"People are right to be frustrated," President Obama told Rob McCartney of KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska. "We see a Congress that is dead locked. I have to say I've done everything I could to try to reach out to the Republicans in Congress. We tried to reduce the deficit in a balanced way. So we agreed to over a trillion dollars worth of cuts, let's m

RUSH: Okay, now, that's Toure on MSNBC, where the motto is, "Resist We Much," and he's a stand-alone commentator. Lawrence O'Donnell says, "Please, break this down for us and explain it to us." Did any of you understand what Toure was saying? What is he saying? What was he saying? Because I know what he was trying to say. What he was trying to say

"Sexual harassment charges are always tricky and difficult. We don't know the details of this one," He has given several versions, not exactly what happened, I supposed, but the arrangement that was made between the accuser and the restaurant association. Was it simply a matter of 'he said, she said' and they made a settlement to try to clean it up

Lawrence O'Donnell: "No, look, I was presuming that the Republican Party was going to be rational and they've clearly shown themselves to be wildly irrational this year going with, you know, Trump and Bachmann, and now Cain and all this stuff. And my problem with Romney getting the nomination is George Will's problem. Where George Will says 'You kn

On FOX News' "Special Report" tonight presidential candidate Herman Cain told the panel, after being asked, that he believes the charge of sexual harassment against him has to do with his race. Charles Krauthammer: "Mr. Cain, when Clarence Thomas was near to achieving position of high authority, he was hit with a sexual harassment charge. You co

President Obama tells a local news reporter from Tampa Bay, FL that Americans "are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law." That part of Obamacare does not kick in until 2016, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Transcript below: Mark Wilson, correspondent for WTVT-TV: "54 percent of American

"They’re a bunch of bums, as far as I'm concerned,” Ben Stein said about the Occupy protesters. “If they had some specific ideas, if they had some specific proposals, if they were doing anything whatsoever besides sleeping in their tents and banging drums, I would say great, God bless them. I spent a large part of my life crusading against fr

Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, equality and how spreading the wealth increases poverty.

"Congress has been trying since February to do something about this. It has not yet been able to get it done and it is the belief of this administration, as well as folks like Bonnie and Jay, that we can't wait for action on the Hill. We've got to go ahead and move forward," President Obama said when signing an executive order on Monday.

White House press secretary Jay Carney says President Obama's proclamation for a monument in the swing state of Virginia today will create jobs. It is estimated that 3,000 jobs will be created. At first, Carney says the claim that this project would create jobs first came from the state of Virginia. However, Carney then says Obama believes this

“I think he came to office at a time of tremendous challenge in this country. The economy was in free fall and we had two wars and someone said to me the other day, ‘You know his slogan should be GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead,’” David Axelrod said on Washington Times' "America's Morning News." “And I think he made some very decisiv

Harry Reid: Rather than support a jobs bill that would put hundreds of thousands of Americans back to work, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans are following Grover Norquist "like puppets."

RNC: "One year from now, on Election Day 2012, Americans will have the opportunity to vote Barack Obama and his failed policies out of office. After three tough years of record-setting deficits and high unemployment, the American people are ready to change direction."

"It is interesting, these commentariats on the left and right, can we just agree not to play the race card -- at all? And when you see it played, it is frustrating," NBC News' Chuck Todd said on his MSNBC program this morning.

Watch Mika Allen's weak diversionary effort. (via Newsbusters) JOE SCARBOROUGH, "Morning Joe" anchor: "Mike Allen, you had Cain defenders yesterday seizing upon a line that Politico wrote about gestures ma

Laura Ingraham, radio host: "Do you feel that the timing of it is in any way suspicious given your rise in the polls?" Herman Cain: "Absolutely Laura. There is no doubt in my mind, no doubt in our mind, that this is because I have done so well in the polls consistently. And the other thing Laura that I would add is, I'm sure that there's gonna b

YouTube: " Director Michael Moore refuses to answer questions regarding his own 50 Million dollar net worth at Occupy PDX. At the end the videographer assaulted (specifically pushed and shoved) by participants in OccupyPDX. At the end of the piece you can hear the DD reporter say to the head of Occupy PDX media: "You are blocking my shot b

Daily Show/Jon Stewart: Herman Cain denies allegations of sexual harassment, and Rick Perry overcorrects for past debate performance stiffness. (07:41)

This ad from Make Us Great Again, a Super PAC supporting Rick Perry for president, highlights the candidate's biography and economic record as Texas governor. The ad is scheduled to run in Iowa.

MSNBC: Herman Cain says the sexual harassment allegations against him are a "witch hunt." Mitt Romney and Rick Perry deny involvement in leaking the story. Steve Kornacki and Joan Walsh of Salon.com and Goldie Taylor of The Grio tell Ed Schultz where the Cain campaign goes from here.

NBC News' Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Meyers reports on the politics behind President Obama's recent executive orders.

Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid on the Senate floor this morning: "That’s not to say that they don’t deserve their prosperity. No doubt many of them have worked incredibly hard to achieve such great success. "But their tremendous fortune – including their tremendous fortunes – means they can afford to contribute a teeny, tiny fraction

Charles Krauthammer says Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls because he's a good debater, has refused to take shots at the other candidates, and has attacked the media.

Ed Schultz discusses the timeline of Herman Cain's response to the Politico story alleging that he was accused of inappropriate behavior toward two women in the 1990s.

On "Your World with Neil Cavuto", Rep. Marsha Blackburn talks about the bankruptcy of Beacon Power, a power company that received Department of Energy funding. She believes all of the loans need to be reviewed.