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Watch: What to expect from IRS hearings
From the high ground to the rushed condemnations, expect tough questions to take center stage in the House Ways and Means Committee hearing. Read More
RNC jumps on Obama’s bad week in fundraising video
A new RNC video paints President Obama as a hypocrite who has failed to bring transparency to Washington. Read More
Bush’s Attorney General: You can investigate leaks without subpoenaing reporters
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he investigated a very serious government leak while serving under Bush, but chose not to subpoena the involved reporters. Read More
Mitch McConnell to voters: Please ‘like’ me
The 71-year-old senator is investing in a bold social strategy in hopes he can Tweet, Tumblr, and Harlem Shake his way to reelection. Read More
Journalists react to AP phone record seizure
"If we'd only elected a constitutional law professor to the presidency, none of this would be happening," tweeted one reporter following the news that the Department of Justice had seized two months of Associated Press phone records. Read More
Carl Bernstein: Seizing phone records is designed to ‘intimidate’
The journalist whose reporting uncovered the Watergate scandal said the president's administration is trying to intimidate officials from talking to the press. Read More
Justice Department seizes journalists’ records
The Associated Press is slamming the Department of Justice after the agency revealed it secretly obtained the phone records of journalists at the wire service’s news-gathering operations. “None of us have ever seen anything like this,” said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll Read More
Benghazi investigator: We went after decision-makers, not Clinton
“The purpose of the Accountability Review Board is to go below those who take responsibility...to where decisions were made," the ambassador who headed up the State Department's internal review board said. Read More
Watch: Gingrich slams IRS profiling as ‘almost madness’
“This is an administration that won’t profile terrorists, but profiled patriots? But profiled constitutional groups?” the former House speaker asked incredulously. Fellow guest and journalist Carl Bernstein pushed back: This isn't Watergate. Read More
Gun vote spurs political ad storm in New Hampshire
Sen. Kelly Ayotte's 'no' vote on expanded background checks has turned New Hampshire into a battleground state three years before the senator is up for reelection. Read More
The Benghazi attack ad Romney nixed and the one Rove aired
In 2012, the RNC cut a scathing ad attacking Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi attack, but Romney nixed it. Now Karl Rove's super PAC American Crossroads is out with a similar ad. Read More
GOP senator slams ‘failure’ Harry Reid for ‘disaster’ Senate
“The Senate is being used for the 2014 election and that’s the primary goal, that’s why it’s a disaster,” Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said. Read More
Watch: Gov. Christie spoofs his trademark blue fleece in whodunit video
It seems that Republican Gov. Chris Christie's sky-high approval ratings and celeb friendships are nothing without the power of his well-worn blue fleece. Read More
Watch: Lindsey Graham slams administration for Benghazi ‘spin’
The South Carolina Republican continues to insist that the Obama administration covered up the attack for political reasons. Read More
House background check bill won’t advance soon, say sponsors
"When it comes to guns, there are Republicans who see any sort of movement at all toward any type of regulation, however minimal, as a severe infringement on the Second Amendment,” Rep. Peter King said of his GOP colleagues. Read More
Chris Christie reveals secret weight-loss surgery
Two weeks after a former White House doctor suggested that Christie's weight was a "ticking time bomb" that could kill him in office, the Republican governor from New Jersey underwent lap-band surgery. Read More
Watch: Man I’m tired, Mark Sanford on election day
Admitting that his "deficiencies as a candidate and as a human" are well-chronicled, a worn out Mark Sanford joined the Morning Joe panel on the morning of the South Carolina special election, which he hopes will allow him to return to politics. Read More
Watch: NRA offers women bra holsters, new rhetoric
At this past weekend's NRA convention, NBC News' Kasie Hunt reports, the NRA was working hard to court women. Read More
Watch: Governor Rambo? Rick Perry styled as action hero in NRA video
Texas Gov. Rick Perry introduced himself at the National Rifle Association convention this past weekend with a slickly produced video that shows the Republican lawmaker deftly wielding a semi-automatic rifle and shooting down a half dozen human-shaped targets. Read More
