david blankenhorn, i first have to ask you, it's not just what jill abramson said.rican enterprise institute and the brookings institute who have kind of studied this and come to the conclusion that it is true that the republicans have become more extreme than the democrats, that while there is a polarization on both sides, the shift on the right is much more extreme than on the left. do you buy that? >> i'm familiar with that literature. i think there's a lot of truth to it. but today what i'm not that interested in figuring out who's more to blame. i'm honestly not. i'm mainly interested in recovering what was just called on the show the common public square, and that's why what i'm doing now, i'm going around the country and we're bringing together people who are generally supportive of president trump and people who are critical and we're having meetings where we talk to one another. not about one another, not at one another, but actually talk with one another. and we're doing this around the country. and i'll tell you, it's a wonderful thing to see, because we'