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That we have chosen not to be involved with. but -- >> are you opposed to those activities? >> you know, that is up to the electors and we just are -- >> staying out of it? >> we are not taking a view and we have not chosen to get involved but this we felt, particularly since there was new information that we learned on friday night about the intent of russia, we thought this was a worthy -- this was a worthy effort for us to weigh in on. you know, the electoral college -- and i have learned a lot in recent weeks about it, it was intended that the electors deliberate. that's among the reasons ...

Urgency and compassion and empathy that we feel in our own families and our own communities, if we care about every kid the same way we want this country to care about our kids, then we'll win in november. i know that at times this has been a deeply dispiriting election year. and as i think back to 2008, or even 2012, and the sense of energy and hope that we felt, and i think about all the incredible work that we've done and the promises that we've delivered on, sometimes you wonder how did we get to the

Election year. and as i think back to 2008, or even 2012, and the sense of energy and hope that we felt, and i think about all the incredible work that we've done and the promises that we've delivered on, sometimes you wonder how did we get to the point where we have such ranker, and there are a lot of theories about it. people have real struggles. in pockets of this country. change is happening fast. sometimes faster than we feel like we can absorb. there's a constant stream of information coming at us and so

The death toll rose and the more i heard about the further attacks at bataclan and more shootings across paris, it was that idea that this is developing and this is a terror that's continual. this seems like there's no end in sight. certainly, if we felt -- if we felt a few days ago that the horror was over, if we felt we were finally safe again in paris, this is, this has changed things and this has brought on another level of fear. i'm not sure if it will go away. >> one of the survivors yesterday at one of the restaurants where one of those attacks took place. french president hollande call...

>> i was going to say, he was too much on cbs. you were current on race, current on vietnam and current on social issues and it was too much for the network. i think that speaks to the conflict of the '60s. >> it definitely was. but, you know, so easy now, looking back at the dots to say, yeah, we planned all this. no, we were working just from moment to moment, incident to incident. when things happened, they had given us, we felt, permission, to reflect what was going on outside the studio. and we did. i don't think anybody else was in place that they could have put in our spot. carol burnet...