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Here's south carolina senator lindsey graham on why the outcome matters for republicans. >> if it's a 50-50 senate, that means all the committees have equal representation are. if it's 51-49, they have one more vote than we do on every committee. it matters in terms of the judges you get. in 2024 we have a very favorable math. we don't want to be down going into 2024, so it matters how the senate is run, it matters to the future of the republican party. paul: let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist kim strassel and an editorial board member who is in atlanta covering the race. mane, tel...

But i think the better policy would be to squeeze them further. there's nothing in giving all these concessions to the regime and then talking about sitting down at the table. this is actually nothing there. paul: why did the opposition go along with this? >> well, the opposition wants -- i mean, the leadership of the opposition, which are the people who are going to be talking in mexico, want some space to operate inside the country. and that's good for them. but in terms of the venezuelan people themselves, it's not good. and i, i'm a little bit skeptical about opposition that lobbied for th...

Could never desire something western like freedom unless foreign forces were involved. so you see a lot of these insinuations that the cia is behind this. whenever a chinese wants freedom, they always blame the u.s. or cia or something. and the last part i'll add that makes me not optimistic is that other countries that are faced -- that have faced unrest, you know, the philippines under marcos, even the soviet union when the east germans started to rebel, their leaders, gorbachev didn't send troops in and marcos famously refused to fire on filipinos. xi jinping will not make that a mistake co...

Should do. paul: yeah. so now the argument the democrats are make is that this tax credit has, when it was in place during the pandemic, helped to reduce child poverty significantly. and, therefore, we should want to do this on a permanent basis because, of course, nobody wants child poverty. what's your response to that? >> well, certainly i sound like scrooge, but handing people checks does alleviate some of their immediate budgetary needs, but it doesn't lift them up over the long term. it doesn't improve their wages, for instance, or hair long-term living standards -- their long-term livin...

And the idea that that can go through without congress approving it, i think that's very dangerous on its own. so i don't expect biden administration to win on that one. not because it's bad policy, but because way they did it is so extra-'sial. extra-constitution toal. paul: dan, my take on this is that the court would not have taken in the if he were going to merely uphold biden decision. what do you think? >> yeah. oh, i think that's right. at least four justices had another this, so they're interested in the larger constitutional issues involved here. again, the $420 billion dispersed, tax...