‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz joins ‘Special Report’ to discuss the media and political responses to former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally attack.

I spent this past weekend in the Smoky Mountains attending a DeBartolo cousins family reunion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We had a great time reconnecting and reminiscing. Love and laughter filled the house.

President Trump's assassination attempt took place during the reunion. It contrasted the unity we were experiencing and the division our country is experiencing.

Re means "back to" so a reunion is back to the union. It’s needed in families, communities and our country. We should, in the words of our Constitution, be seeking a more perfect union.

The DeBartolo cousins gather for a familly portrait in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. (Jeremy Passamonte)

It can start in the family, the most basic unit of our culture. Our family reunion experience was a microcosm of what can happen across our land.

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We all stayed in one big house. People from Connecticut to Arizona, Florida to Ohio all under one roof. The age divide spanned 30 years. Family, yes, but still different in many ways.

We are one big American family. A variety of states but one homeland. A span of ages but all still Americans. Differences, certainly, but also........

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