have democrats get our way, i think there is an opportunity and everybody would like to feel better about our election system and i think i could perhaps strike a grand bargain on voting and that could show a pathway forward as americans. >> and evan, you have written one of the most in depth biographies of president biden, do you think there is anything he could do to change the vicious political vision or do he view this through the perspective of democracy versus autocracy which is one of these themes in his presidency in his view. >> it took a generation for this country to get as divided as it is. it is going to take more than a year to begin to stitch it back together. you heard him today speaking frankly with a kind of bluntness that we haven't heard from him about the reality of the disunity in this country, about him saying let's brush this aside, as long as we're facing these kind of obstacles, it is impossible. but you heard him land on the note that he came to the