lewinsky scandal during his first term. the lewinsky scandal was the second term and had nothing to do with the balance issue. jon: you say nobody more popular right now. that is true. jon: the white house is saying that this visit has been planned for some time. this isn t president obama picking up the phone yesterday and saying, hey, bill can you come to the white house tomorrow. certainly not. but at the same time the president needs a new political strategy. there is a huge deficit as there was in 94. there are issues with spending, issues with the left and issues with political reconciliation with the republicans, exactly what bill clinton did successfully. jon: did bill clinton get hit by the left as hard as barack obama is getting hit right now. i can tell you i was in those meetings in the white house right now. we spent a lot of time in care and feeding of the left.