gonzalez and served as white house counsel in the george w. bush administration and dean in nashville belmont university college of law. so great to see you. larry elder conceded the election defeat last night. what's notable about that is that it was notable, right? it's a stunning admission about where politics is now when a candidate, a republican candidate, let's be honest, admits defeat after saying that he thought the election was rigged going in, that it's something of note. so what's your take away there? >> well, you know, i laughed but it's really a sad commentary if people don't have confidence in the results of an election, one must wonder why have elections? of course that undermines who we are as a country. and the thing that i'm most concerned about with respect to pushing the lie, you know, it formats i think the domestic extremists that we have in this country today and that president bush spoke about so rightfully, so truthfully on saturday. so that's the real danger about continuing to talk about what happened in the 2020 election. you know, it's -- we have such difficult problems in this country. and it's hard for people to c