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To until everything is agreed to. and this is one step on what promises to still be a long and windy road ahead. i mean, for starters, let's just do the kind of math that we can do on our hands without taking off our shoes. there were five republican senators at that announcement today. you will recall that the magic number of republican senators that democrats need to join them to defeat a filibuster of any bill is not five. it's ten. are there another five republican senators who weren't there today who will vote for this infrastructure bill? maybe. but even if there are another five of them...

Maybe. but even if there are another five of them, ten republicans, that math still only works if all 50 democratic senators vote for it. there are plenty of democratic senators who have made it clear they think this scaled down compromise mini infrastructure bill is totally inadequate and not something they're interested in working on. so that's one thing. the easy math question here. but to my eye, the really notable thing today, and i do actually think it's an encouraging sign. the notable thing today that i saw is that there's a remarkable group of people who do all now seem to be on the s...

Material. and frankly some of those students were incredibly well prepared, and some of them were not. and so i guess i'd give a shout out to all the students who didn't get the homework done, for giving me preparation for dealing with these ceos and trump administration officials who show up in congress not ready to talk about the issues of the day. >> and the one that kind of was your first big hit was jamie dimon, the jp morgan chase ceo and i want to show one more piece of this because it involves kind of a little math question he just couldn't kind of figure out. let's watch this. >> you ...

Material, and, frankly, some were well prepared and some were not. i guess i give a shut out to all the students that didn't quite get the homework done for giving me a lot of preparation for dealing with corporate ceos and trump administration officials who show up not ready to talk about the issues of the day. >> and j.p. morgan chase ceo, mr. diamond. we immediately asked you to come on. i want to show one more piece of this because it involves kind of a little math question that he just couldn't figure out. let's watch this. >> mr. diamond, you know how to spend $31 million in salary and y...

Imagine if somebody was running against obama polling in double digits. it would get floor media attention. now trying to cover this administration is lake trying to catch confetti. we can't cover it all. i want to talk about charlie's point about, you know, kind of appealing to some of those voters, you know, the romney/clinton voters. they're still republicans, still ideological differences. when you try to appeal to those people you run the risk. how can you appeal and then come back and talk to your base? why not double down on your base and inspire those people to get out instead of tryin...