marc thiessen with us too. marc, if they don't get a bill and he decides to pursue with executive action, the republicans are going to come back with this sound bite and others like it. this is the president with univision, i think, on radio a couple years ago being asked why he didn't do more on immigration reform when the congress wouldn't do what he wanted. listen. >> you know, we live in a democracy. we don't live in a monarchy. i'm not the king. i'm the president. and so i can only implement those laws that are passed through congress. >> marc. >> that's the most ironic quote of all. i mean, if you look at his actions on obamacare and all these other bills, this is not a president who seems to be very constrained by what congress passes. but look, the reason he didn't get comprehensive immigration reform passed last year is because of his own immigration policy. it was his last executive order on immigration that this deportation of children that caused the whole immigration border crisis last year. so now

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here to join us, marc thiessen, former chief speech writer for president george w. bush. marc, he says he does not care about the flak he's getting. what he does care about is the fact we are ripping families apart. >> yeah. that's really what he cares about. this was a moving beautifully written and deeply cynical speech because if the president of the united states really believed a word of what he said, he would not be doing this with executive action. the thing about it, he's not trying to help illegal immigrants. he's trying to provoke a fight with the republican party. and the money quote was, he said meanwhile don't let a disagreement over a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. that's not how a democracy works and congress shouldn't shut down the government again because we disagree on this. that's exactly what he wants republicans to do. he's trying to goad the gop into self-destructive behavior. he wants somebody to go out there and offer articles of impeachment. he wants somebody to go out there and say something bad about immigrants because he wants to

. >> joining me marc thiessen, fellow, dana, co-host of "the five" and kirsten powers, fox news politicalonto say president obama resents that he's basically irrelevant. his "loathing for washington has hardened into a sullen resignation as being trapped in a broken system that he has failed to change." how does that bode for the united states of america? >> not very well. i mean, look, if you love your job, you're going to be good at it. president obama doesn't love his job and clearly not very good at it. the president has said his policies are on the ballot and the american people don't seem to be responding. úo the rise of isis, all of these crises happening around the world, he doesn't love what he's doing. but the problem is we wpéb get one president at a time. he's got to be commander in chief for the next two years whether he wants to be or not. and the world's in a lot of trouble. so we need him to do his job. whether republican or democrat, he's got to reach to republicans if they take the senate, find common ground and govern this country. >> what about that, kirsten? he resen

. >> marc thiessen, fellow at the american enterprise institute. and there you havec#mx it.ve beenk2fnñ talkin and piece by piece deceptions misstatements to be charitable like if you like your plan you can keep your plan. and now you have one of the critical architects of the ñ that they had;% deceive people because they were too stupid to like what mr. gruber thinks they should have liked. they always lie to us for our own good because we're too stupid to understand. look, barack obama went out in mandate is absolutely not a taxz increase. there was one point where he did an interview with george stephanopoulos and stephanopoulos read him the! @2 definition of attacks, and he rejected it.vÑçg)1y we now know from jonathan gruber that they knew from the very beginning it was a tax. think about what they1k1said. he said we knew it was a tax. we knew that if the american people knew it was a tax the bill would die. so we took advantage of the stupidity of the american people american people but to lie to t congressional budget office to get them to score it as not being a tax

here to join us, marc thiessen, former chief speech writer for president george w. bush. marc, he says he does not care about the flak he's getting. what he does care about is the fact we are ripping families apart. >> yeah. that's really what he cares about. this was a moving beautifully written and deeply cynical speech because if the president of the united states really believed a word of what he said, he would not be doing this with executive action. the thing about it, he's not trying to help illegal immigrants. he's trying to provoke a fight with the republican party. and the money quote was, he said meanwhile don't let a disagreement over a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. that's not how a democracy works and congress shouldn't shut down the government again because we disagree on this. that's exactly what he wants republicans to do. he's trying to goad the gop into self-destructive behavior. he wants somebody to go out there and offer articles of impeachment. he wants somebody to go out there and say something bad about immigrants because he wants to

joining me now, marc thiessen, fellow at the american enterprise institute.w i've got everyone is stupid except for professor gruber and john kerry and the good people of the commonwealth of massachusetts. >> well, first, he's the architect of romney care as well. so he was saying he was very smart in ripping off the feds. this guy's very impressed with himself, isn't he? >> he is. >> he ripped off the feds, fooled the congressional budget office and tricked the american people. in a way jonathan gruber has done the country a great, great service because we always knew this is what liberals thought of us. we always knew they felt this way but we never heard one come out and say it so openly. this is what the left thinks of america. that the american people are stupid, we don't know what's best for us and we need experts like jonathan gruber to tell us what's best for us. and if public opinion doesn't come along, if we were in his words too economically illiterate or uneducated to figure it out, then it's okay to lie to us in order to get the ends they want. t