resisting that proposal all along? it's a big decision for the white house, how do they find any path forward rather than just deciding between the two. >> if they had to pick one, would the white house go for reconciliation or the bipartisan deal? >> president biden wants to do something bipartisan and wants to show washington can work, but there are a lot of officials in the white house that never really had any doubts about where this was heading. there's been some sense that you have to show you're trying, be caught trying to get joe manchin to sign on for an infrastructure at the end. there's no sign that is completely ruled out, and even manchin indicated that. he, himself, he also said he wants to do things on a bipartisan basis. i think you are going to see, as one white house official put it to me, this is the week where we had multiple roots to a destination, and the gps will have to tell us which one by the end of the week because there is time particularing and