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Capitol hill. what began as a $6 trillion goal than slip back to 3.5 trillion the summer and it may drop by more than half once again. before i tell you all that, the president making news today. he did sign a stand-alone continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown before the current funding was set to expire about 2 minutes ago. the house passing that measure after the senate pushed over the finish line 65-35. the language keeps the government funded through december 3rd. however, that...

Sent him to washington. i dont think name calling, im someone that had a long history of treating each other civilly and name calling is not useful. i will not call out anybody specifically. >> pete: so far president biden doesnt have anything on his schedule, but officials left open possibility he could have interested parties over here to talk shop or could possibly venture out to meet democratss where they are up the street. sandra. >> sandra: update while you were saying that, this just in, ...

New spending over ten years. weve moved into fantasy land monopoly money that between one or two trillion dollars at a time, which is the biggest expansion of government in half a century is now seen as peanuts compared to the bigger plans that they have. >> martha: you know, i look back at the criticism whether or not the president got, hes late to the party to do arm twisting if thats what hes doing at all, if we were to take joe manchin at his word. when he talked to the president, he said yo...

Of go both ways. my big question starting out the day, the one i have been asking sources about the last 12, 15 hours has been is she actually going to move forward and dare progressives to sink it. that is a tough moment. and the reality is that while she knows where the votes are and it is completely impossible, i dont know if that would be the strategy. there is a big difference between private conversations, insisting youre going to do something, saying you will hold out for your values and ...

If this does not get done in the next couple of weeks, the treasury secretary says the loss could be catastrophic. as for those spending bills, the house is planning, key word planning to vote on that frut bill, but progressives are threatening to vote against it until they get their vote on that bigger, broader social programs bill first. in the past hour, top white house officials wrapped up a meeting with kyrsten sinema. and our team, the only woman with alexandria ocasio-cortez where she say...

The president doesnt seem interested in arm twisting at the moment, but there is an impasse between nancy pelosi, between progressives, between moderates, among the caucus on the democratic side to get anything done here. what is the president doing behind the scenes to help get it done? >> behind the scenes, president biden is really spending most of his time trying to talk to these lawmakers, to try to understand what it is they want to get to yes. so to look at how urgent this is becoming, pr...

Moderates would go back and not want to vote for the bigger package that they say is what president biden promised on the campaign trail, so there are a lot of unknowns right now in addition to what lauren just laid out and the white house is essentially racing to solve these feuds within the democratic party. >> just a quick follow to you, kate abe. obviously the president has held meetings which we reported about last week and made phone calls over the weekend, but is there any indication that...

Hard and obviously his legacy, potentially his whole presidency in terms of the midterms and the control of the two houses is really up at stake. >> reporter: yeah. i think thats exactly right. go ahead. >> sorry. i was just thinking about what we have heard from the meetings, that he said to the moderates, what is your top line to manchin and he wouldnt give him a top line and then he said the politics is the art of the possible. but some say this arm twisting is late but maybe not too late giv...

Cases and 10,000 deaths in the last week alone. with time running out to break the stalemate on his reconciliation bill, president biden is meeting with speaker pelosi and majority leader schumer on compromise options. then a lot of arm twisting in separate sessions with progressive and moderate members of congress. at stake, the entire biden domestic agenda. lets begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and chief white house correspondent weekend "today" co-host, peter alexander, gabe ...

The afghanistan saga, and through this to the nato alliance. where do you think we are, and you think the white house understands the seriousness of the situation? i think so. relationships made at the speed _ think so. relationships made at the speed of— think so. relationships made at the speed of trust, and it is very important _ speed of trust, and it is very important to have full trust in place — important to have full trust in place. there are people back in europe — place. there ar...