That tweet this week. take a listen to him. i would just say the congresswoman doesn t know me. she doesn t know me. and i m happy to talk to her. i think maybe she ll have a different opinion. we can have a difference of opinion. the rhetoric around here has gotten so harsh and so toxic that you can t agree to disagree anymore. you can t sit down and say, okay, i disagree with you, and you say, joe, do we agree on the same problem? yeah, let s start working. tell me what you think would fix it. that s not happening. senator, talk about the tenor around these negotiations because many have told me, this is what creating legislation looks like. but what is the message that americans are taking from the many challenges of getting democrats on the same page and bringing the benefits of these bills to the people and will republicans pay a steep price for not supporting these programs? well, that s a good question, because we don t have a single republican vote to make child
Gotten so harsh and so toxic that you can t agree disagree anymore. you can t sit down and say okay, i disagree with you, bret. you are going to say okay, joe, do we agree on the same problem? i say yeah, let s start working. tell me what you think you would fix it. that s not happening. let me tell you what i don t hear that scares the bejesus out of me. i don t hear people say this is good for our country. more or less on both sides this is better for the party. this is better for the 2022 election. bret: let me end where i started last night s elections the congressional progressive caucus in the house now stands at 95 members. looking at last night and the results of it, what s the over under for 2022 more or fewer. the progressives, i spoke to some of them, they are nice people. good people. they are aspirational, i don t agree philosophical. they don t have a chance of getting defeated where they come from. the thing they are doing is basically changing the dynamics of the mo