bellantoni: a picture is worth a thousand words. that old adage how drawings have for centuries from the situation about government and leaders is the subject of a new book the art of controversy. political cartoons and their enduring powers by journalist victor. he's the former editor and publisher of the nation magazine and now teaches at columbia university graduate school of journalism. thanks so much for being here. very interesting book. let's dive right in with a broad look. what role do you think political car toongz play in our society. >> it's very difficult to say because you could argue that curb blocks images of richard nixon is what stays with us to this day or david levine's picture of lyndon johnson showing vietnam. he's going to be with us in the history books in perpetuity. so they have a lot to do with it but they seem despite the fact that our critics don't take many of them don't take them seriously, they seem to enrage people. the leading palestinian cartoonist was murdered on the streets of london, thrown into

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we're here with christina bellantoni, nick acocella, perry bacon and co-host of msnbc's "the cycle,"as 39 years ago on thursday night that americans turned on their televisions and watched this. >> to continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the president and the congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> that's what a real scandal can do to a ppt. watergate started small with a little noticed burg ri in june of 1972 and then grew and grew and grew until it finally toppled richard nixon this week in 1974. in the decades since, it has provided the single most overused and flat-out abused point of reference whenever a hint of possible scandal comes anywhere near an administration. think of a few months ago when there were reports that the irs might have targeted conservative groups. peggy noon noon wrote, quote, we are in the midst of the wo

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christine bellantoni, political editor at pbs "newshour." richard crowley, and ed hussein, senior fellow for middle east studies at the council on foreign relations. thanks to all of you for joining. colonel, how do you respond to the various -- the sort of menu that was laid out for us by richard? >> i think richard got it all. i think there's not going to be something in the middle. he's either going to hunker down, absorb the attack, and carry on, because i don't think, necessarily, a couple days worth of bombing with the cruise missiles are going to do very much, necessarily, to the -- to assad's fortunes in the war. or in the alternative, it will escalate into something far nastier and it will last a much longer period of time. i don't think it's going to be anything in the middle. i think he's absolutely right. >> ed, let me ask you, one piece of this that i started with that clearly became the major development with great britain this week is the sense that whatever the u.s. is going to do here, we are likely going to do it alone, whe