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White house. first, to chad at the capitol. chad, what can you tell us? >> good afternoon, neil. this underscores the infighting among democrats about what they can do with their narrow majorities. that is the reality. house speaker nancy pelosi insists its all about -- its all possible despite a three-seat advantage in the house of representatives. pelosi says the social spending package is coming. the speaker didnt have a number. >> no doubt that we will not have a reconciliation. we will have...

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...

Democrats will have to decide what comes next. they can make moves to put this in reconciliation. that could be a messy, complicated process. some democratic sources that weve talked to doubt theyll be able to do it in time. they can do something more extraordinary like a filibuster carveout that triggers the nuclear option to change the rules. we know some democrats are not in favor of that. one way or another, they have to get it done to avoid a catastrophic economic calamity. >> super secret ...

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 moderates. who are concerned the party is going too far and too fast on the legislation. yes, joe biden in that meeting, by the way. then to end the day, a meeting with the progressives who are withholding their support from the bipartisan infrastructure bill as leverage to prevent moderates from watering down or walking aw...

Critical. but what about the other piece of this? what about the presidents economic agenda? where does that stand? >> reporter: thats right, laura. that is its own problem. separately from this funding measure that is going to the senate, you know, house speaker nancy pelosi has been facing a lot of issues within her own party, within moderates and progress ichlds in her own party about what to do about this $3.5 trillion economic bill, the tax and expanding bill that would expand the social sa...

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Between the 3.5 trillion has to be weighed against whats in the infrastructure bill. so i think members will have a better sense of how to balance those out and what needs to be included after they actually see the -- the infrastructure bill come over from the senate. griff: you have a great point talking about the balancing act with 3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill which senator cassidy called tax and spending extravaganza. lets back up because we are about to find out whether speaker pe...

Now, republicans on the other hand have no particular interest the larger package. moderates want the smaller bill first. if either pulls out, the bill has no shot of passing both houses and getting to the presidents desk. so chuck schumer and nancy avth pelosi are stuck on one side of the river with the fox, the chicken, and the corn. there are differences between the bills. the bipartisan one is being significantly smaller. its also focusing on hard infrastructure, things like roads, bridges, ...

Alone vote on the bipartisan plan, but the speaker, nancy pelosi recommitted that she will not take it up unless she gets the reconciliation bill from the senate. that is likely because she doesnt have the votes unless she brings up the bill first. what good is it to bring the bill to the floor if there is huge questions about whether or not it could pass. >> first, part of this infrastructure plan is to improve the potholes in the roads so i can bring the van back out again. >> the problem solv...

>> bill: house democrats calling for senate action on a bill that would expand background checks. it passed in the house back in february and my next guest is one of the lawmakers attending the havent debbie dingell. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill, good to see you. >> bill: give me the bullet points, well, not a great choice of words. give me the headlines from the bill first. >> what were trying to do is just get the senate to act on the background bill we passed in february. we hav...