or the china thing. that s part of it strategy-wise. the poll numbers are hemorrhaging for this administration. listening to the vice president today in the interview today is quite something. she is not good in that back and forth. she hasn t been publicly and she started off saying i m not going to absolve the republicans but good for craig melvin to push back about manchin and sinema. it is just not those two democratic senators who have problems with potential filibuster changes. we should make clear they are against rules changes. what chuck schumer is trying to do is a procedural loophole and trying to get senate democrats to sign onto this one-time deal. but we saw that with the nuclear option on the supreme court after harry reid started this process. dana: why do you think the