>> we heard from two republican senators, john theo and rob portman, asking about her concerns about where the u.s. federal deficit is heading. while she said that overall, she wants to be a voice of fiscal sanity she told rob portman, she still thinks that the best thing to do for the overall fiscal outlook for the u.s. is to bend now. she said she is very concerned about scarring in the economy from the pandemic induced slowdown. romaine: i thought this was interesting. when you think about her former job as fed chair, it seems like she would have been before congress, warning about the dangers of inflation and other things that this fiscal spending would do. she now has to go on to capitol hill and sell biden's policies. what has been the response by some of the senators and congress people on the hill? >> so far, we have heard from several lawmakers. chuck grassley said during his opening remarks that he sees a lot of the social safety net measures in biden's plan as a liberal wish list that he has said has just been tacked on hundred the guys of meeting fiscal spending to cope w

on theo serves curriculum into training committee of the national council on public history. the holder ofs the distinguished fellowship of the circle studies at johns hopkins university. most recently she was the dean's professor of history at the university of southern california. she is also a research associate at harvard university center for european studies. b.a. at earned her harvard. she is the author of five books, 9: theing collapse and 198 struggle to create post-cold war europe, both of which were financial times books of the year. marywing graduate school, served as a white house fellow then joined the jack nolte university of cambridge only then to go off to teach at ufc. she is a former humboldt scholar, a member of the council on foreign relations. we will start with mary, who will depart early today to go and teach. endk each commentator to their commentary with a few questions for simon. simon will get a chance to immediately respond to the questions so we can start the conversation. yours.he zoom room is >> it is an honor to be here and a pleasure to acknowledge the work of a billion scholar doing -- brilliant scholar doing work