crowd to try to get some applause, some cheering, some emotion. we saved a lot of lives. and saved millions of millions of lives and i m very proud of it and that is something that is very special and the people in this room are very special. the biden administration did you hear it. there is a smatter of applause because he started to compliment the crowd. life saving vaccines are allowing us to get back to normal life. if that is not worth cheering. don t know what it is. but that is the divide. you could hear it in the silence at trump speech. one america is vaccinated, the other is far behind. as cnn s harry enten put it, it is trumpism at large. one america doesn t want to hear anything about trump, the other america hangs on his every word. news max cut into regular programming and carried his
take away from the speech? i thought it was bright, uplifting and it gave me hope. pete: quite a different picture than the new york times saying it s uniquely dark; bright, straightforward, interesting takes for sure. thank you both. and, again, happy birthday. mike, i saw you go days ago. we had breakfast at this counter before and talked about what you were looking for in the speech. what was your take away from if there mr. trump s speech. i thought it sounded like a locker room speech at halftime. i wasn t quite sure if he was speaking to the winning or losing team. pete: meaning it was dark at times but also positive at times. i think he directed it toward the people who elected him. michael harrington and his book the other america wrote about in the 1960 s. pete: do you think he spoke to anxieties that americans are feeling? i think, to a lot of people, yeah. he did he hit it. he went after both sides of the aisle. things are changing. we ll see if it s for the go