we have shannon pettypiece and sahil kippur. shannon, what is the white house doing about this? >> reporter: a few beaks ago it was biden running the show, it was biden bringing those senators in to be briefed. it was biden have the direct talks with senator katko. now it's unclear if the president has even been briefed on this latest plan. white house officials said yesterday that the staff was briefed on wednesday, and at some point democratic staffers or senators were going to brief the president, but they were unclear if that actually happened yet. so, yes, this is largely in the hands of the senate. but the white house has indicated some things they are looking for, particularly they want a lot of new spending. they're comfortable with something around the trillion-dollar mark but they want a vast majority to be new