their president either on the big spending plan or on changing senate rules to pass the flust yermt our report remembers back with us to discuss the challenges ahead as well as a look back at the year past. democrats resisted, jeff zeleny, for months breaking up the social safety net plan. listen to the president say i guess i have no choice. it s clear to me that that we re going to have to probably break it up. i m not going to negotiate it myself as to what should and shouldn t be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now and come back and fight for the rest later. the question is now that he has made that concession publicly, how fast and what pieces? that is the open question here, and throughout the press conference the president was really blaming republicans for being so obstructionist, but he was also sending a very clear message to democrats, to check their expectations at the door in the second year of this presidency if they want to g