and they know that manchin, senator manchin felt burned earlier in the year. and our book shows this. about the rescue plan, mitch mcconnell and other republicans feel manchin may have been asked to do too much earlier in the year and maybe he s going to sit on the sidelines for a while. so democrats are dealing with that dynamic. but speaker pelosi is trying to balance reality of the vote with the concerns of her progressives. she s close to the progressives. she doesn t want to get too far from them. shannon, the lights were on in the west wing including the oval office until just a short time ago when the press corps was sent home. i guess there was a chance that the president was going to go down to the hill if his presence was scald for. no more of that, we re told he s returned to the residence. what s going to be said about how the white house has been playing this? yeah, well, my colleague kelly o donnell, who is working the late shift there, said it was at least until 9:00