level of worry for our country as you along with the rest of us watched these rioters in, you know, cabela's bass pro shops, camo, red hats. a lot of them armed with zip ties said to be on the lookout for the sitting vice president and the speaker hoisting the confederate flag inside the u.s. capitol, having set up a noose on capitol grounds in the parking lot. >> the social contract is if not broken frayed, and this is the fullest manifestation of that over the last five years. it has been unspooling. you have done this every day for x number of days telling the story, chronicling this flight from fact, this flight from evidence, a flight from truth however inconvenient to a self-serving vision of reality where power is more important than principle, and the mob, which was figurative until wednesday has become the literal guiding force in the republic. and you know, one way to think about civilizational structures is we have a state of nature, thomas hobbs wrote about that, the state of nature is the war of all against all. the point of civilization is to enter into a social contract where