infrastructure only package there there will be no linkage and there appears to be in her eyes very much linkage. absolutely a violation so woof to figure the president is going to push it. the president s political fortunes rise and fall on getting something. if she s going to say if i don t get everything i want you won t get the infrastructure. the president knows that and his team knows that there will be pressure from voters, members and the white house for pelosi to take up the bill. you can t predict the future, but you can see the way the future lines up. neil: you know, when you talk about politics, senator, i don t think i can ever remember a time where the two parties have been so die metrically aposed and, they say that americans will be benefitting and things booming more and republicans counter all of
for covid response. cbo may not give us credit, but it s real money that s not being spent that s already been allocated. so if you look at it in a commonsense way, yeah, they paid for it, so, we feel good about that. because the infrastructure. we need it. it s good for our country and i think it will pay for itself in addition to the way that we re paying for it. neil: senator, maybe you can help me about how congress does things in general in the senate and house because nonator what you do in the senate, even if you come up with a bipartisan plan acceptable to everyone, i guess the sense from nancy pelosi, she won t even consider it if that backup is it s hardly a backup measure to her, the so-called infrastructure plan isn t also wrapped up. the devil is in the details and sequence of voting, but she could stop the progress you re making by not considering it when it gets to the house, if
is the pandemic and despite some cases virtually no one in the stands. how would that have affected you? you ve got a lot of energy, they are not there. absolutely. this decision to not include spectators affect every athlete. some personality types are going to respond better to that, they don t like to perform in front of the screaming audience and others need that because they use the adrenaline as an advantage so already the results of these games are skewed slightly with that consideration. however, if we look historically, every olympic gold medalist had to perform. all eyes were on them in front of the screaming audience so it is exceptional in that way. will: we need some stories, it
weekend, and there are thorny issues and the infrastructure bill that you re pointing out know the bernie bill and not the reckless spending and taxation that democrats want to do, this is about roads, bridges and highways, and i can we can get it done. neil: when you and fellow republicans dropped the irs $100 million billion to enforcement and there s a way, but is this thing even close to paid for? yeah, it may not be paid for the reason that d cbo scores. for example, a lot of states decided to end the federal unemployment additional payment early. that s about $50 billion that s not being spent. we re going to apply that to this infrastructure package. that s real money that s not being spent teas been allocated
jeff bezos and richard branson they technically can t be considered astronauts not for the brief amount of times that they spent in case, they had no control in their rocket and safety features and others. it gets complicated, kate, i don t want to bore you with it, but not enough to be considered astronauts. honorary astronauts, fine, but an astronaut like your dad, not fine. what do you make of it. well, i was pondering that and i think what dad would say is there s a bigger perspective that we should all be more concerned about and certainly our brief experiences with jeff would say, he is more concerned about the humanity and the kind of civilization that we are leave behind and how are we contributing in a positive way, be it astronaut, be it a teacher or whoever we may be, so that designation is less