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Keep it together when it comes to his economic agenda, warring factions in his own party could threaten it. >> ryan, all this, of course, is set against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown tomorrow night. is there progress being made on that? >> reporter: yeah, there really is, alisyn. at this point, the fact that theyve separated those two big deadlines that are here on capitol hill, the government spending portion and the debt ceiling, those are two separate pieces of legislation. ...

Well see a vote on that bipartisan bill as soon as tomorrow. >> c kaitlan, meanwhile, the other key moderate, kirsten sinema, wrapped up, i believe, her fourth meeting at the white house in the space of two days. whats coming out of these meetings? >> reporter: yeah, alisyn, this actu actually happened on the hill but youre right, its the fourth meeting the white house has held with her, which speaks to the level of importance theyre applying to these conve conversations. they know what she will...

Before they agree to an overall agreement in public. >> is that the sticking point, john? do they need more time? would they be able to reach some sort of agreement with the progressives if they just had more time? is nancy pelosi rushing this too much? >> reporter: im not sure its a matter of just time, alisyn but more a matter of finally getting in a room and getting specific. as seung min indicated, reporters, those of us covering this, do not know what their top line is. other democrats on t...

Disproportionately affected people of color. so, these researchers took a look at california and minnesota, and they thought, gee, what would have happened if everyone over age 75 would have been vaccinated? how would that have helped white people? how would that have helped black people? lets look at the numbers for california. the researchers said if everyone 75 years of age and old er in california had been vaccinated, that would have been prevented 65% of deaths for white people. for black p...

Problem? >> i think its both. unfortunately, this pandemic from the very beginning, alisyn, has been politicized. i think thats really what happens introduced this whole toxic nature into the pandemic. if you really break it down to the basics, theres nothing political about this virus. we have one enemy, and that is covid-19. democrats, republicans, really the entire u.s. is really fighting against one enemy. and, of course, guidelines change. this virus evolves. as this virus evolves, we have ...

Shes a six, so, you know, its very typical of donald trump, and again, it just goes back to remind us what a horrible, disgusting, lecherous man was elected president of the united states. >> i do feel the need to read his statement on her book, which is too bad that sleazebag publishers continue to report this very boring garbage. we in the maga movement are totally used to it, and some day in the not too distant future, we will have our voice back and be treated fairly by the press. the statem...

Secretary of defense and others. so, quite a few heated exchanges there, alisyn. >> dramatic moments. oren lieberman, thank you. new tell-all book from former president trumps ex-press secretary exposes what she describes as a culture of lies in the administration, along with new revelations about trumps relationship with vladimir putin and what he whispered to him. and the friction with the first lady. thats next. ♪ ♪ you dont become a runner, who breaks eight world records... after age 6...

Probably no chairman had ever faced that set of challenges that mark milley did in those few months, and again, the afghanistan withdrawal is very interesting when youre also talking about it in the context of trump, and one other thing he said today thats very important, alisyn, he was very critical and very pointed in making explicit how flawed he and the other generals viewed trumps withdrawal agreement with the taliban that was signed in february of 2020. he said that the taliban essentially...

Progressive caucus had a conference. they overwhelmingly supported blocking the infrastructure plan going forward if the larger bill is not moving forward by thursday, and alisyn, theres no chance that bigger bill can move by thursday, so major questions left for the biden agenda. >> phil, at the same time, we know president biden is meeting with two key democratic senators, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, any sense of whats being said in there? >> reporter: everything that manu laid out is the ...

Because now president biden he was talking about the horrors from his perspective of the trump presidency, but this is the hope and change obama that we first heard from in 2007 and 2008 talking about the need to end tribalism. talking about the fact that he wants this center, this presidential library to be a place where people can try to bridge divisions and conflict and get over the anger and resentment which he said is in the breach right now because institutions havent done a good enough jo...