I'm Kywright and this is the United States of anxiety a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future.

That took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half.

I'm not gonna take my flag down if I got a thing to do with it ain't no monument gonna come down.

Many people get their Civil war history from Gone With the Wind, the very southern lost cause tale.

I was in the land of cotton, old times there or not.

It's about North versus South God, it's about color or race.

This is no time to tear down statues of our founders and heroes.

This is the time to follow their example.

You bring it into question all these Americans who voted legally.

How dare you question it?

I would encourage President Trump if after all this he does fall short to not let this movement die.

Welcome to the show everybody I'm Kai Wright. So this morning while many of us were still lost in our dreams Donald Trump

tweeted and I know that is a sentence none of us ever really need to hear again but

this time it seemed to imply that he had gotten his head around the fact that Joe Biden won the election.

This of course set all kinds of people ablaze wondering if he was finally prepared to concede. But within a couple of hours, he was finally prepared to concede.

But within a couple of hours he was back on message,

lying about voter fraud and insisting that he won,

in spite the enormous and transparent evidence that he lost by a lot.

We are several days into this performance,

with remarkable moments like the Secretary of State

Mike Montpeo's press conference last week.

Is the State Department currently preparing to engage with the Biden transition team?

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