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Against the direction of the democratic party has taken so one may assume that they are kind of like heading toward the edge of the cliff, but cannot figure out an alternative path. paul: mary, politicians i know like to keep their jobs but i wonder, why the swing state democrats going ahead when nancy pelosi says we got to pass the hospital? if you look in the bill, a lot of it is killed in the senate so voting for things that are unpopular like higher taxes. that may not be in the final bill. ...

Jayapal is suggesting that if she does that, 45, 50, maybe even more members of the congressional progressive caucus will vote against the infrastructure bill. right? if she brings -- without build back better being voted on at the same time, will you vote no on infrastructure? >> i am open to having that conversation. i think the chair would be open to having the conversation. but our recommendation is, have the vote on both bills. thats what the president wanted. if theres an alternative path,...

Allow a debate on this issue. >> majority leader schumer later hinted that the democrats would find an alternative path to passing voting rights legislation, even if they have to do it without any republican support. well, with that, lets bring in our starting line on this wednesday night. susan page. veteran journalist and author longtime chief for usa today. jacqui, political report for the washington post author of the newsletter. the early tool to, and eugene robinson, columnist for the wash...

Is affecting our shellfish. the warmth of our streams is affecting our salmon and trout. so we have to act and we have to lead the world and we cant miss this opportunity. i personally, if we dont have a clean electricity payment plan, fine, but tell me how we are going to be on track to cut carbon by 50% by the end of this decade. i dont care, many paths. it has to be a viable path. lock everybody up over the weekend. put this kind of nightmare to rest, come back with a strong set of programs. ...

He does, and there is ample precedent for that. >> my question is does he know whether joe manchin would support a carbon tax? >> we will let senator joe manchin speak for himself on what he would and would not support. >> and i voting rights, would they have to come up with an alternative path forward? its been known for some time that republicans are not going to come forward and you dont have the vote in the states or the congress and unless the joe manchin agrees to a carve out for the filib...

They also reiterated and what i said yesterday which is that senate democrats, we know senate democrats including members they spoke with yesterday have worked hard to draft legislation that includes traditionally bipartisan positions and thats something that should get support from republicans and democrats across the spectrum. if republicans cannot come forward and stop standing in the way, if they cant support strengthening and protecting come of the fundamental right to vote, then democrats ...

Downward pressure on public support if people believe that the mission is appropriate and if they believe it is making progress. now, obviously, biden has problems on both of those fronts. but i think most americans believe that getting out as many of ouafghan allies and american citizens is worth while. and if we fundamentally accomplish that, i think the evidence is viewed in a different light than viewed as a failure. if we had gone back and escalated again and suffered casualties as an alter...

Human cost and consequences loom large and we are all contending with the human costs of these developments. the images from the past couple of days at the airport have been heartbreaking. president biden had to think about the human cost of the alternative path, which was to stay in the middle of civil conflict in afghanistan. there are those that argue with 2500 forces, the number of forces in country when president biden took office, we could have sustained a stable, peaceful afghanistan. tha...

Issue, domestic policy, foreign policy, any policy issue, the human cost and consequences loom large. and we are all contending with the human cost of these. the images from the past couple of days at the airport have been heartbreaking. but president biden had to think about the human cost of the alternative path as well, which was to stay in the middle of the civil conflict in afghanistan. there are those who argue that with 2500 forces, the number of forces in the country when president biden...

Costs and consequences loom large. were all contending with the human costs of these developments. the images from the past couple of days at the airport have been heartbreaking. biden had to think about the human cost of the alternative path as well which was to stay in the middle of the civil conflict in afghanistan. there are those who argue with 2,500 forces the number of forces in country when biden took office we could have sustained a stable peaceful afghanistan. that is simply wrong. the...