kathleen parker cruz is controversial in question. on balance, on the media how do you picture? >> there is a way of presenting facts the he forced the shutdown of the government which is not good for republicans. the republicans in congress resent him for that and when he saw, though that ted cruz is not just controversial but he is a wacko bird as his colleague senator john mccain said, there is a way to plenty the facts and it is clear on the left he is out of his mind, crazy but he is crazy like a fox if i may say that. to the extent that he is expecting to the republican base, he is saying exactly what they went to hear and they are proud to have someone would said it so well. >> does cruz overstate when he said the media characterizing him as stupid or evil and here it is as a lunatic. >> i wrote a book on post reagan conservatives in the 1990s because my colleagues in the media underestimated the strength of the right, evangelicals and the anti-tax movement and they underestimated nature only their ability to change the republican party but to win elections. the peril tha

we have jonathan martin kathleen parker. amy walter, manu raju. back to secretary clinton. what about this situation. the defense here for her from her spokespeople is she didn't just follow the letter, she followed the spirit of the law. >> we are finding, it feels like the obama administration is saying either they weren't informed of this or maybe they just put blinders on. >> this isn't about the e-mails. honestly, your piece set this up as well. hillary clinton's time at the state department was her opportunity to show she was above politics, she was a different candidate from 2007, she could be a change agent, she could be a happy candidate in 2016 with foreign policy experience, that nobody else had. and instead whether we're talking about e-mails, or whether we're talking about foundation gifts from foreign companies or corporations, it feeds into this narrative that she isn't a change agent. more of the same. and that's the bigger problem going forward. if you're a republican admaker and can't make a good attack ad on this, you should be sued for malpractice. >> in

wall street journal," former democratic congresswoman, jane harman, washington post column nis kathleen parker and charles lane also from the"the washington post"." we got these questions from facebook from karen who writes what was the turning point for america where israel became the enemy of the democrats? what happened to respecting leaders that support america? jason, how do you answer karen? when did things turn so ugly between president obama and prime minister netanyahu? i think this has been building for some time. netanyahu is worried about the very existence of his country and that is what is driving this decision to come here and address congress. and foreign dignitaries have done this before. this is not unprecedented in any way and we have to remember like the questioner said, the enemy is iran, not israel. and i think those people who are making a show of boycotting this speech are giving comfort to the enemy in a sense. >> congresswoman, harman you're a big-time supporter of israel do you have any problem with boehner inviting and netanyahu accepting this speech? >> let me say

kathleen parker, cruz is a controversial guy no question about it. on balance are the media painting an unfair picture of him? >> there is a way of presenting facts with an unfair attitude. yes did he force the shutdown of the government which is not a good thing for republicans. and so republicans in congress do resent him for that. they think that was a grandstand. but when you say ted cruz is the not just verse sham butcontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his mind crazy.ontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his mind crazy.ontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his mind crazy. but he's crazy like a fox if i may say that and to the extent that he's speaking to the republican bay he's saying exactly what they want to hear and yet they're proud to have someone who says it 10 wellso well. >> does he overstate things? >> here is the thing. i wrote a book on post writinge reagan conservative because my colleagues underestimated the str

let's bring in the panel, joe scarborough, neera tanden, kathleen parker, sam stein. kathleen, you wrote about this, this week, monster in the sky. i feel like we're having -- we're about to have the same conversation we had when we talked about the shooting in aurora or shooting in -- we're talking about mental health issues and maybe that's the conversation we should be having. >> i'm always happy to talk about mental health issues and we don't talk about it enough across the board. however, i'm not convinced that we know that this is absolutely a mental health circumstance. i mean the fact he might have had antidepressants in his daily regimen doesn't necessarily mean he's not capable of doing his job or that he was somehow fail in the air. there is no evidence that he's had some psychotic event thus far. i don't know how we would discover it, but the fact he had a rumbled up doctor's excuse not to work that day doesn't to me confirm this is strictly a mental health problem. >> fair enough. but i have to say joe you start finding out, we don't really check -- we do

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the genius panel, eugene robinson, kathleen parker. and connie schultz. as i mentioned, all three are pulitzer prize winners. is this a typical fight, bibi gets re-elected on the 17th of march, that's it. big casino. he's won. he's won his argument. he's won the argument having come here. he's won his argument about the fault lines in this iranian peace deal. >> well, first of all i don't think we know he's going to win it all. in fact, this could really backfire on him. what i think we're watching right now are two men, the prime minister of israel, and the speaker of the house who let their political ambitions trump the best interests of their countries. this should not be happening right now. i don't think there's any guarantee that the prime minister is going to win having done this. and i think -- >> what could obama have done to avoid this tussle? he didn't know about it. it was scheduled without him. >> that's exactly right. everything's changed. the lowest voter turnout since 1944 in the midterm elections. it looks like the republican leadership f