one of the things they did was, you know, republicans on that finance committee with max baucus did this bipartisan deal in the aca and it burned up a lot of the clock. we haven't seen that, on the big priority items, from joe biden, the guy who likes bipartisan deals in 40 years of the senate, we haven't seen that approach. they have been moving quickly and not waiting. >> absolutely. we saw during that same fight, the aca fight, chuck grassley, they went to him and said is there anything that we can put in this bill that makes you vote in favor, and he said no, there is not anything at all. back in 2010, when mcconnell said 2010 one term president. it's been 11 years since. people know they don't like mcconnell. in a recent poll he got 23% overall approval rating compared to 46% for congressional democrats. that's a higher rating for either party in congress, and i've seen this in a long time. mcconnell knows he's not popular. the only way -- republicans aren't popular. the only way to bring down the biden agenda is making sure that nothing gets done they can take credit for. he only h