"You go back to the reasons that Joe Biden was put on the ticket in the very first instance. It was supposedly because he had the great experience. He had been there for years. He had been Foreign Relations chair. He had been chairman of the Judiciary and supposedly knew the workings of the Senate. Now, has that worked to the president's better int

FOX News: On tonight’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, there was an interview a long time in the making when 42nd President

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And joining the table, Republican governor from New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie. JOE SCARBOROUGH: He has come to straighten you out. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, I don't think so. CHRIS CHRISTIE: The time has come. SCARBOROUGH: Thank God. I have been here alone. I have been surrounded. I've been surrounded. Thank you for your

REP. JIM MCDERMOTT (D): Now the Republicans have said its Christmas time, kids are hanging their socks all over the world! And they're all getting up and hoping that something will be in that sock on Christmas day. And the Republicans have something to put in it! They have a lump of coal. They're going to say to 160 million people, we're going

GOLDBERG: No, it doesn't matter. Because, you know, if you say that this is how our culture is and then you send your child to a Swiss boarding school- You know, this is what happens with communism. It's a great concept. On paper it makes perfect sense. But once you put a human being in power, it shifts. We saw it in Russia, we've seen it all aroun

Ed Rollins says Ron Paul will probably win in Iowa. He also says not to count out Newt Gingrich, even though he has spent a large amount of time at book events in states that do not matter at the moment.

Following a House vote today that effectively rejected the Senate’s tax cut bill, President Obama reacted strongly, saying that because of House Republicans’ “refusal to cooperate,” millions of Americans could lose their tax cut in 11 days.

Facing failure to strike a deal on the payroll tax, James Carville says gridlock in Washington will end with "an election."

Newt Gingrich says negative ads are taking a toll on his image and campaign.

"I think he did work with me to pass some good budgets. We had the Balanced Budget Act in '96 and," former President Bill Clinton said on the "Today Show" this morning. "I had a decent working relationship with him." "But the vast lion’s share of balancing the budget was done by the budget in 1993 that he led the opposition to. Ninety percent

Ann Coulter appears on the Laura Ingraham radio program to survey the presidential race. Coulter debates Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway. Coulter says Gingrich is "outrageously selfish" to run because he knows he is going to lose the most important election of our lifetime.

"And if they vote against a middle class tax cut and extending that middle class tax cut right at the holidays and they know that that is going to cause the economy some harm, they don't want to be in that situation. So the Republican Leadership, I think, can't defeat this bill tomorrow if they bring it up for a vote. So they're not going to bring

Ann Curry had an issue pronouncing author Seamus Heaney's name while in the presence of former President Bill Clinton.

The full interview will air Tuesday night at 8pm ET.

Joan Walsh opines on the latest battle over the payroll tax cut extension.

Michael Smerconish, Howard Fineman and David Yepsen look at Gingrich's slide in Iowa polling and what it means for the caucus on January 3rd.

Bill O'Reilly criticizes the Franking Commission for forbidding lawmakers from using "Merry Christmas" in their mailings. He notes that it is a federal holiday.

The panel debates the future of North Korea and the possible leadership of Kim Jong-Un