but that was coming down for what democrats wanted at the beginning to cut some of the key things they ve been wanting to do. right now that means that someone like joe manchin has said he wants to make sure there are negotiations. i think we take this as people who cover this that attempted negotiations were enough. we don t know how much back and forth someone like him was hoping for to go it alone, but at some point they may have to do that because it seems like republicans in no way seemed interested in how much democrats want to spend. and more importantly i think how they want to spend it and what they want to use to pay for it. there s almost no wiggle room. a couple weeks there where we thought maybe this might be a bipartisan deal, but that s looking bleaker and bleaker as democrats are getting more antsy on this. we re much obliged to our big three last night of the week. thank you so much for starting
so, tim, politico is reporting opposition to the january 6 commission is actually hardening among senate republicans. your colleague over at the bulwark, jonathan asking if democrats aren t willing to kill the filibuster over the 1/6 commission what will it take? mr. portman a republican of ohio vehemently objected to our characterization of his approach last night, aggressively insisting he s undecided. he s important obviously because of foreign relations and homeland security. indeed, if he votes for the commission we will have a straight up rob portman night here on the broadcast. but talk about if not portman his ilk in the senate the republicans from the kind of traditional fiscal conservative, socially conservative, custodial and protector class.