activities on capitol hill and beyond and around the country. so we had some differences in terms of policy. you might want to know the president called me this morning about gun violence. he said we're getting close to a solution. >> open parenthetical, what is that call like? >> someone said give us a surreal moment about the president and your conversations with him. i said, it's more like it's always surreal. >> was it a relatively normal call? >> he called to talk about gun violence and segued into other things. >> can you give us an indication of what those other things are? >> not right now. but i was concerned, just in terms of being global, that the