joining us now, dan pfeiffer, senior white house adviser. thanks for coming in. the president said he has full confidence in john brennan. we also saw john brennan say a few months ago that he didn't know about the snooping. nothing could be further from the truth. either he didn't know what was going on in his own agency or he wasn't telling the truth. doesn't that trouble the president? >> we have to look at how he responded. when there were allegations of improper conduct, he was the one who referred the allegations to the inspector general. he said -- he's setting up an accountability review board. john brennan is a man of great integrity and ability. someone the president knows very well. the president has confidence in him. >> the senate report likely to come out this week. maybe a little later. will the president order more action in the wake of the report? >> i think what this report does, which the president called to be declassified as much as possible as quickly as possible. what he's said is -- we want to acknowledge it. we want to make sure it never

so we'll see. >> when dan pfeiffer says that the president will act on his own and this is why he has to, he is talking about a separate issue than what we're dealing with the crisis on border right now. we're not talking about comprehensive system immigration reform which is completely separate issue than what is going on right now. i think this crisis has been going on more than a month now. for congress to leave town and not put agents into a position where they feel more confident doing their job. i talk to those guys all the time. guess what? they feel like their morale is in toilet. why work hard to enforce the law potentially congress will leave town without fixing basic problems, a lot in the bill that was on the table do fix. and b, that, congress doesn't seem really willing to fix and so they're just saying we're doing our job? it doesn't matter because they will let these guys go anyway? what is the point? they feel like they're getting railroaded into the ground on whole number of issues, including being taken advantage of by washington because they're not doing anything a

and we are doing nothing, and what dan pfeiffer said is the worst form of politics.tacking george bush, got knows why, and the administration is saying we have no timetable. heather, this is bad government, it's bat policy and certainly bat politics. >> doug, he said that -- the white house spokesperson, they're not going to work to the cable news, so in essence blaming us. >> we have a press conference to announce we don't have a strategy. why be out there until you have the plan and are ready to start selling it. the answer is they don't have a plan, which we're going to talk about tonight. he won't admit it's an invasion. before the election, another day, no, not going to do it until after the election. so this thing is at the worst time in the world, this president in his administration are falling apart. >> john, you're not the only one that seems to notice that. this was the latest pugh research poll, and "usa today" and it found when you look across the board, 54% of people say that president obama is not tough enough. and coming at a time that all of the thin

dan pfeiffer went on as far as telling abc this week, john brennan is a man of integrity.hy hasn't the president fired him and what does it take to anger the president and make him lose trust in his staffers? >> well, the president i think is going to find himself in a difficult situation. first, maintaining confidence. we've seen this before. maintaining confidence in his advisers and cabinet members of directors. i do think we'll see outrage from both sides of the aisle on this issue. we've seen some democrats who are up for re-election in the senate this year really frustrated about this and republicans, too. and of course, this comes as that report invests looking at the interrogation techniques used. that report is going to be huge, so this is an element of that. >> let's talk about that. let's talk about our twitter question of the day, i asked viewers, the senate is set to release at least part of what is being called a stark report on torture. is it a good idea to release this? some of the replies and there have been dozens upon dozens. brian earl nelson writes me

bill: dan pfeiffer tweeted, this is why the president, quote, must act on his own to solve problems,. we'll see whether or not that is the case come august. david dewhurst. >> it is. bill: thank you for your time. lieutenant governor there in texas much you heard a heated comment from arizona senator john mccain. he is on with neil cavuto at 4:00. do not miss that eastern time. heather: we will stay tuned for that. meantime we're tracking bertha. heard about her? tropical storm forming in the atlantic ocean. where it is headed. bill: a woman faces the death penalty because of her christian faith has arrived in the united states. now what is next for her? a brave wife and mother. >> what does the united states represent to her and her family. >> freedom. it's freedom. it is all about freedom. that is what she is getting right now. she is getting freedom. fchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. bill: at least 23 dead after this gas explos

. >> and we have dan pfeiffer in january. and no, it does make it harder. they don't have a war on fox. they're not boycotting fox. but they will put people on other shows and not put them on fox. >> and so what is the message there? >> well, the message obviously is they're not pleased with the coverage they get at fox. i will say as just a practical matter it was a bigger deal in the first couple years of the obama administration because they were making big news. their guests were big draws. that's not -- neither is quite as true now. so while i don't mean to say we wouldn't like to have the secretary of state on, we can live without him. >> well, last time you had the secretary of state on you played a little clip from between tapings. john kerry was miked. he made some sarcastic comments about israel. what was the administration's reaction? >> oh, they were unhappy. by the time the show ended, and i came back to my office, i had an unpleasant note from kerry's press secretary. i had an unpleasant note from the white house press secretary josh earnest.

dan pfeiffer went out of his way to mention that sarah palin was calling for obama to be impeached andd he would not discount the possibility that republicans would listen to her and go ahead and do it. the white house and most people in politics for that matter, don't take what sarah palin has to say seriously. here is president obama's spokesman, acting like she was the speaker of the house, it was clear, the white house wanted people to be talking about impeachment. wanted people to believe that republicans really were on the verge of doing it. there was a lot of talk that this was about raising money, i'm sure that was part of it. we got new numbers that tell us what was really going on here. it asks if voters favor impeaching obama. not surprisingly, they're overwhelmingly against it. even republicans are split on it, 45% of them say obama should be impeached and 48% say no. look closer, if impeachment proceedings were to begin the poll asks, would it make you more likely to vote for a democrat for congress this fall or for a republican? the democrats win here, 43-38%. among self-

. >> george will go one on one with white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer. >>> and now, wow, i think this is the second to last time i'm going to be saying this. let's turn to ron with the headlines. >> good morning, everyone. a frightening scene in a casino in arizona. gun fire. a man with an assault rifle began firing outside the honda casino, about 200 miles from phoenix. the man allegedly called his mother before the shooting and said he was going to shoot people. he was shot and killed by police. >>> and now the breaking news overseas. u.n. officials say there's been an air strikes near a united nations school in southern gaza. 10 people killed, 35 others injured. no word on where the rocket was fired from. earlier, israeli military officials said one of its soldiers who they previously said was captured by hamas fighters, was, in fact, killed in battle. >>> an innocent man is shot and killed in his own home by a los angeles county sheriff's deputy during a shootout with a gunman that police were trying to arrest. s.w.a.t. teams were aimed to arrest the man, an armed parolee, wh

. >> reporter: white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer is explaining the president's game plan today,ling the "washington post" that the commander in chief is just taking things slowly, and that, quote, there is no timetable for solving these problems that's going to meet the cable news cycle speed. it's not a tenable thing. we'd much rather do this right than do it quickly. we tried the opposite during the bush years and it worked out very poorly. but democratic senator diane feinstein who chairs the senate intelligence committee thinks america has a lot to lose if the president doesn't get more aggressive with isis. >> i've learned one thing about this president, and that is that he is very cautious. maybe in this instance, too cautious. i know that the military, i know that the state department, i know that others have been putting plans together. and so hopefully those plans will coalesce into a strategy. >> reporter: another democrat, congressman dutch reppesberger urged the president to build a coalition before taking military action in syria. he said we can't be sheriff of the

dan pfeiffer continues to say that the white house is taking the impeachment threats seriously. he did not back down when confronted by george stephanopolus. >> it's going to be foolish to think this republican caucus would consider impeachment. >> the speaker told me it's not going to happen. >> five days before the government shutdown, he said there's no way we would shut the government down over health care, and we did. in the house of representatives. john boehner may have the gavel, but ted cruz has the voice. >> you don't really think impeachment is possible? >> when he takes the step to sue the united states, even though he's issuing executive orders in the lowest rate in 50 years, it's a possibility. >> be ready to ask the question three times because they'll dodge it three times. when phifer does it, he had three different answers. george kept pushing and pushing. are you serious about impeachment and every time he had an answer. >> and he was right, and they better be serious about impeach; i don't know what the cancs are, but they have impeached bill clinton. they wou

figuring out the next move when it comes to the crisis continuing to weigh his options considering to dan pfeiffer yesterday. >> first, i think the reports you're seeing are uninformed speculation. >> completely unified? >> yes. the president asked the attorney general and and the secretary of homeland security to present him with recommendations by the end of the summer. they haven't done yet that. >> joining me now is debby wasserman schultz. a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. you too, jose. great to see you in south florida. >> thank you. so what happens now congress has left nothing, really, to show for it on this crisis. they did take the vote, which is not going anywhere, but it's a significant, i guess, vote to say how they stand on the issues. >> yeah, they made it pretty clear how they stand. they kept us in town an extra day and a half, the republicans did, because they were essentially dissenting into chaos. they couldn't get the votes to pass a supplemental appropriations bill to deport the children in crisis quickly enough. so they had to push the pause button and make the bill even

here is dan pfeiffer. >> congress will still need to act but because of congress's failure to fix theigration system and pass the supplemental appropriations, the president has no choice but to act. >> it will be in september? >> it will be at the end of this summer. >> sounds reasonable. >> right. >> the congress won't act so the president has to because that's the way our government works; right? >> he'll just break the law. >> the man who once taught constitutional law at one point recognized that moves like this are explicitly unconstitutional. listen to the old obama address situations like this. >> if in fact i could solve all these problems without passing laws in congress, then i would do so. but we're also a nation of laws. there are enough laws on the books by congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system. that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president. >> we live in a democracy. you have to pass bills through the legislature and then i can sign

the washington post writes a different take about it, with the headline -- dan pfeiffer said the president will continue to move at his own speed to respond to these crises regardless of criticism. "there is no timetable for solving these problems that will meet the cable news cycle speed. we would much rather do this right than do it quickly." the story goes on to say, this week, president obama will have an opportunity to show leadership at a crisis at summit with european allies. immediately afterward, secretary of state john kerry will travel, where potential partners are hoping for direction. director of the national count -- counterterrorism center, related to surveillance program to the current isis threat. a panel of national security experts at an annual meeting. this is just under two hours. deeply indicate the use and potential abuse of technology by government and nongovernmental actors. used technology to -- it's movements. said, movements reflect aspects of the society. -- often reflect or nearer the resources, tools and aspects of the societies they attack. they use digital

. >> reporter: now, senior adviser to the president dan pfeiffer was asked whether they are using thisfootball. he said it would be foolish not to think that house republicans could actually move forward with impeachment. the reality is, alex, it's very unlikely that that is going to happen and this underscores this idea for a lot of people that this is a so-called do nothing congress. as we've been reporting on all weekend, they left on friday without taking any meaningful action on the crisis at the border. that's the issue that they have been railing about for weeks, alex, and their record is dismal. the 113th congress has passed 142 bills so far. compare that to the congress before it which had passed 151 bills at this point. that was a record low, by the way. >> that was the previous do-nothing congress. >> right. the first do nothing congress was coined by harry truman and passed 900 bills. pretty stunning record there. >> absolutely. >>> now to an encouraging development out of atlanta where a foreign aide worker being treated for ebola at emory university hospital appears to be

march aloud, white house deputy chief of staff jim messina and deputy communications director dan pfeifferocated -- agitated in their chairs as another obama campaign veterans around the room. by all rights this jobless aplomb that should be going to and obama loyalists, not to marshall and not a fit man defending yet another nominee against questions of improper tax filings. it was going to be a press problem at the time when we had been through a lot of confirmation issues with tom daschle and timothy geithner. i will pause for a moment. if you have small children you might cut their ears. this is a parental advisory. i will back up the second. a lot of confirmation issues with tom daschle in timothy geithner. they reacted viscerally, fuck no she was a complete bit during the campaign and worse. marshall at experience with white house level social planning and her closeness to the hillary clinton made a natural. obama's aides didn't see it that way. no one in a room spoke up to defend her, not legislative affairs specialist sean kennedy had to get marshall confirmed for the senate if she

just imagine, this past sunday -- two days ago -- white house advisor dan pfeiffer repeated the obamaation's warning of an impending executive action on immigration. mr. pfeiffer said this action would come -- quote -- "at the end of the summer." according to repeated and multiple news reports this executive actions could provide administrative legal papers and work permits to up to five million to six million illegal immigrants in clear contravention of federal law. if these actions are taken, we will have effectively opened the borders of america. we are nearly there already. consider, colleagues, this is important. millions of people come every year to america on visas. currently if you overstay a visa, there is no legal consequence today. no one is going to come and get you. no one even clocks if you come in or if you leave. if you get a student visa and drop out of school or you come to work on a visa and it expires or you just come on a tourist visa and never leave, nobody checks. nobody asks these individuals to leave. and the congressional budget office said in analyzing the g

memo on marshall white house deputy chief of staff jim messina and deputy communications director dan pfeiffer in their upholstered wing backed chairs. as did other obama campaign veterans around the room. by all rights this job should be going to and obama loyalist not to marshall and not defending another nominee against questions about improper tax filings. -particular thought "quote it wasn't going to be a press problem at the time when we been through a lot of confirmation issues with daschle and geiger. let me pause for a moment. if you have small children you might want to cover their ears. this is a parental advisory. i will back up just a second. they had a lot of confirmation issues with daschle and geiger. she was a complete during the campaign and worse. marshall's combination of experience with white house level social closest to remade her natural selection for the job of obama's aides didn't see it that way. no one in the room spoke to defend the legislative affairs who would have to get marshall confirmed by the senate if she was nominated. not personal director nancy oken ethi

ron clain could do it and dan pfeiffer could do it but david plouffe is closer to the president. >> heaid he didn't want to make new friends. congratulations. you've made new friends. >> and shake things up when they things are going well enough they don't need to shake it. i like david. >> things going so great, why not bring in people who were complaining, and bed wetters to cease your beliefs and people who don't agree with you 100% of the time. a final two years. i can't wait. >> i can see you love the pick. >> boy, i tell you what, let's just reinforce everything going on the past six years. i can't wait. that is going to make everything work a lot more smoothly in washington. >> can i ask him a question? >> no, you can't. mike allen, thanks. >>> yesterday, mike allen insulted the guys in the board room for a lack of sports yesterday. what a catch! >> jacoby ellsbury. >> we have a special guest you come coming in tomorrow for sports. i will tell you about it after this commercial break. ♪ still be strong after the boys of summer have gone ♪ "i'm 16 and just got my first car" feeli

but there he is going out there bringing it up and making dan pfeiffer say, see, i told you.ehner, he can't control his own conference, so he may be taking it off the table, but, you know, his own members won't take it off the table. so we do, you know, you may think we are just being chicken little about this but, hey, see, there is that guy two weeks in a row now, fox has put somebody on that won't take it off the table, but it does feel like a total base feeding frenzy here. you know, again, it's something i said on friday. as mike said, democrats have handed the senate potentially to the republicans on a silver platter. steve king and those guys are just knocking it over. >> al hunt, you and i collectively have been covering politics since the cleveland administration. >> i was there in harrison, mike. >> yeah. can you recall, remember, think about a more dysfunctional political time in the last 30, 40, or 50 years than what we have right now, what we are enduring right now as the american public? >> no, i can't, mike. a simple answer. and i agree with what mike murphy sa