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We can present the option for a two-state solution, but it is not the key to middle-east peace and stability. we are confronting a region that is filled with root canal operations or migraine headaches. it's an angry, broken, dysfunctional region. we are stuck in the middle of t. we can't extricate ourselves and we can't fix it. we will have to manage as best we can. >> jamie: can you help us understand? if they are willing to meet with secretary kerry and they are willing to meet with the president, why is it so challenging to get all three, maybe kerry does the leg work and the president com...

Of thing. >> megyn: in their defense, "the washington post" did the leg work on arne duncan. >> let's go back to the sequester. this sequester, bob woodward said was supposed be to be about cutting spending and the president added the tax component and the idea of the press getting tough. john boehner, what are you prepared to give up to get a deal with the president. it's not the president. what are you willing to compromise-- . sequester, it's a 70-30 split already. >> megyn: i don't winter to get back into that. i want to ask you this, we talked in the last hour how the president's approval...

>> my observation of him has been how surprisingly enamored he became with washington and the political process. on one hand he talks about what a mess it is. on the other hand, seemed to enjoy getting to know individual senators and doing a lot of this leg work on the president's behalf. >> i'm not a journalist but what i observe is he's actually a very effective political player. he tries to understand the other person's point of view. in my interview he talked about the budget debate and he parsed it down into there's a short-run budget debate in the next ten years that's not so short, the ...

Unclear about that. he indicated when the story broke that he had been duped by some nefarious people. >> right. >> jon: here is the the way the new york times put it. i could never imagining editing such a story, from joe secti sexton, asking them, did you know for a fact his grandmother is dead. do you know for a fact his girlfriend is dead, do you know for a fact that his grandmother existed or girlfriend existed. and anyone who tells you they would, questions is kidding you. and not one reporter did the-- the lack of leg work is a total surprise to me. >> having seen the press's adulation ...

Unclear about that. he indicated when the story broke that he had been duped by some nefarious people. >> right. >> jon: here is the the way the new york times put it. i could never imagining editing such a story, from joe secti sexton, asking them, did you know for a fact his grandmother is dead. do you know for a fact his girlfriend is dead, do you know for a fact that his grandmother existed or girlfriend existed. and anyone who tells you they would, questions is kidding you. and not one reporter did the-- the lack of leg work is a total surprise to me. >> having seen the press's adulation ...