that they feel like this is a moment where the president, he's going to try to deliver the message overseas that america is back after four very inward-looking years of america first foreign policy by donald trump, and they need -- but in order to do that, they need to be able to show that democracy works at home. we've heard that from this president time and again in renault weeks. it's really honed in on that. it's one of the central themes of his entire presidency, to fix the matters at home to be able to broadcast as a role model on the global stage. and what we're seeing here, the attack on voting rights in so many republican-controlled state legislatures, the refusal for the republican party to go along with a bipartisan january 6th commission to look into what happened there, that insurrection at the capitol, one of the darkest days in our nation's history, and that maukz makes this president's job all the harder. let's be clear, to president obama's point, aides around this president know that his job got