CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This is all empty rhetoric. This is the framing of issues for election day. They know they're not going to achieve anything, surely not in Congress. And the idea, as Steve said, there was a speech in 2011 that was called the "We Can't Wait" campaign, and here's what the president said: 'We can't wait for Congress to do its job.

MARK LEVIN: Let me be clear about this. Let me help some of these Republicans here and of course tomorrow's hosts, they may want to cherry-pick some of this. This president has created more poverty, more economic inequality, more economic dislocation, more crushing debt than any president in modern American history including Jimmy Carter and Herber

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) go head-to-head on inequality, the "war on women" and more on the Monday broadcast of CNN's "The Situation Room."

ED HENRY: On executive action, if the president wants to move quickly to create jobs why not take that pen today and approve the Keystone pipeline? JAY CARNEY: Ed, as you know, as has been the practice for many years now of administrations of both parties, the reviews involved in an international pipeline like this, a pipeline that crosses an i

QUESTION: Finally, can you comment, Republicans are meeting this week to sort of map out their strategy for the coming year, with regard to the debt limit, raising the debt limit. There’s reporting that they may seek to attach provisions to make changes to the affordable care act as part of the conditions for increasing the debt limit. You’ve b

RUTH MARCUS, WASHINGTON POST: I think it comes to something very interesting that ties together the Huckabee comments and the Rand Paul comments, which is there's only two ways -- there seem to me a t

HUGH HEWITT, HOST: Now in the film, Mitt, the conversation comes up, that sequence in the debate and Candy Crowley’s intervention in it. But the only negative word, Mrs. Romney at one point says Candy Crowley and sort of mutters under her breath. Did you feel she was unfair at that moment in the debate? MITT ROMNEY: Well, I don’t think it’

JOAN WALSH: I mean, the idea that it's not -- that the Paycheck Fairness Act does not set wages, it does not have the government set wages. I don't know if he is stupid or if he is deliberately misstating what it does. Maybe he really doesn't know what it would have done. Maybe he doesn't pay close enough attention to what it would have done, Rev.

"I'm afraid that the millennials, if you will, are less likely to sign up. I think they feel more independent, I think they feel a little more invulnerable than prior generations," Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) told WAMU. "But I don't think we're going to get enough young people signing up to make this bill work as it was intended to financially."

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Hillary Clinton today apparently says she regrets that four brave Americans lost their lives; that we lost the first ambassador in active duty since 1979. But at the same time, she doesn’t want to do anything to fix it... Talk is cheap. She needs to stand up and demand action.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus joins Chuck Todd to discuss his party’s winter meeting where members talked about making the party more inclusive and changed the primary calendar--a message that was overshadowed by former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s controversial comments.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke with Clay W. for Potter Gray Elementary School 4th Grade project. Paul talks about how often he is in Washington, his favorite hobbies, if he is going to run for president and more.

QUESTION: Is it fair to say the president would be focused on legislation and not executive action ff he didn't have divided government right now? JAY CARNEY: No. I think that would be a mistake. I think that the president would be focused on any both because any president who doesn't take advantage of the unique powers of the presidency to move

QUESTION: Any do-overs that you would -- relative to Secretary of State? HILLARY CLINTON: Oh, sure. I mean, you know, you make these choices based on imperfect information. And you make them to -- as we say, the best of your ability. But that doesn't mean that there's not going to be unforeseen consequences, unpredictable twists and turns.

Jay Leno and his "Tonight Show" successor Jimmy Fallon sit down with TODAY's Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview. "I really admire him as a comic," Leno says of Fallon.

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