Hi everyone, how we doing?

4 o'clock in New York, it might take a week, a month, a year, but for the sake of a more perfect version of ourselves and our country and our future,

still very much present in the hearts and minds

of tens of millions of Americans, we have to do this thing, the introspection, the self-reflection,

the internal audit of what exactly went wrong.

And it has to start right now.

However painful that process might be, for many of us, there is an urgent need as we speak

to transform, to be relentlessly curious about our country, our friends and neighbors who voted

for Donald Trump, to get closer to that reality, not farther away from it. And to view right now

apathy and disengagement as completely counterproductive.

To be unwavering in our commitment to better understand why exactly bipartisan urgent messages

about preserving democracy, demanding decency, and protecting women didn't prove persuasive to enough people Tuesday.

This morning in front of his assembled cabinet and others in the Rose Garden on the grounds of a White House still occupied by President Joe Biden.

He shared this message with the American people. Listen.

Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We all get knocked down.

But the measure of our character, as my dad would say, is how quickly we get back up.

Remember, a defeat does not mean we are defeated.

We lost this battle. The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up. That's the story of

America for over 240 years and counting.

It's a story for all of us, not just some of us.

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