CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The president is continually amazing. Of all the issues on earth, you've got Syria ablaze, Jordan is reeling, Iran is going nuclear, Egypt is under the sway of the Brotherhood, you've got, you know, all of these crises in the world, and what is the least important issue on the planet? Nuclear arms reduction. There is zero chanc

CHRIS MATTHEWS: So here we have a president who is really talking back to the United States by talking to the kids of Europe -- the youth, well educated kids of Humboldt University, down the street there about Gitmo. Why do they care about Gitmore? Well, they do. EUGENE ROBINSON: They care a lot about Gitmo. They care about that as a symbol of -

Dennis Miller joins Bill O'Reilly for his weekly segment to discuss CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, Vladimir Putin taking Robert Kraft's Super Bowl and digging up Jimmy Hoffa.

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WIS.): Not now, but in the future we're going to have labor shortages. We have 10,000 people retiring each and everyday in America when the Baby Boomers retire. We are not like Europe, we're not like Japan in that our birthrates are really low, but they're not high enough. Immigration, in a decade or so, can help us. That means we

SEN. TED CRUZ: This Gang of Eight bill is a disaster. It is the exact same thing we saw in 1986. The last big immigration reform was in 1986, and the federal government told the American people, we're gonna grant amnesty for the three million people who are here illegally. And in exchange for that we're actually gonna secure the borders. We're

MARK LEVIN: Let me read you about this 1986 law because people seem to think--. It criminalized the act of knowingly hiring an illegal alien. It established financial and other penalties for employing illegal aliens. It created the I-9 form to ensure that all employees presented documentary proof of their legal eligibility. Illegal aliens were requ

"You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important," Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Georgia) said on the House floor on Tuesday. "This is what a father does th

REID: Regardless of how they got here or why they lack the proper documents, these 11 million people play a crucial role in our economy and a vital role in our communities. Mr. President, that was proven last night at 5:00 when the Congressional Budget Office –this non-partisan arm that we look to for what things cost and don’t cost here on Cap

HBO and his managers say James Gandolfini - best known for his role as Tony Soprano in TV series 'The Sopranos' - has died in Italy at age 51.

LARRY O’CONNOR, HOST: In 2016, Marco Rubio is going to be up for reelection— FMR. REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): Ah, I see where you’re going… O’CONNOR : There are a lot of disaffected Floridians, I hear them. He rode into town here as the hero of the Tea Party, and really wanted to get back to protecting that Constitution, and getting bac

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL): "So I don’t see how we owe loyalty to Mr. Zuckerberg, [the] Facebook billionaire who’s running ads telling us what we’re supposed to do… I suspect if Mr. Zuckerberg were to post job openings tonight on his Facebook, put out his salaries and what he wants to pay, he’d find there might be plenty of Americans who w

President Obama attempts to assure a skeptical German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the press that he has "struck the appropriate balance" between privacy and security in the NSA's surveillance of international internet traffic. "I came into office committed to protecting the American people, but also committed to our values and our ideals. And o

Cenk and Ben Mankiewicz, Jayar Jackson and Robin Sax discuss TYT contributor Michael Hastings' work reporting on the surveillance state.

SALAMISHA TILLET, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: Well, I think, the Census just released data, so part of it is the changing racial demographics in the United States. For the first time in American history, children born under the age of five are racial, the majority of them are racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. So I think that there's a kin

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the need for the President and Senate Democrats to explain the consequences of Obamacare to the American people instead of spending millions on a campaign-style P.R. blitz: “Last year, President Obama was asked about the lessons h

A whistleblower group called Project Veritas went undercover to expose federal waste. At the offices of a program called Lifeline, low income Americans can get free or deeply discounted cell phones.  Bill O’Reilly spoke to the president of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe on Tuesday. O'Keefe explained that private phone companies are given co

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday that the agency has deployed drones to conduct surveillance in the U.S., and that the bureau was developing guidelines for their future law enforcement use. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the unmanned aerial vehicles, whose use by law enforcement has raised quest

Steve Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, and Mara Liasson brainstorm potential 2016 contenders.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think a lot of the problem he had today was the late afternoon sun in Berlin, I think ruined his use of the teleprompters, and so his usual dramatic windup was ruined. I think he was really struggling with the text there. I think the headline is going to be balance on surveillance and privacy. I think no matter what he said about

Who is more trustworthy, Edward Snowden or Barack Obama? If it turns out the federal government actually is listening in to Americans' phone calls without a warrant, the president could be impeached. 

After Darrell Issa, R-Calif., only released select pieces of documentation from IRS committee interviews, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., took matters into his own hands by releasing over 200 pages of transcripts. Chris Matthews discusses the details with the Maryland Congressman.

Chris Hayes looks at General Keith Alexander's historically long reign over the NSA with James Bamford and explains why he may be the most powerful man in Washington that you have yet to hear of.