On Chris Hayes's MSNBC show, Ali Gharib, the editor of the Daily Beast's "Open Zion" blog, says the questioning of Chuck Hagel at his Senate confirmation hearing was "a Republican purge" and a "Maoist public shaming." Michael Hastings of the Rolling Stone differed, saying it reminded him more of "Stalin."
On Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show, Cristina Jimenez, leader of United We Dream, an organization that advocates for illegal immigrant youth, declared "we are undocumented and unafraid, because this is what we learned in school."
The Morning Joe panel rips the Republicans for their questioning of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel at his Senate hearing. Expressing particular contempt for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Joe Scarborough announces he won't even mention him by name.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, after playing a clip of Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum testifying in favor of assault rifles, said she looked "like a jackass."
On Morning Joe, Jon Meacham says people should ignore Senator Marco Rubio's remarks to Rush Limbaugh implying he would not support comprehensive immigration reform unless certain language is included, presumably on border security, etc. That's just Rubio taking care of the conservative base and saving face. Joe Scarborough concurs.
On Morning Joe, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner decries "climate-change deniers." Among other homes, Rattner owns a 15,000 SF mansion on Martha's Vineyard, to which he flies in a large private jet that he pilots.
On Morning Joe, Politico executive editor Jim VandeHei says that the amnesty plan known as the "pathway to citizenship" is probably "the right thing to do," but that it would be easy to "demagogue."
On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell claims that during an interview with New Republic editors, President Obama said only that his guests at Camp David shot skeet, not himself. But New Republic editor Chris Hughes, one of the interviewers, tells Mitchell that in response to the "point-blank" question as to whether he had ever fired a gun, Obama's answer was "yeah, we go skeet shooting all the time…
On her MNSBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry says the U.S. military is "despised by many progressives"
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says "I'll be damned. If we find out that the Pentagon is lowering standards for politically-correct reasons, then you know what? Then the blood of dead Americans in future battles will be on their hands."
