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On who you ask, and it's a question of perspective today for democrats as they close out 2021. some see the president's report card as incomplete. others questioning whether or not maybe it's a failure despite some major legislative victories. joining me now a democratic senator from maryland chris van hollen. thanks so much for taking the time on a holiday week. as you noted during the break, we'll have a heck of january ahead of us which i'm hoping you can walk through to some degree. i think one of the questions we're all trying to figure out what happens next. i think from a technical stan...

Ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. once again, that will require the cooperation of a republican colleagues. i hope they will cooperate, so we can move more quickly, otherwise, we will proceed by the book and finish the bill. >> john, what's our sense of the bipartisanship inside this bipartisan bill? even the vote to take away the shell vote -- there were republicans who voted. >> yes it is bipartisan. it would've gotten this far if it was not. 63 up to about 69 votes for that legislators both democrats and republicans want to see th...

Senators who fall into this category, you voted to repeal obamacare in 2015, explain to your constituents why he won't do it again. the vice president was speaking just a short time ago and said they need to get on this, inaction is not a option. you'll hear this refrain, hang on, the 2015 but was merely a shell vote. we knew the president obama was going to sign it, but the white house is going to make the case. wait a second, you are voting for something you know what it happened in 2015, but now in 2017, you won't vote for something you know will happen? the white house is talking about a t...

Kind of a shell vote in the senate. and yet house and senate democrats just intensified their attack. who is right? >> i think the republicans ultimately are going to have the high ground on this. you look -- the conventional wisdom now is hardening around the idea that this is going to be an albatross around the republican's necks. if you listened to two little moments last week. one is bill clinton whispering to paul ryan back stage at a debt commission debate i'm worried. ima he glad we won the special election but i'm worried it will give us ain' excuse to do nothing. the other moment to m...

Kind of a shell vote in the senate. and yet house and senate democrats just intensified their attack. who is right? >> i think the republicans ultimately are going to have the high ground on this. you look -- the conventional wisdom now is hardening around the idea that this is going to be an albatross around the republican's necks. if you listened to two little moments last week. one is bill clinton whispering to paul ryan back stage at a debt commission debate i'm worried. ima he glad we won the special election but i'm worried it will give us ain' excuse to do nothing. the other moment to m...