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On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie framed President Obama's upcoming executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants as him simply keeping his word: "President Obama will address the nation tonight on the hot-button issue of immigration reform, planning to make good on a progress – a promise to sidestep Congress and take executive action."
Moments later, correspondent Peter Alexander declared: "The President is committed and tonight in primetime he's going to announce his action, after Congress's failure to approve a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Frustrated that Washington's let America's immigration crisis to fester for decades, tonight the President will announce significant steps to fix it himself."