>> yeah. i don't disagree and i'm not suggest that if we suddenly put more people on planes to distant countries will suddenly solve our problems. you know, the biggest thing is that we have a tightly divided country. you have a geographically difficult vied couldn divided country. it used to be the cannes case that a lot of democrats are from the south and you vote like they vote now. you have republicans from the northeast that would vote the way democrats vote now. with a few exceptions, that's been purified. you don't have that moderate caucus of democrats or conservative -- moderate caucus of republicans. another thing you have is this, the way the press covers this political process has shifted. it's more and more an issue of speaking directly to specific audiences. you have a conservative press and liberal press and they're both speaking to their niche audiences. and as a result, any attempt at compromise is reported as a sort