they look at it in a narrow way. what is best for them? what has to do with the next election and it becomes very difficult, if not impossible to make progress. >> let's listen to president obama in west, texas. he says something useful to us in this moment. >> today i see in the people of west in your eyes that what makes west special isn't going to go away. and instead of changing who you are, this strategy has simply revealed who you've always been. >> it reveals who you are. he's talking to the family, to the community living with this tragedy. it also reveals who we are as a country. i think we can walk through every major piece of legislation that we've had post 9/11 and make similar complaints.