being with the president for a couple days this week and everything weve seen in the last few weeks hes given up on congress completely going to go on offense with the american people and going to continue with these executive actions matthew dowd abc news special correspondent well i think both sides have given up on each other actually from the extent of this you can just feel watching the interview and then watching republicans reaction to many different things this incredible frustration that neither side can get anything done right now and i think theyre looking at it as theyre not going to be able to get done over the over the next two years and so you have this situation where both are had bad stakes in the publics mind the presidents approval rating is down the republicans in congress approval ratings down they both think things need to get done theyre frustrated that neither side willing to give on the other side and theyre both angry about it stephanopoulos and bill isnt there a risk here for the speaker on suing the president reinforcing the idea that both sides arent going to get anything done at all bill kristol the weekly standard well but this is a president who lost a 90 opinion in the supreme court precisely by overreaching on presidential power but i agree as a law student i would not highlight that i would say that the house of representatives has the power of the purse they have the power of legislation they have the power of oversight those are the three primary ways it seems to me you check a president and theyre doing a decent job in some of those respects brazile but bill this is the president kristol but they could do more now there are times when the courts have to intervene as in recess appointments im not crazy about this particular move that the speaker is taking but i think he is stephanopoulos why is he doing it kristol well because i do think theres a genuine crosstalk kristol this president has waived things aspects of obamacare and aspects of immigration law and delayed things and created new deadlines in a way that i really do think goes beyond the normal executive discretion vanden heuvel john boehner had no problem with george bushs executive actions the republican party has become a distraction machine first of all the congress has no standing in this and they dont have any jobs plan they have no health care plan theyre not doing anything to govern on behalf of the people in this country no wonder the president is saying we need some action lets get some minimum wage lets get immigration reform those are dead because of the relentless resistance to legislate to compromise to govern stephanopoulos you know hes not the only its not only john boehner who has turned around though look at president obama and i want