brooks. is bill clinton still a man where rates listening to and paying attention to? >> you know, jim, john sears, who was a brilliant republican strategist, worked for richard nixon and ronaldgan, once proposed in lieu of campaigning, they ought to give each presidential candidate six half hours, he or she go alone with the cram. if and if they can't be interested for six half hours, they should not be elected president because they'll obviously lose the countrs interest in a short time. bill clinton is endlessly interesting. whatever else anyone thinks of him, and it's a great second act. i mean, he's at 67% approval today in america, 28%-- at a time whether the public is sour on politicians, they have no use for them, bill clinton has lifted to a different level. >> he is the power of crystallization. he takes a lot of complex events and lays out his thinking. often what he says is not blindingly new. but it's obvious once he said it, but observer he said it, it wasn't obvious. that's the tremendous skill he has. what he said about gingrich. i think that's exactly right. we knew as speaker he was a poor manager and when he was competing and sometimes cooperating with bill