"At these moments of great national tragedy, we look to Washington to lead, to offer solutions, to bring us together and to appeal to all of us as Americans,” he says in the ad. “We expect a plan. We expect to be called to a higher purpose, we expect to work together. I don’t hear that call coming from Washington these days. Do you? In fact, I hear the opposite: shouting and hysterics instead of calm reasoning, pointed fingers instead of opened hands, division instead of unity.”