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Jonathan, back to you, same question? >> well, brian, certainly there is concerns here from the white house and more progressive democrats as to how they keep the more moderates in line. others behind the scenes are uncomfortable with the size of that reconciliation package. and bernie sanders and some of the progressives think it should be bigger. the white house is about 4 trillion. sanders thinks it should be 6 trillion. moderates have given their blessing to this reconciliation process saying that they would be okay with this budget procedure that would just be democrats alone, need to kee...

And the uk is on track to meet only a fifth of its emissions targets by 2035. here's our science editor, david shukman. there's been a spectacular shift away from coal. the power stations burning this cheap, but dirty, fuel being demolished and making way for forests of wind turbines. bbut the government's climate advisers say it'll take a lot more than this for the country to go carbon—neutral. when you look at the policies to deliver it, i'm afraid we are very off—track, very, very substantially off—track. really, only about 20% of the policy commitments that the government has made wo...

Their training and -- and having the reforms that we seek. in terms of this -- this -- this other package. i don't know that they're going to get that through. this reminds me, back in the days when bill clinton. we had an issue, whether he would sign welfare reform and medicaid reform. and i advocated, at the time, let's take what we can get. and i think we are in a take-what-we-can-get moment in washington and let's do the infrastructure. if we're not getting infrastructure before reconciliation, i'm not sure you are going to get infrastructure. i'm just not sure it will happen. >> let me ge...

Spending and falls short of what president biden was looking for. remember, he wanted 1.4 trillion overall with $1 trillion in new spending. so those numbers, big, big gap, right? so, yesterday, president biden spoke to shelly moore capato the republican senator leading the negotiations for her side of the aisle and in a statement afterwards, white house press secretary jen psaki wrote the current offer do not meet his objectives to grow the economy and tackle the climate crisis and create new jobs. he indicated to the senator he would continue to engage a number of senators in both parties in...

October, before any of the public testimony was done, was 44% in favor, 51 opposed, so that inched down 4% in support, inched up a point or two in opposition. most of that was driving by republicans coalescing completely behind the president. democrats are a bit less in favor. the 0% of republicans are opposed. 80% of democrats are in fair. it's not a big gap, but it's a little bit. independents are a bit more opposed than in favor. >> look, i know you're a numbers guy, but i know you got a ph.d. in political science from the university of michigan, so what is going on here? what is it about t...