This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria.

We'll start today's program with the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, Hillary

Rodin Clinton. I'll ask her about the political battles in America.

Our democracy is under continuing assault.

And the possibility that Russia may go to war. All that and much more.

Then, bombshells from Israel, former top officials now revealing that they think getting out

of the Iran deal was a major mistake. Why now? I'll talk to Israeli journalists

and she'll feph up. Also, George III was the British monarch who lost the American colonies

in a bloody war. His bad rap has gotten even worse lately. But the British historian Andrew

Roberts tells us that the king was much misunderstood neither mad nor tyrannical.

But first, here's my take. I have to confess, I find Joe Biden's unpopularity puzzling.

He's rounding out his first year in the White House with the lowest end of first year

approval ratings of any elected president in modern times with the exception of Donald

Trump.

Why is this? Biden is a genial, likable person. Many of the policies he's pursued have

been popular, even some with Republican support. The country is doing reasonably well, economically

as measures like unemployment, which is declining, the stock market, which is rising, and interest

rates demonstrate. So why did the latest CNN average of the polls have him at just 45 percent?

Now one has to remember that Biden is something of an accidental president. He got elected

for two reasons, neither which has much to do with his personal popularity. First, Barack

Obama chose him as vice president, which instantly elevated him in the democratic field. Second,

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