agreement that allowed us to get through tough times, 9/11, the anthrax attack in my office and decision to go to war in afghanistan and iraq and that drew us together. you don't have the same element of crazies like you do today but as you look at the challenges we face, you could call them that. >> listening to senator daschle talk about socialization part of the problem in the senate and fund-raising part of the problem in the senate. you look back at recent history last 25, 30, 40 years, this country faced larger problems than today, war in vietnam, the end of the nixon presidency yet people got along in the congress much less the senate. >> this reflects what's going on with the american people. there was a culture war that started in my generation when i came of age in the '60s. what you've seen since 1994 is the rear guard action to stop it. it failed.