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Doesnt happen very often -- carley: this is his first time. pete: and its a place he knows very well. you should be going, you know how nancy pelosi says i dont hold a vote unless i have the votes? usually prime prime presidents y know the outcome. he met with a bunch of democrats, refused to take questions because his staff the jumped in, then walked out and said one quick thing and ultimately left us with no timeline, no sense of where the bills are at all, and the longer he waits the more mod...

Raise the debt limit, and to filibuster the debt limit. that would be totally unconscionable. never been done before, and so i hope that wont happen. >> reporter: so that is just one of the many issues facing lawmakers on capitol hill in the coming weeks with the deadly very quickly approaching and the president also talked about those ongoing negotiations over his two major economic plans. theres that bipartisan infrastructure proposal and that $3.5 t $3.5 trillion spending bill. the president ...

Bring out the bold™ a dramatic high stakes week on capitol hill. no vote on key elements of the agenda. >> the president is confident the bill and sweeping economic package will be approved. hes not sure when. he emphasized when doesnt matter. he made a rare trip to capitol hill. his visit gave him some breathing room and space to negotiate. >> progressives and moderates trying to agree on a top line number somewhere between $1.5 to $3 trillion. that $3 trillion plan floated

Going to get done no matter how long it takes. what point do you think the white house becomes uneasy about the chances of these enormous bills being passed? >> good morning. i think the president has a fine sense of whether or not they are close to agreement he didnt already understand that they were close. on the one hand, youve got $3.5 on the high side, $1.5 trillion on the low side. theyll likely compromise in the middle. what i think will happen, there will be a lot of shifting of when cer...

Done in both chambers. >> we are ready to do whatever we can to deliver the entirety of the presidents agenda. >> reporter: but they want to keep the price tag at $3.5 trillion, butting heads with moderate senators like arizonas kyrsten simema and west virginias joe manchin, who says he wont go above $1.5, a number he says hes floated to the president and democratic leaders.nd dem what do you say to people who say you and senator sinema are holding this whole thing up? >> i dont know what you me...

Infrastructure, or what i think as the infrastructure of opportunity, just as there are streets and roads and highways that help us get to where we want to go on the road. in america, theres an infrastructure of opportunity that helps people get to where they want to go to in life. and we want to make sure that we do both of those pieces. i think youre right. i think it will be somewhere between the $1.5 and the $3.5, but well get there. >> so what specific things must be into that bill for you ...

Lets listen to this. >> whats the overall number on the budget bill? >> i think youll have to find out what youre able to do through a reasonable, responsible way. >> how do you know its not $1.5? >> we dont know where its going to be. >> you just said $1.5 trillion is your number. >> im saying we look at the numbers if we have a tax code -- thats in the $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion range. >> it is about how do you pay for it and what he thinks. but manchin is clearly out of step with the rest of ...

Joe, its repulsive, and tonight, joe biden and his fellow democrats are more concerned about getting a political win right here at home rather than think about this. anyway, as we speak, joe and his fellow socialist comrades are now desperate to pass two separate trillion dollar spending bills, the so-called infrastructure build that cost $1.2 trillion. onop top of that, the other buid back better plan, which is a social welfare bill, is basically aocs renewed deal that cost a whopping $3.5os tr...

Sort of start all over again. >> bill: here we go. aishah, thank you. well watch it. >> dana: thanks. meantime far left democrats pushing forward with a massive $3.5 trial yoon and marking the biggest expansion of the welfare state in decades. would this washington money help or hurt a state like tennessee where companies like smith and wesson and mitsubishi are moving headquarters to here. governor bill lee. get your thoughts on the fact they let the highway funds lapse. your state is seeing gr...

If they keep delaying it and if they keep sort of trying to pass -- pacify each side until the $3.5 deal, they have -- the senate doesnt have to vote on this as much as we get a frame work going on. i dont know whether that is a sign that theyre showing some flexibility, im probably reading too much into that. its very clear at this stage that, you know, if this keeps getting pushed off, the one that is bipartisan, the package that has widespread public support could go down in flames because of...