CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: There are three theres and they are extremely important issues and the administration is hugely on the defensive and hasn't really answered and it's the same three we've always had. Why were the requests for security denied including the desperate ones of the Ambassador who ultimately was killed? Second, what happened on the ni

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's clear that that the press has turned. I'm not sure how permanent it will be but this is surely different than what we've seen over the four years being acolytes and cheerleaders and really supine. And the reason I think, a, is the accumulate of scandals all at once and the remarkable coincidence that the president was spea

BRIAN WILLIAMS: "As a lot of American adults not so fondly remember, the last time the government was found looking into the phone calls of reporters and using the IRS for political purposes, it was the Nixon era, and while times have changed and circumstances are different that subject came up at the Obama White House today as the administration n

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now, let me tell you what he's doing, folks. He is essentially begging any Republican to denounce me. He is fixated on me. He simply cannot get me off his mind. I live rent free in his head. And he is using me as his convenient excuse for not being able to get anything done. He really thinks the Republicans would work with

JESSICA YELLIN, CNN: Jay, you say check our history, rabid commentary. But you have to understand and hear how it sounds like the administration might be hiding something. So can we take these one at the time. On the IRS on friday, they gave one version of the story that's changed several times since then. So can you say plainly, does the presi

REPORTER: President Obama is being compared to President Nixon. How does he feel about that? JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE: Again, I don't have a reaction from President Obama. I can tell you people who make those kind of comparisons need to check their history. Because, you know, what we have here with one issue, in Benghazi, is so clearly, as we're

RON FOURNIER, NATIONAL JOURNAL: "This White House, like the Bush White House in the second term, like the Clinton White House, especially in the second term, does have that arrogance. It had it in the first term and really seems to have it in spades right now, and it's chickens are coming home to roost. They have to realize that they're not above t

Leading a press conference with House Republicans against the immigration reform proposal tendered by the bipartisan "gang of eight," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said the idea to open a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants is worse that the president's health care law.

Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters during a news conference Tuesday that he ordered an investigation on the IRS' extra scrutiny on tea party groups. Holder also said he had no involvement in the leak probe in which the Department of Justice seized phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. Holder also said the DOJ charged

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the need for cooperation and transparency from the Obama administration as Congress investigates the IRS scandal. MCCONNELL: “Over the past few days we’ve heard many in the media talk about how this has been a ‘rough week’ f

JAY CARNEY: We have not seen the report. We have not independently collected information about what transpired. We need the independent inspector general’s report to be released before we can make judgments. You know, one person’s view of what actions were taken or what that individual did is not enough for us to say something concretely happen

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans are being dishonest about their concern about the Benghazi terrorist attacks, saying their outrage was "about smear politics and nothing else."

JULIAN BOND: “I think it’s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party. I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who’ve tried as best they can to harm President Obama in every way they can. I don’t think there are correct parallels between these incidents. It was wrong for the IRS to behave i

BRIT HUME: There are basically two methods for dealing with the kinds of public relations crises that now beset the Obama administration. The president seems to by trying them both. One is take-charge mode, in which a leader acknowledges that wrong has been done, says it's unacceptable, pledges to get to the bottom of it, make it public and set

Daily Show: The IRS shifts the burden of proof from the tinfoil behatted to the government by targeting the Tea Party and other conservative groups.

KIRSTEN POWERS: What I don't understand about what the president is doing is, to a certain extent, you could argue that he wasn't really involved in a lot of this stuff. But he is so centrally involving himself with these repeated lies. And, I’m just going to call them lies because they’re lies. They’re on tape. Nobody thought that he called

President Obama says he "will not tolerate" any inappropriate political targeting by the IRS.  But MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains that the IRS has been inappropriately interpreting the law governing 501(c)(4) organizations for more than fifty years.  The Washington Post's Ezra Klein joins.

O'Reilly reflects on the IRS scandal and Benghazi.

Daniel Henninger, Steve Hayes and Kirsten Powers discuss the guilty verdict in the Gosnell trial.