mrs. obama said this this week, jason, she said, no one has a monopoly on what it means to be american. then, you have got peggy newton, but when tara said that, it made me think about this, peggy newton wrote in the "wall street journal" this week that democrats stole patriotic symbols, they stole the flags. since when do republicans own the flag? i'm very confused, jason. i thought we were all americans. >> that is kind of what i thought too, symone. it kind of worked out perfect. it felt like the olympics just led perfectly into this convention. it almost felt like it was the same programming. what gets me about it, it is a changing definition of what patriotism means overtime. the republican, like modern definition of patriotism really started with the whole colin kaepernick won't stand during the fm, that is a patriotism of exclusion. patriotism means only this, and it means an allegiance to this symbol, not these values, but this symbol, right? and then, that can become identity politics overtime, because it believes into the idea that patriotism is geographic, the idea that, here in the middle of the country, i