Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181025:19:20:00
To wonder is the question are we beginning to revert to it norm, is this a violent country and we're beginning to get back to our roots. >> well, it is a violent country but it isn't consistently violent. there have been moments and there have been other moments that are like this moment, which is not to say we're repeating the past, but moments that are fraught. i think when people realize that the nation is going to move in one direction or another so they kind of feel the stakes are high. and at those kinds of moments i think politics gets polarized, political parties begin to kind of splin...