Barack Obama: “I want to know that we can work with you on this.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

The success of this experiment was never a given.