impeachment is very, very serious, this isn t quite the bar, he wasn t successful, but there s just no room for that in the modern gop particularly not in the modern gop house. again, to go back to the clinton thing i remember all the democrats lining up to criticize bill clinton s conduct. joe leiberman gets up, they thought maybe it meant he was going to push to vote for removal. that was like in the realm of infractions and abuses of power. serious but smaller than what we re talking about here when we re talking about $400 million of aid being withheld. the thing so funny about it is when i think about the clinton impeachment now it seems so small and so sillyane a way it was a personal matter and yes there was misconduct, but it s something that doesn t affect the national security of the nation. and so the democrats are right to be sober and serious because
bar, he wasn t successful, but there s just no room for that in the modern gop particularly not in the modern gop house. again, to go back to the clinton thing i remember all the democrats lining up to criticize bill clinton s conduct. joe leiberman gets up, they thought maybe it meant he was going to push to vote for removal. that was like in the realm of infractions and abuses of power. serious but smaller than what we re talking about here when we re talking about $400 million of aid being withheld. the thing so funny about it is when i think about the clinton impeachment now it seems so small and so sillyane a way it was a personal matter and yes there was misconduct, but it s something that doesn t affect the national security of the nation. and so the democrats are right to be sober and serious because when we look at this moment in history it s going to be completely clear who was on the
right now biden at 31% nationally. and that is ahead of where jeb bush was nationally, joe leiberman, 17%. but it s not just nationally. i think the key thing here, jim, is in iowa biden s advantage nationally is translating to iowa. so last week what we saw at 28% in iowa, and that s well ahead where these three folks were. and if you were to basically extrapolate this out, biden would have about a 40% chance of winning. that s also the chances the mets make the playoffs, but i might note that. and we re the only two people in the world that care about that. joining me to discuss all this cnn political commentator david swerdlick and cnn analyst, a congressional correspondent at the new york times. david, the way this race is shaping up as we speak to harry henton who s deep in the numbers
new this morning, israel has announced that it will now allow democratic congressman rashida talib to visit her family in the west bank on hutan yearian grounds. this is partial reversal. it comes after israel blocked talib and congresswoman ilhan omar from entering after intense pressure from president trump. joining us now is former democratic senator joseph leiberman. senator, thank you for being with us. so congresswoman talib will be able to go on humanitarian grounds. but israel barred them initially. you think that s a mistake, why? it s a serious mistake because it s contrary to the values of the state of israel, the values to the united states
very seriously. israel has reversed course this morning after blocking two congresswomen from traveling to israel. we ll talk with vp nominee joe leiberman about that next. tell him we re flexible. don t worry. my dutch is ok. just ok? (in dutch) tell him we need this merger. (in dutch) it s happening..!