 yeah at the same time though he was talking about the political environment in the ways in which he would like to see it change the president talking about this idea of lowering the temperature really what he was trying to achieve with this oval office address was acknowledging that yes by and large the american country at this time is deeply divided on partisan lines things have gotten very heated and that was on full display in tragic form in pennsylvania at that rally yesterday when those shots went off and donald trump's life was threatened so in part this is