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Keep fighting until the ink is dry on this. and the ink is far from dry, because theres really no legislative ink. and thats one thing that senator sanders said that really stood out to me. said that he needs explicit legislative language on this framework. and that is something they dont have yet. this is a framework. this is a talking point. these are bullet points. this is similar to what chuck schumer said a month ago. made a big announcement they had a framework. we werent really sure what ...

How to move forward. our senior white house correspondent is joining us right now. hes here in rome covering this summit. you know, phil, the president clearly wanted to show up here with a win on his agenda. it hasnt happened yet. >> it hasnt. the president starting his day going up to capitol hill making an urgent pitch to house democrats that the stakes were enormous. the time was now. he wanted votes on at least one piece of his package. the $1.2 trillion bill. hes going to land here without...

Hour and a half ago. the president meeting with them on the hill to try to get the bill across the finish line. joining me now, someone in the meeting. congressman, you just got out of the meeting with president bidenen. what did the president have to say? and what did your house colleagues have to say to him? >> look, the president laid out the framework that he has, i believe, worked out the senate. hes asked us to trust him on this, and hell deliver on this. our colleagues, i think, were clea...

Been taken out to try and appease primarily senators sinema and manchin. universal pre-k. elder care, in. free school meals, in. expanded health care coverage that would include -- excuse me, not include dental and eyeglasses but would include hearing aids. expanded medicare for the hearing services. those are the things that are in. out, and we heard senator sanders talk about this. no mention of paid family leave. no free community college. and again, that expanded medicare coverage for dental...

They need to see legislation and they need to see it passed. >> biden publicly and privately, urging democrats to focus on whats in the proposal. not whats been left out or the mechanics. >> any single element of this framework would be viewed as a fundamental view in america. taken together, theyre truly k consequential. >> it includes hundreds of billions of dollars. >> this framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate address is ever, ever happened. >> but its...

The support of joe manchin of west virginia and kirsten sinema of arizona. two is that rights who after days on end of negotiations still havent explicitly endorsed the framework. when biden borden air force one for rome without a clear path forward and pelosi in focus. >> for those who said i want to see text, the text is there. for you to review, for you to complain about, for you to add to. for whatever it is and well see what consensus emerges from that. >> and wolf, at this point, the conse...

The framework that was put forward and i think that is a really significant achievement for the president to go and say he was able to get everybody on board for this framework. he believes it can pass in the senate. it will pass in the house. we just need to know look at the text, which also significant achievement came out today. we are looking at that text. we will go through it. we will make sure that again, that we are all together and then we will vote those two bills together and the pres...

Vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. i know thats something the speaker wanted. i have signalled for days we didnt have the votes for the bipartisan bill without the other bill. the build back better act, which has 85% of the presidents agenda that we really care deeply about. we care about the bipartisan bill as well, but our members have been saying for months that these two bills need to be, need to go together and that we need to have the legislative text. now what is really fantastic...

Spending programs from other sources. biden originally requested more than $2 trillion in new infrastructure spending. this is obviously paired way down. its a bipartisan group of 21 senators supporting the latest framework which they believe "provides an historic investment in the nations core infrastructure needs without raising taxes." taxes on families but theres even a catch there because the biden framework calls for new minimum corporate taxes of about 15%, also calls for ending capital g...

Consideration. i mean i like the general outline. i need more details but again, thats not a debt ceiling plan. that is frankly dealing with fiscal reform and the long-term debt and defenicits of this country. i think at the end of the day though youll probably see something like an intermediate deal. what i mean is perhaps something closer to that biden framework. im not sure just how much in debt ceiling increase and how much in spending reduction but maybe somewhere on the order of $1 trillio...