this is the labor lawyer, craig becker. he has been nominated to the agency that oversees relations between unions and employers. candy crowley asks the top white house aide about this. >> senators republicans said, please don't do a reis s-assess appointment with craig becker. they think he is a union plant, bad for this board. the first thing the president did was do the recess appointment. was that necessary? >> he made a series of recess appointments because, candy, we are in a position where the republican party is taking a position where they are going to try and slow and block progress on all fronts, whether it is legislation or appointments just to make the comparison at this point in the bush administration, there were five appointees on the floor of the senate when that president bush made 15 recess appointments. we have 77 appointees who have not gotten a vote because they are held up by the republican party. some in sensitive positions, in treasury and department of homeland security and boards like the labor re

he's a labor lawyer, craig becker.he agency that oversees relations between unions and employers. candy crowley asks a top white house aide about this apointment. >> senator, republicans wrote him and said please don't do a reassessment to the national relations board. they think he's a union plant if you will. they think he will do check card. they think he's bad for the board. yet, the first thing the president did was to go ahead and do the recess appointment. was that necessary? >> he made a series of recess appointments because we are in a position where the republican party has taken a position to try to slow and block progress on all fronts. whether it's legislation or appointments, just to make the comparison at this point in the bush administration, there were five appointees who on the floor of the senate who had not been approved when that president bush made 15 recessed appointments. we have 77 appointees who have not gotten a vote because they've been held up by the republican party. some of them are in ve

. >> reporter: republicans are angry about craig becker, a union lawyer. worrying it will make unions -- >> the debate is an angry debate to begin with. >> reporter: with the midterm elections just seventh months way, is he giving up on bipartisan ship snmplts i think thai feeling confident. it signals that ahead there's more clash. >> reporter: a clash indeed. nastiness, spitting, name calling, bricks thrown through windows. fiery rhetoric. >> let's stop the sleazy chicago-style sausage making. >> you're fired. >> reporter: governing in the coming months is unlikely to get easier. >> we're unlikely to see much working together. >> reporter: the white house is defending the recess appointment. this president, mr. obama, promised to change washington. the recess appointments, the tactics he's used and emmoied may only deeping the divisions between the parties. dan? >> daiftd kerley, thank you. >>> another item on the degeneral da, stopping iran's nuclear program. valerie jarrett was asked about in this morning. >> what can you tell us about them being suspe

meet craig becker, he's a strong union advocate, and he is president obama's nominee for the national labor relations board. this is called the nlrb, and it oversees critical union matters. critics of this guy call him radical and his nomination failed last month in the senate but now we are hearing president obama could still install him as a recess appointment next week while congress is on spring break and whoa, has that gotten some people upset. joining us now, mary marsh, a democratic strategist and former adviser to senator john kerry and justin safey, a republican strategist who is spokesman for former florida governor jeb bush. this guy, craig becker, all 41 republicans wrote a letter to president obama, pleading with him not to appoint this guy to the 5-member nlrb and even some democrats now are objecting to him, mary ann. do you see this as a big deal? >> no. you know what megyn, the constitution permits it, every president does it, and the fact is the party out of power always hates it. barack obama is going to probably make a recess appointment like george bush did 179 ti

were appointed over the weekend, some controversial ones who republicans had blocked, including craig becker, sort of the most prominent, a nominee for the national labor relations board. but again, here we are talking about process. democrats do poor when the argument is about process. this is why they are concerned that the argument that they are doing a poor job legislating, poor job governing, could be effective in the fall. the more we talk about process, the more we talk about recess appointments and filibusters and reconciliation and these inside d.c. thirnings the more voters get upset with washington. that only hurts the majority party. host: one more quick call. gainesville, georgia, and this is george on our republican line. hi there. guest: -- caller: obama thought everybody has to pay for it and everything. i've never heard him cutting his pay or senators or anything like that, and that long-term healthcare, the cost of that is for everybody -- is automatic, going to be took out unless they waiver off of it and all. i bet that cost right there, too many if's, in so much money co