unlocking a way forward, biden on sunday night spent a decent amount of time with macron and they are coordinating with the white house on what the nature of the diplomatic pathway forward is going to be. i will tell you, katy, i think there has been more u.s.-led multilateral effective coordination in response to this crisis than anything we have seen since the coalition against afghanistan in 9/11, and i think putin is quite surprised by that, and he would not have expected that given the debacle on afghanistan on biden s watch, and the economy under angela merkel. where does that leave us when it comes to germany? i know angela merkel is no longer there and there s a new chancellor, and in germany,
joe manchin has made those comments at that radio show after he had had what the white house described as a pretty conciliatory or pleasant conversation with president biden on sunday night. clearly, relations between these two men need some mending if the president is going to be able to pursue his big domestic agenda. even to do a downsize bill that has some of the programs that were in build back better and not others, not at all guaranteed democrats are going to be able to heal some of the fractures we see breaking out all over, to get something done. natasha, they are talking. i mean, yes, the manchin interview on radio where he made those comments was after the biden-manchin conversation, but if you re looking at the timeline, after manchin s radio interview, the white house held a white house briefing and didn t say anything mean about joe manchin there. it does seem like we re in this new chapter now, where democrats feel like maybe there s a chance in january. yeah. well,