reach a deal could unleash economic havoc. they are sparring with each other, progressives and moderates directly at odds over the timing of passing two critical pieces of the president s agenda. you have the hard infrastructure and also expanding the social safety net. today president biden will meet with house speaker pelosi and senate ma jordan leader chuck schumer and other democrats in the most extensive in-person engagement with democrats in the white house since the president took office. danielle diaz is live on capitol hill. take us through what happened. reporter: it was a crazy night. crazy nights are not rare on capitol hill. look, the house passed this funding bill that would fund the government through early december, along with a measure that would raise excuse me, suspend the debt ceiling through early december 2022. but this matters because this stopgap measure which needs to be passed in order to avoid a government shutdown when funding expires on se
his cards. we know what he doesn t want. what does he want? i ll speak with a veteran deal maker in the senate. and later, developments amid another developing crisis for joe biden as his administration faces growing back lash over the crisis at the southern border. welcome to meet the press daily. it s another busy hump day in washington for the president and his congressional party. here s what we do know. the president will be meeting with democratic leadership, progressives and moderates. not at the same time in separate meetings. they ll all be at the white house this afternoon to discuss a way forward on a bunch of stuff. specifically the bynum infrastructure deal and the go it alone legislative package. combined it makes up basically the entire legislative agenda for the rhett of the biden presidency. first up on this set of meetings an hour from now is the two leaders, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader schumer schumer. after that, a meeting with the moder
and another from someone inside the capitol, best. koo. ever. with the elmo fire gif attached. as the violence continued, one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows. quote, hey uncle mark, it s eric. my dad won t tell me how babies are made. could you? a fourth. save 60% on your next mypillow with offer code hang mike pence. another in all caps. do we hatch out of eggs? oh, my gosh. i told you. that was funny. mark meadows is already the john dean of this stuff. he is not going to like going to jail if that happens. best. koo. ever. k-o-o. we have news here. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, december 15th. what s the best part of being in new york, willie? you re out of control. otb. other than otb, holding up the post. meet the commish. elise jordan is here. not the commish. we have rev al here. host of msnbc s politics nation. tell us about it. young african-american dominican woman was in nassau county. had a reputation
investigation. and beyond our borders, a senior pentagon official says isis-k could be capable of attacking the u.s. of as early as next year. and we begin this hour in washington, where democrats are still trying to come together on a bill to reshape the social safety net. democrats are still hashing out the framework of that legislation. they hope to have it done by today, so the house could vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. some lawmakers say an agreement is near, but the white house is it s kind of lower expectations, saying several key issues still need to be settled, including health care, paid leave, and how to pay for it. the president is still pushing for an agreement before he heads to europe. holding a meeting yesterday with leaders from several key congressional caucuses and meeting once again with west virginia senator joe manchin and arizona senator kyrsten sinema. with me now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali. and jonathan lemire, p
the liberal bloc wants to bring up the bigger bill first. the speaker has now been forced to put off a vote several times. and after today s meeting the president signaled his patience while promising victory in the end. i m telling you we re going to get this done. it doesn t matter when. it doesn t matter whether it s been 6 minutes, 6 days or 6 weeks. we re going to get it done. why isn t the party unitd? after the vote didn t happen last night we learned the speaker didn t want to try for one tonight either. speaker pelosi acknowledged even though progress was made on the president s agenda, quote, more time is needed to complete the task. house members who were in the meeting with president biden say he was committed to passing both pieces of legislation, but he also gave them a reality check about that $3.5 trillion price tag on the social spending bill. he was very clear the two are tied together. he said i support the fifth entirely. if i thought i could do it