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for you momentarily. in 2009, of course, 13 people were killed at ft. hood when army major nadal hassan opened fire on the base. joining me now is nbc news national security analyst don borellie. the fact that the president and the secretary of defense have been informed, the president is making a statement, what does that tell you about this incident? >> it tells me that obviously in light of past events, we've had the major hassan shooting in ft. hood, 2009, we've had the navy yard shooting last fall. the president is going to want to reassure the families that he's going to do wha...

i'm not sure. but i think one of our problems is that we are not realistic about what we can actually hope to achieve with our money. >> can i actually, because i'm a recovering political speech writer, i do have a very strong perspective on why we do that. for those of us who come into the world and do this work and want to make the world a better place, we all do need a personal source of optimism to continue to get up in the morning and work on these terrible things so we're sort of sometimes guilty of externalizing our own optimism and in this work where we don't live in a dictat...

that that is my closing message for all of you today. we've got to not only be activists, but we've got to the love each other more. we've got to put our petty differences aside, look one another in the eye and say i love you regardless of the fact that i don't like you. i don't like your hair. i don't like how you dress. i don't like your size. i don't like all those things, but i love you because you're another human being, and obviously god had a purpose for you. if we can do that, if we can unite around love and activism, we can change the whole world. so once we get past that, o...

other use. you can a lot of questions about a lot of this evenings, not just the courts. the reason i make that point is talking about something that's more fundamental and not just unique to the courts. >> i must say -- >> i don't know, i don't know. >> i'm remembering mickey's comment that that time is gone. i guess i'm a little bit pessimistic about our capacity in the wider polity to have those whiling discussion. >> normally i would be cynical about this, too. there's an old joke about it's always safe to write to congress because congress doesn't write back? we make our decisio...