over the loss of tommy very quickly merged with the trauma of the january six insurrection and attempted coup in the congress of the united states by donald trump and his supporters. as i tell it in this book that i've written, these two traumas really converged in my life and are inextricably interwoven in my psyche. yeah, i have the book right in front of me, congressman. unthinkable, it's called. it is in a sense a love letter to your son, tommy and it's also a sort of letter full of love and despair about the current state of american democracy. just to stick with tommy and you speak so movingly and beautiful about them it strikes me that tommy wasn't just your smart, talented, beautiful son, he also had become something of a moral compass for you, a sort of conscious and adviser and somebody that you did discuss politics with a great deal. that's right. tommy was kind of a political