I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jackbeati

helps us connect history literature and politics in a way that brings unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Magna.

Well, we're at episode 43.

The history continues to unfold before our very eyes every single day Jack so I can't

imagine what your headline is going to be this time around.

Lame ducks.

Lame ducks plural ducks, plural.

Okay, so what do you, I can think of one,

but tell me what you're talking about.

Well, two leaders, two speeches, two perhaps similar fates. With nearly three quarters of Israelis wanting

him out of office, Prime Minister Netanyahu is on borrowed political time. With about the same percentage of Americans wanting him

not to stand for a second term, Joe Biden runs out of political time. Those are the two lame ducks. One is one may soon be.

Hmm. Okay, interesting. Now, of course, later on we can explore this.

I would say they're lame ducks for very, very different reasons. But I mean you've obviously honed in on this on this week where Netanyahu was here in the United States not only speaking before Congress but meeting with President

Biden.

So tell me more about what you've been observing.

Well, you know, his speech to Congress has two distinctions. It was the fourth time that he's done that,

that he's been given that order and that outstrips the record long held by Winston

Churchill. The Netanyahu's address has another distinction and

Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to that from the Senate floor on the eve of the

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