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Advice? >> well, i was his whip and the whip counts votes and i can't tell you how many times harry and i sat down and talked about needing one more vote. right now we're at a 50/50 senate, you know, 50 democrats and 50 republicans. we have a working majority when the vice president shows up and votes. harry would be the first to know that political reality is a tough one to get anything serious done. but the fact is that we're working toward that goal and harry inspired me and a lot of people who work in the snenate today is keep an eye on the price. >> and speaking of that, harry reid's role...

The president's been very clear he does want to win over bipartisan support for the nominee and looks like he might need it given we learned democratic senator suffered a stroke. chuck schumer literally doesn't have a working majority right now without luhan. so, will the biden administration be able to get republicans on board, particularly from what we heard from lindsey graham over the weekend. he seemed supportive of some of the president's picks. >> senator luhan, we hope he gets better fast, could slow the process. we don't know how long his recovery will take. we think later this spring...

Forward. the president's agenda. but to answer your question, directly, yes, a sense of the fragility of the majority some add some added oomph to that focus and energy. >> senator chris coons, democrat from delaware, always good to get your perspective. we know you have a lot of president's ear at times as well. thank you. coming up we have what's happening next now that the democrats no longer have a working majority temporarily in the senate. you're watching "meet the press daily." you're watching "meet the press daily. and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sale...

Time. and so biden, i believe, felt there was a moment or t opportunity for him to do at the united states at home what lbj managed to do in the mid 1960s. the difference, of course, that lbj had the numbers in congress. he had a working liberal majority. president biden has never had a progressive working majority in congress. >> do we do ourselves and current presidents a disservice then by comparing them to previous presidents given all of the comparisons that we saw last year with president biden coming in, many saying this is the right time for him, comparing him to lbj and yet knowing th...

And knows what this is like. so january 6th in some way made me want to run for the senate. it heightened the importance of, you know, getting a working majority in that body so we can protect the voting rights and fundamentals of this democracy that we care about. >> you mentioned the domestic issues. the president's agenda starts this new year with key items stalled in that senate. and the fact that you're running for senate. how do you assess the way the upper chambers handled negotiations for, let's start with build back better. >> well, it's difficult to assess coming from the house side ...