"It has several immediate effects," syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer said about President Obama using executive privilege to protect Attorney General Eric Holder from the Fast & Furious investigation today. "The first is, as you mentioned in the grapevine, there's no way that the mainstream media, which have stud

"She's absolutely dead wrong," Karl Rove said in response to a report that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she could have arrested him "on any given day" during her party's investigation of the U.S. Attorney

ABC's White House correspondent Jake Tapper reports.

Concerns over the bungled "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation led the House oversight committee Wednesday to recommend holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. (Nightly News)

CBS News: The House committee that asked Attorney General Eric Holder for documents concerning the gun-walking operation, "Fast and Furious," voted to hold Holder in contempt of Congress. Nancy Cordes reports.

Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Wednesday following the house committee's vote to hold him in contempt of Congress over withholding 'Fast and Furious' documents: “In recent months, the Justice Department has made unprecedented accommodations to respond to information requests by Chairman Issa about misguided law

"It's clear that this is nothing more than a political witch hunt to distract from the fact that Republicans in Congress have no interest in focusing on what we need to focus on, which is jobs and the economy," DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said on today's broadcast of "The Situation Room" on CNN.

"Executive privilege protects communications with the president, the human being of the president, not with people that work for him and the Justice Department," Judge Andrew Napolitano said on FOX News today. "If the attorney general sat down and discussed it with the president, he probably doesn't want the Congress and the public to know that,

MSNBC's Martin Bashir: One of the things I just can't understand is given the fact that the president has said he's going to exert executive privilege, what is the point of this citation apart from attempting to humiliate the Attorney General? These documents will never be produced if the president exerts his privilege. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N

“Ann Romney doesn’t need my defense, but her critics need to use some common sense. Just because you might find such therapy strange, let me tell you, this disease it helps treat is a lot more strange and a lot more cruel. So go ahead and have a good stupid laugh over Ann and her horses and whether they have anything to do with her illness,”

David Shuster, guest hosting for Bill Press, points out the problems with the shortened clip that Andrea Mitchell played of Mitt Romney speaking about the Wawa touchscreen. Shuster says by Mitchell and MSNBC "digging in their heels, they have made this, instead of a one-day story, a three-day story." Shuster points out that this is "extremely bad

"It's called racism," political commentator Sam Seder said about Neil Munro, the reporter who interrupted/heckled President Obama in the Rose Garden last week. "I mean, that's the trend. You have a black president and there's a lot of racists and when they start getting angry about him, they don't talk about his policies, they talk about his race."

"I think when this country under this administration, takes as long as it does and dithers as long as it does about taking a forceful and clear positions on key foreign policy things, like what’s happening in Syria, it encourages those around the world to assume that we’re unwilling to engage, that we’re unable to engage, or that we’re disi

"President Obama invites you to dinner—and he's bringing a special guest. Watch the video to find out who—then enter to win a seat at the next Dinner with Barack. Your airfare and hotel are covered," says a new advertisement promoting the next dinner with the President. Who is the special guest? First Lady Michelle Obama.

Rebuild the Dream's Van Jones joins John Fugelsang on 'The War Room' to talk about how to energize the base for President Obama, and the biggest political threats from the right. Jones says fear, or terror, of the tea party has united the left. "Last time we had an election it was a hope election. This will probably be a fear election," Jones says,

"I think the issue of executive power and executive privilege is one that is subject to abuse and in an Obama presidency what you will see will be a sufficient respect for law and the co-equal branches of government that I hope we don't find ourselves in a situation in which we would have aides being subpoenaed for what I think everything acknowled

"While this economy has gone through a rough patch, a very difficult recession, we've turned the corner. The president is working hard to build an economy that is built to last, and by that I mean one that will support the middle class and strengthen the middle class," former Iowa Gov. and current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said yesterday

"You know, there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something a little shaky that's taking place. And I think, you know, the administration would be best served by coming clean on this," then-Senator Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN in 2007.

"What was unusual about this news conference is that it was held at the time of day it was. Normally, a news conference of this kind does not occur in primetime in the evening, when you expect the President is going to talk to the people of the country, he's going to have something major to say," FOX News' Brit Hume said about the G20 summit. "N

"There's a big difference between criticizing George Bush and criticizing the things he did and criticizing Barack Obama," comedian Janeane Garofalo declared on the Tuesday night broadcast of Joy Behar's Current TV program. "George Bush was certainly very criticism-appropriate for a lot of things he did," Garofalo claimed. "Barack Obama has done

"[The Romney campaign advisers] want to encourage Chancellor Merkel to stick to the austerity policies. They know that could drive the Eurozone further down. That could drive much of Europe -- it has already driven much of Europe into a recession and could have full on effects here. They have been rooting for a recession for a long time," Bob Shrum

Sean Hannity, FOX News: Governor, as you have spoken and have reflected back on the 2008 campaign and you have spoken out about it. You felt that really the McCain-Palin ticket was too easy on Barack Obama. We are 140 days out of this election. What would be your advice if Governor Romney is watching or listening tonight or his campaign what is you

Chris Matthews and his panelists discuss President Obama's efforts to strengthen support with his base.

O'Reilly discusses international and economic matters in his nightly memo.

O'Donnell talks to author David Maraniss about his new biography of President Obama. O'Donnell believes that Obama is realistic about how he can change history.

The panel discusses President Obama's meeting with President Putin at the G-20 meetings.

Holder said given the fact that the Department of Justice’s “extraordinary offer” was rejected, he thinks they are “involved more in political gamesmanship as opposed to trying to get information they say they want. Nevertheless we are prepared to provide these materials, to brief on these materials, answer questions about these materials.�