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Deal hanging by a thread. we're seeing bipartisan republicans and progressive democrats fight over the same pot of money. and that's significant because it shows you, a, how badly republicans want to pay for this and, b, there's some real crossover here and the two deals aren't as de-linked as chuck schumer would like them to be. so this is going to be a very specific policy fight this week. there's some politics involved for a lot of the drug companies and medicare, there's billions of dollars involved but it gives you a sense of how hard everyone is trying to get the bipartisan deal across t...

Joining us now with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, hans nichols, hans, what is the axios one big thing for this morning? >> jonathan, the one big thing we're looking at is kind of what brez was looking at, how is this bipartisan group going to pay for the infrastructure package. to jump into the weeds, they're going to look at going through pharmaceutical drug rebates. i normally wouldn't look at these, but it's important here and i'll tell you why. it's important because this is also a pot of money that the democrats, that bernie sanders, wants to go after. we're seeing t...