"It should never have been allowed. She should have been told by her attorney that the law is clear, that once you open up an area of inquiry for interrogation, you have to respond." "Now she may have made a political decision that it's worth it to take the risk . . . That's just not the way the law works. It may be the way politics works . . .

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Look, I give the president credit for moral seriousness. But there is a flaw at the center of it which has to do with the strategic idea that he has. He central idea here is that it explains why he wants to restrict the drone war, he explains why he wants to shut Guantanamo, he explains why he wants to change and ultimately rep

"In this country, for last 5 years, nobody has made a joke about the President of the United States. Nobody. They make jokes around Obama, but they won't make jokes about him," veteran comedian Colin Quinn said on HuffPost Live on Wednesday. "The joke will be like, 'Hey, you hear about Obama? Joe Biden's an ass! Hahaha,'" Quinn said. "Sure,

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): "The senior Senator from Arizona has impugned the Republicans by claiming repeatedly that it is only a minority of Republicans who are opposed to raising the debt ceiling on just 50 votes…It has [also] been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty, fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and

"She either got very bad legal advice... or she was more concerned with her image," Judge Napolitano said about Lois Lerner testifying then pleading the Fifth when Congressmembers wanted to question her at a hearing. "If witnesses were permitted to pick and choose which questions to answer, then they would control the forum rather than the quest

"The hypocrisy bothers me because obviously if it was a Republican administration going after Planned Parenthood she would eat her own fish tail," Adam Carolla said about Bette Midler praising the IRS for targeting conservatives.

TED CRUZ: Let me be clear: I don't trust the Republicans. And I don't trust the Democrats. And I think a whole lot of Americans likewise don't trust the Republicans and the Democrats, because it is leadership in both parties that has gotten us in this mess.

JEREMY SCAHILL: I thought it was interesting that the president said that he would have detained and prosecuted Anwar al-Awlaki. If that's the case, why did he never seek an indictment against Awlaki? I mean, al-Awlaki may have been guilty of all sorts of heinous activities but no public evidence was ever presented against him, just pronounceme

DR. BEN CARSON: "It's clear the government is too large ... nobody knows what's going on... and you're going to take all these people who don't know what's going on and put them in charge of the largest expansion of government in history? It's hard to imagine what's going to happen, but it's probably not going to be good."

Life News reports: Dr. Anthony Levatino is a pro-life physician from New Mexico but, before having a change of heart on the issue of abortion he was an OBGYN who also performed abortions. Levatino did as many as 1,200 abortions — some of them after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Then, after his daughter died in a tragic automobile accident, he re-eval

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The Justice Department’s investigation of national security leaks offers a recent example of the challenges involved in striking the right balance between our security and our open society. As Commander-in Chief, I believe we must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field. To do so, we must

RON FOURNIER: I'm really not as interested in what the president knew two weeks ago. I'm more interested in whether or not the president or anybody working on his behalf in the White House or at the campaign had knowledge of or directed the targeting during the campaign, months ago. I'm not going to assume and we shouldn't assume that the answer's

CHRIS HAYES: "I thought that was such an important point. He says at one point, we cannot allow any group of thugs that calls itself al Qaeda to bait us into an endless war. The point is, the Tsarnaev brothers, who the vice president called knockoff jihadis, these two suspects, I mean, hard to say suspects when you see them killing someone on camer

"Perhaps the senator from Utah doesn't know about that -- the fact that even if they did raise the debt limit, it could not become law because it doesn't go to the president of the United States," John McCain (R-AZ) said on the Senate Floor today. "So again, maybe the senator from Utah ought to learn a little bit more about how business has been do

In this exclusive, unedited interview, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly discusses his new book, being easy on President Obama, shares his criteria for assessing Muslim extremism, and offers Daily Show programming advice. (06:29)

REPORTER: Since the IRS happened on President Obama's watch, how much of a hit -- or do you think at all Democrats will take a hit on the IRS in the 2014 midterms? REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), MINORITY LEADER: Well, you said it happened under his watch. It happened under the appointment of the head of the IRS, who was appointed by President Bush. H

Conan O'Brien: The next time you feel the socialist eyes of the IRS boring into the back of your skull, relax, you’ve got ConservoTax.

President Obama is heckled by Code Pink protestor Medea Benjamin about Guantanamo Bay during his speech on terrorism at the National Defense University on Thursday. OBAMA: There is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that never should have been opened. HECKLER: Excuse me, President

JOHN BOEHNER: It's pretty inconceivable to me that the president wouldn't know. I'm just putting myself in his shoes. I deal with my senior staff every day. And if the White House had known about this, which now it appears they've known about it for about a year, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't have come up in some conversation.

MICHELLE MALKIN: British progressives "brought it on themselves in some ways because of lax deportation policies and an unwillingness to screen out and profile Islamic militants who are now doing this in a homegrown manner."

Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, and Charles Krauthammer react to the revelation that the DOJ had targeted several Fox News reporters and producers.

Bill O'Reilly reviews some of the most outragous and interesting moments from Wednesday's hearings on the IRS scandal. 

Instead of getting ahead of the IRS situation, the Obama administration has taken a bumbling approach in explaining what they knew and when they knew it. The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman and Republican Strategist Steve Schmidt join MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to go over the timeline as well as the administration’s duck and cover approach. (Har

Jeh Johnson, former Pentagon general counsel, talks with Rachel Maddow about the complicated legal issues raised by U.S. drone killings, what a change in the approach to counterterrorism means for the use of drones, and necessary adjustments to the military justice system to deal with the rash of military sexual scandals. (msnbc.com)