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past several months. you know, we went back and took a closer look at incumbent presidents a year before their re-election, brooke. and i know you're interested in this as well. >> how do they compare? >> obama is at 46% a year before his election. november 2012. look at president bush. in 2003 he was at 50% and got re-elected. clinton was at 52% and got re-elected. the economy began to deteriorate and he was defeated in '92 to bill clinton. ronald reagan, 53% the year before his re-election. jimmy carter lost his re-election. he was only at 38% as was gerald ford. richard nixon in 1...

Sense of de ja vu. for more on that, let's dig deeper with david gergen. i want to get to the numbers. governor palin is here and we're told that she's somewhere in town. there are dozens of people waiting to see her. i want to get your sense. is this as many palin critics have been saying, is the media being foolish or is there something about her that will have an impact and we will know whether or not she is in. >> i think it's something about her. she still has a sizzle where a lot of the other candidates don't. she's a celebrity. but there's a difference between ak celebrity and being a p...

memorial day. on this national holiday, a heavy rush of politics. sarah palin's mystery tour rolled into town. we don't know when she will appear because her aides will not tell us. her stops included ft. mchenry and she's being cagey on the subject of whether it's a rolling civic lesson or a 2012 campaign. >> i believe there are many more people out there to add. competition breeds success. i would hope that there is going to be debate. >> also this day, president obama leads the traditional wreath laying at arlington national cemetery and announces a major change in his national se...

Press around the world, really. berlusconi's party calls it a smear campaign. this is just like de ja vu. he is claiming they are trying to smear him. >> they have evidence, though, right? >> they have enough evidence to fast-track this trial. this is what tripped up the thing. berlusconi made a call to the local cops in a town in italy urging them to release ruby from jail because she had been picked up on charges of theft. she's now 18, by the way. she says she never had sex with the prime minister, but here's the twist, berlusconi did give her 7,000 lyre last valentine's day because a frien...

There are secretaries of state who would land and the israelis would announce settlements that would get in the way. >> de ja vu all the time. >> it sort of makes you wonder why it was that they weren't better prepared for this. now, the state department will tell you, the white house will tell you that they believe prime minister netanyahu's contention that he didn't know this announcement was coming while the vice president was there. now, he must have known -- >> but they apologized for the timing, not for the announcement, right? so it would feel a whole lot better if biden had left town f...