progressive tax proposals we have ever seen in the country. i was also struck by that joe manchin clip you showed where at least for one moment the guy who has been mostly fighting people on the left sounded a bit like elizabeth warren or bernie sanders saying we should tax capital. now, i thought that interview with representative yarmuth was very revealing. if there was cold water on this show, it was in that segment and he was suggesting, boy, i don't think we could write this that fast. he also spoke as a budget guy, not a ways and means guy, because he didn't want to talk about the taxes. he wanted to talk about the good stuff that we're spending money on. here is a thought i've been having over the last 24 hours, which is this bill is a lot smaller than progressives had hoped for. if progressives didn't get all of the spending they wanted but did get one of the most