relish doing around these crises, to maybe make some partners that ten days ago weren't interested in his infrastructure plan but now staring down dilapidated infrastructure at risk of another storm, maybe he finds, i don't know, people in his own party or others or local leaders that become new partners rowing in the same direction. does that seem idealistic and ludicrous or do you think that's a realistic hope? >> idealistic, yes. i wouldn't say ludicrous. i think certainly the white house is going to attempt to seize this moment, you know, when crisis strikes, it is often an opportunity to enact meaningful change. they're going to do that. the argument they're going to make to fellow democrats is this, if not now, when? the planet is on fire. we are seeing it across the country right now with disaster after disaster from coast to coast, the president mentioning he is in the northeast today touring storm damage. he was in the gulf states doing