i will get to margaret carlson and ramesh ponnuru in a moment. first, phil mattingly.aker boehner intends to ask the house to sue president obama for overreaching executive decisions. what is it all about? >> welcome back. i will get to margaret carlson and ramesh ponnuru in a moment. first, phil mattingly. speaker boehner intends to ask the house to sue president obama for overreaching executive decisions. what is it all about? >> a couple of things. the political aspect. you are a few months away from midterm elections. they constantly talk about overreach and impeachment. i also think this underscores a lot of problems and they are not moving. they see the president moving and they feel like it is a way -- >> is it different from other presidents signed legislation and documents and the like? is it new or obama has taken it to a different level? >> throughout the history, you will see presidents act on their own. this is more an issue of the time than anything else. there is legitimate reason they are looking into it. there is immigration policy and deportation and

i'll get to margaret carlson and ramesh ponnuru in a moment.irst, bloomberg's dave lynch is here to talk about jobs. david, the last month's job report came out. unemployment rate stayed at 6.3%. 217,000 jobs, not bad. al. very solid report, it met everyone's expectations. we are growing jobs now for the first time since 1999, 4 straight months above 200,000, which is solid. it is not exceptional but it is good, solid growth. >> it appears to most of the rest of the world, we are doing better. >> japan hasn't seen a year or two of growth since 2007. europe is barely moving. the ecb had to take extraordinary measures this week, including charging banks to deposit their money to encourage more spending. >> you spend much of your time looking at the world's second-biggest economy these days, 7000 miles away in china. what is a state of the chinese economy? how worried are some people about what might happen? >> there were some worries about the risks as china decelerated that there would be a hard landing. those worries have eased a bit. there has

i will good to margaret carlson and ramesh ponnuru in a moment. first, phil mattingly.aker boehner intends to ask resident obamae for overreaching executive decisions. what is it all about? >> a couple of things. the political aspect. you are a few months away from midterm elections. they causally talk about overreach and impeachment. i also think this underscores a month they are not -- underscores a lots of problems and they are not moving. they see the president moving and they feel like it is a way -- different from other president signed legislation and documents and the like? is it knew or obama has taken it to a different level? the history, you will see presidents act on their own. this is more an issue of the time than anything else. there is legitimate reason they are looking into it. there is immigration policy and deportation and dreamers was they have policy concerns. , it willre is a suit not be resolved in the lifetime of the presidency? >> highly unlikely. the judicial branch does not like to get involved in these types of things. even if it comes to a c

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and margaret carson and ramesh ponnuru debate the state of the republican party. >> we begin the programthe national economic council director to the president, jeffrey zients. you have downplayed the first quarter drop in the economy as due to bad weather. to achieve the goal of 3%, you are going to have to grow at 4%, is that achievable?

and margaret carson and ramesh ponnuru debate the state of the republican party. >> we begin the programonal economic council director to the president, jeffrey zients. you have downplayed the first quarter drop in the economy as due to bad weather. to achieve the goal of 3%, you are going to have to grow at 4%,

and margaret carson and ramesh ponnuru debate the state of the republican party. >> we begin the programith the national economic council director to the president, jeffrey zients. you have downplayed the first quarter drop in the economy as due to battle weather. to achieve the

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