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MSNBC's Ronan Farrow aired a report from Kenya on Wednesday, pointing out that even though President Obama was suffering some of his lowest approval ratings ever in America, he was still very popular in his father's homeland. "We've heard about President Obama's poll numbers here in the United States, including those pretty dim assessments of his handling of the rest of the world," Farrow began. "But out in the wide world, there is one place he can always call home — if they have anything to do with it."

Fallon also pointed out that Obama took a "selfie" photo with Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. "I heard that photo set the record for the least re-tweeted photo of all time," Fallon joked, as the crowd laughed and applauded.

"You see, Ronald Reagan was not part of the establishment," talk radio host Mark Levin reminded them. "He was an outsider, and like you and so many others throughout history, he had the courage to stand up and be counted." Levin reminded the audience that Reagan and his supporters were once disparaged by the media and the "ruling class." To illustrate his point, he read assessments of Reagan from the media and his fellow Republicans in the late 1970s. He cited a 1974 column from George Will suggesting that Reagan was too old to run for president and that Reagan...

During a speech to Organizing for Action supporters, President Obama paused as he sneezed into the microphone during his speech. "I've been working so hard I might be getting a cold," Obama said. "I actually think I'm OK." "I gotta 'Get Covered,'" he added, referring to his signature health care law, which prompted applause and cheers from his supporters. Obama praised his supporters for promoting Obamacare. "The work you’re doing is God’s work," he said. "It is hard work."

1. When he asked Herman Cain how he could support the Tea Party when it was racist "How do you deal with that element in the Tea Party that is overtly racist?" via Newsbusters 2. When he celebrated the Fourth of July by lamenting that King George III didn't prevail in the Revolutionary War "To Life, Liberty & Happiness - and deep, abiding regret that George III couldn't keep his s**t together." via Breitbart News 3. When he called Bill O'Reilly a d--- via Politico 4. When he defended New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban “I think people...

On the "Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, First Lady Michelle Obama explained that it was more important than ever for young people older than 26 to sign up for health insurance. "A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads," she laughed, pointing out that they often cut themselves while cooking or injure themselves by dancing on bar stools. Obama added that thanks to Obamacare, coverage for young people was much cheaper. "Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes," she...

President Obama boarded Air Force One this morning together with the 949-page, $956 billion farm bill, which he plans to sign at the Michigan State University on Friday. The president was accompanied by White House press secretary Jay Carney, Senior Advisors Dan Pfeiffer and Valerie Jarrett.

Vice President Joe Biden told NBC's Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday that he believed that he would make a good president. "In my heart, I'm confident that I could make a good president," Biden said. "It's a very different decision to decide whether or not to run for president." Biden indicated that he had not made a decision to run for president or not but would focus on his job as President Obama's vice president.

"It's hard to believe it was 10 years ago tonight. On this day a decade ago — January 19, 2004 — I gave one of the most famous speeches in the history of American politics. Or perhaps 'infamous' would be more accurate," Dean wrote in an email with "YEEEAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!" as its subject line. "I'm guessing you might remember the climactic moment of that night, as I enthusiastically rallied my presidential campaign supporters in the aftermath of a disappointing finish in the Iowa Caucus."

Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein revealed Wednesday that he plans to make an anti-gun movie targeting the National Rifle Association. It's no secret, however, that the multi-millionaire Democratic donor has profited heavily from movies featuring guns and violence. Here are some of the biggest movies featuring guns produced by Harvey Weinstein:

"Many of you used a term that I’d like to see outlawed from the vernacular of the party: RINO," he said, calling it a "pejorative term" that questioned one's purity. Huckabee pointed out that he got a tweet from someone who complained that he was a RINO, which upset him. "With all due respect, I’ve fought in the trenches of Republican politics for over two decades, but I wouldn’t pretend that I’m lord over determining who the real Republicans are versus the so-called RINOs," he said.

During his show Thursday evening, Hayes complained of the "strange bizarre underworld of climate trolls" that came to life when Matt Drudge ironically linked an article on the Drudge Report about cold weather. "Of course, no one ever said that climate change meant it wouldn't ever be cold," Hayes said defensively, calling the annual tradition "willful stupidity" of conservatives "who delight being on the wrong side of history."

"This is history and the future and progress," she stated emphatically, "It stands right there as Social Security, Medicare, affordable health care, as a right, not a privilege for the few, but a right for the many." She was speaking Tuesday at an event sponsored by BuzzFeed. Pelosi acknowledged she was "really disappointed" that the technology behind the website failed, but said she was excited to see the program fully implemented. "You can imagine coming from Northern California what I think of that," she said, referring to Silicon Valley. "But none the less, it will work and the policy is...

"As we go into this holiday season, we have to remember the conversations that we've got around the dinner table, when we're talking to co-workers at a Christmas party, when we're out there in our communities, our churches, our synagogues, all our places of worship, now is the time to remind people that look, we've got to make sure that everybody takes advantage of the opportunity to get affordable care for the first time," Obama said.

"They're coming after your doughnuts!" the Kentucky Republican said, referring to the Food and Drug Administration decision to ban trans fats. Paul added that if the FDA was banning trans fats, the employees of the agency should be forced to get healthy themselves. "I say we should line every one of them up. I want to see how skinny or how fat the FDA agents are that are making the rules on this," Paul said.

"We could name for you a whole bunch of Republicans who are good and decent people who are as frustrated as we are in some ways about what's happened to their party," he said. "But right now at least, there's a group that — and a few of them are from Texas, I've got to admit who just aren't willing to do the hard work and the compromise necessary to move the country forward," he said. Obama pointedly mentioned "at least one senator from Texas" in criticizing the harsh tactics used by Republicans to block his signature health care program.

"The fact of the matter is, the president went out and said, I think he said what he believed to be the fact and what was substantially was the fact, because 90, whatever, 95, 96, 97 percent of Americans are in the position where they can keep the insurance they have and they're going to see no changes," Axelrod explained to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Monday night. Axelrod dismissed people currently losing their health plans as a "small group" of people who bought "substandard policies" in the individual market.

When asked if they have used the website that's been plagued with problems since its Oct. 1 launch, both officials said they created accounts for themselves. But both also said they have not subjected themselves to the same process that regular Americans have endured while shopping for health insurance on the website. "I have created an account on the site," Sebelius said, when questioned by CNN's Sanjay Gupta on Tuesday. "I have not tried signing up because I have insurance."

"If you can have a faux filibuster to end a faux debate … why not read Dr. Seuss?" Scarborough said. Scarborough scoffed at Cruz's vow to speak against Obamacare "until he could no longer stand." "This dramatic statement actually was sort of a faux line," Scarborough added, accusing Cruz of making a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., beforehand. "He will talk until Harry Reid tells him he's not allowed to talk anymore," Cruz said. "This dramatic statement was actually was sort of a faux line in the sand."

I was looking at all these newfangled pieces of equipment here --- some of the things that allowed the efficiencies of this plant originated in laboratories and scientists doing work on the government’s dime," he said. "That's how we always maintain our cutting edge." So what is behind the greatness of the American economy? Obama carefully gives credit to the private sector, but he argues that government is essential to this process.