"I don't know that anything serious has happened that would be damaging to America's policies around the world and so forth," Jimmy Carter told MSNBC Monday night.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) talks about Nevada's win over Boise State on Friday. Reid explain the highlights of the game and running into a player during church. "This memorable, remarkable win means so much," Reid said during his floor speech. This speech took place on Monday during the lame duck Senate session. NOTE: At the conclusion of his f

"When you have a conversation with a foreign leader and it ends up in a newspaper, you don't like it. I didn't like it," former President George W. Bush told Facebook today. Bush said the Wikileaker is "disloyal" to their country.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Muslim, says it is Muslims to thank for preventing the Christmas tree bombing in Oregon and the bombing of Times Square in New York. "We've got to start giving credit, where credit is due," Ellison told MSNBC.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says President Obama's bipartisan meeting with Republican members of Congress will be the "beginning of a new relationship."

"It would be unwise to assume they [the voters] prefer one way of thinking over another. That wasn't the lesson that I took when I entered into office and that's not the lesson today. So, while our ideas may be different, our goals must be the same," President Obama said on Monday.

Rush Limbaugh: "We're supposed to be impressed by this?"

Mark Kirk (R-IL), a former House member, was sworn in by Vice President Biden around 5:45 pm ET.

Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says without the FBI's work, an accused Oregon bomber's plot could have been "terribly real."

MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing: "It's what we hear about -- how kids are bullied these days and there is a sociology professor quoted in the New York Times, that says, uh, a lot of these Somali kids feel like they're being left out."

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Michigan) says exposed documents result in a "loss of trust" in U.S.

Rep. Peter King explains how the American government can go after the Wikileaks organization. Later in the interview, King explains the importance of the TSA scanners in airports. (source: Sean Hannity radio show 11/29)

Obama said civilians employed by the federal government need to "sacrifice" and will be freezing their pay for two years.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) says tax cuts need to be extended for the middle and lower classes only. Schakowsky says we also need to extend unemployment benefits.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells the US and our allies that "aggressive" steps are being taken to protect state department and other national security information. "There is nothing laudable about endangering innocent people," Clinton said. This is the first response about the Wikileaks from the Obama administration.

Former Assistant Secretary of State (under Clinton) Jamie Rubin joins Morning Joe for a discussion on North Korea and the latest Wikileaks release.

Chris Matthews says Sarah Palin is like the "comeback kid."

"Only people with wristbands would be allowed in the line," WOI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa reported.

Senate to tackle a long range of issues, incoming Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) discusses. Kirk believes the current Congress should only do what is necessary to be done then go home and leave everything up to the newly elected Congress. Kirk will be sworn in Monday night.

U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says that actions taken by the nonprofit media organization are putting American lives at risk, therefore making it an accessory in terrorist activities.