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Watch: ‘I’m concerned about the culture of the IRS,’ says Rep. Buchanan

House Ways and Means Committee member, GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan of Florida, discusses his concerns with the IRS' scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Read More

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Must-Read Op-Eds for Friday, May 17

Peggy Noonan on why what's happening in Washington is no "ordinary scandal," and Michael Hirsh's "Five Myths About Benghazi" in Friday's must-read opinion pages. Read More

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

President Barack Obama gestures during the joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak/AP Photo)

Morning Headlines: Friday, May 17

The Morning Joe headlines for Friday, May 17. Read More

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Washington’s top women lobbyists trail male counterparts by $600K

Women may be moving up the corporate ladder, but new data from Bloomberg shows that the glass ceiling of compensation is hard to break - even at the country's top trade groups. Read More

Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte,R-Va., wants to know more about the unwarranted targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records at The Associated Press.  (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

VIDEO: Holder scolds Issa for ‘shameful’ comment

Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at Republican Congressman Darrell Issa during a heated hearing on the Hill. Read More

Aerial view of the boat where one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was found in Watertown, Mass. (Photo by David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Boston bombing suspect left note in the boat

The surviving Boston bombing suspect wrote a note inside the hull of the boat in which he hid, describing the bombings as retaliation for the actions of the United States against Muslims. 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

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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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An excerpt from Dan Brown’s “Inferno”

An excerpt from Dan Brown's new novel "Inferno" Read More

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An excerpt from Jimmy Connors’ “The Outsider”

An excerpt from Jimmy Connors' "The Outsider" Read More

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s inappropriate targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday afternoon.  (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Morning Headlines: Wednesday, May 15

The Morning Joe headlines for Wednesday, May 15, 2013 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

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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

Must-Read Op-Eds for Tuesday, May 14

Dana Milbank on the president's "second term blues," Jonathan Tobin on Obama doubling down on 'Benghazi denial" and Angelina Jolie on her "medical choice." Read More

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An excerpt from Olympia Snowe’s “Fighting for Common Ground”

An excerpt from Olympia Snowe's "Fighting for Common Ground" 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

Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of AP, on Morning Joe, May 14, 2013.

Watch: Associated Press editor finds Justice Dept. subpoena ‘distressing’

Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll discusses with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski the Justice Department's use of a secret subpoena to obtain reporters' phone records. Read More

President Barack Obama responds to a question during a news conference with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron in the East Room at the White House May 13, 2013. (Photo by: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Morning Headlines: Tuesday, May 14

The Morning Joe headlines for Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Read More