for more i spoke with special correspondent jeff greenfield, who joined us from santa barbara. inking violet, i mean, these requests for $2 trillion for infrastructure, $2 trillion for covid relief, these are huge asks, and he doesn't have a bulletproof majority in congress. >> indeed, he has a paper thin majority in congss. and that's what makes this so startling. you think of major social programs, they were initiated by presidents who had won landslide victories-- f.d.r. in 1932, l.b.j. in 1964. but i think there were a couple of explanations for this. first, the biden people are very aware that obama may have asked for too little in 2009, which did not prevent a slow, weak, politically damaging recovery. so they're asking for a lot. second, the infrastructure plan is very popular, according to the public opinion polls, among even republicans. and really interestingly, when people learn that biden wants to pay for it with tax increases on corporations, the support goes up. the third thing is the democratic party, as we know, has moved substantially to the left. so there's pre

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