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charlie sikes, contributing editor, political contributors. charlie, speak to me from wisconsin and how this is playing. clearly today in the east room, the president made a decision. they delayed that event and he came out swinging and again misstating the issue. claiming it is a law, claiming it is not a policy. putting it on the democrats. this is a mid-term election strategy. >> no question about it. i think bill kristol had it right. he is comfortable going into the election with it and other republicans will be very reluctant to break with him now that he's made that decision. i think it is interesting. if you have a defensible policy, then defend the policy. don't obfuscate, lie about it and conceal it. which is what we've been having the last week or so. blaming it on the democrats, pretending it is not taking place. that indicates you have a tremendous amount of confusion about this. this has been squint the way the president has dealt with it. the muslim ban, juvenile daca. not well thought out and also not designed to treat people as