CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The testimony from [Steven] Miller comes under the category of 'how stupid do you think we are?' Here's a guy who said that the IRS openly discriminated against groups on the basis of their politics, but the action was not a political action. It was instead an attempt at efficiency. You've got to be a knave or a fool to say tha

REP. MIKE KELLY (R-PA): This has nothing to do with political parties. This has to do with highly targeted groups. This reconfirms everything the American public believes. This is a huge blow to the faith and trust that the American people have in their government. Is there any limit to the scope where you folks can go? Is there anything at all? I

LAURA INGRAHAM: Brit, we had a lot of Republicans running to the microphone yesterday and quite a number of them were using the i-word, i.e. impeachment of Barack Obama. What's your take on the reaction so far among some of our more conservative Congressman and Senators? BRIT HUME: I think it's stupid for them to say stuff like that. These cases

MARK STEYN: "The idea that all 50 states are going to be content to slide off the cliff in a kind of haze and a drone of sort of soporific princess fluffy-bunny socialism is completely false. I mean, there will be — you’re going to have serious secession movements if some of this stuff isn’t turned around, not just in Texas." (via

"It was an interesting day. Let me say upfront, I'm really enjoying the media equivalent of the Arab Spring. It's a very exciting time to see the press corps interested in its job all the sudden," Jonah Goldberg of National Review said on FOX News' Special Report tonight.

Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller says that he did not mislead Congress about IRS targeting of conservative groups.

STEVEN MILLER, IRS COMMISSIONER: I think, are you talking about the letters? REP. PRICE: Saying that there is a parellel here in the exansive nature of what the IRS has done, would you care to recharacterize the unneccesary word? Is it illegal what they have done? MILLER: It is absolutely not illegal. PRICE: It's not illegal what the IRS

Texas Congressman Kevin Brady, a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee goes on the offensive for answers from the IRS which has been targeting conservatives for intense scrutiny.

LISA MEYERS, NBC: [The IRS commissioner] has known for at least a year that this was going on and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted.

PIERS MORGAN: Final question, Jay Carney. Obviously the president made a big deal when he came into office of being not like previous administrations and was going to be much more transparent. The charge today after this week is that you have had that reputation for transparency pretty heavily dented. Do you accept that and just on a general pictur

WOODWARD: You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that's just political and the president recently said it's a sideshow. But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, "Oh, let's not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let's n

I learned the substance of this report last friday, but it became a matter of public knowledge in mid-march. I'd had a conversation -- just a getting-to-know-you conversation -- with the inspector general, right after he started. He went over a number of items that were matters they were working on, the topic of the project on the 501(c)3 issue

A line of questioning between Rep. Dave Reichert and outgoing acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller. --- REP. REICHERT: Mr. Miller. You are the commissioner. Who was responsible? STEVEN MILLER, IRS: I don't have that name, sir. I'd tell you the name that I-- REICHERT: Well why don't you? Have you asked anybody? MILLER: Yes, I asked

JAY CARNEY: I very strongly believe, as does the president, in the need for the press to be able to pursue investigative journalism freely. I strongly believe, as does the president, in the First Amendment, and the Freedom of Speech, and the Freedom of the Press. These are core values of our democracy. I also believe, as does the president, tha

White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri appears on CNN to talk to Erin Burnett about scandals plaguing the White House. test PALMIERI: So the inspector general process that reviews -- that does conduct these investigations within the government and particularly in agencies like IRS, that was created so that an investiga

'Special Report' panel weighs in on the president's response to this scandal.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Bob Woodward, this is the first time you've been back since all of these -- we're not exactly sure, do you call them scandals? Do you call them elapses? We're not exactly sure what you call them, but what do you make of what's happened over the past week and a half? MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Starting with the IRS, what's the impact? B

The CBO released a report this week that revealed deficits are shrinking at a historic pace. Chris Hayes talks about the CBO's report with Ezra Klein. (Other)

Rachel Maddow reports on a second IRS scandal in which the agency shared with journalists at ProPublica the non-profit application data of organizations not yet approved - a serious breach, even if accidental. (msnbc.com)