you re sitting a high school bleachers of the gym your one if your name will even be called. in august it will be my 33rd wedding anniversary. is the best decision i have ever made in life. almost exactly 13 years ago at my wife and children and i stood in our front yard and announced a bid for congress. life it goes fast every section of our minds get full. looking back can be educational, therapeutic, inspiring make us grateful and sympathetic and wise. we have been meeting here on sunday nights for a year now. a lot has happened in our country and around the world. they withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan the death of american soldiers on that lingering question of what we got for what we paid with the lives of american soldiers over the course of the past 20 years we have borne witness to the war in ukraine, the threat to democracy the mixed messages from some in this country whether we should support it democracy or brutal dictators and gas prices inflation crime go
that china s aggression with regard to taiwan and the number of sorties into the air defense identification zone are records three, four, five times what they were during the trump administration. here know, you see in the language just this week you had the world health organization, around and talk about covid-19, the fact the lab was likely needs to be investigated as the source of a virus that killed seven or 8 million people worldwide. in the wake of that you would sink the united states to be the one using aggressive language against china. but it was this week that china said look, if you get involved in taiwan it will be a path to death and we will smash you to smithereens. this administration s response to that language was for the white house to admit they plan
you re sitting a high school bleachers of the gym your one if your name will even be called. in august it will be my 33rd wedding anniversary. is the best decision i have ever made in life. almost exactly 13 years ago at my wife and children and i stood in our front yard and announced a bid for congress. life it goes fast every section of our minds get full. looking back can be educational, therapeutic, inspiring make us grateful and sympathetic and wise. we have been meeting here on sunday nights for a year now. a lot has happened in our country and around the world. they withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan the death of american soldiers on that lingering question of what we got for what we paid with the lives of american soldiers over the course of the past 20 years we have borne witness to the war in ukraine, the threat to
gratitude it is like a runner s high. he released a little bit of endorphin every single time you are grateful. that builds up your resiliency so you can handle all of the things that come at you at in life in a better way. one thing it does for your heart. it also might do something for your brain break access by what you on every sunday night you re one of my favorite people. one of the most respected people in all of television. dana perino thank you so very much for. thank you. greg: turning to souther witnessing expensing first-hand as democracy is hard. democracy requires work and participation, often times some give and take. what is the state of our democracy question of polling indicates certain pessimism among our fellow citizens. a belief that perhaps our best days are behind as per the divisions are too much to overcome for the good thing about democracy is the fallacy or the truth of those predictions is squarely in our hands. we control our destiny.
is going to happen. that is where the real uncertainty lies. it s one of the great dualisms of life. we look back on the one thing we cannot change and spend less time on the one thing we can change which is what is left of today and tomorrow. so where do you want to be in a year personally? as a community? as a state? as a nation? do you ever get tired of the constant negativity? do you wonder where the stories on good cops and good prosecutors are? you wonder where the acts of kindness are? we see the crime what about the goodness of america? do you wonder why the loudest voices in politics are the ones who get all of the attention? do you wonder why sports tend to highlight the celebration after the touchdown more than the teamwork that led to the touchdown. we all look back, that is the