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Like gas. i dont typically have a car, ive been renting a car, and filling the gas for the first time in a long time has been surprising and shocking. so you completely understand that americans, theyre looking at how high gas is, how much food is, that its making them nervous, so its easier, its an easier message for republicans to say this thing is going to make it worse, this thing youve never seen before, that all of us have called unprecedented, this investment weve never seen in this count...

Their suspicion. >> i was surprised. i am still to this day. that fred allowed that to happen, but he did. >> perhaps fred had more pressing things to think about. whatever his reason he put charlie on a plane to georgia just in time for the main event in the murder investigation. frank jaramillo, under arrest as the alleged middleman, was spilling it all, telling police he took money from lynns husband. a lot of it. and used a little of it to hire the killer, nick harvey. and then, with a littl...

>> this is not one of those things thats protected by patent. so, theres no reason the cost should be so high. so today, im announcing that, as majority leader, i will do everything i can to keep this provision in the bbb bill and get the cost of insulin down to $35 a injection. >> reporter: lots of arm twisting also expected in the weeks ahead over this issue of paid-family leave. its in the house version of the bill but senator joe manchin of west virginia has expressed his discomfort with thi...

From $600 to $30. take a listen. >> this is not one of those things thats protected so theres no reasons the costs should be so high. today im announcing as majority leader i will do everything i can to keep this provision in the bbb bill, get the cost of insulin down to $35 per injection. >> reporter: lots of arm twisting expected over this issue of paid family leave. its in the house version of the bill. senator joe manchin of west virginia has expressed his discomfort with this provision but ...

With senator sinema and manchin in the days aand also a measure is -- take a listen to my colleague who interviewed jayapal and listen to what she had to say about paid family leave and how it will play out in the weeks ahead. >> the house did add a few provisions to it and we did. im glad we did. paid family leave is one of them. we understand that senator manchin are not yet on board but theres many strong democratic senators over there that i hope will be able to convince him that this is som...

Senate. >> gloria, how basic deal do you think this is in. >> its a very big deal. theyve convinced the moderates to come onboard. its a large figure, but the white house estimate and phil, you know more about this than i do, its that its not really over 300. its actually 160 billion and the issue is how much money you get from cracking down on tax cheats. so theres a little bit of discrepancy there, but as my colleagues say, look, this has to go to the senate. there is no margin for error at al...

Get from cracking down on tax cheats. so theres a little bit of discrepancy there, but as my colleagues say, look, this has to go to the senate. there is no margin for error at all in the united states senate and it all depends on these couple of senators and what arm twisting biden can do with them and whether theyre going to demand so much being taken out of this bill that when they send it back to the house the liberals will bolt. so its a, you know, it aint over until its over, but obviously...

Build back better including in the senate once the cbo score came out and you have joe manchin not responding yesterday directly when asked what his spet is on the cbo numbers and whether that hinder his ability to support this bill. so well have to see what happens. we do know that it will be a lot of wrangling behind the scenes to get it over the finish line. of course will paid family leave be a part of the final piece of legislation? we know that there is going to be a very robust push by qu...

The house was, of course, an uphill struggle and passage uncertain shortly before the vote was held. but late-night arm twisting by the president got enough democrats onboard to make it happen. cnns jessica dean has the details. >> reporter: big news out of the u.s. house of representatives tonight as the bipartisan infrastructure bill makes it out of the house and is now headed to president bidens desk for his signature. so, a major part of his legislative agenda getting done. house democrats g...

In their homes. a lot of shots about it, but heres the deal. we could not have done it without crossing over the aisle and bringing democrats and republicans together. >> and it really would not have happened without -- i apologize for interrupting, but it really would not have happened if not for the republican support, particularly because you had six democrats who voted against the bill in the house. you know, it would have been dangerous if just three democrats would have voted against it. s...