the chances are very good that the president is going to get this done by christmas. >> won't. >> john: he said will santa claus visit chuck schumer? traveling and blank slate may be easier than passing what he wants by christmas. it sounds like he's been using your writer. the outcome and my pin is that mr. joe manchin will show the convictions matter and he will vote no and deny mr. schumer his christmas victory and the democratic left its transmission a moment. joe manchin is not getting what he wants and he also says that the twin concerns of inflation and omicron should be a cause to pause. do you think that they will lose senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema? >> first, you didn't mean it and a first, but for better or worse, i am a writer. i wouldn't blame what i sang anybody else. it's not just senator manchin and senator sinema.