impeachment if our public polling approaches similar numbers? yeah, i think polling s going to matter a lot but, remember, it s really all about television. and as much as we do on cnn to cover things, it s one thing if it s everybody s covering nobody expected john dean to come forward. nobody realized that the white house was even nixon was having a taping system. so the by impeaching trump you would find a lot of new information that could be very damnable in the end. but remember, bill clinton may have rose and surprised people after being impeached. but in 2000 al gore didn t want to be seen in a photo frame with bill clinton. he ran as president distancing himself. we see that as a mistake but there is a cost you pay. al, doug was, this was a great conversation thanks for joining me. we ll be right back. - just like any other family the house, kids, they re living the dream and here comes the wacky new maid
juncture. when truman went after the know-nothing congress as a democrat, both the senate and congress were republican. in this case the senate is democratic, so i think it ll only go so far for obama. i think the third act that nobody, that wall street journal and new york times didn t mention is he s going to wrap himself around bill and hillary clinton, president obama, meaning the fact that the economy did well, there was a surplus by the time bill clinton left, and al gore didn t want to be seen on a stage with bill clinton. i believe this time around you re going to see bill and hillary clinton working ohio and pennsylvania and other close states very, very hard, and it s going to say let s go back to the clinton economy. jenna: that s really interesting. we haven t heard that directly the way you ve put this, so let s talk more about that. speaking of history, had there been a precedent where a president looking for his second term wraps himself in the reputation of who s now
points, but then you only lose by 20 points. that s what barack obama understood that too many democrats these days, oh, wait, that s red state america. i m not going there. barack obama fought for every vote. the situation you re pointing out, unique to modern history for the democratic party. we haven t had many democratic presidents, carter, clinton and obama. carter left office. no democrat wanted to be seen with jimmy carter. when bill clinton left office in 2000, the clinton name continued seamlessly because hillary clinton was in the u.s. senate. except for the fact that al gore didn t want to be seen with him. right. and everybody said al gore should have been when he came up short in the electoral college. now you have the situation where you have a democratic president very well liked by his party base. you have a vacuum out there. who is the leader of the democratic party right now?