Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, says the Justice Department is very uncooperative in the investigation of gun-running between the US-Mexico border. “Certainly it goes as high as Lanny Breuer who thought it was a pretty good program, just poorly executed. And more importantly, there are two trigge

MSNBC political analyst Eugene Robinson and Howard Fineman discuss what President Barack Obama needs to address and whether now is the time for compromise. (

"What's dumb is to oversee an economy that has lost that many millions of jobs, to put unemployment numbers - over his four years will stay probably at 9 percent, to downgrade the credit of this good country, to put fiscal policies in place that were a disaster back in the '30s and try them again in the 2000s. That's what I consider to be the defin

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) talks about the 2012 Republican field and the stance of each candidate on issues such as the economy and education.

President Obama tells the "Tom Joyner Morning Show" on the radio: "So we’re going to continue to see resistance, but the main thing is to communicate directly with the American people. Now, these folks so far have not been very responsive to public opinion and - which is why they are very unpopular right now. But they’re speaking only to a very

“In a decade of war, they have borne an extraordinary burden, with more than two million of our service members deploying to the war zones,” Obama said. “Hundreds of thousands have deployed again and again, year after year. Never before has our nation asked so much of our all-volunteer force—that one percent of Americans who wears the unifo

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Rush Limbaugh 8/30/11: RUSH: Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What was your reaction? Every intelligence service around the world including our own said that there was little doubt Saddam Hussein was working on a serious weapons of mass destruction program, perhaps even nuclear. After the invasion, for al

Markos: 9/11 was a "political opportunity" not a disaster for Republicans ... "because they were able to take that and use it to stifle their domestic critics, push through a radical agenda, try to silence anybody who opposed him. It essentially won him another term in 2004 based on 9/11 because he wasn't popular on any other matter. So, for Republ

The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson also discusses jobs creation and the President's planned September speech.

Lawrence O'Donnell and Jonathan Capehart discuss Obama's nomination of Alan Kreuger and they review the GOP presidential candidates' latest comments on how to turn around the economy.

Michelle Malkin and FOX News' Megyn Kelly discuss Politico's article on Rick Perry's intelligence.

Charles Krauthammer and the Special Report panel discuss the GOP primary calendar in 2012. Krauthammer says he would strip all the delegates from states that violate the calendar rules. The panelists don't think that calendar changes will benefit one candidate over another.

Bill O'Reilly complains about America's infrastructure after his house lost electricity following Hurricane Irene. He advises Americans to buy generators if they can afford to purchase them.

Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell criticizes the media's coverage of Hurricane Irene and said that they must avoid "crying wolf." Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele also joins the conversation.