peggy noonan. katrina, let me begin with you. and what happened in the house this week. john boehner allowing a clean debt limit to go through. exactly what the president wanted. but probably shrewd for boehner too. clears the decks in a year where he thinks they can pick up a lot of seats in november. >> the failure of the shutdown concentrated the mind, and the hostage takers left the scene. we have seen manufactured crisis by a party which has eroded business confidence, hurt the economy, hurt families, and i think as 2014 approaches, the republican party decided they needed to pull up their bootstraps and get in place to pose any real challenge. with ted cruz, you have to -- he is an anti-establishment figure. but when we talk anti-establishment, that the tea party is a corporate-hugging, well-funded lobby. and you saw in ted cruz the possibility for our country moving forward, is that the delusional is no longer marginal when you look at cruz. for the moment he's marginalized. we need to refoc

let's read what peggy noonan said in the "wall street journal." whose side are we on?interventions -- i count myself as one of those -- have forgotten the power of the articulated encouragement that means saying what side you're on and why. and what principles you back. in this case, they should stand with the people in independence square in kiev just as much as their predecessors stood with the people of the warsaw pact. just because it doesn't seem there's much you can do, doesn't mean there isn't a lot you can say. and in the saying, show to the world that your country, for all its woes, for all its limits, for all of its distractions, still has a beating heart. senator rob portman, on "morning joe" yesterday, said, quote, i think we need to stand with the people who are supporting democracy and freedom. that, he said, is our tradition, our history. it is. we should stick with it. and not only for the world but for ourselves, to remember who we are. eugene robinson -- >> yeah. >> -- it's stunning, these pictures. >> yeah. >> as we've been saying. i was talking abou

david remnick, james carville, peggy noonan, and i were in the green room before we got to the set forhe live show. i made a joke that who knows how this story is going to end up. years from now, i said that edward snowden may end up on a postage stamp as an american hero. on air, i reprieved that conversation we had somewhat tongue-in-cheek in the green room and all hell broke loose on the internet. tavis smiley suggested edward snowden might be on a postage stamp one day. it kicked off a huge firestorm of conversation. i want to ask whether or not you think that 25, 50 years from now, we might be viewing edward snowden differently. >> i think that is entirely a possibility. i am not averse to saying he is serving the public interest in what he has done. there may be a price to pay. he may be looking -- he could be in violation of the law without question. that does not mean that his violation of the law does not serve the public interest under the circumstance and it may take the long view to get people beyond the vehement responses they are having at this moment. tavis: what does th

and then the next day i think i said -- i think peggy noonan wrote that speech. he called up peggy noonan at the white house and thanked already for the country. we had really good relationships with the reagan people. jim baker and kenny and mike devery, and we work deals on the side. a homeless guy was on a hunger strike because they were going to name a warship the corpus christi, he was very catholic and she said why are we calling a warship the body of christ? which seemed to be reasonable. i said to tip, calls mike dever. he was playing the piano at some party and you were singing so maybe cut a deal with him simple called dever up and he called me back, and i said this guy on his 56th day of a hinger describe. only eating bread or something because the doesn't want the ship to be called corpus christi, and dever said, seems like a stupid reason to kill yourself. but that monday, he went to reagan, went around cap weinberger, and changed the sub's name to city of corpus christi. and mitch started eating again. and mitch would organize incredible rallies aga

peggy noonan is writing in "wall street journal." of hillary clinton and here is what peggy writes. the blair papers remind us in the past quarterer century the office of the presidency is everyone's psychotherapy. there is an emphasis on the personality, nature, character and charisma of the president. he gets into dramas and he survives them and working out his issues and a venging childhood feelings of powerlessness. he will show dad, history becomes the therapist at the taxpayer winds up paying the therapist bill. this wouldn't be so bad. it would actually be entertaining if the presidency were not such a consequential role. gene robinson, what do you make of all of this that has come out of the diane blair papers? >> you know, it's an interesting point of view. i guess the question is is it the fault of the president's, really? are they drama queens, all of them, or, in effect, are we in the media perpetuating this sort of psychoanalysis of our president, overanalyzing what we imagined to be their inner lives and making stories

and then the next at think i said peggy noonan wrote that speech. i can tell. i thought it. i'm not sure but i know the next day he called up picking unit and congratulate her for the country. we had good relations with the reagan people, like jim baker and kenny duberstein and mike deaver and we would work deals on the side. there was a guy, a homeless guy was on a hunger strike because they're going to name a nuclear submarine a warship the corpus christi. he was very catholic, lefty catholic and he said why are we called it a warship the body of christ? which seem to be a reasonable thing. so i said to do, why don't you call mike deaver because i know you were over -- is playing the piano and you were saying and maybe you can cut a deal with it. so i called him up and he called me back and i said this guy is on the 66 they of a hungry stride. and he said he doesn't want to sugarcoat the corpus christi. deaver was definitely drinking in those days and he said it seems like a stupid reason to kill yourself. [laughter] but that monday it would to reagan, went around cap wein