>> i believe john boehner does. he is an excellent golfer. >> who is more likely to take a mulligan? >> i was not part of the foursome. >> no comment. >> neither of them. >> you are known as mr. optimism. sketch this out. for the next two months, in this lame duck session, your most optimistic portrait of what will happen to the country regarding the congressional action and the president's behavior. >> let me see a couple specific things. one, if we can get the funding we need to deal with ebola in africa and here at home, we can make progress on eyes so, that will be progress. we have nominations that are backed up. we want to get through with those. then we can begin building the foundations to get stuff done next year. and the meeting the president is having is the start of that. >> dan pfeiffer, thank you. when we come back, we will answer a question that has been puzzling scholars for a generation. who is mitch mcconnell? ♪ >> our look at a man in the news this week making headlines, talking about his vision

john boehner likes to repeat that a lot. second of all there will be a bit of a rebuttal against what the president said last night. remember the president has been saying to congress, pass a bit. well, john boehner said we did pass bills. remember last summer there was surge of immigrants across the border, president want ad funding bill. the house passed one. of course democrats did nothing and they stopped it. i think you will see almost point by point rebuttal by speaker boehner from what the president said last night. bill: there are some democrats not happy about this. who are they? what are they saying? >> well a couple of high-profile ones are joe manchin of west virginia and joe donnelly from indiana. what is important about this, they both said they don't agree with what the president has done. what is important about this in the senate is, if republicans have 54 votes in the next senate, they would still need six democrats to go along with them to get to that 60-votes you need to overcome a filibuster. are there s

that is a commitment i would make to john boehner. and so before the end of the year, we are going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take and i believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system. >> i think the president is choosing to do things unlateraly on immigration is a mistake. and it is a issue the members want to address legislatively. it is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. and saying if you don't do what i want, i will do it on my own. and we heard from speaker boehner saying it is a political football. where do they start? >> it is a separation of powers law. people say you can't govern by unlateral. and the others say other republican presidents issued more executive orders. and there is nothing in the constitution to address excutive orders. >> but he said it is within his constitutional given duties to use the executive order. >> two clauses that they rely on. the executive power should be vested in the president the united states. and the president shall faithfully execute the law. and pre

>> you know what, i agree with mitch mcconnell and john boehner on this one. a lot of americans do to. we saw the play-out. immigration was probably a larger discussion in the midterms than we dreamt it would, with a lot of people, americans, saying "we don't want the president to act unilaterally, it is not his place." that does not take into consideration their points of view. we need a conversation. we had to have a conversation, and that is not what the democrats and president obama did. this provides a new chapter, let's sit and figure it out. when it comes to the president acting unilaterally, there's not enough trust on our side of the aisle or americans. him. >> when you talked about things not getting done, republicans attacked harry reid for failing to bring bills forward in the senate to be passed by the house. on immigration, is that who john boehner did, when he refused to allow a vote in the house on the reform bill? >> we'll have to situate and see the conversation that the house and the senate will have, a lot of people believe that the status

john boehner, john boehner wants to be seen as more than a guy that can corral the most extreme people in his chamber. they all know, republicans all know they have to do something on immigration to make sure that they get at least 35, 38, 40% among hispanic voters in 2016 or else they lose the white house again. and they can't put up with eight years of hillary clinton. am i too optimistic here? i think i'm not being optimistic, i think i'm being cynical, john. >> i agree with most of what you just said not exactly all of it. i think in the case of mitch mcconnell he has a relatively manageable caucus so he can afford to say things like poke ted cruz and say we're not going shut down the government or 0 go for a full repeal of obamacare. he's got to put ted cruz in his place. john boehner has a less manageable caucus and he needs to hold a harder line and show a larger number of his more unruly members he is not going to be a push over. i get where mika is coming from. you got to listen to rush limbaugh for just one day right now. the last three days rush limbaugh is saying you were n

>> john boehner. john boehner can't sell the bill. the president said yesterday, very smart. mitch mcconnell, he keeps his promise. we can work with him. he did it on the debt crisis. do they say about that john boehner? no. >> are you arguing just to argue? >> no. [ all speak at once ] >> john boehner can't make it happen, it won't happen. >> i'm right and you're wrong, thank you. >> can mitch mcconnell get john boehner -- >> but it's not how you get a deal. >> give me a second here. it's not just what john boehner has to do. it's not just what mitch mcconnell has to do. it is also, and chris is right, you can see the leash on the question that was asked, josh couldn't go there, because the white house, the president himself is not prepared to go there. >> it's in the bill. it's there. >> then have the president come out and say it. >> why is it -- >> because to do this -- >> excuse me. [ all speak at once ] >> you can't get a vote in the house. >> how long have you been in this town? you know daggone well there comes a point where the president of the united states can fram

i asked john boehner at that point can we pass this through the house. there is a majority of votes to get this passed. speaker boehner i think was sincere about wanting to pass it, but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. what i indicated to him, i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse, but whatever actions i take, will be replaced and sue planted by action by congress. you sen send me a bill i can sign and those executive action goss away. that's the commitment i made not just to the businesses and american people and evangelical community and law enforcement folks and everybody who looked at this issue and thinks we need immigration reform, that's a commitment i made to john boehner that i would act in the absence of action by congress. before the end of the year we're going to take whatever lawful actions i can take that ill believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system, surge additional resources to the border, where i t

and the fact that he delayed it for a year, which is what john boehner said he wanted, now john boehner is attacking him for doing exactly what he asked the president to do. it's nonsensical when you look at it. they won't have it taken up by the court, i don't think. >> i find it ironic that the very industry that the republicans cozy up to, the insurance industry, they're concerned about $175 billion to insurance companies and call it an unlawful give away. it's really ironic to say the least. but it's almost as if they'll write anything and try any angle at this point. do you think the president overstepped his authority in this case? >> absolutely not. the president had the opportunity to take comment from people and people said, well, if an employer has less than 50 employees, it's going to be a lot of problem for us to do it right away. could you give us another year. he gave them another year which is what john boehner wanted him to do. there is nothing in that that is wrong. the other issue whether or not he's giving subsidies to people buying insurance because they got it throu

. >>> back to our developing news, any minute we'll hear from house speaker john boehner. he's holding a news conference on capitol hill. that will be his first since tuesday's republican route. come january he'll likely be speaker over the biggest gop caucus in the house since 1945. massive wins for the republicans. today he released a joint op-ed in "the wall street journal" with senator mitch mcconnell entitled "now we can get congress going." skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. as elected servants of the people, we'll make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong. joining me, congressman chris van holland, thank you for being with us. they say they want to include democrats and compromise. what are you ready to work with republicans on? >> we're ready to work with them on a whole host of things. for example, we tried to get a vote on a national minimum wage, which we discovered on tuesday night was very popular even in red states. in places like arkansas and nebraska. we would like to move forward on that. there's a hot of talk about harry re

i don't see a lot of action happening and john boehner and mitch mcconnell know that the relationship between the white house and congress is not good. it is likely not going to improve. but they're putting a plan together. part of that plan is moving the, some of the bills, hundreds of them that passed the house that did not pass the senate, and try tock divide democrats such as keystone pipeline. as wendell said, president obama could veto that but that looks like it has votes to pass the house and senate. jon: i didn't hear him use the word, negotiate, in that news conference. i, he seemed to be saying, whatever they bring to me has to be something that i like? >> yeah. well he had to repeat he is president of the united states and that is never a good sign after election when you have to point that out. and certainly he has his veto pen. so republicans gameplan is to make obama the party and democrats the party of no. republicans have been labeled that. mcconnell and boehner want to turn the script around and force obama to veto a lot of bills. that is going to be tough. governing

i asked john boehner at that point can we pass this through the house? there's a majority of votes in the house to get this passed. speaker boehner i think was sincere about wanting to pass it but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. so when he finally told me he wasn't going to call up this year, what i indicated to him is i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by an action by congress. you send me a bill that i can sign, and those executive actions go away. that's a commitment i made not just to the american people and to businesses and evangelical community and the law enforcement folks and everybody who's looked at this issue thinks we need immigration reform, that's a commitment i also made to john boehner, that i would act in the absence of action by congress. so before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take that i

john boehner laid it out clear and mitch mcconnell did. if you take this unilateral action there will be no movement. as steve said there won't be any legislation. even though on things we should be able to agree on, if a foreign stem graduate -- if a foreign stem student graduates they should have a green card stapled to their diploma. >> he addresses that idea of stem so you'll see folks that are not going to go to other countries or competitors they will stay in the country because they can actually realize the education they had in this country. >> it strikes me if there are areas of agreement, i would hope it would be the case that everyone could work together to sort of pass those but -- >> we just had this happen last week, a bipartisan majority in the house voted for a bill and a bipartisan majority in the senate voted for a bill but the president said i won't pass a pipeline that will create a lot of jobs for union workers. we can do this and the president will block it. >> doug heye, maria hinojosa thank you. now rachel. >> thank

i asked john boehner at that point, can we pass this through the house? there's a majority of votes in the house to get this passed. and speaker boehner i think was sincere about wanting to pass it, but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. so when he finally told me he wasn't going to call it up this year, what i indicated to him is i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse, but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by action by congress. you send me a bill that i can sign, and those executive actions go away. that's a commitment i made not just to the american people -- and to businesses and the evangelical community and the law enforcement folks and everybody who's looked at this issue and thinks that we need immigration reform -- that's a commitment that i also made to john boehner, that i would act in the absence of action by congress. so before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful ac

i asked john boehner at that point, can we pass this through the house? there's a majority of votes in the house to get this passed. and speaker boehner, i think, was sincere about wanting to pass it, but had difficulty over the last year getting it done. so, when he finally told me he wasn't going to call it up this year, i indicated i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure we don't keep on making the system worse. but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by action by congress. you send me a bill i can sign and those executive actions go away. that's a commitment i made not just to the american people and to businesses and evangelical community and law enforcement folks and everybody who's looked at this issue and thinks we need immigration reform, that's a commitment that i also made to john boehner. that i would act in the absence of action by congress. so, before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take, that i believe will imp

. >> late this afternoon republican house speaker john boehner presented the other side of the argument. >> the president is threatening to take unilateral action on immigration. even though in the past he has made clear that he did not have -- he did not believe he had the constitutional responsibility or authority to do that. i will just say this. we're going to fight the president to the and nail if he -- tooth and nail if he continues down this path. this is the wrong way to govern. our goal here is to stop the president from violating his own oath of office and violating the constitution. it is not to shut down the government. >> who will be the first to blink in the showdown over immigration that is dominating the new congress so far? >> i will tell you that i don't think it will be president obama. i think the president is intent on doing this. i think he felt like he disappointed hispanics and does not want to continue to do so. i think he is going to go ahead and do it. >> the reports about what they think they are doing, that this is not amnesty, but some sort of legal status

>> well, look, you say john boehner in the house, but that's where all the public sector came from. i mean, that's where the bills were coming from. again, i go back to what i said before. many of these bills, tavis -- 50 or 60 -- were drafted by democrats. and it came out of the house. almost 2/3 of all the bills sitting on harry reid's desk were passed by a 2/3 majority of the congress. i mean, either -- what i'm saying is true, or i'm lying. i don't think eye lying. >> no, i'm not -- i'm not -- >> what i'm suggesting -- >> i'm not calling you a liar. >> i know you're not. >> what i'm asking is, a question that is fairly obvious i think to most americans which is that john boehner has had a great deal of difficulty -- i don't need to eenumerate it for you, you're the chairman. he's had a great deal of difficulty in the house because a particular wing of his party has given him a very difficult time. all i'm asking is, with the ted cruzs and others in the senate, how do you believe that mitch measure colonel will ha-- mitch have an easier time with unity even though you hold the ma

why not just put the sort of -- hot potato directly in boehner's lap and say john boehner, if you take a vote, david axel rod suggested. take a vote on this. >> that is what earnest was suggesting today. we feel that it would pass in the house. and so, do this. and just bring it to a vote. >> but why hasn't he specifically, i guess put baner in the hot seat on it? >> there is this weird face for the last two years. they have wanted to give them all the space they possibly can. because they actually believe that john boehner wants to get this done and they see these signs in the air that boehner will do it and they believe it. >> and that's not happening. >> i don't know why. >> john boehner wants republican interest groups to think he wants to do it. >> big business wants comprehensive immigration reform bill. they want their republican allies to get it done. but republicans know it's all downside and no up side. >> but they look at 2016 and think if we don't do this we're not going to win a national election again. congressly, maybe. >> john boehner's problem is to hold a lot of seats

[ laughter ] >> no, no new john boehner at all. when you take president obama's press conference at 3:00, mcconnell's press conference an hour earlier and then john boehner, who is the one person of the three who doesn't sound like he's conciliatory or is -- even wants to work with the other side. mitch mcconnell, for everything that he has said in the past, including he wanted to make president obama a one-term president, he was upbeat, cheerful, made it clear what he was going to do, what he wasn't going to do. he drew his lines in the sand in the same way that speaker boehner did, but he also made it clear he's willing to work with the president on some key things. >> and the tone of john boehner was so different. >> yeah. >> because, jose, when -- let's look at the fact that even lindsey graham, a republican senator, he criticized the president for considering executive action on immigration, but he said something else very interesting too. i want to play that, jose. >> my belief is, this is a dangerous miscalculation by the pr

i do not see the president being the guy -- >> what you think the mitch mcconnell-john boehner reaction will be tonight? >> you are right, they're not going to meet every week. that is not going to happen. what mitch mcconnell and john boehner need to do, it is an opportunity to establish some working relationship, working understanding with the president and the president needs to do the same thing. it is an opportunity. >> i think it oil down to what they represent. if they can stay away from the crazy bullets for at least the first session, that might be a way to reach out. >> which crazy bullets are you talking about? >> i would say if we can take control instead of forcing an agenda that is not too difficult for the white house to swallow then that is a good way to get started. >> it is not just a matter of mitch mcconnell saying here is what is on our agenda or john boehner -- they have to get on the same page and try to move pieces of legislation forward, if not together in a coordinated way -- if not together, in a corrugated way to put on the president's desk to take advantage

i asked john boehner at that point, can we pass this through the house? there's a majority of votes in the house to get this passed. and speaker boehner was sincere about wanting to pass it, but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. so when he finally told me he wasn't going to call up this year, what i indicated is i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse, but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by action by congress. you send me a bill that i can sign, and those executive actions go away. that's the commitment i made not just to the american people and to businesses and evangelical community and the law enforcement folks and everybody who's looked at this issue and thinks that we need immigration reform. that's a commitment they also made to john boehner, that i would act in the absence of action by congress. so before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take, they

i asked john boehner at that point can we pass this through the house? is there a majority of votes in the house to get this passed? and speaker boehner i think was sincere about wanting to pass it but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. so when he finally told me he wasn't going to call it up this year, what i indicated to him is i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse, but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by actions by congress. that is a commitment i made not just to the american people and to the business and evangelical community and law enforcement folks and everybody who has looked at this issue and thinks that we need immigration reform. that is a commitment that i made to john boehner i would act in the absence of action by congress. before the end of the year we are going to take whatever lawful actions that i can take that i believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system t

john boehner is somebody who wants to do immigration reform. he said it here. he's said it in private. he says it to us, he says it to his caucus. but he is also somebody who has been struggling for years, since he has been the speaker, for four years, with convincing his own members that this is what he should do. i mean, remember the republican party here has an entire industry, literally, an industry of conservatives who raise money and spend money to attack the republican leadership on issues where they think they're not doing the right thing and immigration is at the top of the list. so what the point he was trying to make and the context is, that it is going to be so much harder for him to do what everybody says they want to do if he has the president sign this executive order and anger the rank and file and more importantly get these outside groups to anger the rank and file for him. the other thing i want to point out, the flip side of this equation of trust and needing to work together, i don't know if you heard my question about the fact that out of t

i asked john boehner can we pass this through the house? there's a majority of votes in the house to get this passed and speaker boehner, i think, was sincere about wanting to pass it but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. when he told me he wouldn't call it up this year, what i indicated is i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced by action by congress. you send me a bill that i can sign and those executive actions go away. that's a commitment i made not just to the american people and to businesses and law enforcement folks and everybody who has looked at this issue and thinks we need immigration reform, that's a commitment that i also made to john boehner that i would act in the absence of action by congress. before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions we can take that i believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system,

i asked john boehner at that point can we pass this through the house. there is a majority of votes to get this passed. speaker boehner i think was sincere about wanting to pass it, but had difficulty over the last year trying to get it done. what i indicated to him, i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don't keep on making the system worse, but whatever actions i take, will be replaced and sue planted by action by congress. you sen send me a bill i can sign and those executive action goss away. that's the commitment i made not just to the businesses and american people and evangelical community and law enforcement folks and everybody who looked at this issue and thinks we need immigration reform, that's a commitment i made to john boehner that i would act in the absence of action by congress. before the end of the year we're going to take whatever lawful actions i can take that ill believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system, surge additional resources to the border, where i t

let's go back to john boehner and say hey john why don't you have an up or down vote. make that gesture and let john boehner one more time say no i'm not going to vote on immigration. >> the challenge will be the timing of this because the continuing resolution, the government funding expires on december 13th and if the white house moves on something before then it could give republicans more push, more momentum behind putting a rider in that bill and try to block that action and lead to a big confrontation that could once again provoke fears of a government shutdown. >> there wasn't much goodwill in the well to begin with. i assume they will agree at some point maybe next year on infrastructure because of 31 republican governors they love that money. republicans maybe can do business on trade because the republicans are more with it than democrats. on the big stuff we just talked about the immigration issue. if the republicans come to the table they will have a vote on repealing obamacare. they promised it in the campaign. if they come back later and say let's fix it

john boehner is only worried about his standing within the caucus. those individuals who made him speaker. that's his constituency, that's who he's playing to. >> thank you very much. ray suarez, i'm going to give you the last word here to give us a preview of what is coming up on your program at the top of the hour, and then over to michael shure. >> we're going to talk about the working mc mechanics that the president has offered to people who are living in the country without their papers, and going forward, what that does for undocumented americans. will people present themselves to the federal government, and take the information they've been hiding for years and present it voluntarily to a government that is not giving them a guarantee that they'll be able to stay. just temporary respite pending the obama administration, whether a future president could change his or her mind, or a bill that comes from a republican congress that doesn't want to play ball with the president. it's not all together clear how many people are going to present themse

whether it's having a drink, letting john boehner beat me at golf. >> he promised to go forward with unilateral action before the end of the year. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, likely to be majority leader warns of trouble if the president does that. the president was mostly conciliatory. >> the american people have spoken, and given us divided government. the question for the president and the speaker and myself and members is "what are you going to do with it?" >> joining us now is congressman tom latham serving the state's third congressional district. he represented him since 1995. he announced he would not seek reflection. good to have you with us. the president said it's obviously republicans had a good night. he said he wants to work with congress to find common ground and called on congress to move on things that republicans and democrats agree on. he was defiant showing that americans wanted to get things done. do you think there's a chance we'll see the congress and the white house work together. >> i think there is first of all, talking about funding for ebola, w

. >> so speaker john boehner says all options are on the table if the president moves on immigration. what is he really talking about? impeachment? government shutdown? >> one, i think they can try to sue them again, actually they never even filed a lawsuit. >> what happened to the lawsuit? >> they decided maybe that was not such a good idea. maybe it doesn't really work to sue the president. you could go ahead and attempt impeachment or you could attach this to something that absolutely has to go through like something keeping the government running thereby prompting a shutdown. the problem is, john boehner, they have been campaigning on this saying we're not going to have a government shutdown. we're not interested in impeachment. when they tried to attach obamacare to it, they lost that. immigration is much more popular than obamacare so you can imagine what way this is going to go. >> you know talking about immigration, maria, the president had several comments on what the immigration included. it would allow undocumented parents with american children to obtain legal work documen

now with alex wagner starts now. >>> john boehner returns, and this time he's got backup. it's thursday, november 6th and this is "now". >> when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself, what looked to be a temporary truce lasted 24 hours. >> mitch mcconnell talked about repealing obamacare. we'll pass it. does the republican caucus, and we've got a bunch of people in congress that don't see any reason to do it, but my way or the highway. >> this is not a game. >> will they want cocompromise with the president? >> it's not like the president hasn't tried to compromise. will the president protect the base and his agenda? >> i'm still not sure exactly where the areas are of compromise, immigration and sounds like it's not one of them. >> if he acts unilaterally, he will poison the well. let's let the house of representatives decide if they want to move forward. >> t p

john boehner indicated he thinks obama care is bad for the country. that it is hurting the economy, that it is not helping healthcare, that it is forcing -- that it is hurting employers who want to add jobs and that it is critical to get rid of it. and he did talk about the fact that there is bipartisan support that the republicans and some domes don't like. and president obama has indicated he is willing to look at pieces of this law. that he is not willing to sign a bill that would repeal obama care. so already i think the niceties have gone out the window on that issue. >> ironically, on the issue of immigration reform, some of what the president and the white house have talk uhed about doing are elements that were contained in this by party season bill, some thicks that john boehner supports but felt that he couldn't bring it to the floor, because of his conservative opposition, would nit a way is it possible that when john baker talk uhs about the president plays with matches that maybe in some fashion it does make boehner's case easier to his ow

>> very interesting response from john boehner on camera. immigration issue front and center at the news conference but he gave a pretty strict -- warning. toe a listen to the warning the president. iti believe he continues to astana sound he will take the risk of burning himself. he will learn himself if he continues to go down this path. the american people made it clear in election day, they want to get things done, and they do not want the president acting on a unilateral basis. >> bottom line, and executive order on immigration, not only immigration in trouble but any cooperation exterior would be in trouble. >> there is a battle brewing and coming soon. thank you. you can always get the latest headlines anytime on your phone, tablets and bloomberg 80 oh. we will see you tomorrow with more bloomberg "west." ♪ >> from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am mark crumpton and this is "bottom line." ♪ viewers in the united states and those of you joining from around the world, welcome. full coverage of the stocks and stories tak

john weiner has not had that. boehner doesr john not have that. he can say you can vote however you want and get something through. those are the two numbers. john boehner and mitch mcconnell are getting attention in an op-ed. they said -- they conclude by saying that the skeptics say nothing will be a compass in the next two years as elected servants of the people in a we will make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong. guest: color me a skeptic. i think not only are there internal issues but you have the president ready with a veto. it is only vetoed two bills so far in his presidency and most of that was because of errors in the bill. i think you'll see that uptick significantly. as far as tax reform, you have corporate taxes as something they will push. you have the medical device tax they want to repeal. those two things, it will be a difficult task. host: the democratic leader nancy pelosi again said she will run -- do you think there will be any movement to have change in the democratic leadership in the house or the senate? guest: i alway

up the votes to beat john boehner even if they act like they would run against them. why rollof the reasons labrador never had a chance in his leadership race. he had not done the work and the way you win these races is to work with your colleagues, raise a lot of money for people, put in your time, even if it is quick, and then you go to them. just does not work up there. tohner does not have much worry about, mccarthy does not have much to worry about, on down to just about every elected member of the leadership. willry quickly and then we do the macro view from the senate side -- we got word yesterday from nancy pelosi and --ny hoyer -- friend ami's to the end -- there's the median age of like 20 years. >> i think something will give, i'm puttingea is -- myself in their heads. i don't know what is going on. my thinking is 2016, hillary is on the ballot. we win big and it helps whole house across the finish line will stop i don't know that i see it that way, even with a hillary victory, but i think that's what they are thinking. it would have to be a full-scale rebe

the good news is now mitch mcconnell and john boehner are from the same party, they can come together and decide what their agenda is. they have sufficient majority to make real progress. >> so well that poker game actually take place? if i am john boehner and mitch mcconnell i would be making rice crispy treats and i don't see it happening. >> i feel republicans need to try to find areas they can work with the president on. you need to be able to show you are able to get things done heading into 2016. i feel there is an onus now on the republican side to get something done but unfortunately on the democratic side it has now switched. i can see the president now say it is payback time. >> what you think the honeymoon window is? how long does it last? >> it does not seem like a honeymoon to me. >> i mean what is the period you have right now of opportunity for these two sides? >> he is already saying he is willing to use his executive spin on immigration, quic and ck after the news conference yesterday, so i'm not sure we don't already know the answer to that. >> i look to the market,

with big wins in congress, john boehner sipping a tall glass of i told you so. here is what he told the press this afternoon in louisville kentucky, about his plans for the immediate future in dealing with president obama. >> we are going to pass legislation. some of it he may not like. we will function. the gridlock and dysfunction can be ended. it can be ended by having a senate that actually works. >> mark, is the majority leader ready to be the majority leader. >> >> you seek compromise not with the new majority leader you want but with the new majority leader you're going to get. i actually think, although mitch mcconnell is an inside player, i actually think of marathon press conference -- he will never be a great communicator. he is doing one thing that i does give people who are bullish on the prospect of compromise of hope, which is he keeps referring to the fact that he has been the dealmaker. he keeps saying that when there have been breakers, i have been the one to strike them. usually with joe biden. people have the notion that he and joe biden are

can ha rain in the republican. >> john boehner did it in the last congress. more so than behaviour. >> it didn't look easy. he has the hardest job in politics. if you look add the candidate elected. they were far from the fringe. the establishment struck back in the election. we have men and women in a house in senate. ready to leave. it will bring forth positive legislation in the country. >> will they leave? >> i think it will be a tough road to hope for john boehner in the house, a lot of them were smarter, a lot of candidates kept their mouth shut. they didn't say things that were controversial, if you look at the past legislation when they served in state legs lat tours, scary stuff. it will be interesting to see what happened. >> speaking of scary stuff, pelosi responded to calls to step down. let's hear her response. >> aren't you getting a little old, mitch. shouldn't you step aside. have you ever asked him that question. have you ever asked. have any of you asked him that question. i don't under why that question should come up as i'm here as long as

in a wall street journal article on thursday, an op ed piece, mitch mcconnell and john boehner vowed to get congress going. most of what they talked about looked like a g.o.p. wishlist. tax reform, tort reform. things that george bush made progress on. is there a risk in promising action and not delivering? >> not at all. i think that it was very good of both of the the speaker and leader - soon to be leader, to map out what americans can expect in the coming months. i think another story that came ute today was in "the washington post," and it detailed a little bit of the relationship between the white house, and harry reid, and the senators. the position that harry reid put the wows in and vice versa, and a little in sight into why the senate was not productive at all. we saw an obstruction in road block there. it's good of senator mcconnell and speaker john boehner to say that it is not happening with the new arrangements in january. >> i want to get to that in a minute. and let's listen to mitch mcconnell and how he sounded conciliatory on wednesday. >> if i had the ability, obvi

house speaker john boehner said the president would earn himself with immigration reform. i sat down with lamar smith. he's then and out smoking -- outspoken critic of the president. >> i think it is disappointing that the president is threatening congress and the american people with these executive orders. according to opinion polls, three quarters of the american people think the president should not rewrite immigration laws by himself. he should work with congress to come up with a good erotic. these kind of threats if congress doesn't do something, the president has said he does not have the authority to do that. he's told groups he has met with that i cannot issue these executive orders because it's contrary to my oath of office. i hope you will go back and read what he said. >> are you going to defund those programs or are you going to keep them from going to affect? aheadthe president pushes and gives amnesty to millions of people and work permit to people who will obviously compete with unemployed and underemployed americans, there will be a price to be paid. we m

my winner is john boehner. he is a partner and ally. he would like to be part of getting stuff done for the good of the country and because he wants to have the reputation. now a lot of the pressure is off of him. no longer in opposition to-against -- to-one. he has an ally against mitch mcconnell, and i think that is good for him. let's talk about the loser of the night. >> this is very specific and practical. scott brown. a night when in every contested senate race they won whether they were challenges come incumbents. scott brown the only one to lose. >> if he had one, he would've been the kingmaker for the primary. >> now he cannot go back. cannot really run again in new hampshire. the only option for him is nova scotia. >> my loser is harry reid. not only not going to be majority leader, his party was wiped out in his home state including the lieutenant governor's race, which means the current governor is now freed up to run again if he does run for reelection. he also loses leverage over the white house because they will still tal

>> mainly it's just my knowledge of john boehner. john boehner is a very traditional person. he believes in the institution and now i think he believes the speaker of the house with republicans controlling both houses there is a real obligation to try to make things work. at the same time he has an obligation to the people who put us in the majority who feel very strongly about these issues and challenges to get compromises at work, where we can attain as much of our agenda as possible and still give the president some of his prerogative. it's a ronald reagan/tip o'neill situation. >> focused on jobs, the issue number one for america is still the economy, still people are really not feeling the improvements in the economy and it is not broadly spread many feel. when it comes to tax reform, business issues, job creation, tell me about what you think the chances are of getting the next session of congress to move things forward on that front, because mcconnell and boehner talked about it in their op-ed in "the journal" this week. do you think it will happen and ultimately have

but, luke, you know, john boehner is calling the president an emperor. ted cruz is calling him a monarch. as you know, a new politico op-ed, cruz is saying they should use every tool available to prevent obama from subverting the law pep talks about blocking all nominees from confirmation. he also talks about attaching riders to strip the president of his authority to issue this executive action. tell us what that means, that sort of insidery speak, what's the practical impact there and how much sway does cruz have? >> reporter: let's answer your first question. what is the possibility of attaching a rider to a bill regarding funding, that in a sense would say, hey, we're going to fund the government but the moneys available to put forward this executive action, they might not be available or attach another rider? i don't think it's necessarily that possible because the democrats still control the senate. as we saw during the last government shutdown, the house gop tried to move forward individual pieces of funding bills, like let's open up the national

this morning mitch mcconnell and john boehner are laying out their plan. they want to overhaul the tax code. get health costs under control and dismantle global terrorist threats but don't mention immigration rye form. joining me now is msnbc anchor chris hayes, the host of "all in," a host i very much admire. good to see you. >> good to see you, jose. >> the president talks about taking action on this issue. it could cause problems in washington. how ugly do you think this has the potential to get? >> quite, actually. look. obviously the context, your viewers know this because you talk about this all the time. the context of course is that for a year and a half or the year that the house has stonewalled on it, the president promised again to take action in the summer. he postponed it at the behest of a bunch of democratic senatorial candidates. yesterday i think there was a lot of anticipation that when he came out he was going to reassess. he doubled down and said he's going to do something by the end of the year. mitch mcconnell compared to waving a red