we've seen what happened really beginning last summer when the delta variant surged. the erosion of his approval ratings, which had been high and steady. what the president has got to do, of course, is keep grinding away at those vaccination levels. we know that vaccinations are the most significant thing we can do to get a handle on the pandemic. but as this becomes an endemic, the existence of testing, rapid, easy, cheap, testing, that americans can use to protect themselves and protect others, that's going to become especially important and the president turned to that before the holidays, but they've got a lot of work to do. >> alex, obviously part of the president's agenda got stalled by west virginia senator joe manchin. the build back better act, there were several self-imposed deadlines that came and went. ultimately the president says that he's not giving up on it, but it seems like a salvage mission at this point going into