Rahm Emanuel
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And so I do think a president has a place.
And I use this other example.
Let me go backwards a little.
And a reporter laughed at me.
I think one of the fascinating things in music today is you have rap stars doing country music and country stars.
No, but you laugh.
No, it's true.
But you have two different music genres from really different people.
and groups that live here are different, but they've come together.
Now, one, you can say that's just music, but I think it touches a chord.
And so I think people are yearning for that.
And the president has a moral component, or what Teddy Roosevelt referred to as the bully pulpit.
So you can ignite that, or you can continue to pour gasoline on the divisions.
And so I think that's how I would do it.
Well, I don't... Well, bipartisan, but also...
Look, our politics has gotten into a version of Hunger Games and Braveheart.
And we do all of it.
And I've been guilty of this.
I mean, obviously.
But one example I will say that contrary to that.