congresswoman barbara lee voted for. some of these decisions ultimately you could argue paved the way for the very deep divisions and disunity that i think we see today. you know, i think that unity allowed us collectively to make decisions based to some degree on fear that you could argue may not have been perhaps the most politically estute and politically calculating decisions to have made. a lot of the decisions made by the presidents we saw yesterday. of course, starting with bush but this has transcended so many presidencies. what did you make of seeing bush and speaking yesterday, obama and clinton in new york, president biden, of course, president trump a little bit. but what did you make of that? i was so struck just by watching and hearing these presidents. it was literally we used the word book end a lot over the last several years, but this was a book end from president bush to president biden. and i was struck by just how interwoven their presidencies were. george w. b
continuing duty to confront them. it s pretty remarkable. oh, absolutely. it wasn t just an effort to remind americans of the unity of a message of unity. it was also an effort to flag to americans the current danger and the current threat and how the threat landscape has changed. now, domestic extremism and the threat has been persistent. look, the oklahoma city bombing happened in the 90s. this has been around for quite a bit. and even the groups that participate in january 6th have been around. what has changed, however, and what i think president bush is, former president bush s remarks really highlighted is the threat has been there of domestic extremists and far right militia groups. what has changed is the public officials willingness to actually call it out, in both parties. not just talking about the trump administration. it was the obama administration
lawmakers that are coming to congress are different. you have your marjorie taylor-green and the people who are not here to make laws but to fund-raise and those type of fire breathing tactics also struck by how many iraq and afghanistan veterans are serving in congress on both sides. it used to be an anomaly. you have to wonder, will there be an american president who served in one of these wars and that also will be a mark on history. i m so glad you brought up january 6th, too, because that is also a reflection people had in what president bush said in his speech yesterday about this stood out the most to me of anything in his remarks. there s little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. but then there s disdainful and their disregard for human life and their determination to defile national symbols. they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our