thank you so much for joining us, joe stiglitz. can you start off by talking about the transformational aspects of this american rescue plan? first let me say, it was enormously important that the economy be rescued and that is why the $1.9 trillion package was so important. but within it, it was designed to beget a transformation. what you talked about earlier, the number of people are been lifted out of poverty, is absolutely essential. the first act passed under the previous presidency, a few ants in the process of what is called conciliation, was a tax bill in december 2017. the difference could not be clearer. that was a tax bill that helped the billionaires and corporations. the money went to the top. this is a transformation with money going to the people who really need it. amy: so talk about the significance of this. i mean, the reason it was able to be passed with not one republican joining in the house or the senate, even though astoundinglyhey are starting to take credit for it -- the mississippi senator wicker who twee