even when people agree with what the president is doing, they have reservations about what he is doing. and i think we saw something really important this week, a story in "u.s.a. today" that talked about just how much the president has been using executive authority. remember, you have heard the white house say well, you know, he hasn't signed as many executive orders. >> the presidential memorandum. >> exactly. is he using presidential memoranda as basically an executive order by another name and by the end of his presidency, if he keeps this up. he will have exercised more exin more than 50 years. >> just as bob, the thing i don't like about that when they say he has done less executive orders when he has done these presidential memoranda. the thing is that's actually not transparent and deceitful hoping that the american people thi

the washington post" aaron blake, the daily beast jacque kucinich and the hill's editor and chief bob cusack. thank you, guys for being here with me. we could do a wrap for the whole year. how was 2014 going to impact for the president 2015 going forward? bob, i will begin with you. >> well kimberly definitely president obama had a tough year. aaron blake's newspaper said back to back had the worst year in washington. so he he said in the begin fing the year it's going to be a year of action. at the end of the year he did say it was going to be a year of action. it was the year of action but it wasn't. he didn't get a lot of what he wanted to get done on capitol hill. couldn't get republicans in the house to ability on immigration reform and, of course, they lost the senate. overall, he picked some momentum after the election. his handling of sony was pretty good. his summer was a disaster. i mean the isis we don't have a strategy. the v.a. scandal, all the things that you guys just ran. tough year for obama. >> jackie, what do you think? >> yeah, i would agree with bob. i think, you know, b

bob cusack. now to my buddy charlie gasperino.ssue with warren will be that she was the brains behind our financial reform laws, dodd-frank. charlie you have been saying that's going to come back to bite her. >> i think dodd-frank is a really bad law. there's some parts that are obviously good in -- >> she made a big stink about don't rein this thing in. >> the thing she talk about, which is separating a piece of a bank out that sells derivatives, is beside the point. >> it was a clarion call for the left. >> they do like it but dodd-frank has hurt a lot of businesses. i'm knot just saying big businesses, ge and major corporations. dodd-frank has hurt small businesses and i -- >> the doesn't care about that. she cares about a populous -- >> but in a general election, that is the populous pitch. small businesses getting screwed by big government and wall street, and particularly big government. and i'll tell you, as much as she is against wall street, she is not against big government, and part of the appeal. you're against both bi

but when you talk to folks like bob cusack of the hill, they say when the president suggests he is movingon executive action, not a going to sit well with the republicans. >> going to do a lot administratively. saw that with climate change, with immigration, and maybe the next step is a lot of speculation -- he would try to close gitmo through an administrative action. >> as you can imagine, that would be a very provocative move that would upset republicans on the hill. they're going to be the president laying out his agenda. a little nugget that came out was that speaker john boehner has now officially invited the president to deliver his "state of the union" address on january 20th. relatively early next year. the president's chance to get the congress' attention, but if he continues to take these unilateral actions the talk of working together will run counter. >> six years to the day of his inauguration. >> exactly. >> no matter what anyone says it's clear that the president's controlling the agenda right now. at least in the eyes of the media, anything he says, whether you agree or d

bob cusack from "the hill." thanks so much. we will have a great weekend. we'll watch the president in a little bit. >> thanks, heather. eric: after the white house fence jump evers and intruder, a report on the secret service reveals what it says a lack of leadership in the agency. homeland security secretary jeh johnson calling for the probe after several security breaches from the white house including this man, who jumped fence, ran across the north lawn as you can see and went into the front door of the first family's home. doug mckelway from washington. >> reporter: hi, eric. one of the key findings of this report is being addressed and in the process of being remedied as we speak. workers begun installing a new fence around the white house and taking down the old one. it extend the security perimeter 10 to 15 feet, does not at this point higher than the old one as the report recommends. report issued by homeland security secretary jeh johnson find secret service problems extend far beyond a fence to a culture of poor leadership that led to series of

joining us our political panel, washington examiner susan father rich choo, cusack and bob -- "the washington post" unhappy with him and at the tail end did slap the house republicans for not voting on the its congratulation bill but it's unusual to seat editorial board after endorsing him in 2012 and 2008. they are not happy with him. >> i think they missed the argument. the president is doing vastly much on a grander scale than what george bush sr. did and what ronald reagan did. i think the argument should be congress had passed made executive orders that involved hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. >> when they say facts matter and wildly exaggerated, terrible to be on the receiving end of that, bob. >> also on the receiving end of "saturday night live" that poked fun at him. also remember, president obama said multiple times over 20 times that he couldn't do this himself. overall, still talking about process and the president. i don't think much voters care about process. they care about what's getting done. that's the problem with republicans. they have to pass something. they