playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
on peacock and hillary clinton s presidential campaign manager in 2016. good to see you guys. joel, to start with you just because you re a little bit you ve seen a little bit more history than simone who is a young, dynamic and vibrant. thanks, john. you re more of of a grizzled he s calling you old, joel. he s calling you old. joel got that. basically boasting about joel biden s historic accomplishments, he essentially didn t say it. he s saying it to all of the people in pundit world who said joe biden will never be fdr, he ll never be lbj and ron is basically without saying that he s basically saying, he kind of is on a historic basis, although if you look at the scale of the accomplishments. i guess my question to you as someone who studied public opinion, can you move the needle