it's progress, and the work continues tomorrow morning. what do you think? >> oh, i think they made a lot of progress today, and i think that though it looks messy in the moment, the story of today is that they finally got full engagement from joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, the two holdout democratic senators. they felt encouraged enough by that to launch these intensive talks to try to get a framework agreement that would permit the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. they didn't get there, but they're close. they're in the red zone, not in the end zone but they're in the red zone. i think it is highly likely that democrats are going to get a deal if not tomorrow, within a matter of days, and that is going to ultimately, depending on what the contents of it, is likely to count as pretty good news for the biden white house. >> okay. >> and for democrats. >> on that note, the rest of the statement reads, while democrats