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Bob Woodward's reporting on the Watergate scandal lead, in part, to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Woodward and Bernstein agree: IRS scandal isn’t Watergate…yet

Legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward says the IRS profiling scandal isn't the next Watergate—but Benghazi might be. Read More

The Internal Revenue Service building at the end of the day in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. 
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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

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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

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

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

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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

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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

(FILES)Associate Editor of the Washington Post Bob Woodward speaks at the Newseum during an event. AFP PHOTO/Jim Watson / FILESJIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

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

The screen on the phone console at the reception desk at The Associated Press Washington bureau, Monday, My 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

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

The Benghazification of Hillary Clinton has begun.
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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

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talks on CBS's "Face The Nation" in Washington. (Photo by Chris Usher / AP)

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

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill January 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers questioned Clinton about the security failures during the September 11 attacks against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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

Committee ranking member U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) speaks during a hearing before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee March 20, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on "Hurricane Sandy: Getting the Recovery Right and the Value of Mitigation." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks past damaged homes along the Atlantic Ocean Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in Mantoloking, N.J., as they tour some of the region devastated by Monday's storm surge by superstorm Sandy. (Photo by Mel Evans/AP Photo/Pool)

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

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in flames, September 11, 2012  (Photo by Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters/Files)

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

File Photo: U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) last year.  (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images, File)

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

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks to a large gathering in Manasquan, N.J., Thursday, March 21, 2013, during a town hall meeting. Christie answered questions about recovery and building standards from a crowd, estimated by fire officials at nearly 1,000 in the Superstorm Sandy-damaged Shore town. (Photo by Mel Evans/AP Photo)

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

File Photo: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pauses during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images, File)

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

A bra with a built in concealed fireram holster made by Flashbang Holsters is displayed during the 2013 NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center on May 4, 2013 in Houston, Texas.  More than 70,000 people are expected to attend the NRA's 3-day annual meeting that features nearly 550 exhibitors, gun trade show and a political rally. The Show runs from May 3-5.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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

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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