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Opportunity, not opportunity to deny. its about leading the world or letting the world pass us by. today with my democratic colleagues, we have a framework for my build back better initiative. and heres how it will fundamentally change the lives of millions of people for the better. millions of you are in so-called sandwich generation. you feel financially squeezed by raising a child and caring for an aging parent. about 820,000 seniors in america, and people with disabilities have applied for m...

House, we have made significant progress on the proposed budget reconciliation package. i look forward to getting this done, expanding economic opportunities, and helping everyday families get ahead. again, we just heard there from senator sanders, and were hearing a statement now from the arizona senator sinema, the senior senator from sinema. mr. memoli is still with me. traveling ahead of president biden there in rome. mike, let me come back to you and get your reaction from what we just hear...

They dont have that much tax to pay. they dont get the benefit and they have the same cost of raising their children. 80% of those left out are working parents that didnt make enough money. that is why in the american rescue plan they didnt just expand the amount of the middle class tax cut, we also made it refundable. this framework will make it permanently refundable. we want to make sure every 3-year-old and 4-year-old child in america goes to high quality preschool. thats part of the legisla...

Where senator bernie sanders and where is the rest of them? are they going to be okay with it? one thing that we also havent talked a lot about is that in what president biden framework is immigration. he has $100 billion in here for immigration reform. and the senate democrats have tried now twice, and they plan on trying a third time by going to the senate parliamentarian, the rule keeper of the senate, to see if they can get some legalization for undocumented immigrants in this legislation, a...

Bill. but i want to see a strong build back better bill as well. and theyre linked together. so what you dont want to see is the infrastructure bill passed and then not have the kind of build back better bill that we need. thats why you need 50 members on board before there should be a vote, in my view in the house. >> speaker pelosi wants to hold that vote tonight. >> reporter: youre not on board with the framework has its drafted? >> i want to see it improved. and again, i think it -- you know...

But were going to have to look closely. again, more assurances from the senate specifically from senator manchin i think would help push this further. >> are you going to vote for this new spending bill as it was laid out by the president this morning in that meeting? >> im looking at the spending bill deeply right now. i finally got the just about one minute before we started talking, everything on paper. but i also need to hear from senator manchin and sinema that theyre in agreement with the ...

Thank you very much. all right. senator bernie sanders there. a voice of the progressive wing of the democratic party talking about the framework that weve been talking about here. and you heard the senator talk about being somewhat disappointed that the build back better plan, the framework, at least, does not include a number of things that he thought should be in that bill, including paid family medical leave, including medicare benefits that would extend to dental care and eyeglasses as we...

$3.5 trillion package. now we have been incredibly productive allies at the table, progressives, and we have been in these conversations with both of those senators. i spent time with senator manchin. i had another conversation, very productive conversation today with senator sinema. we will get there, but we have consistently said that we need to have both of these because it wasnt until we really, you know, did what we did, that all of these priorities of the president, the presidents agenda, ...

Morris becoming altruia. didnt change much. you can follow me, tweet the show. if you ever miss an episode, you know what you can do? listen to the lead wherever you get your podcasts. our coverage continues with mr. wolf blitzer whos live from rome. >> happening now, breaking news. president biden is on his way here to rome for a high stakes global talks at a watershed moment for his domestic agenda, his presidency and party. he unveiled a framework for his scaled back spending bill before his ...

To the community today by settling civil claims. now, the fbi said after that it had changed the methods thats used in background investigations to make sure this sort of thing doesnt happen again. the failure to notice a conviction that would otherwise have disqualified him from purchasing it. we expect to hear shortly from the lawyers involving -- that were representing the families and were involved in this settlement. >> pete, thank you for the update on this settlement. president biden at t...