CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think the only thing that matters to the American people is was there anyone derelict enough to let somebody die who was a good guy? And I think that's an issue with most people, humans that is, maybe not Republicans… just kidding.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This story isn't going to explode; this is a drip, drip, drip [story]. And what the drip, drip, drip is about is this: the administration tried to suppress the truth about what happened in Benghazi and did that consistent and deliberately while the president -- at the same time -- tried to say that his only objective was to col

President Obama told an audience of high school students in Texas on Thursday that the economy is "poised for progress" after clearing away the rubble of economic crisis. OBAMA: Our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in years. But now we’ve got to budget in a smarter way so it doesn’t hurt middle-class families or prevent

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on proposed amendments for the Gang of Eight's immigration reform proposal, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) revealed people with turbans are being detained at the Southern border. SEN. JOHN CORNYN: I just want to tell Senator Schumer, he might be interested in this. I was in, as I said, at the bo

President Obama addresses students at Manor New Technology High School in Austin, Texas on Thursday afternoon2: OBAMA: Every once in a while I’m going to need your help to lean on your elected representatives and say, hey, let’s do something about this; even if you don’t like it politically, if it’s a good idea, let’s go ah

Judge Andrew Napolitano says if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied, yes, she could be prosecuted. "Lying to Congress carries the same criminal liability and the same punishment as lying under oath to Congress. I'm not suggesting that Mrs. Clinton lied, but I'm saying that a case could be made out, either legally in a courtroom if a p

Pat Smith, mother of Benghazi victim Matt Smith, listened to the Benghazi hearing on Wednesday, says she did not get the answers she was looking for.

"From a political point of view, I don't think all the questions have been answered about what happened on the night of September 11th," Doug Schoen said on FOX News this morning.

Daily Show: Republicans insist Benghazi is the worst cover-up since whatever the last thing was that worse than Watergate F ox News can't understand why America isn't as outraged as conservative media-fueled Benghazi hysteria suggests it should be.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now, to everybody who had their hopes up that this was gonna mean something, I warned you: If the media doesn't get behind this, if it only last night one day, it's gonna come and go and become a nonevent. The Republicans basically launched everything they had in one day, and that's it. So now the media is spinning it as a Republican

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali.) exploded at Republican Senators today after they apparently boycotted a hearing for Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. “It shows how obstructionist they are. It shows how their pledge to do better with women voters is false,” Boxer said, calling McCarthy “per

Peter Schiff joins Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney to discuss the role the Federal Reserve's stimulus has played in the US economy's recovery and whether people should be buying stocks.

GOP: At his weekly press conference today, Speaker Boehner backed the committee's efforts by calling on President Obama to release e-mails -- which his administration is withholding -- that would shed light on what the administration knew about the attacks, and what it told the American people.

Q: What about the trial in Philadelphia of the doctor, Kermit Gosnell? Is there any role at all that Congress could play to ensure that what's happened at that clinic isnt happening elsewhere?  PELOSI: I think what went on there, and I only know what you all report on it, is it's really disgusting. It's really disgusting and when we talk about

JOE SCARBOROUGH: This doesn't pass the sniff test. And you know what we're about to get into? We're about to get into some very dangerous territory for the administration. They demote this guy, and now they're doing what we we've seen too often where you try to now call him a liar. Saying he doesn't remember? I don't think this guy will forget the

SEN. TOM COBURN (R-OKLA.): Harry Reid is a nice guy, I like him. But I think he has been a failure as a majority leader for the Senate in terms of keeping the history of the Senate and the progress of the Senate in line with what it was intended to be by our founders. ### COBURN: He has been dishonest with me, not truthful, not kept his wo

After interviewing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Wednesday broadcast of his nightly MSNBC show, host Lawrence O'Donnell asks the Democrat for her autograph.

Arizona Senator John McCain makes passing comment former Senator and current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

"It's an interesting angle, to talk about people who really only have jobs for the health insurance as being one angle to that. I had a friend who got married to the wrong person just so she could have heath insurance. So, we'll also have a lot of less bad marriages as a result of this," Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA) said at a Small Business subcommittee

Michelle Malkin to Juan Williams: "Only somebody who did not honestly watch that comprehensive hearing today... could remain in this bubble of unreality."

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) discusses the House hearing on the Benghazi attack on "FOX & Friends." “They didn’t want to admit that it was a terrorist attack because to admit it was a terrorist attack was to admit that terrorism was still out there and reaching us. And so that’s the reason why they sent the order in my opinion. In some way, sha

REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD), HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: "I think [debt prioritization] is not a serious effort and I think the Democrats are going to be overwhelmingly, if not unanimously opposed to it. The Senate is not going to take it up. And Tony Fratto who was with the [President George W.] Bush economic team, says it is essentially a joke, it won't wor

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the President’s visit to Texas and the need for the administration to learn from their model for economic growth and job creation by reducing government spending and regulatory burden; the Leader also discuss the unaccountable Obamacare ra

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) holds a hearing on the Benghazi consulate attack with key State Department officials.

Chris Matthews talks with Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman about the two sides to the Democrats’ 2014 fight in the Senate against Republican opposition and gun safety advocates. (Hardball)

Frank Rich, writer-at-large for New York Magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow about the rash of anti-Obama conspiracy theories embraced by actual office-holding Republicans, as seen in the latest round of Benghazi hearings.  (msnbc.com)

Bill O'Reilly explains his view that the Benghazi incident was the result of gross incompetence on the part of the Obama Administration. 

The Special Report Panel discusses the Benghazi hearings.