joining me to discuss, congressman ami bera, a moderate democrat from california and sits on the house foreign affairs committee. thanks for taking the time. thanks for having me on. so given me ve busted through so many deadlines at this point, can you give us a realistic one? is there one? you know, when i was at the white house on tuesday, the president was pretty optimistic. he went through in granular detail some of the areas where there was agreement. i think they re in the last mile of this, you know, trying to iron out those last four or five things that, yeah, there s still a little ways to go. one of them is the possibility of raising taxes to pay for this. you each heard that kyrsten sinema opposes that although there s been some signaling she s willing to talk within some buckets, as she calls them, for potential revenue increases. a key question is can you pay for these expansions and benefits without raising some taxes on someone or some