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Build back better plan? >> that's -- we are moving the build back better along. this is the first major step. we have never -- let me -- with all due respect to your characterization, this is -- we are in the best place ever today to be able to go forward. we have not had this level of progress in terms of where we are on build back better, the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or the jobs creation legislation, and the opportunity to have a path to build back better for women. and for women, because there is so much in there that is liberating for women, women in the workplace, and dads, to...

>> inability to -- >> it's not -- we're moving the build back better along. this is the first major step. we have never -- with all due respect to your characterization, this is -- we're in the best place ever today to be able to go forward. we have not had this level of progress in terms of where we are on build back, the bif, bipartisan infrastructure framework, the jobs creation legislation, and the opportunity to have a path to build back better for women. and for women, because there's so much in there that is liberating for women. women in the workplace, and dads, too, who have home resp...

It's eldercare, health care, children learning, parents earning, the tax credit that helps pay the bills. in so many ways, we are very proud of the fact that in this legislation, we've had the opportunity for people in this role to be taken under the affordable care act. this is transformational. anything i mentioned -- everything i mentioned is appointed by governor mention. there may stem dough might be some things that they will add and subtract, but over 90% of the bill was house, senate, white house. there's a couple of things that may be different, we will deal with those. but this is ag...

I said over and over again it was about children learning and parents earning and that means with universal pre-k and child care and home health care and child care tax credit and all the rest, that is a liberation for women to be able to pursue their careers and help take care of their families, while their children and family members are cared for. so in any event, what we talked about was the fact that if any one of these features were in the bill that we were taking up in the congress, if we were taking up the child care pieces of this and at the home health care pieces of it, it would be ...

Respect. the white house and democrats, progressives, one reason i think they're moving along even though they're not satisfied with what they've gotten is they know once you've enacted a new program, it's very hard to unroll it. they see this as a down payment on more that they can do down the road as well, geoff. >> and political hindsight being what it is, did this white house make a mistake by -- and here we go to house speaker nancy pelosi, hold that thought, mike. >> good afternoon. thank you very much for accommodating the excitement that we had this morning with the visit of the presid...