virus can, and how much work still has to be done as well. this administration of course is still dealing with the afghanistan withdrawal, and now we are seeing potentially a government shutdown, and as much as, to be clear, some of the fault lies at the feet of republicans, being obstructionists, it's not clear that the general public at large will see that and democrats who won all parts of government right now could face the majority of the blame so there is a lot going on right now for this president. he knows it's a pivotal moment for his first year in office. >> we know there's a nervousness about 2022, susan, but there's also the polling that has shown that joe biden's approval rate has fallen over the course of the last couple of months. what does that mean for him, and obviously the party as a whole as they try to move forward on some of these big initiatives that jonathan has just talked about? >> president biden had an approval rating that was above the 50% mark, that is pretty