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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he's the man to do it. chad, what's happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. >> the closer you c...

Crude oil than i might have two months ago. is so that's one thing. the other thing that's, frankly, happening and t kind of sad is that because it's a commodities market, traders react to the market sentiment and, of course, that's, a lot of that's directedly because of the ukraine-russia situation, and there's just fatigue around that, right? you can only listen to that so many times on nudes, and you get tired of it -- on the news, and you get tired of it. not really tired of it, you get numb to it. you put all three of those together, and prices -- david: rusty, you're the best there is. s...

Minutes ago, yeah, they did it, and it probably helped. david: rusty, we talked about demand, and just to put a fine point on it, we are now -- the demand for gasoline is now to where it was during the summer of 2020 when we had all those lockdowns, so it's a dramatic drop in demand. maybe it was demand destruction because prices got too high. maybe it's, though, because of the fact that we had two down quarters in gdp. the winter and the spring. so is it the fact that people are really worried about a recession? >> yeah. remember, oil trades in a commodity market, so not only are fundamental ...