“The president clearly doesn’t need nine weeks to explain this to the American people — if he wanted to explain it, he could explain it. It seems to me that the only rational explanation for this is the intervening midterm election and fears from Senate Democrats that they did not want to take this issue on in the teeth of an already tough political environment.”

– CBS News’ Major Garrett to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, on the question of whether the Obama administration would delay a decision on executive amnesty until after the November elections.