suzanne malveaux on the hill, thanks very much. >> joining us now, cnn political analyst and "washington post" reporters, toluse olorunnipa and rachel. good to have you both on this morning. rachel, you've covered the hill for a long time. is mcconnell, from what you're hearing, going to stick to this plan? so what he's done is, in effect, loaded up a simple vote on whether to increase these payments from $600 to $2,000, with two issues, pet peeves for the companies, one which is liability issues for social media companies. of course, he likes to tweet a lot. but two, an election commission to monitor voter fraud, which courts, the doj, trump-appointed judges have already rejected here. is he going to stick to this plan, the majority leader? >> at the end of doing that, this is quintessential mcconnell. he's got this bag of political tricks he pulls out every once in a while. this is very clearly one of them. look, the majority leader in the senate has never been a fan of 2,000 payments, stimulus payments. and clearly what he's doing right now is trying to give his members, republicans in the senate, a way to vote for this to give t