we want to bring in rodney slater. he is the secretary of transportation during the clinton administration. rodney, you had some experience trying to sell transportation spending to congress. joe biden reference to this idea that republicans want these types of infrastructure plans just as much as democrats do but nobody really wants to pay for it. how do you get to the point we can get people to agree on how to pay for these things? >> i think today's presentation was a good start. clearly, the president was talking about this, even as a candidate and when he selected his team, his cabinet putting it together, he made the point that it was going to be a cabinet that looked like america because we want it to serve all americans. this is at the core of the build back better plan. he made a strong case for is important. all we have to do is look at the situation in the suez canal. we need to make sure that our infrastructure system here is good enough to get us to those markets and beyond. that is with the president was t