How do you process this moment 34 days out as Trump appears before the national media and basically says,

well, I got you tamed.

They all nod back at them.

And you got to keep being nice.

Got to be nice, nice to Trump.

How do you assess the strategic landscape politically?

I think the question is the right one.

Because one of my great mentors was a guy named Les Gelb who ran the Council on Foreign Relations.

And he used to say strategy is hard.

Most people can't do strategy.

I think what you see right now is a landscape that looks like an evolving battlefield, right?

And you've got a force that's on the offensive and is taking ground

and got momentum and got energy. And you've got a fragmented, disorganized, demoralized opposition

and series of oppositions. And I think for me, I go back to being a dad, right? And when I

send my boys off to school, we have little

sayings every day. I got two little boys. They're nine and five. And we say, strong of body,

strong of heart, strong of mind. Right. And that's how I kind of steal them to think about how

they can be empowered to take on whatever is going to come at their day. And I make the brothers

look at each other, tell them they love them, and they go in together. Right. And every day they're going into the unknown in New York City

public school. But when my nine-year-old was a kindergartner, he was going into COVID with a mask

and a temperature check. And I couldn't even go in the room, right? So I kind of bring it all back to that, Steve, because I think the most important thing for people,

especially Democrats, to understand is it's on. It's been on for years. And now it's fully unfolding.

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