Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tells Sean Hannity that President Obama has "drunk the kool-aid" and believes he can do nothing wrong since he got reelected. On the Tuesday broadcast of FOX News' Hannity, Cruz notes that the Obama administration sent a Hagel trial balloon out last month and it was received with bipartisan opposition. "President

BILL O'REILLY: Why does the president want to downsize the Pentagon, the defense department? Why does he want to do that? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Because Obama has this ideological vision of America as a super power too big for its britches. And it's a power that is thrown itself around the world. He talked about it in his initial tour of the world

GLENN BECK: Piers Morgan is trying to have gun control. He is trying to make everybody who has guns and who believes the Second Amendment to be a deterrent to an out of control government look like a

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The first thing [Hillary Clinton] hast to explain is why, for two months after the event, and before her injury, she didn't say a word. She is the head of the department, the ambassador worked for her. She didn't work for Susan Rice. And she said the buck stops here and then she said nothing. We don't know what she knew abou

In an interview with The New York Times, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) says cutting the deficit is important, but demanding cuts larger than the debt ceiling increase be included in a deal "doesn't make sense." CARL HULSE, NEW YORK TIMES: The Republicans are saying, of course, we're not going to give you anythin

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he will not confirm John Brennan or anyone else as CIA director until the Obama administration shares information with Congress about who deleted references to Al Qaeda in the CIA’s talking points shortly after the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "Three weeks before the election," he said. "I thi

"It is pathetic, it is ridiculous that you are allowed -- I don't care what the justification is, that you are allowed in this country to own a semi-automatic weapon, much less a handgun," Daily Beast columnist Buzz Bissinger said to Piers Morgan on his CNN program on Tuesday. "But what do you need a semi-automatic weapon for? The only reason I thi

DAN LOTHIAN, CNN: I know you touched on this a little bit yesterday, but is diversity a consideration as the President goes through this process? REPORTER: Check your binder for that. (Laughter.) JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE: I can say that, as I did yesterday, that the President values diversity, believes it’s important because it enhances the

REPORTER: Thanks, Jay. Just a couple questions. First one is, given the fiscal hurdles that are still looming, has the President asked or is he considering asking Treasury Secretary Geithner to stay on beyond January? And if not, when can we expect the nomination of a successor? JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE: I think Secretary Geithner has expresse

The debt ceiling debate is the hot topic with Mama and Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. The congressman is not hopeful about the outcome. He says the discord in Congress will continue because of “the same 67 [members] over and over again, the people that would rather eat your face than cut taxes on the rich.” He observes that the debt ceiling debate i

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Richard Ben Cramer wrote about a range of topics, from politics to sports to international conflicts. With his passing, Gwen Ifill talks to Time magazine's Joe Klein and the Washington Post's Chris Cilliza on Cramer's legacy.

FOX News reports: Judge Andrew Napolitano stopped by Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. to weigh in on President Obama signing a five-year extension of the government’s warrantless wiretapping program. In doing so, the judge said Obama is continuing with a practice that is “absolutely unconstitutional” and a violation of the Fourth Amendme

Rachel Maddow on the uninhibitedly opinionated former advocates of George W. Bush's military policy who don't seem to realize they've lost their credibility.

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the fiscal cliff deal on CNBC's "Squawk Box." --- JOE KERNEN: The fiscal cliff fight's over, a battle that is still looming large. Our guest host today is Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, author of "The Road to Freedom." Arthur, I want to ju

During tonight’s Talking Points Memo, Bill O’Reilly tackled the violation of your privacy by the press. The Journal News has come under fire for printing the names and addresses of legal gun permit owners in Westchester and Rockland Counties in New York.

EZRA KLEIN, GUEST HOST ON "LAIs that enough ($487 billion in sequester cuts) or under Secretary Hagel, should the Obama administration be looking to go deeper? FMR. REP. BARNEY FRANK (D-MASS.) Much deeper. Leon Panetta is one of the best people that I've served with, I just think he's wrong on this one. By the way -- Leon Panetta, when he took o

Charles Krauthammer, Juan Williams and Stephen Hayes discuss.

Daily Show: America tries to recover from two major disasters -- Hurricane Sandy and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.