to be to try to hold together this fragile majority of only 50 senators plus vice president kamala harris baird to break any type of tiebreakers. so in the end, i think we will have a covid package. all of the democrats have realized this is critical. referred from some the callers today that the suffering we are seeing in the country and people's individual situations. and so democrats realize they don't have a choice but to pass a big covid package. but how they get there, there is still some twists and turns left in this long journey. >> so what about republicans? how have they said they planned to vote in both thevo house and the senate? >> certainly in the house come the house about today we are not expecting many republicans to jump democrats. i think there are possibly a handful. by and large were going to see the republican party stick together and vote against covid package. that is interesting because the polling has showed that covid relief is a normal sleep popular. it's one of the reasons that have sort of propelled joe biden's popularity because he made covid relief his number one