And I feel fortunate to have had that prior experience. And so that is all quite familiar. What is obviously different is The partisanship, the divide...was bad when I was here previously, 02 to 07, but it's gotten much worse in the 12 years since. And so it is just much harder today to find that common ground, at least on the big issues. On issues that are fairly non partisan to start with, we can still find that common ground. (03:12–03:23)
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