CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: To quote the president, I'm not stupid enough to not react when I hear the president of the United States say, as we just heard him say, I was not informed directly that the website would -- now what in God's sake does that mean, indirectly? The historian Bea Kristol was once asked if she read a certain book and she said, 'yes,

HUGH HEWITT, HOST: So I ran through all of these candidates -- Christie, Kasich, Walker, Jindal, Cruz, Rubio, Thune, Rubio, Ryan, Paul, and you mentioned Mitch Daniels. I have probably missed someone. Can any of them beat Hillary? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Every single one can beat Hillary. Hillary is a paper tiger. Hillary was inevitable in '08 and

CARNEY: The president made clear throughout the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act and throughout the period in which -- that continues to this day -- in which Republicans have sought to repeal it that the vast majority of the American people those who have insurance through their employers, who have insurance through Medicare or Medicaid, will

Bill Maher says there really is no great rift in the Republican Party between the establishment wing and the tea party. "Forty-one percent of Republicans say the tea party has too little influence, thirty-two percent said just the right amount. So that's 73% of Republicans who are just fine with the tea party. I think the people who are upset a

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The challenge has been just making sure that consumers are actually able to get on a website, see those choices, and shop. And I think that we probably underestimated the complexities of building out a website that needed to work the way it should. There is a larger problem that I probably -- speak personally, but also as the a

RICK SANTELLI: You know, there are a lot of reports out that the census group that's involved in phone surveys, which are part of the household survey, which determines the unemployment rate, well, some of those may have been fake. Now, of course, this is the beginning, and I’m sure investigations will ensue, but it really does raise a very large

MICHELLE OBAMA: I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician when I was really little and then I wasn't that great at math and science so I switched to law because my mother told me that I like to argue a lot. But I realized in high school and in college that you don't have to exactly know, you're kind of always discovering yourself. So I studied law, I

A prosecutor says George Zimmerman's girlfriend claims he choked her about a week ago but she didn't report it to police at the time. The allegation came during a court appearance on domestic violence-related charges. (Nov. 19)

RCP executive editor Tom Bevan discusses reports that the Obama administration ignored warnings that there were going to be problems with the launch of Obamacare.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: And after years of trillion-dollar deficits, we reined in spending, wound down two wars, and began to change a tax code that I believe was too skewed towards the wealthiest among us at the expense of the middle class. And since I took office, we have now cut our deficits by more than half. Add it all up, and businesses like you

Sam Stein and Joan Walsh join Chris Matthews to talk about some of the governors Democrats are going to target in upcoming races.

"Jessica Sanford was cited by the president as an Obamacare success story at a health care event he had here at the White House in the Rose Garden on October 21," says a reporter for CNN from the White House. "That of course being just last month. The 48-year-old single mom from Washington state purchased what she considered to be affordable health

BILL O'REILLY: It is irresponsible of Oprah Winfrey, a woman of influence in this country, to say what she said to the BBC. The record shows that Mr. Obama is simply a president who is being criticized for some of his policies. And as the man himself would say: period.

Newsmax: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has come out in defense of hot-headed actor Alec Baldwin, who was suspended from his MSNBC talk show for using a gay slur against a photographer. "In defense of Alec Baldwin, … [the] photographer, he's not actually gay. This was just a curse word. It was like using the f-word and, frankly, a lot of

Rachel Maddow and her magic duck explore the disappointing intersection of family brawls in reality tv and American politics.