House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNBC this morning that Medicare was on the table to be cut to tackle the federal deficit. Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Leader at 11:30AM ET on CNBC: "Yes. I think Medicare is on the table. I think Social Security is probably on

"Now he's [Gingrich] not only disparaged a man who is a hero to many Republicans, he has handed Democrats a potent weapon against Ryan and Republicans at the moment they stand accused by the Democrats of trying to destroy Medicare. They were requiring all be responsible for healthcare. he called the idea a variation of the mandate to buy insurance

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" to debate Bill about the rapper Common's White House invite.

"I'm just talking to the guys, so you ladies can leave the room," Maddow instructs her viewers.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: "He [Gingrich] is still talking like Reagan and food stamps and welfare queens, and all that lingo we went through back in the 70s and 80s. We all get tired of it. It all had that tinge we didn't like and we dropped it, as a country dropped it. The right-wing even dropped it. They stopped talking in this dog whistle, like only the w

"I will not be running for President, as much as I’d like to," Donald Trump said at an event for NBC's fall lineup today. Trump says he will continue to host "Celebrity Apprentice."

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele criticizes Rush Limbaugh for allowing his call screener Bo Snerdley to give the 'black response to Obama' in English and

On Monday's edition of Laura Ingraham's nationally syndicated radio show, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) responded to Newt Gingrich's criticism of his Medicare plan, telling guest host Raymond Arroyo "with allies like that, who ne

From President Obama's commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, TN: "Well, we are here today because every single one of you stood up and said, “Yes we can.” Yes we can learn. Yes we can succeed. You decided that you weren’t going to be defined by where you came from, but by where you want to go – by what you want

Rush Limbaugh says he is "befuddled" by Newt Gingrich's attack on Paul Ryan and his plan, calling it "right-wing social engineering." Limbaugh told listeners he couldn't give a 'rational set of reasons' behind his comment t

Pat Buchanan on the sex scandal surrounding IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "I will tell you. Look, you have the Charlie Sheen of global finance running the IMF. The seriousness of it is this: He is dead as a presidential candidate in France. Good news for Sarkozy, he's out of the IMF, but more important, this is going to bring a focus on the

Republican candidate for president Newt Gingrich now says he was not attacking Rep. Paul Ryan when he called his budget plan "right-wing social engineering" on yesterday's "Meet the Press." "I think we should be very car

Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) says ending subsidies to oil companies would lower fuel prices. Israel also accused oil companies of lying when they say it will not affect the price of gas. Transcript: CHRIS JANSING, MSNBC HOST: "Let me ask you is there anything Congress can do to lower fuel prices?" REP. STEVE ISRAEL (D-NY): "Yeah, ther

"I worked for a lot of these guys. And this is one of the most courageous calls - decisions - that I think I've ever seen a president make," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in an interview with Katie Couric on "60 Minutes." "You could see it in his face in that photograph. What was it like being near him in that room?" Couric asked Gates