i think in the coming days and weeks we may she what messages the president is trying to tell both americans and russians and europe about what to expect, but a lot of that depends on vladimir putin. again, it s not central to the u.s. challenges or to what voters care about heading into the midterms. this is not lining up to be a foreign policy midterm election, but what putin does or doesn t do is going to set off a chain of reactions and it s going to put biden in a real moment of a leadership test. and then, david, back to the big domestic item for the president, we re talking about his build back better social spending program. senator joe manchin, you know, torpedoed the talks, but white house officials are hopeful that talks can be revived on a more limited bill, or perhaps even a set of bills. so what is most realistic? fred, if i could, i just wanted to say one thing about