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[audio difficulty]mike congressman brad sherman of the great state of california, thank you so much for your time. have a great day. >> thanks, mike. ♪♪ mike: turning now to the tight virginia governor's race and the crucial role critical race theory and education are are having on the hoedown between dem -- showdown between terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin. joining us now is patty menders. patty, welcome. >> hi, thank you. mike: with all the controversy in recent months, school board member beth barts resigned friday calling it, quote, the right decision for me and my family. he was fac...

People think, gender and sex are things but they aren't the exact same thing. and so the way that you are assigned at birth may be based on genitalia or whatever, it's not the same thing -- [ audio difficulty ] so on and so forth. so we're really saying that these things are more complex and it's actually not just trans people having a gender experience. everybody is having a more complicated gender experience. >> yeah. thank you so much, raquel. i appreciate you joining us. and getting your side out there. you be well. and i hope you'll come back and we'll continue these discussions. thank yo...

[audio difficulty] >> you asked a question, i'm sorry. jon: yeah. you have argued a lot of the dethe tails of these spending bills are are being hidden. >> absolutely right. we won't see these spending bills until the very last minute, and they'll be 2400 pages, 3000 pages or more, and there will be a lot in those spending bills. for example, when you talk about $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, only 10% of that goes to loads and bridges and what -- roads and bridges and what we would think of as traditional infrastructure. we're spend anding hundreds of billions of dollars on clean buses for...

Direction. when it's going to happen, nobody knows. neil? neil: all right. thank you, my friend. great reporting asking the big commander in chief those questions, timelines here. apparently, he doesn't have them. let's go to chad pergram right now. the president already in wilmington, delaware, he'll be spending the weekend, so it's pretty clear there's no sense of urgency on this, at least from the president here, he's optimistic this all gets done. what are people telling you, chad? >> reporter: well, neil, the president's -- [inaudible] at capitol hill -- [inaudible] [audio difficulty] bet...

Ripped off the bottom and landed where i'm standing, so things are getting pretty dangerous. the to stoplights have been out for a long time, but now it's dangling from the metal pole. on the opposite side of the street at the marriott, you see a dozen linemen, electrical workers who are stationed here. they have their bucket trucks ready to roll. they can only perform in 30 mile-per-hour winds or less. we are very far from that. the earliest they'll be able to get out and repair power is sometime tomorrow, we don't even know when. as of now, there are hundreds of thousands of people without p...