congress today. i think the answer is probably no. something that grand and something that sweeping, and it's a reflection half a century later about how different politics are than they were 50 years ago. >> mark halperin, or even 15 years ago. it's gotten so much worse so quickly. >> the irony is the last three presidents all ran saying the perfect diagnosis of what was wrong and with a strong belief that they were the ones to fix it. and all three of them have failed to do it. it's quite a puzzling -- president clinton probably because he came from arkansas and was governor so long than the other two, he probably feels this and has a better feel for the heart beat of it than anybody in the country. and yet he can give a speech but he can't change it. >> and what's so fascinating, john heilemann, is that those three presidents that are our last three presidents. you have to go back to the early