to state their policy position and fight for it, we are running out of time as a nation for people who just make up the rules so they can posture in public opposition. we might be in the final scene of another manchin political opera. we ve lived through these before where the posturing does ultimately land on a deal. that s what makes them so tricky. when you re playing policy, calvin ball, you might ultimately be dealing with a paper tiger. now we turn to our deep dive political conversation. today we call chai day. a veteran of several presidential campaigns including that of barack obama. chai, your thoughts on the calvin ball here? yeah. we talked about this before on a previous chai day. this is really part of a flawed political strategy, one that might have made sense in the 1980s when planes, trains, automobiles was released, when