Hey there, Carrie Dan here. Welcome to the Chuck Todd cast. As the 5050 Senate still

tries to negotiate a power sharing agreement between Democrats and Republicans, one of

the biggest sticking points is going to be whether the filibuster will survive. We're

going to get right into that in a second with our number of the week. But first, here's

Chuck with some thoughts from Sunday.

Hello, I'm Chuck Todd and I just got off the meat the press set. Actually, I should be

more accurate than that. I'm still on the meat the press set, but we just turned the

TV cameras off. It's brand new set for what it's worth. And if you want to see some of the

behind the scenes photos, please go check out our Instagram page. It is a really cool

set with a lot of the modern features you want in today's broadcasting world. But as

you know, this week we're officially welcoming the lid team to the Toddcast feed. It's very

exciting to reunite the political unit this way. I'm going to turn things over to Carrie

Dan in a minute. But I wanted to quickly share my quick impressions of what I thought

the top news was for this Sunday show. Here's a few things that I learned from meat the

press today. We can start with what we learned from Ron Claim and the Biden administration.

It is clear that they're not ready to start even threatening single party focus when

it comes to getting their COVID relief bill passed. They seem intent on getting it out

there that they want to try to find a Republican governing coalition, which of course is good

politics for Joe Biden. The question is how much how much leeway or congressional Democrats

going to give? How much patience do congressional Democrats have? Speaker Pelosi, she doesn't

have much right now two weeks. And here's a real question. What happens in the next two

weeks before the start of the impeachment trial? Are they able to actually start a process

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