CBS’s Pelley Accuses Paul Ryan of ‘Blowing Chalk Dust in the President's Face’

Kyle Drennen | November 13, 2015
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In an interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan for 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley scolded the congressman for criticizing President Obama’s unconstitutional executive action on illegal immigration: “On your first day as speaker you said you were going to wipe the slate clean. And then in your very first news conference you said the President has, quote, ‘Proven himself untrustworthy on immigration.’ That’s not wiping the slate clean, that’s blowing chalk dust in the President's face.”

Ryan hit back: “...he tried to go around Congress and write the law unilaterally, violating the separation of powers. And I think just on that particular issue he has proven that he doesn't want to work with Congress, but work around Congress on, and that’s just not how laws are written.”