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About to hear jen psaki layout his plans this afternoon. i had karl rove on top of the last hour congressman and k-d him, i said, will progressives stand their ground here? he said this, listen. >> maybe the president can pull a rabbit out of his proverbial hat, im not convinced of it, firm to the bill. bernie sanders said they wanted to spend $6 tril yob and thought compromise was $3.5 and they will not go for 1.5 or $1 trillion bill. what say you? do you believe that the progressives will budg...

To change. im willing to come from zero to $1.5 >> reporter: but progressive democrats in the house have been threatening to vote no unless the senate comes to an agreement on the larger spending plan. >> senator manchin also said if progressives want a bigger number, they should elect more liberals >> i cant tell the senator what to say, obviously. all i can say is that we said were going to stay here all weekend if we need to to see if we can get to a deal. >> reporter: speaker pelosi taking m...

Vote today accident my gut tells me it goes down, stranger things have happened 6789 >> sandra: stranger things have happened we confirmed biden will travel to the hill this afternoon to speak with those democrats. we are expecting jen psaki to hold a briefing at 2:00, perhaps we will get clarity on the presidents plans there. the "new york post" cover this morning, karl, get your reaction, i only want this much because of course senator joe manchin saying he would accept a bill $2 trillion less...

Will not go for $1.5 or $1 trillion bill. that money has to come from somewhere, it will come out of peoples pockets in the form of higher taxes and fees and be spent on what is gigantic expansion of welfare state, biggest since the great society of the 1960s. it is gigantic expansion, including creation of what is universal basic income that says if you have kids no matter how much money you make, the government will give you moneyy for them. >> sandra: why democrats are divided on this issue. ...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. thats why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the action...

Hes in constant communication with them telling them all the time whether its telling mitch mcconnell, you know, what he thinks about january the 6th commission, whether hes telling chuck schumer about what hes thinking about the compromises, there is a constant line of communication between joe manchin and leadership on both sides in the rank and file on both sides. and i saw somebody yesterday write that manchins the type of person that could make that statement and accept a $2.75 trillion rec...

Dropped significantly as -- because of all the talks that have been brokered through the white house over the last few days. its no longer at the $3.5 trillion that they were initially looking at. its now been in the low to mid $2 trillion range. of course that number is very fluid. details havent been hashed out. nobody has agreed to anything concretely. important to note there that its not $3.5. its not 1.5 as of these conversations that have been happening this week. so there was a lot of noi...

President to put pressure on the way only he can put the pressure on. so he may be trying to say to himself, whenever the closing moments, whenever that that miesh. they have asked repeatedly what is their bottom line, what number are they looking at? if not $3.5 april on, what number will satisfy snem and they dont feel theyve gotten a strong answer on that and thats left them high and dry. its hard to come up with a deal you dont have the other sides bottom line at this appointment. so theres ...

>> neil: apparently the buck doesnt stop at the dollar tree. they have to push things up $1.5, $2. the dollar tree and iconic symbol raising its prices.

We call general dollar senator, dollar general, they are no longer dollar general, they are now 1.25 or 1.50 general. thats hard for people in west virginia who shop there. we need to take a lot of this in consideration and we have a lot of good things we can do. heres the thing, youve got the the infrastructure bill, this bill that we have right now and a reconciliation bill. im willing to sit down and work through that $1.5 and get our priorities and they can come back and do later and run on ...