you know, but there reallya g is. there s a bigger trick takiner g place around the country this week that we need to discuss. okay. thisg. this is serious. cbs news is reporting that rising cases could lead to a comeback from mask mandates. an hey, i ve got an idea. idea. no, no, i ve got an idea. how about you? but, like, seriously, after e all we ve learned in the past few yearses, anyone who suggest we should bring back masks has more than a women sbr has team. okay, let s start with the obvious. for one, masks. work,e it and there s plenty of data to prove it, so nobody should be on board with bringinulbeg ms back. because if we do that, then it s only a matter of time before we start bringing s ime back other things that dot work.
That. daniel, before we let you go, obviously congress is away this week. this traditionally is a quiet week in washington, although, the political rules of that all seem to be out the window for the last few yearses, but what will you be looking for when everyone comes back to town early next week? what s the order of business? what s the priority? i think the first order of business is whether biden and manchin have a meeting to try to hash out their own concerns about, you know, build back better or whether biden can get manchin back on track, or is this legislation kind of dead and biden should focus on something else? and so democrats view this piece of legislation as critical to having any chance of winning in the midterms, and so manchin surprise move took biden by surprise as you reported, and, you know, they need to really