CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The president in that speech was back to hyper-partisan mode, slashing attack on Republicans. At one point he is speaking of the Republicans, he said, 'and some of them are decent.' Quite a r

ED HENRY: You mentioned at the top about the shooting and the president offered his thoughts and prayers and he pushed back his statement to allow the D.C. mayor and the police chief to talk about what they said was an active manhunt. There may be other shooters, they weren't sure. They didn't have all the facts, etc. Why then did the president

PRESIDENT OBAMA: So let’s put this in perspective. The Affordable Care Act has been the law for three-and-a-half years now. It passed both houses of Congress. The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. It was an issue in last year’s election, and the candidate who called for repeal lost. Republicans in the House have tried to repeal or sabo

BRIT HUME: Bret, I think a lot more people saw the criticism of Republicans just now on your program than saw it live. Three cable networks, straight news cable networks as opposed to business networks had all dumped out. He was talking to C-SPAN and people online and so not that many people heard it, which I think is probably good for him. Thi

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Although ultimately our success will depend on all the innovation and hard work of our private sector, all the grit and resilience of the American people, government is going to have a critical role in making sure we have an education system that prepares our children and our workers for a global economy. The budget Congress

Dr. Janis Orlowski, the Chief Medical Officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, spoke of the need for greater debate surrounding gun control during a press conference on the conditions of three victims of the Navy Yard shooting.

REPORTER: Very quickly — and I think Ed alluded to this, but I just want to be clear — was there any consideration by the White House, given that there was an active manhunt, like, four miles away, to cancel today’s economic remarks? MR. CARNEY: No. (via

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Congressman Amash, let me bring this to you. The president talking about these looming showdowns over the potential government shutdown this week. We hit the debt limit on October 18, I believe. And you saw the president; he pushed back a few times. He certainly seems to be saying he is not going to negotiate at all over t

PRESIDENT OBAMA: After all that we've been through these past five years, after all the work Americans like those standing behind me have done to come back from the depths of a crisis, are some of these folks really so beholden to one extreme wing of their party that they're willing to tank the entire economy just because they can't get their way o

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: How about beyond the deficit? You were, you know, reelected a little more than a year ago, 332 electoral votes. 51% of the vote. First president since Eisenhower to do it twice. You put gun control at the top of the agenda, immigration reform, climate change. All of it stalled or reversing. How do you answer the argument

CBS This Morning reports on the new House Oversight Committee report which says the Clinton State Department's Benghazi Panel has numerous conflicts and failed to hold senior department leadership responsible. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee claim the Benghazi probe didn't go far enough. Sharyl Attkisson reports on what some

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Okay, but you do all these things and still, 95% of the gains go to the top 1%. Do you look at that, four and a half years in, and say, “Maybe a president just can’t stop this accelerating inequality?” PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: No, I think– I think the president can stop it. I– the problem is that– there– con

"Forty times. That's how often a group of Republicans have voted against Obamacare just to prove their allegiance to their party's right wing," the ad from Organizing For Action, President Obama's advocacy group says. "Okay, they've said their piece. But now they've gone even further, threatening to shut down the government if ObamaCare isn't d

RCP's Caitlin Huey-Burns discusses the fight brewing in Congress over the budget, the debt ceiling, and Obamacare with CBS's Steve Chaggaris.

BRIT HUME: No, I know. But look, I said this is -- government shutdown as a way of forcing policy when you control one House of the legislature is a loser. Now, people like Ted Cruz who Senator Ted Cruz who is one of the main leaders on this issue and certainly one of its principal spokesmen believes that the political conditions are different now