let's bring in a democrat to discuss this, representative carolyn bordeaux.o have you on "prime time." you were the only democrat to flip a house seat last year. and your district, suburban atlanta, none of this is new to you from what you learned from your own race. what do you hope comes from what happened? >> good to be here. i hope what we do is, we recenter ourselves around messages like the one that i ran on. and people can go look at my closing ads, i ran on bipartisanship, fiscal responsibility, and addressing serious issues like health care. and i think this is a chance to reset, to take a moment and really reflect on those, and deliver on the promises that many of us made during our campaigns. >> it's the last part you guys are struggling with. how frustrating is it for you to have a basket of policies that are wildly popular with the same people who just voted against terry mcauliffe in virginia, and yet it's being sold as really about the price tag? >> yeah, that's been something i've talked a lot about internally, and with the administration, we

social spending package by thanksgiving that strategy did appease moderates like representative carolyn bordeaux who were concerned about the costs and wanted more time to see the details. >> i ran on fiscal responsibility, bipartisanship, tackling covid, addressing health care. i think the democrats need to recenter themselves around this very pragmatic message. >> reporter: but this move angered progressives who still do not want to split up these bills. they have the numbers to zisink the vote tonight and pelosi knows it. >> do you worry it looks like the democrats can't get out of their own way? >> welcome to my world. >> reporter: president biden is now getting involved, calling the head of the progressive caucus talking to her about this vote shep, this morning the president called on every member of congress to vote yes on both bills right now, but so far they're not listening. >> the clock is obviously ticking. we'll come back to you if they actually do anything >>> covid-19 pandemic could be over in the united states by early next year. that is the brand new and encouraging message from