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2020. included in those requests, communications between top trump allies. >> house bill 503, charged this committee to get to the facts and circumstances behind january 6th. that means we need to find pout what caused it. those individuals who participated in it. and then create a model to protect this democracy, so that nothing like this will afterhappen again. >> seven members of the capitol police force now suing the president for inciting the deadly insurrection. in an exclusive interview w...

>> and then, senator coons, they said we will not cut the traditional investment of transit programs in the highway trust fund. robust funding for transit must be included in the legislation. we will not support any package that neglects this fundamental part of our nations infrastructure. youre still optimistic were going to see a deal tomorrow? >> well, jonathan, that makes it very clear how important transit is. it is not the only significant issue, but it is one of the most important ones. s...

Progressive caucus. congresswoman jayapal, thank you for coming back to "the sunday show." >> great to see you as always, jonathan. >> so as chair of the house progressive caucus, you heard senator coons talking about climate things in the bipartisan bill and the reconciliation bill. i know you have concerns about what theyre going to do in terms of addressing transit. from everything that you have seen reported and that you may be hearing on the hill, how confident are you that that bipartisan ...

Could be another thing that could not derail, but slow down the momentum to tomorrows impending deal? >> well, jonathan, lets be clear, what you were just describing is a bill ive just introduced that is a polluter fee that would be part of the democrats only budget reconciliation bill before we leave for august we need to pass the framework, the details of that bill will likely be worked out in the early fall. we have to pass the budget framework before we can leave. and thats $3.5 trillion. bu...

Transportation. so if we dont have the policy in the bipartisan bill, that is going to be a problem because you cant put policy as you know into the reconciliation bill. it is very -- i hope that was clear. but our focus has been on the reconciliation bill and i want to say, progressives are thrilled that our top five priorities have ended up in the reconciliation bill, of course, we would like the numbers to be a little higher in a few of the categories, so thats what were working on right now....

Billion is new spending, and frankly, jonathan, thats a big deal. there is also pieces that we have to do in this bipartisan bill. we cant just move them over into the democrats only reconciliation bill that we will also have to take up and pass before we can leave for august recess. >> and then a nice segue into what i was going to ask you next, something youre involved in, it is a bill that you are supporting and it is one on emissions tax bill, the plan calls for federal agencies to calculate...

Democrats only, that because of reconciliation it only needs to pass by a simple majority. i get that whole technical lesson because my question to you, congresswoman, is how confident are you that the reconciliation bill will actually pass out of the senate? because even within the democratic caucus, all yall are not in agreement on the senate side, i mean. >> well, i think absolutely the reconciliation bill will pass. the only reason that we have been, you know, essentially allowing this bipar...

Civilian climate accord im excited about. it is a bold and robust package of climate provisions. there is also, jonathan, important provisions about climate in this bipartisan infrastructure bill. big investments in resiliency, in modernizing our electric grid, and in demonstrating new clean energy technologies. so were going to make significant progress in combatting climate in both bills this month. >> senator coons, thank you for the clarification on your emissions tax bill. the climate corps...