LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: Senator McCain is absolutely right on this specific issue, there is no question about it. Our president is not only naive, he appears willfully naive. And on some profound psychological level, he seems to be really afraid of Vladimir Putin because he has let Putin run all over us on Iran, Syria, Snowden, the dreadfully one-s

CHARLES KRUATHAMMER: He's never been interested in lowering the deficit. I think that was clear. We had a lot of discussions over the five years where some people on the panel kept saying, 'Oh, he really wants to get the bargain.' But Kirsten is right, it contradicts the reason he ran for president. It's to change a lot of things in society, to giv

"I did cross the line. I do apologize, not necessarily to the president, but on behalf of much better men than myself, like the best governor in America, Gov. Rick Perry, the best attorney general in America," Ted Nugent said on the show of Ben Ferguson, a conservative radio host. "On behalf of those professional politicians and those who put th

"I think I surprised [some students] by saying that I really like both the candidates very much and I thought we would be well served however the election comes out," Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the editorial board of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in 2008. He went on to say that he was voting for John McCain in the election, but when

MICHELLE OBAMA: Well, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young people can stay on their parents' insurance until they’re 26. But once they hit 26, they're on their own. And a lot of young people think they’re invincible. But the truth is, young people are knuckleheads. You know? They're the ones who are cooking for the first time and slice thei

SPENCER DAILY REPORTER (IOWA): I know that you, in the past, have been kind of a thorn in the side of the left, now you're starting to get some members of your own party that are upset with what they term the "harsh rhetoric" of the strong right. How do you address the critics in your own party? REP. STEVE KING (R-IOWA): The first thing would be

PIERS MORGAN: Two final points, Senator, about the 2016 presidential race. Michele Bachmann in a new interview said she thinks many Americans aren't ready for female president. She said directly, "I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt. People don't hold that guilt for a woman." What do you make of th

David Corn and Michael Steele join Hardball to discuss why some on the far right are trying to dig up all of the old Clinton conspiracies of the ‘90s, and whether or not those actions are attempts to undermine a possible Hillary Clinton campaign.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: This is not just good policy; it also happens to be good politics, because the truth of the matter is the overwhelming majority of Americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. That is true for independents; that is true for Democrats; and it's true for Republicans.

Richard Engel, NBC News foreign correspondent, reports on the violent protests in Kiev, Ukraine and Rachel Maddow notes some hope for a possible political solution.

Bret Baier hosts Charles Krauthammer, Nina Easton and Charles Lane discuss the FCC's unsettling study proposal about the content of the news.

O'Reilly argues that the president has undermined his own foreign policy authority by talking down America's power.