Prominent Republicans have signed a brief supporting the Supreme Court challenge to California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. (Nightly News)
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President Obama's Wednesday meeting is the second on Capitol Hill to discuss his second-term priorities. NBC's Brian Williams reports (Nightly News)
President Obama is ramping up his outreach to Congress with four meetings on Capitol Hill this week, including lunch today with Republican leaders just a day after Paul Ryan released the Republican budget. NBC's Kristen Welker reports. (TODAY)
CNBC's John Harwood joins Lester Holt with more on the sequester. (Nightly News)
Top Talkers: Senate Republicans delayed a vote on defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel when they didn't give him the 60 votes needed. The Morning Joe panel – including the Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell and fmr. Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., -- discusses the ongoing battle to get Hagel confirmed. (Morning Joe)
The way we elect the president is being challenged in key states by Republicans who want to award electoral votes by congressional district instead of a winner-take-all to the candidate who carries the state. Had this process been in place during the 2012 election, Mitt Romney would have won. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. (Nightly News)
A court of appeals has struck down Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray's appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and if today's ruling stands, it will eliminate a power that presidents of both parties have used for over a century. NBC's Pete Williams reports. (Nightly News)
The President has repeatedly blamed Republicans for the fiscal cliff stalemate -- and he doubled down on that criticism during an exclusive interview with David Gregory. NBC's Kristen Welker has more. (Nightly News)
House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Thursday he has done his part, giving in on higher taxes for the wealthiest Americans, but claimed Senate Democrats have not made enough concessions. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. (Nightly News)
President Obama said he's willing to compromise, but it remains to be seen whether or not he will reject House Speaker John Boehner's back-up plan which would prevent tax hikes on those making less than $1 million. NBC's Chuck Todd reports. (Nightly News)