President Obama claimed that there is no domestic spying program on an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. However, Representative Justin Amash (R-Michigan) rejects this claim and called the president's remarks "highly misleadin

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this. I’ve been offering a prediction of late. Let me nail it down tonight. I believe the Republican party is going to go hard-right in 2016. It’s going to someone from the growing hard-right wing of the party, something it hasn’t done since 1980. Here’s the thinking, which works equally

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Evacuation is not an evacuation, it is an ordered departure. I would have thought ordered departure is what happens at [Reagan] National Airport every couple of hours when a plane takes off on time. A coup in Egypt isn't a coup, it’s a change of government. The war in Afghanistan isn’t really a war, it’s an overseas conti

Could the Benghazi attack have been prevented? And why didn't the U.S. military respond in time. John King reports.

JAY LENO: Now, were you surprised that Russia granted Snowden asylum? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I was disappointed because even though we don’t have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally we have tried to respect if there’s a law-breaker or an alleged law-breaker in their country, we evaluate it and we try to work with them. They did

Tonight Show host Jay Leno discusses the evolution of political comedy and interviewing politicians from both sides of the aisle with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.

President Barack Obama on the NSA, Edward Snowden and privacy, Vladimir Putin, attending the G20 summit, the middle class and fixing infrastructure, his bromance with John McCain, lunch with Hillary Clinton, Obamacare, Trayvon Martin, his love for broccoli.

BRZEZINSKI: I understand the argument completely, except that the Republicans have their own network that has a president that goes and asks people to run for the party. And until Reince Priebus is demanding that Fox do some really great pieces on Democrats and documentaries, I’m not sure it is completely a perfect argument. SCARBOROUGH: What

PRESIDENT OBAMA: This intelligence gathering that we do is a critical component of counterterrorism. And obviously with Mr. Snowden and the disclosures of classified information, it's raising a lot of questions for people. But what I said as soon as it happened, I continue to believe in, which is a lot of these programs were put in place before I c

Matt Bevin's campaign for Senate released this ad Wednesday which accuses "Mudslinging Mitch" McConnell of "misleading attacks." The ad will air statewide in Kentucky.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: By the way, those who talk about the tight relationship between MSNBC and Barack Obama, for example, count the number of times he's been on this network. Zero. Michael Steele, thank you– MICHAEL STEELE: That still doesn't say anything about what they've said. MATTHEWS: Well, he agrees with us and we agree with him sometimes.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got testy in an interview with NPR guest host and CNBC contributor John Harwood after he brought up his former associate Jack Hunter. Hunter, a former aide who co-wrote a book with Rand Paul, wrote and made several controversial racial statements. Hunter is also known as the "Southern Avenger." "Why don’t we talk about Ra

Laura Ingraham (filling in for Bill O'Reilly) gives her take on the sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founded Jeff Bezos.

ERIN BURNETT: You know, and let me just start, obviously, this is CNN. So, you know, you're on CNN. I work for CNN. Here at CNN, the program that we're talking about come from the CNN Films division. Not the news arm that I'm an employee of, and obviously at NBC, I know it's a similar idea. What's your specific problem with the films? REINCE

Steve Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, and A.B. Stoddard.

President Obama thanks troops and their families for their extraordinary service to our nation. August 7, 2013. The full transcript is available here.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is aiming to take control of the Republican nominating process by saying the committee won’t participate with debates on NBC or CNN if they follow through with programs on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Salon.com’s Joan Walsh discuss with Hardball’s Chris Matthews.

Ezra Klein talks with Michael Moynihan, Jay Rosen, and John Cassidy about the path of journalism, considering how much it's changed following the introduction of digital media.