 you have been in the forefront of so many political conversations as a journalist and as someone who is a thought leader in your own right, but who reports and investigates. And I'm curious from your vantage point as you're watching how people go to their corners on this particular issue, are there thoughts that you have in terms of covering the subject that we can learn from or efforts that you see underway that have been successful that we can emulate? I'd just love to get your thoughts in terms of covering this horrible subject and how we can open up the lines of communication better in this country. I would love to say yes, I have an answer and yes, I'm optimistic, but I'm frankly not especially optimistic and it really goes, guns are certainly a clear and present danger and one of the great concerns and like all of you to turn on the news at night and see that there's been another mass shooting, whether it's at a school or a college or a workplace or just on the street. And the shocking thing is that it's not shocking and that we kind of expected. When I first came to Washington as a reporter for NBC News in 1978, my first job was I covered the House of Representatives and one of the things that very much impressed me and look, there were Republicans, there were Democrats, there was political disagreement. One of the things that impressed me was the ability of the parties to get together then and it was particularly true during the Reagan years in the 80s and I covered the Reagan White House for six years that things got done, problems got addressed. There was a crisis with Social Security in 1982 and Ronald Reagan appointed a commission and it included everybody from Tip O'Neill, the very liberal speaker of the House from Massachusetts to Allen Greenspan to some people on the conservative side and they ended up passing a measure that ended up saving Social Security ensuring its financial stability for another 20 or 30 years. Now we got a problem again. I remember later in the 80s they passed an immigration reform bill that included amnesty for people who were in the country illegally but that cracked down on future illegal crossings. There was a major tax reform bill. The point is things got done. People, and Reagan used to say this, I'd much rather get 75% of a loaf than nothing at all and so people made compromises. It has seemed to me, and we can talk about why governor, to be kind of this steady decline in the ability of our national leaders and frankly the whole national discourse to try to settle problems rather than to go to your corners and surround yourself with your tribe and like-minded people. And so, you know, is there an agreement? Is there a deal to be made on entitlement reform? Is there a deal to be made on immigration? Is there a deal to be made? Not necessarily that would satisfy everybody or on guns but yes there are deals to be made sensible, common sense. You know, what is the percentage of people that support universal background checks? I think it's 98% and you can't even get that through Congress but it just seems that our politics has become so tribal, so polarized, so involved in people wanting to score points rather than achieve victories that I'm not especially optimistic about it.