know? yeah. here's what's happening. we need more time. good evening, gents. so, ron, so the president, you know, went to capitol hill. he is trying to rally the troops. you heard from biden. he is pledging that this is going to get done, regardless of the timeline. but this has been a really messy process. i hope -- maybe -- maybe, i'm not categorizing that right. but um, i don't know. or characterizing, excuse me, properly. and then, there is still the big divide here. is the president right? will it happen? >> you would think that it will happen for the reason that we have talked about all the way throughout. that it's really not in anyone's interest, in the democratic party, to have it completely collapse. but, don, this is tough. they are trying to make great change on a slender majority to borrow a phrase from thomas jefferson. and that is difficult. you know, in the 20 -- in the 21st century, it -- because the country is so deeply and stably div divided it's been really hard for either party to generate any kind of significant cushion in