neil? neil: chad, the fact that the president clearly aligned himself with progressives that they ll concede enough to bring the price down from the 3.5 trillion, that startled some who thought that the president was going to be pushing for at least one victory, an infrastructure-only victory, and maybe to your earlier point that the votes weren t there for that, he decided to rejoin them together. where does this put at least the party s thinking on where the president s coming from going forward? reporter: well, i mean, the fact that he s coming down a lot is significant. but as i ve said, and i ve said it on your programs over the past week, this will be about policy, not so much a number. and even pramila jayapal suggested that. maybe length of some of these programs doesn t run as long as they had hoped and, therefore, that brings down the cost. that s a way that that you could do this. but again, you know, and we ve alluded to this a couple of times before, the dem have a 3-s