On Morning Joe, NBC investigative reporter Lisa Myers, speaking of the damage the AP spying scandal has done to President Obama, says the effect of the scandal has been to turn "one [sic] of the President's most important constituencies, the press and the left, against him."
On Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show, former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs criticized President Obama's response to the IRS scandal as "exceedingly passive." Gibbs says that Obama's statement that he was "losing patience" is "what I do with my nine-year old."
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell calls the IRS and AP wiretapping scandals among "the most outrageous excesses I've seen" in all her years in journalism. When Ron Fournier suggests that huge troubles would arise for the Obama administration if it is discovered that anyone in the White House or the Obama campaign new about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, Carl Bernstein pipes up to say…
In a clip aired on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," President Obama is seen pronouncing the name of Syrian dictator Bashir Assad as "Bassar Ashad."
On Morning Joe, Carl Bernstein says "we know a lot about President Obama" and that as a result he would be "very surprised" and "can't imagine" that he would have ordered the IRS to go after conservative groups.
A Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC episode dedicated to solutions to ending poverty airs a clip of MSBNC host Chris Hayes holding a whiteboard with his solution: "Giving people money: It's actually that easy."
On MSNBC's Ed Show, discussing the IRS's targeting of conservative groups, Ed Schultz suggests the IRS has nothing to apologize for and guest Michael Eric Dyson says it's "much ado about nothing."
Morning Joe discusses the flap over a report on immigration produced by the Heritage Foundation. The panel's particular focus was a statement by report co-author Jason Richwine contained in his Harvard dissertation that "the average IQ of immigrants is substantially lower than that of native whites." Asked to comment, Al Hunt of Bloomberg asks "is that true of Asian immigrants? Is that true of…
On Morning Joe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma says that Dem Majority Leader Harry Reid "has been dishonest with me, not truthful, not kept his word." He also says that Reid has been a "failure" as Majority Leader.
On Morning Joe, Chuck Todd says it was "very rational" for the Obama administration not to have sent more than two special ops to the US facility in Benghazi.
