out of this pandemic, prove with a nation that's obviously been in turmoil now for years, prove that democracies can still serve its citizens and compete economically in the 21st century with the rising autocracies across the globe, namely china. so, certainly, we feel like the administration has made it clear the next two weeks will be crunch time in terms of whether the infrastructure deal can be worked out, whether it can be any sort of bipartisan agreement, but that is just a piece of the overall budget for this white house. >> so, you actually wrote about the infrastructure deal, and i want to read from your piece. president joe biden wants to wrap up infrastructure negotiations soon with senate republicans and is looking ahead to june action in the house after finding their idea of tapping leftover covid relief funds to pay for the investment unworkable, a white house advisor said on friday. where are we at this point, jonathan, when it comes to infrastructure? >> well, the white house is signaling that, first of all, they're just pleased that there is some bipartisan dialogue, so a lot of issues, of course, we know, in hyperpartisan washington right now, that's not happening at all. infrastructure and policing are the two things that are the exception. they were hoping for more from