May 31, 2013 Archives

May 31, 2013 Archives

Fireworks: Lanny Davis vs. FNC's Peter Johnson Jr. On Obama's Benghazi "Deceit"

Clinton White House Counsel Lanny Davis and FOX News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. get in a heated argument over the Obama administration's "coverup" of Benghazi.

Baltimore Mayor: If We "Make It More Difficult" To Get Guns, We Can Stop Illegal Guns

BALTIMORE MAYOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE: "I think people get hung up with this notion there's a silver bullet, for lack of a better phrase, that there's this one thing that's going to stop every crime, but it's not. It is that combination, or the layering of these things that will make it more difficult for, you know, the one person that is, you k

Chris Matthews: Why Are You Wasting Time On Your "Duff" Talking About This Benghazi "Twaddle"?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. I was just over in Berlin with my wife. We took a vacation months ago. There in Berlin, which has been reunited since the '80s, there it is, beautiful civil engineering. Bridges like you can't believe. Gorgeous. It's very functional, it's like Frank Lloyd Wright. You can see exactly the function of the girders.



Axelrod: Leak Investigations Won't Threaten "Responsible News Organizations"

DAVID AXELROD: Let me just say last summer everybody was clamoring for when are they going to shut down the leakers? Now some of the same people are calling these leakers, whistle blowers and they're rallying to their defense. The fact is, there are some things that can't be public because they will jeopardize national security. The question is how

Obama: High College Costs Hold Back Middle Class

President Barack Obama is urging Congress to prevent an increase in student loan rates, saying rising college costs hold back the entire middle class and unfairly saddle young people with more debt just as they are starting out in their adult lives. (May 31)

Axelrod: Holder "Was Carrying Out His Responsibilities" By Probing James Rosen

MSNBC contributor and former Obama campaign and White House adviser David Axelrod said Attorney General Eric Holder was just "carrying out his responsibilities" as the nation's chief law enforcement officer when his Justice Department investigated FOX News' James Rosen. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Do you think Eric Holder should resign? DAVI



CBS News: IRS Scandal Has "Taken A Toll" On Obama's Approval Rating

NORAH O'DONNELL, CBS NEWS: "IRS employees from the Cincinnati office will soon be grilled by House investigators, they're going to be questioned about their involvement in targeting conservative groups. Two tax workers will be interviewed next week, two more the following week. The questioning will take place behind closed doors." CHARLIE ROSE,

Mark Levin Favors Decriminalization Of Marijuana

MARK LEVIN: Yeah, my attitude, I really don't want to do a hit-and-run on this -- I really don't want to discuss it, maybe another day -- is: I don’t think a high school student or a college student that has a joint should have a criminal record. I’m not in favor of legalizing it, but I am in favor of de-criminalizing it in certain instances an



Pentagon Papers' Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning A "Hero"

Daniel Ellsberg blew the whistle on the Vietnam War by releasing the "Pentagon Papers". He has now taken up the case of another whistleblower, Bradley Manning, who released troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks and now faces life in prison for it. "I have a considerable identification with whistle-blowers, but Bradley above all because it

Ann Romney: Americans Feel A "Breach Of Trust" With Government

In her first solo TV interview since the 2012 elections, Ann Romney talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about her thoughts on the presidential race and what she and Mitt Romney have been doing since then. Romney also addressed a 2012 Gallup report about a 20-point gender gap between President Obama and her husband. She told the "CBS This Mo

O'Reilly: Have We Found Smoking Gun In IRS Case?

Former IRS chief Shulman reportedly visited White House at least 157 times, without once discussing the IRS scandal with President Obama.



Maddow: Story Changes Again In FBI Killing Of Tsarnaev Associate

Michael Rezendes, investigative reporter for the Boston Globe, talks with Rachel Maddow about the complicated story of the death of Ibragim Todashev, friend of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers and suspect in a triple murder in Watham, Massachusetts, killed by the FBI under circumstances that seem to change every time the story is told.

Hayes: More Questions Arise Over McCain's Secret Syria Trip

Chris Hayes talks with MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal and Reason Magazine's Matt Welch about allegations that John McCain was pictured with a member of a rebel group responsible for the kidnapping of 11 Shiite pilgrims last year.


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