After a six-week break, HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher returned to discuss how a faux pas by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry later became official U.S. policy on Syria. Maher also discusses Syria with his panel, Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, former RNC chairman Michael Steele and Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist. "Obama ha

PAT BUCHANAN: From the hysterical reaction in this city (Washington, D.C.) to Putin's op-ed piece, he put this one right down the smokestack. What he did is he keyed off what Obama said on exceptionalism and he countered it with an argument which people all over the world believe. They are sick of hearing Americans talk about 'we are the indispensa

JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, let's turn to something we have never discussed before, and that is the -- Capitol Hill and the failure to come to some kind of an agreement, David, on the budget. This week, the Republicans in the House tried -- the leadership tried to bring a vote to the floor. It was the conservatives in their own party that said no.

Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Guy Taylor discuss.

MORGAN: S.E., I love you work and I love your style. But when somebody like you with your intelligence looks at me down the camera and says, "Blind people having guns is not an issue," I think you've gone stark raving mad. CUPP: Well to be frank, gun owners and it's not your fault for not knowing this, most people who talk about gun control don'

GOP: In this week's address, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) discusses legislation passed by the House in a bipartisan vote to protect taxpayers by preventing fraud and abuse in ObamaCare. REP. DIANE BLACK: "Hi, I’m Diane Black, and I represent Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. What an honor

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA): "I didn't know who he was then. He was the Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. That's all we knew, but he did have a huge bodyguard, so that did sort of give one a little hint that maybe he's more important than just St. Petersburg. So we went out and we played touch football and Scooter Libby was one of the players. A bun

AFP: The United States and Russia on Saturday agreed on an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. In a landmark deal thrashed out in talks spanning three days, the two powers gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a week to hand over the details and location of his regime's stockpile.

Fight for Tomorrow, a pro-Ken Cuccinelli group, slams Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in this ad. "Tell these McAuliffe puppeteers, this is Virginia, and we won't let you Detroit us with taxes and debt," the narrator says. "You will not California Virginia with regulation

WHITE HOUSE: In his weekly address, President Obama followed up on his speech to the nation on Tuesday and said there is the possibility for a diplomatic solution in Syria, partially because of the credible threat of U.S. military force. PRESIDENT OBAMA: This week, when I addressed the nation on Syria, I said that – in part becaus