I hope you realize that you and Pritzker just are the Democrat Party leaders now. I know that's not how it works for committees or other officialese, but nobody has picked up the keys and the car is full of gas. Just take over. Obama did this in an incredibly similar precarious moment. It's yours.

You should give the response, in front of dozens of fired federal workers and their kids. If the party doesn't let you do it, do your own. The networks would carry it because you're you. A consultant will force you do it in a cornfield or something, fine, whatever, but this should be it.

Ok.