join me too discuss real clear politics cofounder tom bevan is back. is not going anywhere. the problems are going to compound unfortunately. the president is not even tackling some of the issues from ida. he is blaming it all on climate change which is a fairly new play out of the democrat playbook. >> right. he has got a number of things, crises happening, afghanistan, ida, that resurgence of the delta variant of covid that he promised to squash the bite virus and that does not seem to be happening. the next three weeks in washington d.c. are critical to biden's domestic agenda and the democrats if they are to have any help in the 2022 midterms they need to get something done in terms of passing either infrastructure or the 3.5 chili dollar spending plan which joe manchin said he would not do. on top of that they got continuing resolution to keep the government funded and they have a debt ceiling. all this coming in the next three and a half weeks. so the stakes are really high. this could turn into an absolute dumpster fire if they do not get this r

tom bevan, "realclearpolitics" cofounder. tom, i'm sure market types hearing what chad said about the short-term funding issue, getting it addressed that will be a settled issue, some of them who are am talking to is assured a sure thunk isn't necessarily a sure thing and the implosion it seems happening on the infrastructure only package might be a sign of that. what do you make of the possibility that that too blows up, that there isn't a possibility of getting this funding issue resolved by midnight tonight? >> i mean, look, it's a mess on capitol hill as chad just outlined. there is a lot of fluidity, a lot of bluffing going on and some serious talk. so i think anything is possible at this point. i would be surprised if they don't actually get the cr through but, in terms of the other things it is not at all clear that nancy pelosi has the votes to get the 1.2 trillion hard infrastructure passed and certainly doesn't seem anywhere getting a consensus on the bigger reconciliation bill that you know, she and biden have been

joining me now is tom bevan. great to have you. thank you for being here.was a stunning admission that he said look, we have been watching these a 17,000 people under that dell real bridge for a week and a suddenly all of those people gone, and we think where did they go, where they sent back to haiti and then he admits yesterday that in fact 12,000 of the 17,000 have been released into the united states. we don't know what cities or where, but they are here likely to stay. your thoughts? >> it was a stunning admission and at the administration was asked of these questions last week because it was apparent the math was not adding up and they deported i think 1500 or 2000 back to haiti, but that camp was shrinking and everyone was asking and we could not get a straight answer from the white house. janacek he wouldn't answer that question from the podium and eventually we know what happened, which is almost all of those folks, were released into the u.s. with npa, notice to appear meaning they will at some point you know based on their -- the honor system wil