Where Does America Go From Here?

AND IT MAY WELL BE THAT JOE BIDEN, BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCE, AND I DON'T MEAN JUST HIS EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT BUT HIS LIFE EXPERIENCE.

HE'S LEARNED HUMILITY BECAUSE OF THE SITUATIONS HE'S BEEN IN.

EMPATHY, FAMOUSLY, AS EVERYONE TALKED ABOUT AND A SENSE OF RESILIENCE HE HAD WHICH IS WHAT THE COUNTRY ITSELF HAS TO GO THROUGH AND MAY BE AS WELL HIS AMBITION WHICH STARTS OUT IN THE EARLIER RACES AS NORMALLY A YOUNG PERSON IS FOR SELF, HAS TURNED INTO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE TALKED ABOUT TODAY WHEN HE SAID THAT LINCOLN HAD WHEN HE SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

HIS WHOLE SOUL IN THE TASK TO BRING UNITY TO THE COUNTRY AND THE BIPARTISANSHIP, HE CAN REMEMBER THAT AND HIS TEMPERAMENT MAY BE THE TIDE TO POSSIBLY, MAYBE THE FEVER BROKE A LITTLE BIT WITH THE EVENTS OF TWO WEEKS AGO.

WE'VE BEEN WAITING AND WAITING FOR THAT HUNGER FOR LEADERSHIP AND HUNGER FOR BIPARTISANSHIP TO COME AND IF THAT GIVES HIM AN OPPORTUNITY WHICH A CRISIS DOES AND HE HAS THE TEMPERAMENT TO FIT IT, THEN MAYBE HE IS THE MAN FOR THE TIME AS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SUGGESTING.

PRESIDENT BIDEN, PRESIDENT OBAMA IS SUGGESTING.

AND PRESIDENT BIDEN.

HE'S SUGGESTING THAT THIS IS THE TIME, YOU SAID, TO PUT HIS WHOLE HEART AND SOUL INTO UNITY AND EDDIE, I WANT TO ASK YOU BECAUSE HE LOOKED OUT ACROSS, YES, A SEA OF FLAGS, NOT MASSIVE CROWDS LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD INIESTER YESTERYEAR, BUT POINTED OVER TO THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, IT WAS THERE SO MANY YEARS AGO THAT MARTIN LUTHER MADE HIS SPEECH.

THE INEQUITIES ABOUT RACISM AND THE SYSTEMIC CHANGES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.

WHAT DID YOU TAKE FROM TODAY AND FROM ALL OF THIS MOMENT?

DO YOU THINK THIS IS A TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT?

WELL, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL BE A TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT.

IT CERTAINLY IS CLOSING THE PAGE OR THE BOOK ON THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF CHAOS THAT WAS, IN EFFECT, DONALD TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY.

I THINK THERE WAS SOME REALLY POWERFUL MOMENTS IN THIS SPEECH.

THERE WERE SOME MOMENTS INVOKED LANGSTON HUGHES.

THE FACT HE USED THE LANGUAGE OF RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY.

THOSE WERE IMPORTANT MOMENTS.

THE IDEA THAT WE MUST IMAGINE A SENSE OF WE THE PEOPLE THAT INCLUDES ALL OF US, THAT IN SOME WAYS, DOESN'T VALUE ONE GROUP OF AMERICANS OVER AND AGAINST THE OTHER.

I THINK THAT WAS CRITICAL.

BUT YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK WHAT MAKES PRESIDENT BIDEN AN INTERESTING CANDIDATE TO BE A TRANSFORMATIVE PRESIDENT IS THAT WE CANNOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT HE WAS THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT TO THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.

AND HE'S THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN PRESIDENT.

HE'S BEEN IN THIS SPACE OF TRANSFORMATION TWICE NOW.

SO I THINK HE'S POSITIONED TO USHER THE COUNTRY INTO A NEW KIND OF CONSENSUS BUT WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHETHER HE'S SUCCESSFUL OR NOT.