>> you know the president is meeting right now is senators joe manchin and chuck schumer. it comes after steny hoyer announced that the house is shooting for a vote sometime this week on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as the social spending bill. what does this presidential meeting at the president's home today signal to you? do you think this is really that close to the finish line? and when do you think a vote might happen? >> i do. i do. i think that we're very, very close. we have some deadlines coming up at the end of this month in terms of reauthorization. this is not a fake deadline, we have real deadlines coming up. as you know, alex, washington loves a deadline. >> oh, please. >> i'm not sure why we always have to work in this way. but i do think we're close. obviously i think we're all going to see that some things we didn't want to come out of the bill are coming out. but what is going to be in it is going to be transformational. we spent a lot of time talking about the top line number but i