that s been his approach this time, too. so far it hasn t worked and a lot of frustration from other democrats beyond those two senators we all keep talking about, and rightly so. they re the key votes. manchin and sinema. others in the house feel they ve been ignored, they ve questioned the white house outreach. you re taking our votes for granted. we have our issues, too. a lot of progressives are saying we re not going to go along with this and that has put the vote in such jeopardy today. the president has stepped up his outreach. i was with him as part of the presidential pool when he went to the congressional baseball park at nats park and spent time in the democratic and republican dugouts. he worked the phones while he was there, some extraordinary footage of he and speaker pelosi in the dugout on the phone at the same time. he even handed out ice cream bars emblazoned with the presidential seal. we ll see if those get any votes. there s also talk today that he may head up to c