jonah goldberg, more elon musk, less steve bannon?i mean, it was it had a few moments of notes of unity, but it was mostly a in many ways it was a state of the union. >> yeah, it was very state of the union. my colleague sarah isgur makes the point that in the era of short viral bites that you push out to all these different things, basically that's the way to look at it, is it contained little sound bites that covered the waterfront of trump's coalition. and i don't think it was this. there was no central, unifying, coherent theme to it. it was a bunch of different shout outs to different constituencies that are going to be used, chopped up. if you watch the whole thing straight through. i don't think it was very coherent. >> it also probably mattered less than any inaugural address ever delivered by any president, because donald trump doesn't deliver scripted remarks. i mean, he delivered the address, and then he went and spoke and we heard the real donald trump. and that's the fundamental tension. and we're going to keep seeing the

my sources tonight are cnn political commentators jonah goldberg and shermichael singleton. former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield and kate anderson brower. it's great to have you all here. kate bedingfield just on that news there that president biden is going to leave a letter for him. i assume you don't think that's surprising, given biden is a traditionalist. but i mean, what do you even write in a letter like that? >> well, i would imagine he'll probably write about the what he believes is the president, the incoming president's responsibility to uphold the constitution, to to not do things that undermine our democracy. i would imagine, knowing joe biden, that it will probably appeal to a bigger sense of patriotism. and also, i would imagine we'll talk a little bit about what the the power that the president has to, um, to set the course for the country on how we think about our politics. i could see him making even an appeal, which may may sound silly, but i could see him even making an appeal to civility. but i think he will probably use what