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plus the u.s. and russia debating a prisoner swap. antony blinken speaking with sergey lavrov. and a breakthrough on capitol hill. chuck shchumer and joe manchin striking a deal after a year of negotiations. >> theres a lot in this bill, including tax changes. we begin with major developments on the u.s. economy. the gross domestic product fell 0.9%, following a 1.6% drop in the first part of this your, blamed in part on the omicron surge, all of this adding to fears the u.s. could be ...

Understandably wary. a little bit of wear ing thin o the democrat ic democratic. >> which is why they dont want to give republican negotiators all too long. people in the group -- not just republican negotiators in the group but democrats as well are saying publicly and telling chuck shchumer and others, look we are very close. we are almost there. this is going to be a major accomplishment for this de democratic congress and president joe biden. at the same time, though, certainly a lost impati...

>> its interesting. this week will be about the house and about speaker pelosi and about her leadership of the house democrats. but chuck schumer, there hasnt been a lot of legislating in the last year or so. chuck shchumer will get a spotlight here, too, to see how he manages it, both the politics and the math. >> when you do look at the numbers, you see this movement from independents. its not from people who supported the president, right, its from people who didnt support the president but w...

Those children, those dreamers that supposedly we care so deeply about. >> democrats saying its not a serious offer. you are claiming it is. >> the white house is actually considering a plan that would give the 700,000 dreamers a pathway to getting green cards. could you support that? >> i am open to having that conversation and supporting that type of solution here. look what you are hearing, brianna. you are hearing movement from the white house and i do not hear any sincere movement from nanc...

Im sure that the democrats are then also -- the democrats in this country are going to turn and put equal, if not more, measured blame on the president. this is what were looking at for the next two years. this is going to be the finger pointing game and mud slinging game across the aisle. you have divided government on capitol hill. >> the next two years, it sounds so optimistic. >> if it was this disfinanciysf when we had unified government and they couldnt get it through, i cant imagine. >> t...

Much. 1.3. will she take another step back from compromise to go to a lower figure or add more language making it clear that you cant call this a fence or that a fence. that will be interesting because then youll go to senate that has 53 republicans and the two republican who is didnt want to vote this past week on a higher figure are gone. will then the senate republicans have enough votes to pass something and will you then be in a situation where chuck schumer is filibustering what the senate...

Manu, let me start with you. whats happening on the hill? senators left town and there doesnt seem to be substantive negotiations to resolve the impasse over the spending bill. >> no question. there are virtually no negotiations happening and the last face to face interaction was saturday and mike pence came to capitol hill and met with chuck shchumer rejected that offer out of hand. the $2.5 billion for border security and the border wall that was less than what the president has proposed, 5 bi...

Witting victim, donald trump. >> were getting word a letter was sent to the president just this morning by senior senate democrats, signed by minority leader chuck shchumer, and theyre asking him not to go to the meeting alone, want somebody with him. your thoughts. who would he take, first of all? >> typically he would take the national security adviser, i stopped president obama on a lot of meetings with vladimir putin, theres typically a note taker, and one other person because you want one o...

I trust her morality enough to that she was saying it enough to believe. i think chuck shchumer is sayin that because thats how you win elections. used to be when youre in the middle, twr middle, you can appeal to both sides. theres no appealing both sides. they want to see people who are at the polls, who are hard left and riegtght. they want people in this moment who will fight trump. one last thing ill say but its important to note that first of all, we see a big surge in democratic turn out ...

Talking about agriculture. $4.4 billion farm gate industry. you have to structure you program to meet the specific districts. keeping in mind, the overall theme of a better deal for americans. >> congressman, let me ask you about nancy pelosi. es become a lightning rod for republicans. is there any credibility to the fact that nancy pelosi represents the same old democratic establishment and thats why theyre trying to mobilize the base against the nancy pelosi and chuck shchumer in districts acr...