joining us now, e.j. dionne, e.j., it's good to see you again, thanks for being here. >> good to be with you. >> you are more experienced with washington, i have to move my flag pole, hold on. more experienced with washington and by constitution i think you are a sunnier person than i am, e.j. do you see a way out of this mess i do not see? >> i am a glass one-tenth full person. oh, things can be okay. i have rarely been this depressed, i think, and i've been here awhile about the way washington is working. this is a totally politician-induced crisis. we didn't have enough crises, so we had to induce one out of cloth, the problem is, you cannot see how to get 218 votes in the house of representatives for anything because of this rejectionist caucus you mentioned, otherwise known as the tea party caucus, and both speaker boehnor and the majority leader, eric cantor, are kind of playing to them. they don't want to sort of annoy them. at some point, i think they are going to have to say we will not let the c

e.j., nice to see you, thank you for joining us.upert murdoch's political influence affect the importance of this as a big business scandal? >> well, first of all, i think one of the reasons we are talking about this tonight is because of his political influence. you saw it there in that rudy giuliani comment. this person could make or break politicians. he's done it for years on three continents, australia, great britain, and the united states. he was very active in new york city politics, and, you know, up to now, being rupert murdoch it's a particular problem for prime minister cameron, his close aide, andy coulson turned out to have been involved in the phone hacking scandal of "news of the world," so i think it influences why we're talking about him, and it's a good reason to talk about him. >> i think seeing this across the pond dramatically today with the publisher of the wall street journal getting ousted and was a close tie in this, it was his patch on which things went so horriblebly wrong. he's been running the wall stree

e.j. edwards who was a correspondent for the philadelphia press. a great time for the newspapers. i forget how many daily papers new york had. everything was very competitive. e.j. edwards heard the story in the rumors and found out one of the names of the source was a dentist to administer the amnesty share. he played patrick within the fair grounds of journalism two lead on that he knew more about the story the and he did in said i understand a cancerous tumor was removed on the benedictine got and he figured somebody on the boat was 10 told you so he spilled the beans and edwards confirmed the operation and august 29th he published a story in the philadelphia press under the headline "the president is a sick man" but nobody believed him. that is because cleveland had developed a reputation for honesty and integrity in the spokespersons said this was a lie. they said he merely had a bad tooth extracted which was technically true if you did not mention the other t's in the jawbone. the pu

now, joining us now from washington is e.j. dionne, columnist for "the washington post" and senior fellow at the brookings institution, and, of course, a fellow academic, a professor at georgetown. good to see you tonight. >> good to be with you. >> thanks. i was watching last night. from what i saw, this looked like -- out of this from your perspective at this point. >> maybe define intervention is the most realistic solution to this problem. i mean, what you've got here, i think there's so many interesting analogies to the 1850s, to pick up on your civil war analogy, when we were divided. now, thank god we're not talking about secession and slavery, but what you have here is a large determined minority inside the republican caucus that just don't want to make a deal. they are saying things that are way outside the mainstream view, really doesn't matter if we don't raise the debt ceiling, we can get through default, it won't be a big deal. now, john boehner doesn't believe that, mitch mcconnell doesn't believe that, but boehno

e.j., 1.5 trillion. if that's the number, will the president go along with that? if he does, does he look weak? >> i think all along the sort of underlying assumption of these conversations was that if there were no revenue increases, tax increases there wouldn't be any serious cuts to the health programs meaning medicare or medicaid. can you get to a number like 1.5 trillion without any cuts in those programs? i'd like to see what the actual numbers are. i don't think there's going to be any social security in this plan. i think if the administration agrees to anything like this, they're going to do it in part because they want control over when these cuts happen, and i think their objective is to push them out forward so you don't have terrible cuts while we're still in the middle of this terrible unemployment in the country. i think that's part of the negotiations. >> we're in a jobs crisis. no question about it. if we're in a job crisis and he offers up trillions of dollars in cuts to people on fixed incomes, joan walsh, how does the president survive that cli

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e.j. edwards, and he was a new york correspondent for the philadelphia press. a great time for newspapers, the 1890's. i forget how many newspapers that they had come 20th 30. philadelphia's. and everything was very competitive. e.j. edwards heard this story, this wriggling around, and he found out the name of one of the doctors, the source of this rumor was actually the dentist to have administered the anesthesia. he went to the dentist and played a little track within the fair grounds of journalism at the time. maybe even today. he let on that edwards knew more about the story that he did. he went and said, i understand that the operation was performed on the president and get a cancerous tumor removed and it was performed on benedick shot. the dentists said, well, somebody on the boat must oppose on that and went on to spill the beans and give more information to edwards to confirmed the operation and and a couple of doctors. on august 29 to about 2 months after the operation edwards pu

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. >> e.j. edwards was a reporter for the "philadelphia press." he had a friend who was a doctor in new york is and heard the rumors and edwards tracked the story town downand confirmed it and about two months after the operation edwards published the report in the philadelphia press. the headline was, "the president a very sick man." it was really an amazingly detailed account of operation performed on the yacht. it's probably the most explicit account of a presidential operation, presidential medical procedure published without the president's permission ever. it was an amazing scoop, really one of the great scoops of the 19th century. problem was, cleveland had a reputation for honesty and this went back to his first campaign in 1884. it came out he allegedly fathered an illegitimate child and teleyaved his friend in buffalo and said, "tell the truth." this gave him a reputation for honesty. when the report came out, cleveland dismissed it. his aides said he suffered nothing worse than a tooth ache. they not only denied the story but the policy