jon karl, thanks very much. let's bring this all to the roundtable. right now i'm joined by rahm emanuel, yvette simpson, chris christie here in the studio, also matthew dowd in austin, texas, heidi heitkamp in north dakota this morning. thank you all for joining us. rahm, let me begin with you. it took a while to get to the final result. it's not that -- four or five days. what's the big message from this election? >> well, i think a couple things at least on the presidential level. style is the substance in the sense that this was very much what biden said not only about my character versus the president, but the character of the country and the country was -- i kind back to grant park, 2008, that was jubilation. this is catharsis and in a sense that this is a relief from this darkness of attack and pitting. i think americans were ex-lawsoned by the constant pitting against us and they want washington a little distant in their lives, go back to your work. get our lives -- we'll get our lives in order, which is why so many were focused on the pandemic and the economy in a sense of being able to get back to so