W.H.: Obama ‘Will Continue To Aggressively Use His Executive Authority’ Post-Election

BILL PLANTE, CBS NEWS: The fact is whichever way it goes, the gridlock which exists today is likely to persist. So can you tell us what this administration really hopes to accomplish in the last two years? 

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: Well, Bill, as I pointed out earlier I would anticipate that we'll have more extensive conversations about this topic after the election results are in. But as a general matter I think that the president has been clear about a few things.

The first is that he is bound and determined to do everything that he can using his power in the executive branch to make progress on behalf of middle-class families in this country. And the president, regardless of the outcome of the election, will continue to act aggressively to use his executive authority to help middle-class families.