if john boehner want it is national guard he should authorize it.ational guard deployment. that's how you do a federal guard deployment. it's rick perry's job or congress's job. the president can go along with it. the problem for republicans is they don't want to do anything because they are afraid it might help president obama. they just want to keep complaining but not actually do anything. >> what about not visiting in person? take senator cornyn. he says, texans do not need a lecture from a man who refuses to even see the crisis firsthand. back when the president visited in 2011, cornyn spokesesman said what the senator is looking for president obama cannot deliver with another speech or photo op. that's presidential leadership. they criticize whether he goes to the border or not. >> imagine that. >> i sort of wonder if the president shouldn't have just gone to deny senator cornyn and senator cruz and rick perry the ability to have the talking point. here is where the analogy breaks down. president bush wasn't in trouble because he did the flyov

do you believe boehner will cave to something? >> yes, the house will vote for some amount of money, yes. i just don't see -- they've backed themselves into a corner. they pumped this hysteria. people with disease are flooding into the country. so they've created a crisis that needs to be responded to. they cannot now not do anything. >> i have been unable to predict the house of representatives. >> who knows? >> that's why chris gets the last word. >> thank you very much for joining me on my first week back here in the studio. chris hayes 8:00 p.m. weeknights on msnbc. alex wagner, 4:00 p.m. weekdays here on msnbc. thank you very much for doing overtime with me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, ann colter has some surprising advice for republicans on the mississippi senate campaign. and cory booker and rand paul. and later, rosie o'donnell is going back on "the view." yes, chris hayes, i know you're dying for this story. that means the political discussions on that show will be stronger and maybe a bit louder. rosy'

you really think john boehner cares about these kids?e wants a crisis and i have said numerous times on this program the republicans are never going to do anything when it comes to immigration reform in this country. it's a political boon doggel with them. it's something they don't want to deal with down the road. give me a break. that sound bite right there is why nothing gets done in congress. boehner can't get support from his own bill and then he kills the senate bill. there's no compromise. his way or the highway, right? he is the puppet of the tea party at this point. earlier today, nancy pelosi slammed republicans on their inaction. >> here we have a majority in the house, i speak to the house, that is anti-governance, anti-science and anti-barack obama. you see it in everything they do. a solution is there. it's bipartisan on a highway bill. they reject it. a solution is there on the voting rights act. it's bipartisan. they reject it. a solution is there on immigration reform, they reject it because they are anti-governance. >> a

i believe speaker boehner when he says he wants to pass an immigration bill i think he genuinely wants to get something done . but last week the informant the republicans will continue to block a vote on immigration reform at least for the remainder of this year so john boehner flat out told president obama the republicans have no plans to tackle immigration reform you know this election year here's the thing though speaker boehner should at least be bringing immigration reform to the floor of the house so that lawmakers can vote on that or all that's his job it's the job of the speaker of the house to bring legislation to the floor for a vote whether that legislation is going to get passed through with a vote or shot down even though there's sport for immigration reform in the house speaker boehner is getting into members of the far right who'd rather play politics and sabotage the obama presidency and do what's right for america and it's not just immigration reform over two million americans have lost their long term unemployment benefits since republicans let them expire three days

lou: good evening, house speaker boehner and republican leaders suffering a stunning embarrass am on capitol hill. they were forced to abandon their own legislation addressing crisis on the border, speaker boehner and his new team confronted with a rebellion more which of member -- of conservate member complaint, the bill left up touched, president's 2012 action, for illegal immigrant minors, regarded as a primary motivate or for tens of thousands of so-called unaccompanied children. rather than see the legislation defeated, speaker boehner pulled and told house members to forget about starting their 5-week summer recess, bain are' boehnes edict created chaos. >> i am hopeful by late this afternoon we'll be able to notify the time of it. >> the house will be in order. >> madame speaker, i yield back. lou: new leadership team having a very tough inaugural. passage of the legislation was never certain, but tea party senior ted cruz reportedly played a large role in helping to derail the bill, he was the -- house republicans to vote against it. >> this all began in the summer of 2012, w

why can't boehner sit out this one political dance? why can't he say that on this crisis, this moral crisis looming before us, we americans can stand together, give these kids the legal hearings they are entitled to. consider their claims for asylum and treat them like innocent needy kids in the meantime. why can't boehner do this one thing. are his right wing allies so hateful? is his desire to rub the president's face in it so compulsive? can't he take off one day from the political dance of death which his least attractive allies are calling the tune. is there a philosophical difference between the democratic and the republican response to this crisis of these particular children. wasn't it george w. bush who signed this law giving these particular kids their right to asylum hearings in the first place? that's my question tonight. why the political games? judge jenkins was part of the group of leaders that met with president obama yesterday down in texas. he's the highest elected official ins dallas county down there. of course euge

what is john boehner to do?ah palin bringing a lawsuit to a gun fight that president obama should be impeached. what's your response to governor palin? >> i disagree. >> what about the folks in your conference, talk about impeachment? >> i disagree. >> how long the house speaker can remain in disagreement with the you will at a right wing of his own party remains to be seen. joining me now is political columnist for "washington post," dana milbank. this would seem to only end in tears, right? what does he do now? >> i think he'll probably be okay with a lot of his base. you have to realize, just how out there sarah palin is right now. even among conservatives. nbc wall street journal had a poll saying not only do a majority of americans wish sarah palin would shut up, 40% of conservatives and 40% of republicans want her to shut up. but she's representing a minority even really among conservatives now in calling for impeachment. but there are very vocal minority. what boehner is doing is trying to take some of th

. >> and boehner. boehner cannot make -- he can't decide whether he wants to be speaker of the house of representatives or whether he wants to protect his -- the position he now has. he is so afraid. this is the most leaderless speaker that i've seen in my lifetime in dealing with pop tigs. politics. >> i don't want to get off the conspiracy theory too quick. i mentioned the governor's conspiracy theory that you commented on. but gop congressman, he also has a conspiracy theory. listen to this. rs . >> in the end they said they want to turn texas blue, turn america blue. if you bring in hundreds of thousands or millions of people and give them the ability to vote, president obama's lawyer's not going to allow them the id so go vote or you're going to lose the benefits you're getting now. that drives people to vote. >> that's why they're letting all these young kids come in, because in two years, they are going to be eligible to vote and they will bus them to the polls and have -- >> and president obama

the boehner bill. here's what he said last night. >> we will not solve this humanitarian crisis unless and until we end president obama's amnesty. the cause of the humanitarian crisis we're ficing right now is president obama's laws. >> congressman doggett, i have to ask, who is the real speaker of the house? boehner or senator cruz? >> well, you have to wonder. it's like the government shutdown all over again. he was here having a little pootsa party with some of these far right members of the house and the not so right, insisting that they be against everything. i think what he just said, that you brought up, reverend al, is so important. i have met with these dreamers. these young people who have so much potential for our country. and he wants to put an end to their presence and their opportunity to contribute to our country in san antonio and austin, all over the country, these young people have so much potential. and then again, as krystal said as far as coming to the middle, you know, even the ch

boehner. >> house speaker john boehner made official what he's threatened for weeks. >> laying out his lawsuit against president obama. >> there's some irony. republicans have opposed the employer mandate. >> i want to repeal the law of the land, is that clear. >> you won't believe the level of obstruction. >> sue me for doing my job. >> listen, i think this is a battle between the two branches of government. >> let's repeal this failure. >> others can make determination about whether it is impeachable or not. >> you don't do your job. >> how's this for a metaphor, capitol hill, specifically the republican led house, is recovering from an industrial waste containment issue. a so-called industrial spill shut down the house chamber thursday morning. all staff members were told to clear the area. the building reopened later thursday. meantime, speaker john boehner and house republicans had another waste containment issue of sorts. they released details of their lawsuit against president obama. republicans have made an art of wasting time and not getting anything done. you would think gett

just before going to summer break, a stunning display of speaker boehner's failure of leadership and the tea party's stranglehold on the gop. the wild series of embarrassments started this morning when speaker boehner touted a gop bill cracking down on illegal immigrants. >> republicans are committed to addressing the humanitarian crisis on the border in a responsible way. first bill on the floor helps secure our border and speeds return of unaccompanied children back to their home countries. >> but just hours later, speaker boehner

>> most importantly, i can't believe congressman boehner could be that dumb. he knows what the constitution says. the constitution doesn't say the president can be impeached because he makes a decision they think is out of the bounds of the constitution. the constitution clearly states that a president can only be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. let speaker boehner tell the american people which high crime or misdemeanor president obama is guilty of. >> angela, the silver lining is it has energized president obama. look at this. >> you hear some of them. oh, sue him. impeach him. >> yeah! >> really? [ laughter ] sometimes i feel like saying, i'm the guy doing my job. you must be the other guy. so rather than wage another political stunt that wastes time, wastes taxpayer money, i've got a better idea. do something. >> i mean, he knows he has a political winner here, angela, doesn't he? >> he absolutely does. you have the speaker of the house who should know not only the constitution, but should know what the president can do within his authority. th

speaker boehner, how is that lawsuit working out for you? first read reports the white house is loving the politics of boehner's lawsuit because it shows just are how little his congress is doing. but i guess in his world, that means he's doing a great job as speaker. >> any way you cut it and whoever's fault it is, you have presided over what is perhaps the the least productive and certainly one of the least popular congresses in history. how do you feel about that? >> well, bob, we should not be judged on how many new laws we create. we ought the to be judged on how many laws we repeal. >> the block everything strategy backfireded. this bogus lawsuit, is, too. thanks to speaker boehner, there is a spotlight on the dysfunctional gop and the president is shining it even brighter. joining me now is goldie taylor and jimmy williams. thank you for being here. >> good evening. >> p thank you, reverend sharp ton. >> goldie, is this lawsuit backfiring for real on speaker boehner as i'm claiming? >> it absolutely is. at the end of the day, the laws

boehner hasn't named one action he thinks is unconstitutional. it's a stunt, a gimmick that could hurt republicans down the road. >> what does an urban black republican have are in common with a white are you able from utah? they are working together to get something, anything done. elijah cummings, a big friend of the show and jason chaffetz join us tonight. when dorothy came back to kansas she said, there is no place like home. try telling that to pat roberts of kansas. he hasn't been home much. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> republicans are quick to blame president obama for the horrors in iraq. the american people are not. listen to this. according to a poll, 58% of american voters say president obama's decision to withdraw from iraq was the right thing to do. 61% say that george bush's decision to invade iraq back in 2003 was the wrong thing to do. a majority, 51% say they blame bush, not obama, for what's going on over there. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." we'll look now at the latest frontier in repub

it allows john boehner not to pursue impeachment. it shows he's challenging the president without taking that next step. >> right. perry, i want to turn to immigration right now and the politics that have. the house has the president's request for $3.7 billion to deal with the crisis. something one reporter pressed boehner on yesterday. take a listen. i can tell you this, we're not giving the president a blank check. it's the problem of the president's own making. he's been president for a 1/2 years. when he is going to take responsibility for something? >> so boehner is not going to get immigration reform passed if he doesn't want the to take executive action, what does congress need to do in terms of dealing with the issue? >> i thought it had a blot of bluffs here. there was a lot of convergence yesterday around the idea that one changing the 2008 law to make it easier to deport children from countries that are not mexico and canada. there was some convergence around that idea. adding more border security at the border. most of th

speaker boehner wants to sue the president for something speaker boehner's actually voted for, delays in implementing obamacare, by leading republicans to focus on a frivolous, backward-looking lawsuit instead of crafting legislation or holding votes, boehner's actually feeding into a point the president has pressed recently. that america has two political branches of government, but only one of them doing its job. >> there's a scene in the movie where mark wahlberg, yeah, they're on a stakeout and somehow, the guy loses the guy that they're tracking, and whalberg's all upset, and you know, yelling at the guy. and the guy looks up and says, well, who are you? and whalberg says, i'm the guy doing my job, you must be the other guy. sometimes i feel like saying to these guys, i'm the guy doing my job, you must be the other guy. >> and congress was certainly the other guy when it came to obamacare's employer mandate. it took extra time to implement. so the white house fold a long and bipartisan precedent of shifting deadlines for that implementation. now, it would have been nice if congre

i like boehner's tone, sneering tone he had about all of this.eid saying look a couple of years ago he had been told romney hadn't paid any taxes, you know. as a rumor. there's only one real thing here and that is that obama is said to or there are reports from the white house that he's going to do something by executive order about immigration. if he were to do something like legalize say half which is what's been talked about, huge numbers of illegal immigrants to do it by executive order which would be clearly lawless and would be the biggest domestic overreach of a president in memory, it would be an impeachable offense. i would be 100% against impeachment because it's political suicide but it really would be the basis for that. that's what i think the white house may actually be softening people up for an executive order that reaches impeachable offense but it's a way of, like a preemptive strike. >> let's be year. there's some republicans who talked about it. sarah palin on this channel said impeachment. other contributors on this channel w

john boehner and the democratic president.unds a tad exasperated. >> this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for five and a half years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> continuing my theory you explain washington by saying life is the fifth grade. that's john boehner and here's the president firing back. >> sue him, impeach him. really? really? for what? you're going to sue me for doing my job? okay. i mirngs think about that. you're going to use taxpayer money to sue me for doing my job. while you don't do your job. sometimes i feel like saying to these guys i'm guy doing my job. you must be the other guy. >> been punchy and funny in recent days in the back and form. let start with the immediate border crisis. they are talking past each other and it does appear after the republicans said no way to the president's request for nearly $4 billion, there are at least some conversations about giving the president some of that money as long as the republicans get what they want w

that's why john boehner is nuts.publicans weren't talking about it, democrats couldn't raise money on it. it's as simple as that. >> but, joe, sarah palin isn't backing away from her calls for impeachment. she was asked today if senate democrats would be on board. listen to this. >> do you really believe that's even vaguely possible? and which democrats would you be targeting to try to persuade them to join a vote to remove the president? >> amen. i absolutely passionately believe that it is possible. who are these democrats? you've got to know that there are still reagan democrats and blue dog democrats who will stiffen their spines and do the right thing. >> she thinks democrats will try to oust the president. is this going way beyond wishful thinking, joe? >> she's been smoking something, obviously. maybe spending too much time in colorado. i'm just telling you this is the most absurd thing she's said. you know, look. this is crazy. here is the best thing we can do. as a matter of fact, let's go back to boehner. i

the democrats can use it because representative boehner is a good target for boehner to use saying you or immigration. you will look at this legally losing case. >> another contradiction, they want the president to use executive power on some thingses but not on others. they want to use him for the very thing they claim he should be using at the border and other places. she said legal loser and political win wither. is it more of the same? >> it's disingenuous. they always say he's doing too much but not enough. leading from behind, a dictator. right? i think the number one thing we have to focus on is getting out the vote in 2013 and ignoring the right wing. what they are going to do is distract us from now until the mid-term elections and they are going to trump up scandals and impeachment to distract us from democrats who exist in larger numbers than republicans, certainly younger democrats in particular, we can take back the house of representatives. at least hold the senate. i think the media is quick to say that it's all lost. you know, they are good at distracting us in the mean

boehner is trying to go to the conservatives at the 11th hour.said they have not come to him, so boehner has a narrow window. that's going to be -- he's going to have a morning meeting on friday trying to whip up some support. >> there's really no precedent for this that i can think of, and we talked about it before when ted cruz was doing this in the house before. there's also no tried and tested technique by house leadership to prevent this. does boehner have a brighter idea this time than he did the last time ted cruz started meddling over there? >> when i speak to aides, they have the same refrain. this is an unusual situation. >> and so they don't really have a play against this, they just know -- they try to keep track of how many people went over to ted cruz's office tonight, things like that? >> they're keeping tabs and all, but there is a debate within the gop leadership. some people think boehner should push a little harder against cruz for meddling in house affairs. but the other argument is that cruz has such a grip on the grassroots

so what's john boehner's plan? is about putting political points on the board. >> i think he gains nothing. >> come on, speaker boehner, enough with the stunts. >> it is a freaky friday john boehner edition. the house speaker levees a lawsuit against the president for not only doing his job but doing what house republicans wanted him to do. last night, they released a draft resolution saying the lawsuit against the president will focus on changes to the patient proct

so what's john boehner's plan? >> it is about putting political points on the board. >> i think he gains nothing. >> come on, speaker boehner, enough with the stunts. >> it is a freaky friday john boehner edition. the house speaker levees a lawsuit against the president for not only doing his job but doing what house republicans wanted him to do. last night, they released a draft resolution saying the lawsuit against the president will focus on changes to the patient protection and the affordable care act. speaker boehner claims the president violated the constitution when he delayed health law's mandate for businesses without getting the go ahead from congress first. in an irony worthy of alanis more i set, the house gop is planning to sue the president over delaying the employer mandate. they voted themselves to delay the employer mandate a year ago next thursday. potentially more problematic for the gop than spending taxpayer money suing the president over something they agree with in presence pell is the fact t

right now, john boehner is being controlled by the tea party caucus in his chamber. and harry reid doesn't are have the full detailed, full-out backing of the white house with details about what the $3.7 billion is for. with willingness to change the 2008 law. everybody is sitting on their hands. it is a humanitarian crisis. >> glenn beck sends teddy bears to the kids. how can that hurt? we have a right as americans to have a border rule and enforce it. it should be progressive. are rick perry got in trouble for in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants, right? the kids. marco rubio got in trouble for talking reform. seems like the republicans have are a wall. if you show compassion or looseness in terms of people here illegally without paper or you show you are shaking hands with the president on any issue, you're dead meat. >> especially on immigration. the republican party has to get out of the cocoon where the moderates that have been reasonable like former president bush. >> and lindsey graham. >> and lindsey graham and say, look, we can't continue doi

let's see what boehner does.e could pass comprehensive immigration reform -- it would pass in a maybe -- >> he would no lock longer be speaker. [ talking over one another ] >> hold on, hold on. >> reform is dead, and mr. perry, if he's a wise man, and i think he's smart, can ride this issue into the primaries, because it is a blazing issue, it's gone national, it's been on television. take a look at drudge, he must have 30 stories about t it's gone on for weeks. >> taken off. >> and obama is on the defensive. >> adding fuel to the fire? >> prior to visiting texas, the president was in the state of colorado where he shot some pool tuesday night at a bar, originally founded by colorado governor hicklenlooper. >> and a man off camera held up a marijuana joint, and extended an invitation to the president. you want to hit this? listen closely. >> do you want to hit this? >> colorado recently legalized recreational marijuana. >> so question, why is the president so uptight about taking a friendly toke. >> wasn't that r

to accommodate john boehner and the republicans in the senate, in the house, he i'll delay it. now john boehner says you didn't implement it. to sue you. going the irony is it's ridiculous. can't appease them one way or the other. president obama has implemented much republican legislation. they say he's bad for the economy. the white entered house, the -- wall street was at 8,000. it's 17,000. and they say he's bad for the economy? give me and the free thinking world a break. president obama is one of the most moderate democrats i've ever seen. host: another story making headlines this morning. u.s.a. today.

what does this have to do with john boehner?rdinarily nothing but boehner in his political wisdom set himself up to shoulder the criticism when he announced he was going to sue the president, yes, suing the president. at this hour, at this moment, the house rules committee is voting on the lawsuit after which it will head to a full vote on the house floor tomorrow. it will be one of the last actions taken by the gop before its five-week summer recess. but will it be enough to slate the thirst of the far right? probably not because it has a habit of not going away when they refuse to rule it out or dismiss it for any reason other than vote counts. >> we're not going to impeach the president because we don't have 67 votes in the united states senate in order to do so. but i do think that a lawsuit filing about the president's abuse of his power, which he has clearly done, some 55 times or whatever it is on the obamacare alone, then i don't see -- i think that's probably a good idea. >> for the record not having votes in the senate

even john boehner's lawsuit is about that. but, you know, when they say now when john boehner says i disagree with sarah palin. i think that stands through the november elections. if they do well in november, win seats in the house and if they win back -- god forbid -- the senate, i think this gives the impeachment caucus a lot of fire to say to boehner, you know, we are not with you. we want to seek impeachment. we've got the votes to do it. we have lived through john boehner saying we don't want to use the debt ceiling as a hostage and then using it -- >> oh, yeah. >> we don't the want to close down the government. they closed down the government. so boehner's word is not good with the caucus he represents. there is no reason to think this is off the table. >> i can't help but go back to the irony. ten years ago yesterday president, then senator barack obama, great call for unity. 2004 democratic convention. i had run for president that year. all of us sat there hopefully bringing the country together. where we are now is li

and you'll never guess what boehner is suing obama over, unless you guessed obamacare. (laughter) jim? >> boehner says president obama overstepped his authority when he delayed the employer mandate portion of obamacare without first seeking congressional approval. >> what we're talk about here are maces where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. >> stephen: yes. and congress cannot sit idly by while the president rewrites their laws. they have to sit idly by while they not write laws. and obama's overuse of executive orders is unprecedented in a modern american history in that he has issued fewer than any president since fdr. and don't tell me that every president issued executive

it's impeachment but boehner doesn't want to say impeachment. he came out today and said he's against impeachment because he knows that plays very badly with the voters. and to have all of this impeachment talk out there, why the democrats raise so much money off of it, you seem to have a pattern here. if a democrat gets elected to the white house, eventually the republicans are going to start talking about impeachment. and i think that is really troublesome, not just to democrats, but to a lot of middle of the road voters who say, just govern guys, please. >> sooner or later, you have to believe what people are saying. we can pull out a mantaj of republicans talking about getting ready of president obama, to impeach him. congressman jim clyburn stepped to the floor today and said it in a profound manner, he think the goal of the lawsuit is to find a peg to hang an impeachment charge on president. do you agree with that? >> yeah, i think that's right. it's got that goal. but for boehner it was an attempt to avoid impeachment at any kind of serio

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but you got to say when i served with john boehner, i didn't think john boehner was too conservative.rvative enough. so this whole tea party thing, mark halpern, as i've said for some time, it doesn't come down to ideology, it comes down to resentment and temperament. there are small government conservatives that don't go around talking about impeachment or setting their hair on fire or don't act like birthers. >> i hate when you make me choose but i'm totally with mika on this. i think the republicans are nowhere near you say they are in terms of coming together with a positive agenda and the right temperament and i don't think it won't hurt them in the mid terms but the long time brand of the party i don't see it right now. >> can we say quickly what is going on with this lawsuit? john boehner throws it out there. it's like here is broccoli. you'll eat your broccoli. no, i won't. i dare you to eat your broccoli. okay, i'll see you. this is the mandate of the aca which the republicans were against, 50 votes. didn't like the mandate to begin with and goes to the supreme court. the sup

this is good politics for john boehner. on the other side, the president's base is defensive of him. blames the republicans for all the hard times he's had. i'm sure they, like me, enjoy seeing him sound defiant and give up on the years and years of compromising that led to exactly nothing. >> michael, when i say baiting i'm saying, sure, there was no stopping the lawsuit. i think obama might be sensing an opportunity here. thinking back and i have talked about this. thinking back to 1998, the mid terps when the democrats won seats because the republicans overreached. the republican opposition uh to clinton was overheated. they tried to impeach him and it backfired. i think president obama maybe sees i can stoke this obama as a tyrant talk. they do the lawsuit, it didn't work. they go further and it backfires. seems they are trying to bait him into that. >> you're both right. the government -- i'm thinking about the soccer game. the government right now is looking at the fact that they can bifurcate this. they can play it a

senate will go to house and we'll see what john boehner does.e could pay immigration reform based on that senate bill. it would pass in a minute. >> he could no longer be speaker. and i don't think that this matters that much in this country. >> reform is dead and mr. perry, if he's a wise man can ride this issue into e primaries. it's a blazing issue. it has gone national now. it's been on television. he must have 30 stories about it up on his website. it has gone on for weeks now. and obama is on the defensive. >> okay, adding fuel to the fire? >> prior to visiting texas, the president was in the state of colorado. where he shot some pool tuesday night at a bar. originally founded by colorado governor, john hickenlooper. one offer was made to mr. obama in which he declined. a man off camera held up a marijuana joint and extended an invitation to the president, quote, do you want to hit this, unquote? listen closely. >> do you want to hit this? >> colorado recently legalized recreational marijuana. >> question, so why is the president obama so

>> well the question is what can boehner do?oehner see as president he thinks exceeded his authority. there is powers within the house to do something about that. one is impeachment. one is to cut off funds. boehner doesn't think the president's violations have exceeded the high crimes and misdemeanors standard for impeachment. trying to defund obamacare didn't turn out very well last time. this is what he sees as only route. you ask can it succeed? that is tricky question. in the past, lawsuits brought lawsuits individually in the white us saying it lacks standing. what boehner is trying to do get the congress, house of representatives itself but their own impramatuer behind the lawsuit. that hasn't been done before. eric: jamie, say the house votes on this and passes this. does the president have a point when george w. bush and bill clinton issued more executive orders than he did and they weren't sued. >> might be, that might be a case but that is not actually what boehner is arguing here. he is not arguing the merely the num

the same speaker boehner. let me play it for you again. this is him today. >> we've got a humanitarian crisis on the border. it has to be dealt with. the president clearly isn't going to deal with it on his own even though he has the authority to deal with it on his own. >> i mean, is he serious? he has the authority to deal wit on his own on the humanitarian efforts leading at the border. he's suing them over using his authority in the affordable care act. >> we need to appropriate funds to take action on the border so congress must do something. when george bush was president and they rolled out the prescription drug benefit for a year, medicaid part b, they didn't want to sue the president over that. it will hurt the republicans come november. the last lawsuit was $2.3 million. god only knows how much this will cost as taxpayers. >> big waste of time and money. congresswoman spear, thank you for your are time tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, self-defense or murder? today possibly conflicting statements at the trial being compared to

i can do this all day, boehner. john boehner wants to sue president obama. it will be weird when boehner walks into the supreme court and you hear. ♪ this is the plaintiff, house speaker john boehner. he claims the president abused his power to pass laws. he also claims obama promised to replace four tires on his jeep grand cherokee and never followed through. >> finally an update on senator pat roberts. i said last night the republicans has been criticized for favoring life in d.c. over his home state of kansas. even going so fares as to rent out his dodge city home. senator roberts explained that an army captain needed a place to live so roberts rented him his home saying, now, hindsight, maybe i shouldn't have done it. he said, i am from dodge the city, i have been there 30 years, owned houses, rented house,s, paid taxes, i don't know what else i can do. as you said, you can keep your residence there. that would be a start. >>> up next, is mitt romney now beating president obama in the polls, ready to run this time against hillary? you're watching "hardba

as he faces a possible lawsuit from house speaker john boehner. but what are the legal hurdle must be overcome for the president to take speaker boehner's threat as a serious legal battle cry? and who better to ask than two lawyers. robert shaw. there has been much made over the unanimous decision from the supreme court that said that president obama went beyond his powers in the case against the senate. the question is does that make things easier if the house wants to sue the president? >> i think that this is the whole point of striking while the iron is hot and a point where the supreme court ruled 9-0 against the president. there is going to be a time for speaker boehner to file his lawsuit now may be that time. the only issue i point out they could prove suffered injury and biggest issue we will talk about is standing and whether or not the house of representatives has standing to sue the president in this situation. >> you pointed out 1997, the supreme court basically said congress can't sue. it is a little bit too far-fetched to get the st

as speaker boehner asserts?i think to some degree, it is, and i think that's why john boehner just took off like an airplane, so to speak, and began turning in this into hyper politics. at the same time, boehner is not offering a real solution, the obama requests, the white house request to congress for the money, specifically said tell me how you want to -- how you want the money spent. to rather than ranting from the podium, john boehner could be say, we're preparing that right now and it's going to include national guard and this is -- we'll give you the money if you do this. >> going to be legislation on the floor and the senate pretty soon, probably pay, go to the house and let's see what john boehner does. he could pay us comprehensive immigration reform based on that senate bill, it would pass in a minute. democrats would -- >> no longer be speaker -- >> no longer be speaker anymore, and i don't -- much to anybody. >> hold on. >> quickly. >> reform is dead and mr. perry, if he's a wise man, i think he's p

heramazingly, speaker boehner, d not list immigration among those issues. even though his critics say one of the president's executive actions causeed crises on our southern border, many of the politicians and, executives clamors for amnesty, claim there is a labor shortage in this country. which is untrue. household network has fallen, wages have remained stagnant. the advocates insist there is a shortage of so-called stem degree holders. well, that is not true either. so says census bureau. they say 74% of those with stem degrees, are not employed in stem jobs. why then are folks like former microsoft ceo, found erbil gates -- bill gates calling for a unlimited number of high-tech guest worker visa, when microsoft itself have month, slashed 18,000 jobs from its workforce. another "usa today" op ed, a group of university professors led by howard university process proes es es from or wrote, as long time researchs of stem workforce, and immigration issue who have sep rah atry done anal ses on the issues -- separately done an alcees on the issue, we feel com

speaker boehner said in december he wasn't going to take up the senate bill. known for a while. he wants dhs and the department of justice to give him options here for what he can do with executive authority by the end of the summer. what's on the table here? are where do you expect him to go with this specifically? >> there are so many places he can go. they have been looking at this. he ordered the review of deportation practices in march. he said he wants it handled more humanely. a lot of immigration advocates hope he'll protect more undocumented immigrants from deportation, ease rules for them to stay longer. at the same time, what he's doing now and what he laid out in a letter to congress this morning was saying he wants to fast track deportations of people caught on the border now. kids streaming across the border. hes has a lot of options. by him declaring this, it will speed up the process. some so we have talked for a year now. almost exactly a year about the bill languishing in the house. the idea that the president wantses to use are executive aut

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at the same time with the exception of boehner he said it's a scam. the majority was on fox news sunday this week and said didn't totally rule out impeachment. republicans didn't really respond to the impeachment talk but the firm know they should have. it gave the white house an opening to make it a bigger thing. >> i want to shift to michelle obama. she's the most popular member. she can help democrats during midterm. why are we not seeing more of her doing that? >> the simple answer is michelle obama doesn't like politics all that much. she's never been incredibly political person. if you read obama's memoirs she talks about she was skeptical of the times when he wanted to run for higher officer and things like that. she's not by nature a political person. she doesn't have the extensive relationship on the hill that maybe a hillary clinton had when she was first lady. so it's a different set of relationships. that means she's not as willing to fly out to different state and do a fund-raiser when you maybe compare it to a hillary clinton or even lau