This is the Tom Harbin program.

Thinking about the family, Joe Biden is giving us an augur of interest.

I promised you I'd get it, but the answer is not to turn inward to retreat into competing

factions, distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do,

or don't get their news from the same sources you do, we must end this uncivil war

that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts,

if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes

as my mom would say, just for a moment, stand in their shoes.

Because here's the thing about life, there's no accounting for which fate will deal you.

Some days when you need a hand, there are other days when we're called to lend a hand.

That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another.

And if we are this way, our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future,

and we can still disagree.

My fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us, we're going to need each other.

We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter.

We're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus.

We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation.

And I promise you this, as the Bible says, weeping may endure for a night,

but joy coming in the morning.

We will get through this together, together.

Look folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here,

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