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With president biden and others, so theres that, but the question is this enough to satisfy progressives? speaker please and leader schumer wanted to get at least some kind of top line from manchin and sinema and take this to progressives. we have a top line. we can go forward making these negotiations, lets vote on this infrastructure bill today but like you said thats a much larger gap than you think they wren visioning. >> and back to manu raju in the cluster of reporters outside the capitol....

Ive said where im at. the bottom line i think we should be starting and making sure our priorities are put in the proper place. first of all, we know the taxes. we know the taxes. all democrats we voted against the tax cuts 20617. that should be the first thing we should be able to agree on, a tax improvement that basically makes it fair and equitable. thats all were talking about and then see where we stand. i brought to $1.5 as youve seen by nourishing the 1.5 was always done from my heart, ba...

Example. the $1, the general dollar store, the dollar general store, theyre no longer a dollar store. a lot of people shop there and thats all they have. we have to take a lot of this into consideration. here is the thing, my goodness you have a infrastructure bill, you have this bill that we have right now, the reconciliation bill, im willing to sit down and work through that $1.5 to go through our priorities. they can run on the rest of it later. many of them can get to where they want to, jus...

Meant bill. >> heres -- on the energy -- im for all the above, all for clean energy and limb also for producing the amount of energy that we need to make sure that we have reliability, and im -- im concerned about that. >> without carbon cap schnurr. >> i would love to have carbon capture. we dont have the technology because we havent gotten to that point and its so darn expensive that it makes it improbable to do so basically what were trying to do is find a passageway forward. i am not for giv...

Because this is such a messy situation right now. on the one hand we take a long view of this, if they ultimately get through most of what they wants, some version of what they want, nobodys going to remember how messy it was until they get to the final line. the only thing is to get something passed that looks impressive, right? it may not be all $3.5 april on, it may not be the bill you originally wanted, but people will not recommend the messy progress. if you dont get them through, its a who...

>> so every debt limit debate ive been a part of, which is way too many at this point, came with a price. john boehner said we either need to cut spending, reform entitlements, a variety of hostage demands. this does not. mitch mcconnell has said republicans arent lifting the debt limit and thats it, theyre just not doing it, and democrats need to do it with budget reconciliation, which is the fast-track 50-vote process that you could raise the debt limit with just democratic votes. theres not m...

Hours to go. >> now, we have to see wha comes of the negotiations that ar going . hopefully it will reach the level that we need in order to pass both of them. but we will pass both bills. >> the question now is whether progressives will still work to defeat the infrastructure bill. congresswoman pramila jayapal, chair of the progressive congress caucus, says she believ somewhere around 60 members were willing to vote no. remember, progrsives wanted a vote on the social spending package first an...

Guys in the house to vote for this. he knows this deadline is coming. he knows that about 40, 50 progressives in the house have threatened to tank this bill if, you know, they dont get the larger $3.5 social spending package theyve been trying to push for for so long. and, look, they need the bully pulpit right now. they need the president to go out there and sell this bill to the rank and file. theyve got less than three days right now, and last night speaker nancy pelosi in a private meeting s...

President and for many in washington. kaitlyn collins, thanks. joining me police crows lou lopez, cnns manu raju and ayisha rosco. mr. raju, you pace the house of congress every day. the house speaker is trying to send a needle and sent a very clear signal, $3.5 drill john what they want in a reconciliation package. they already say they have compromised a lot to get to that, but listen to that the speaker says youll have to go a little bit further. >> i know the budget committee passed a resolu...

The progressives want specifically senator manchin to name a number. how much he is willing to spend. something that senator manchin has declined to do. progressives say still, even after this meeting last night, they are not going to vote for this bipartisan infrastructure bill until theres a vote on this human infrastructure bill, or at least get some assurances including from senator manchin on where he stands, and that there will be a commitment to vote on and pass president bidens big agend...