unusual for a address in the east room, because he usually sticks to the script, and much of what he said he was speaking extemporaneous extemporaneously, and it is not any time that we have seen the president crying, and rare for any public official, and for having covered him for so long, i can tell you that this gets to his core more than any other issue, and having worked on chicago on the streets and seeing the plague of the gun violence there, and then obviously he was deeply affected, and we would hear anecdotally those who covered the president at the time about how inconsolable he was after the new town shootings, and how people would find him in his office weeping. and we saw some of that from the podium when he came out to talk about it a few days afterwards, and we see it again to the i da, and it is something that i have been hearing for years that president obama when he does take a moment and think about