The political dynamics in Washington right now are a little strange.

There's intra-party drama as Republicans oust a member of their own leadership for her

disloyalty to former President Trump.

You can't have the Republican conference chair, the Republican Party spokesperson consistently

attacking the leader of the party who 74 million Americans voted for.

Americans are still simmering after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and Senate minority

leader Mitch McConnell recently said his 100 percent focus is on stopping President Biden.

What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz

in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country.

On the other side of the aisle, Democrats are grappling with their own set of fraught

internal dynamics that are limiting Biden's options as he tries to move forward with his

ambitious agenda.

And all of this isn't exactly the bipartisan Washington that Joe Biden promised on the

campaign trail.

Biden, though, is trying to turn some of the discord into an opportunity to highlight

his own attempts to govern in a way that unites stakeholders.

He held a bipartisan meeting with governors about the coronavirus on Tuesday, a session with

GOP senators on infrastructure on Thursday, and he even convened the top four party leaders

from the House and Senate for the first time at the White House on Wednesday.

But is any of this working?

Are the divisions within the Republican Party causing real problems for Biden's goals?

And if he's forced to move his agenda forward with only the help of his own party, how might

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