MARK LEVIN: "Yes, we're going to cover the ins and outs of this -- we're going to come into the weeds, but folks, it's time to kill the IRS. That's the bottom line. This agency has been corrupt since its founding. And the bigger the government gets, the more corrupt it gets, the more ubiquitous it gets. And I don't just mean political partisanship

DENNIS MILLER: "Did you see Holder today? He's shakier than a jackhammer operator playing Jenga on lunch break. And what about Jay Carney over there? He's got a worse bluff than Marty Feldman holding pocket aces. That cat blows more smoke than a Rastafarian's death rattle. A couple more weeks like this, Obama is going to be claiming he's Kenyan. Cl

CHRIS MATTHEWS: I tell you, Reverend, one piece of this thing that we always have to keep in mind as we deal with effective government, those of us who believe in effective, positive government have to be the ones who make it work. The right-wing loves when it screws up because it makes their case. The liberals, the progressives, the reasonable peo

BRET BAIER: Guest asks, 'do you think FOX or any other news outlets could have been tapped or looked into?' Yes, I do. In fact, the Attorney General told NPR yesterday that he can't remember how many he's approved, in that he has turned down some but he can't remember how many he's approved. That suggests that there are numerous. So, yes, I do t

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That was a holding operation. That was the absolute minimum he could have done. He relieves one person, he obviously had to. He had to relieve at least one person. He chose, of course, the acting commissioner but I would have expected more. The other actions he announced are up to now meaningless. Obama and this administrat

REP. EMANUEL CLEAVER (D-MISSOURI): "I'm not sure that it is helpful for him to say I found out about it on TV, the TV news. But to go after this issue because he hasn't done anything wrong. These people are obsessed with the president. He has taken control of their soul. And their obsession is prolonging our recession. And so he has to be able to g

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the resignation of the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following a controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative political groups. The White House scheduled the meeting a day after the release of an inspector general report that showed the IRS allowed agents to improperly target t

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): "So in the span of four days, [there were] three major revelations about the use of government power to intimidate those who are doing things that the government doesn’t like. These are the tactics of the third world. These are the tactics of places that don’t have the freedoms and the independence that we have here in

CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson: "I've received a lot of encouragement from the top executives who I consider Jeff Fager, who is our CEO and David Rhodes who is our president who have certainly never said anything to try and interfere with the coverage. They’ve complimented a lot of my work and strongly supported it. On the other hand, every story

REP. SPENCER BACHUS (R-AL): Let me ask you this, on what date did you recuse yourself? ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: I'm not sure, I think it was towards the beginning of the matter. I don't know exactly when but it was towards the beginning of the matter.

REP. CHARLES RANGEL (R-NY): "I don't think anyone truly believes that the president has given a sufficient answer for America, much less our press. I think this is just the beginning and the whole idea of comparing this with Nixon, I really think it just doesn’t make much sense. But the president has to come forward and share why he did not alert

REP. DARRELL ISSA (R-CA) Mr. Attorney General, our investigators have seen 34 of the 35 admitted e-mails that violate the Federal Records Act. They have only seen the to and from. They have not seen the deliberative contents and they have not seen the remainder of the 1,200 e-mails. Mr. Cummings, my ranking member, joined in a letter requesting tha

"There are laws in place to prevent this type of abuse," House Speaker John Boehner said at a press conference on Wednesday. "Someone made a conscious decision to harass and to hold up these requests for tax-exempt status. I think we need to know who they are, whether they violated the law. Clearly someone violated the law." "My question isn't a

DAN RATHER: There is no proof that anybody at the White House, never mind the president himself isn't involved in this in the slightest. So there's a great deal of difference. However, there needs to be -- I now think there will be -- a long investigation into this case. And there are those who believe, you know, somebody at the White House must've

ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: "There's been a lot of criticism. The head of the RNC asked for my resignation. I was not the person involved in that decision. But be that as it may, I was recused in that matter as I described in a press conference held yesterday the decision issued the subpoena was made by the people involved in the case."

SCARBOROUGH: He's saying to those at the University of Chicago's school of politics, to students, to others, when they're talking about looking at the IRS scandal and what an administration should or should not do. AXELROD: Look, it's an interesting case study because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in t

REP. SENSENBRENNER: I'm trying to find out who authorized the subpoena. You can't tell me if Deputy Attorney General Cole authorized the subpoena. Somebody had to authorize the subpoena because the code of federal regulations is pretty specific that this is supposed to go as close to the top as possible. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: No, what

MSNBC: Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod and the National Memo's Joe Conason join Morning Joe to discuss the latest details in the DOJ's use of a secret subpoena to obtain two months of the Associated Press' phone records.

WOLF BLITZER: Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah is joining us right now. Among things, he's suggested that perhaps, perhaps President Obama's handling of the Benghazi terror attack could be, could be an impeachable offense. Congressman, tell us what you mean by that. REP. JASON CHAFFETZ (R-UT): Well, thanks, Wolf. Good to be with

SEN. PAUL: You really do have to look at spending, what I've promoted is that you look everywhere, all across the board -- everybody has to be looked at. That includes corporate welfare. Big businesses that are getting special benefits. There is a wide gamut of hings to looks at. I think sometimes Republicans want t blame it all on the welfare quee

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Sometimes the best advisers are not sycophants, they don't depend on you for emotional response. They're willing to say: I'm only here for six months, to help you, I'm a pro. But sometimes, a professional or elected president says: I got elected, not you. I'm the boss. You know, it's hard to get the boss to come down from his ladder

Nevada Senator Harry Reid spoke on the Senate floor today regarding the 37th attempt by House Republicans to repeal Obamacare. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: SEN. HARRY REID: Albert Einstein defined insanity as, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If that’s true, the Hous

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) discussed the IRS scandal on FOX News' "America's Newsroom." "The time has come, we need to look at potentially having a special prosecutor in this case," he said. "You have the Attorney General himself who should be ultimately responsible for this investigation. He said he’s had to recuse himself and did so a long

Will Obama be able to recover from the latest news that the Justice Department had secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press? Presidential historian Doug Brinkley and the Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson discuss. (Hardball)

David Schulz, a media attorney for more than 30 years now representing the Associated Press, talks with Rachel Maddow about the regulations put in place to help preserve the government's ability to keep secrets and the people's ability to oversee their government and why he believes the Department of Justice violated those regulations in seizing AP

The next steps in the Benghazi scandal: Democrats blame budget cuts, Republicans are "obsessed."

O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg discuss the president's response to the recent scandals.