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in all bookshops and online right now. Welcome to Big Tic Tifer, the Bullworks Weekly Round Table discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork.

I'm joined by two of our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

in the Wall Street Journal and Damon Linker of the week. Linda Chavez is off this week,

sitting in for her is my Bullwork colleague Amanda Carpenter and our special guest this week is

Jonathan Chate columnist for New York magazine. Welcome one and all.

Well, just minutes before we sat down to record,

President Biden appeared at the East Room of the White House

to announce, well what exactly?

He announced the framework of an agreement,

but then immediately there was some doubt

as to whether all the Democrats have really signed on.

So Jonathan Chate, I'm going to start with you.

You were quick out of the gate to say that this could be great but what do you make

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