geyer, your question to mr. mondale? >> mr. mondale, many analysts are saying that actual lear our number one foreign policy problem today is one that remains almost wholly unrecognized. massive illegal immigration from economically collapsing countries. they are saying that it is the only real territorial threat to the american nation state. you yourself said in the 1970s that we had a, quote, hemorrhage on our borders, unquote, yet today you've backed off any immigration reform such as the balanced and highly crafted simpson/mizoli bill. why? wou what would you do today, if anything? >> this is a very serious problem in our country, and it has to be dealt with. i object to that part of the simpleson/mazola bill which is very unfair and would prove to be so. that is the part that requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee before they are hired. i am convinced that the result of this would be that people who are hispanic, people who have different languages or speak with an accent would find it difficult to

geyer, your question to mr. mondale. >> mr. mondale, two related questions on the crucial issue of central america. you and the democratic party have said that the only policy toward the horrendous civil wars in central america should be on the economic development and negotiations with perhaps a quarantine of marxist nicaragua. do you believe that these answers would in any way solve the bitter conflicts there? do you really believe that there is no need to resort to force at all? are not these solutions to central america's gnawing problems simply again too weak and too late? >> that i believe the question oversirch phis the difficulties of what we must do in central america, our objectives ought to be to strength then the democracies, to stop communist and other extremist influences and stabilize the community in that area to do that, we need a three-pronged attack. one is military assistance to our friends who are being pressured. secondly, a strong and sophisticated economic aid program and human rights program that offers

and, of course, al gore to geyer. to geyer. now consider this, almost 47% of eligible voters didn't vote last tuesday. the highest no-show rate since 1996. donald trump will be the first president to have served neither elective officno military and milan i can't trump will be the second foreign-born first lady. the first was louisa adams, wife of john quincy adams she was born in england. it's a fact, the "washington post" says the number of visits to his fact checker site in this campaign season was five times the number reported four years ago. which brings us to our resident political fact checker, john what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning. >> dickerson: good morning, what's a trump administration going to look like we'll talk about that with former house speaker newt gingrich who is advising him. the democrats, what do they do next this we'll talk with bernie sanders about his new book and direction of the democratic party. >> pauley: thank you. next week here on "sunday morning." eat, drink, be merry the food i

. >> woodruff: which when he was elected he was coming after a president geyer who at that point in hiss not so popular. >> he was benefiting from that. and who should know better than he. >> sreenivasan: is it traditional that you see increase in popularity on almost the way out the door of a president? >> no, it really isn't. that's why it's so unusual here. as you remember, president obama especially when unemployment was so high had hard time. although in recent times, for instance, bill clinton even after the impeachment crisis for him of '98-99 left office pretty popular i think as gallup poll was in the '60s. ronald reagan in 1988 even after iran can tray had very high approval rating as well. usually in a two-term presidency you will see in a second term sort of a slump but often sometimes amount the end they come up. but perhaps not as surprisingly or as sharply as happened with president obama. >> woodruff: historian michael beschloss joining us, thank you very much. >> i'll stay tuned. >> woodruff: see you a little bit later. we want to talk now about pennsylvania. it certain