mind today? thank you. >> optimist or not, it's hard to imagine he doesn't know the answer to that. link up gave his gettysburg address on the battlefield where more than 50,000 americans had fallen. whether intended or not, invoking that moment with memories still fresh of the attack by americans on americans since the civil war certainly seems to convey where we are as a country. to borrow from lincoln's first inaugural, the better angels of our nature were as hard to find in the crowds on january 6th as they must have been in washington when lincoln spoke the words just a month before the civil war began. nor it seems is a substantial portion of americans today ready to strive as lincoln said in his second inaugural to bind up the nation's wounds. many it seems denied the existence of them. some, including the former president and standard bearer of lincoln's party seek other deeper, longer standing wounds.