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hello, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. right now the fbi is at mike pence's indiana home trying to track down any classified documents that perhaps went home with the former vice president. it happens as pence also grapples with the big subpoena from the special counsel investigating donald trump. plus, ready or not, joe biden holds off on formally announcing he's running again but says he feels good about how the voters feel about him. and the death toll in turkey and syria now -- get this -- north of 22,000. c...

The insidity in-picky back and forth of this is fun to watch. as anyone who's watched senator mccottage for a long time -- mcconnell for a long time knows he never says something randomly. this is witnessing someone hanging someone out out to dry full stop, and vently skoeting to say we -- conveniently scapegoating to say it was one guy, everyone chase that ball of yarn over there. the greater question here is also watching president biden put republicans on the defensive about an economic and kitchen table issue. so you can have ron desantis out there talking about being woke, x, y, and z, bu...

Diplomatic, and management skills. joining us now to talk about all of this is the washington bureau chief for "the chicago sun times" lin suite and political commentator errol news, a columnist for "new york" magazine. thank you for getting up with us on this sunday morning. lynn, i want to start with you, from the pandemic to what's going on with his legislative agenda which during the holiday break you saw senator manchin say he could not support the build back better plan, president biden has several challenges ahead of him. what have you heard are the white house's top priorities for this...

It a story. there have been high profile flashes of pelosi and others in this group. i wonder if it doesn't come to a head today. . >> it's important not to miss the forest through the trees here with regard to where the democratic party is. we covered so many democratic debates and fights where progressives feel like they rolled over and agreed to wait for the next fight. they aren't there now. they see they have the numbers. they see they have the democratic president on their side with issues that used to be frankly kind of fringe, whether it's expanding medicare or soviet safety net issues...

I can. senate majority leader chuck schumer and nancy pelosi came out and announced a frame work to pay for that $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. it focuses on education, health care, child care, other safety net issues. but they were pretty vague on the framework. framework. what more can you tell us? >> well. it's an important step forward that they've come together between what the house did and the ways and means committee, what we're doing, the finance committee, to really narrow the options down to the way we pay for this. i think, though, what is so often missed and frustrating to me ...