this is a team of people who actually in their areas, heather buescher, jared bernstein in fighting for full employment policies, cecilia rouse for being someone who has fought against hiring discrimination and things like college completion, these are people who can help with the tangible policies, the building back better portion of his economic agenda. >> and claire, given the way mitch mcconnell has refusing to recognize that joe biden won, what are the chances that biden's past ability to work with mitch mcconnell on budget deals are going to make a difference? and what about confirmations with him going after neera tanden because of her tweets and ignoring her whole record, her policy record? >> yeah, it's a whole new level of hypocrisy that republican senators are now all of a sudden worried about tweets that hurt their feelings. this is just ridiculous. we've had a president who has used his twitter account like a battering ram, going after not just his political opponents but republican senators unfairly, with incredibly brutal tweets. now all of a sudden it's a disqualificatio