[ applause ] >> president obama, a rousing speech in front of a capacity crowd. everyone telling everyone to live up to the best and the fallen, the heroes and ourselves. joining us now david gergen, douglas briskly nk brinkley. what did you think? >> when he said gabby opened her eyes, he carried that throughout a lot of the speech, i was like david gergen earlier, a little put off by the atmospherics, 14,000 cheering people, but the president i think worked his way into that atmosphere. so by the end of it, you could almost feel people hugging in the excitement and love and warmth in the arena. so tucson, it really was a