. >>> joining me right now is e.j. dionne. e.j., turning back to the possible sanders-trump debate, if that does happen, and certainly the rnc and sean says would be great, what do you think that it hurts? does it hurt bernie sanders potentially and give hillary more support or hurt her because she would look less presidential? >> i think you got your answer when you asked sean spicer of the rnc what do you think of this debate, should they go forward, and he said, oh, sure. i mean a lot of democrats are very upset with bernie sanders about this because they see him as going in with donald trump to diminish hillary clinton. so that's the conventional view. it helps trump, it helps sanders, it hurts clinton. but i think there are risks on the other side of this. one is donald trump keeps going forward and says i'm going to do this, i'm going to do this. if he drops out now, then i think he is -- sanders certainly but also clinton will go at him and say is this a sign of weakness, is she chi-- he chickening out. but on sanders si

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e.j. dionne is next in conversation about his newest book, "why the right went with wrong," with cnn breaking news editor david marks. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you all so much for braving the elements and coming out to gaithersburg today. it's great to have all of you here, and welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. i'm lissa muscatine, i'm the co-owner of politics & prose bookstore with my husband, brad graham, who's right here in the red coat. and we and our wonderful staff -- [applause] thank you, guys, thank you. we and our staff are delighted to be the festival's official bookseller for the fifth year in a row, and we really want to commend and thank the city of gaithersburg, the mayor, all the festival sponsors, volunteers. of they have done an incredible job that you probably aren't even aware of behind the scenes to get ready for this weather and make this festival a go even with all the rain. they've done a terrific job, and we're ve

e.j. dionne of "the washington post." and abc news contributor and columnist for "the washington examiner" kristen soltis anderson. there's a new poll out this morning that shows donald trump about 15 points ahead. does cruz have a shot at stopping trump? >> no. bottom line. he doesn't. senator cruz ought to take his own advice which he gave to john kasich a month ago. that says when you're mathematically eliminated, it's time to get out of the race. even if ted cruz was to surprise and take indiana, he can't win the nomination. the numbers aren't there. you can feel it in watching ted cruz and watching his folks that they understand it. they understand it's slipped away. maybe it's time to fold his tent. >> e.j., you wrote this week that trump is still not inevitable. still think that? >> i still think that because of the opposition among so many republicans and the deep split in the party. i was struck this weekend, george will, on the one hand, writes a column saying let's elect hillary, hold the senate, we can win it

you will hear from authors e.j. dionne, annette gordon-reed, juan williams anymore. but first up christian green talks about her book, something must be done about prince edward county. booktv on c-span2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations] .. ..

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e.j. dionne wrote a powerful piece saying don't mainstream this, what donald trump is doing.ou heard mack earlier saying this is beyond unacceptable and it's something that shouldn't be tolerated. how should we think about this as journalists covering this, is this just a horse race and whether trump is doing well or do we have some responsibility to round this out and talk about it in what may appear to be more idealogical terms? >> well, i think that what we have done so far, media is so fractured, what we have tried to do at the "washington post" is try to assess what it is he's saying and present the things he's saying which are untrue and which are incendiary as being untrue and incendiary. it's tricky. it is hard to say to a large group of people that i mean, he's gotten ten million votes. there are ten million people that agree with him and it is very tricky to have a conversation with them in which you make value judgments about what it is that they're doing. so what it is that we do is try and say this is not true. he's repeatedly said these things that are not true.