"Right now, currently, the biggest problem we have is we've had too much, too many people unemployed for too long a period of time. And this is a human tragedy of the first order, you know, that we need to be looking at very closely to see what, if anything, we can do about this," Democratic strategist James Carville said on "The O'Reilly Factor" o

CHUCK TODD: I think that it's, I think that the mythology of the big, bad non-conservative media has gotten into some offices, and so that there's this fear of, oh we can't do, we can't do anything that's not--it's sort of this--and I feel like it's a mythology that now younger staffers believe and then it infuses, and then these guys, they actuall

"If there's ever a problem," Biden said he told his wife Jill, "just walk out on the balcony here--walk out, put that double barrel shot gun and fire two blasts outside the house -- I promise you whoever is coming in ... You don't need an AR-15, it's harder to aim, it's harder to use...Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!" (via

Current TV: Cenk takes a look at a new study detailing how tobacco companies and the Koch brothers manufactured support for the supposedly organic political movement known as the tea party.

President Barack Obama is warning that ''people will lose their jobs'' if across-the-board budget cuts take effect as scheduled next week.

ROBERT GIBBS: In terms of transparency, look, I've sat in that office for two years and helped make the decision to -- for one thing on transparency, let's lift on a monthly basis, the list of every person that walks in the White House. That was a big, big step, and one that seems easy now, but had never been done before we got in there. So, I thin

HOWARD FINEMAN: I've watched over the years, as succeeding administrations take more and more territory and more and more sort of power for themselves to determine the rules and the rights of the conversation. Even reporters asking simple questions, simple direct factual questions of low-ranking administration officials, have a hard time getting an

O'Reilly discusses education spending and President Obama's proposals for more pre-kindergarten teaching programs.

Chris Matthews, and authors David Maraniss and James Moore talk about how presidents handle the responsibilities of the office.

Lawrence O'Donnell, Ari Melber and Steve Kornacki talk about how President Obama and Congress can reach a deal on immigraion reform. They specifically discussed how Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) responded to leaked details of President Obama's immigration plan.