it didn't last very long. why did everything, including the media coverage, become so polarizing after that moment of national celebration. >> because a that's who we are and, yes, it lasted for a while and one of the scenes at the end of the book is after the president announces to the nation, leon panetta leaves to get in his car to get home and he hears the crowd chanting, usa, usa, cia, cia, and he remembers all of the attacks on the cia over the years, domestically, and said that was the proudest moment of his career. but we move on. we seem incapable, i don't know, we seem incapable, howie, of focusing on what unites us and we seem to just want to pick the scab of the things that divide us. i think it's one of the saddest thing in our politics, in our media. howie: how much does the press contribute to that? those are the kind of things that excite the base and get ratings and clicks.