dan, what you got back there? i am awake writing an article, have not pulled an all-nighter since college. ayman s news american radical, he reports how a woman in his hometown becomes a foot soldier. you can catch that on sunday. i get one more here, bill gum tweets at me, i am up way too early because my 41-year-old wife had to get up at 4:00 a.m. to fly to mexico for a rave this weekend. okay. moving on. the biden administration announced yesterday the environmental protection agency is sending more than $7 billion throughout the country to replace water, infrastructure
with president trump and that health care and tax reform and all these substantive issues really are a crucial pivot point for voters, particularly centrist or business-minded republicans. for republicans in the senate, getting a bill across the finish line is paramount in terms of their goals about being able to get things done. for democrats, probably the best thing they can hope for is some of these questions inside the republican party about secrecy or what s really in the bill gum up the wheels. they ve got the self-imposed deadline, the limit mcconnell has put on to get this done hopefully before july 4th recess next thursday. the other big question that s now being replayed and replayed and replayeds is sean spicer being asked what the president has said, can the president say definitively that it was russia that meddled in the 2016 election. the response from spicer was, i haven t talked to the president about that. margaret knows, she s been in the briefings, ron. how many t
a broader context, this fascinating political laboratory. as steve just said what does it say about the broader look at american politics? well, i think on the republican side it s easy. ron desantis, trump endorsed, trump s back. on the democratic side it s less clear because gillum went with 34% of the vote and we ve seen candidates not necessarily do as well in the michigan gubernatorial primary. we saw the bernie sanders-backed candidate lose there. in terms of what it sets up for the general election, we get a test for what the bernie sanders people wanted, a matchup of a progressive bernie sanders-back typed candidate medicare for all versus the trump-backed candidate hard right wing. it will be interesting to see because if gillum pulls it off it will be interesting to see for the primary in 2020 whether the candidates that look like bill gum and bernie sanders will say hey, we can win a general