MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell bid farewell to the political career of former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. Also, Ari Melber and Krystal Ball discussed the GOP outreach in Brooklyn. Read More

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the assault weapons ban will not pass Congress, in an interview with the Denver Post released on Monday. Pelosi focused on another attainable goal -- strengthening background checks. Read More

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will reveal his budget plan today for the third time in the last three years. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he stresses that the only way to balance he budget is by using Obama's tax increases and Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Read More

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell argues that Scott Brown made the conscious decision to end his political career on Monday by joining a Boston law firm as a lobbyist focusing "his practice on business and governmental affairs." Read More

Conservatives are angered that CIA director John Brennan used a version of the Constitution with George Washington's annotations instead of the tradition Bible during his swearing in ceremony. That draft of the Constitution did not include the bill of rights. Read More

The latest Republican to offer a fund the cancelled White House tours is Donald Trump--after Newt Gingrich suggested that he do so. Read More

President Obama has been schmoozing lawmakers across the aisle, but if these rank-and-file Republicans won't buck their leadership, there's little chance for progress. Read More

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy wants NASCAR to give gun lobbyists the red light, asking the car racing association to reconsider allowing the NRA to sponsor one of its races. Read More

On Friday's Very Last Word, Eliot Spitzer and Felix Salmon discussed the possibility of breaking up the big banks, and whether or not Elizabeth Warren's proactive stance is harbinger of better things to come. Read More

At the annual Gridiron Dinner, President Obama dished out some one-liners on the sequester and took a Marco Rubio-style water break. Read More

President Obama plans to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to keep negotiations alive. Meanwhile, Paul Ryan is still talking about repealing Obamacare. Read More

MSNBC's Howard Fineman reported that the actress planned to announce her Kentucky Senate run. Read More

A good stiff drink might help with the peace process. But one United Nations official requested that his colleagues refrain from boozing – at least until after meetings. Read More

Republicans get angry about canceled White House tours. MSNBC's Ezra Klein reveals why they should actually be angry over something much more critical. Read More

Alex Wagner and Chris Hayes discussed how Speaker Boehner has been getting bills through the house via "shame, smoke, and mirrors." Also, Maggie Haberman and Joy Reid talked about Hillary Clinton's potential primary challengers in 2016. Read More

Support for same-sex marriage has increased over the last few months, particularly among Catholic voters, according to a new national poll released Friday. Read More

Promising signs of economic growth from the Labor Department, in spite of drama created by lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Read More

In his latest Rewrite, Lawrence O'Donnell shared a highlight reel of the some most nonsensical things the senator mentioned during his verbal marathon. Read More

During a Senate Banking Committee hearing, the new Democrat on the block from Massachusetts questioned why banking institutions, such as HSBC, have been allowed to get off so easy with the Justice Department. Read More

Richard Wolffe and Krystal Ball discussed the dinner that President Obama had with Senate Republicans, and why the vice president wasn't invited. Jonathan Capehart talked about the problem CPAC has with uninviting electable Republicans. Read More