. >> let's let some of our viewers join in the conversation and start with mike calling from sommerville, massachusetts. mike, good morning. >> caller: good morning. this is going to go off what you just said. i'm glad you mentioned the homeland security report. i'm going to make a comment and then, yeah, ask a question because i'm sitting here and i'm very socially liberal, but i'm trying to figure out is it just my bias or is it really true that the right wing extremism is worse than the left wing extremism in terms of the threat it poses to the country? i really think the right wing extremism is a lot more dangerous at this point for a couple reasons, one being because folks that support that kind of thing are really functioning on a core level of hatred and violence and an urge to maintain exclusive power at the expense of others, puts also that they're empowered by the gop, by trump. it feels like it's gotten a lot worse in terms of the divisiveness and it was pretty bad during the bush years. the obama years. on the left side you have people functioning on a core value of some kind