Video: Obama makes four recess appointments

>> back to the showdown over president obama 's recess appointment . joining me now is the white house reporter for politico. thanks for joining us.

>> we started off the hour showing jay carney and sticking behind the president's actions here. not backing down. iowa is intrigued where a have quotes from left bloggers hailing this as the president's boldest move. what are you hearing from those who support the president on this action?

>> a lot of people have been moving to see him exercise executive power . it is interesting coming from the left that had been so critical of president bush for being too unilateral in marries like iraq and other issues. now they want to see president obama act without regard to congress's preferences. there is no question that there is a ground swell of support from the left, particularly for where the president made these appointments. it wasn't just random jobs. it was a consumer finance protection bureau he filled. the directorship of that and three positions at the national labor relations board . both areas where liberals had been seeing this deliver.

>> this seemed into the race for 2012 . mitt romney criticizing the president's actions saying compareing it to chicago-style politics and they are saying by opposing this, this puts mitt romney beside lenders and republicans in congress who are not on the sides of the middle class . our team just said this was a fight that the president in the white house really wants at this time.

>> sure. i think it's no accident that they did this right after the results of the first republican presidential primary and you see even some republicans being put in a bit of a tough spot here. scott brown , the senator from massachusetts will be facing a reelection bid has already come out and said he thinks that the president made the right move here and the senate shouldn't have been sitting on these appointments without acting on them.

>> one of the quotes is from daily coast and said most republicans will declare their use of a recess appointment to be unconstitutional while talk of impeaching obama will likely spread throughout the right wing media. somebody else writes president obama is getting fed up with the obstructionism of the republican party . on the legal standing , what should we look for and what direction should this go in?

>> i don't think you will see a lot happening on the impeachment front. that is something that people dangle and never moves forward. there will be legal challenges as soon as any of these officials take an act of a vote or perhaps some kind of investigation or determination is made by him. there will be a lawsuit challenging and it is ambiguousuous. the constitution said they can do this while congress is in recess and they maintain it's not in recess and it's just taking three-daybreaks between the short pro forma sessions. the white house said because no work is being done, those aren't real segs and this is a constructively recess. there is very little press depth on which to judge this. it's something the courts will have to work out.

>> thank you for making time for us. thanks again.

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