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Worried about how this is looking and how this is going down? >> well, from biden's point of view, i'm a conservative so i'm not a big fan of spending programs. he has a huge political problem and needs a reset. they can no longer make the mistake they pay a big political price of confusing partisan with ideological control. they asked manchin to go into places where joe manchin from west virginia where joe biden got under a third of the vote can't go. the question is now can they chop it down to some of the most popular elements, pass those and then have a fight over the other elements becaus...

West virginia. i think that's how he's going to look at it. >> neil: i understand that, senator. you know, in the past he has ultimately voted along with his party. now he does succeed in changing the dynamics and changing the size of the package and all of that, so you think he's closer to voting for this? it's a gut call on a colleague and friend. i understand. what do you think? >> he's a colleague and friend. i don't know the answer to your question. what i do know definitively if he voted for something would be a lot smaller than $6 trillion and $3.5 trillion. they claim this is 1.7 trill...

Probably is going to be spread more easily it looks like than the existing ones unfortunately. more vaccines, we might need new vaccines. much more testing. to reassure people if it spreads, so we don't have to shut down a whole classroom or school if one teacher comes up with it. hopefully a minor breakthrough kind of situation. i think biden should just go after the covid. more money for testing, more money to develop new vaccines. push the boosters more. make them even more accessible. promote them. let the republicans explain why that is not a good idea. i think changing the debate would h...

Situation. i mean i think biden should go after them on covi. propose more money for testing and develop new vaccines. to push the boosters more. to make them more accessible. to promote them. and let the republicans explain why that's not a good idea. changing the debate would help biden. and maybe splits among republicans. maybe a few republicans think that in the face of dangerous new variant, that is what the that is worth spending money on. that's something that is harder for them to oppose than traditional democratic spending programs. >> i talked o somebody today. who said about largely...

I don't think it's on policies and the last thing i would say this. is when you're talking about the size of the domestic spending programs that the democrats have put forward, and you look at the democratic defeats or near defeats in places like new jersey. you look at the message that the voters are sending. there is an alert, an allergy, to the size of the spending that we're seeing that is playing into republican hands and there's a lot of voters who voted for trump. who voted against trump and now voted for youngkin just a year later. so it's an ominous sign for democrats. they've not had...