I'm glad you decided to spend just a few hours of your day with me on this day that we

remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for this country.

You know, I think there's a lot you could say.

You could try to define about the idea of American exceptionalism.

I guess that is if you accept the existence of American exceptionalism, it's become

all too popular.

It's become all too accepted.

That's just a reflection of jingoism, false patriotism.

There's nothing special about America.

You can listen to that speech from the newsroom, the famous clip from the newsroom.

What's exceptional about America and go through a ranking of stats on our education system

or our, even our individual average income and say, well, America's not number one in

this or America's not number one in that.

But I think for anybody who simply asked this question, hey, if they took down all national

borders across the globe and asked yourself from your country, for all countries, would

there be a net inflow or net outflow of people moving in?

I think that would settle to debate pretty quickly that there's an easily identifiable American

exceptionalism.

But I think that everyone could also say, come with their own definitions.

Oh, it's, it's Apple.

It's billionaires.

It's Sunday football.

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