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Cut things like paid leave, these major climate programs and what are the plans going forward to try to deal with some of those? >> thank you so much for your question. it is transformative and it is historic and its -- the issue it is addresses, and its not issues. these are values. these are values. and the resources that are allocated there. im still fighting for paid leave. i, frankly, have a hard time debating it because i dont understand why we wouldnt have that. but, nonetheless, lets not...

This is failed leadership and a one way ticket to socialism. it is not good for america and certainly not good for americans. >> dana: what i saw coming outs of this meeting biden had yesterday with the progressives and moderates, basically especially progressives will take an inch because they know they will get the mile later on. what he said is well get these programs, get everybody hooked on them for a year and next year for the mid-term and when you are running for reelection dont you want ...

Here we have you, and youre pushing, you know, different approach perhaps, but youre p pushing. explain to our viewers what specific kind of climate programs would you and perhaps other republicans support? >> well, thank you for this opportunity. first of all, let me explain how important it is for republicans to show that we do care about this issue. i regret due to our own actions weve been branded as not caring. the reality of it is i think republicans care deeply and we have great ylds of o...

Items in a long list of game changing proposals that are all packed into that $3.5 trillion bill. but i hate to admit this, those numbers are actually going to change and theyre probably going to be a lot less than those numbers i just read out. thats because two members of the democratic party have taken issue with the price tag. just yesterday, "the new york times" reported that arizona senator kristen sinema wants to cut at least $100 billion from climate programs in the build back better bil...

Items in a long list of game changing proposals that are all packed into that $3.5 trillion bill. but i hate to admit this, those numbers are actually going to change and theyre probably going to be a lot less than those numbers i just read out. thats because two members of the democratic party have taken issue with the price tag. just yesterday, "the new york times" reported that arizona senator kristen sinema wants to cut at least $100 billion from climate programs in the build back better bil...

This goes going forward, but, chuck, to give you a better standard for our audience right now youre basically playing with these four puzzle pieces that theyre trying to fit together from government funding to the debt limit to the first infrastructure plan that is bipartisan, the second one thats not going to be $3.5 trillion nancy pelosi acknowledges but how much less will it be? the desire had been for this to all get done dh week, clearly thats not going to happen, joe biden himself yesterda...

>> well, there were democrats who wanted biden to walk away from the talks altogether just because they thought republicans were going to be obstructionist, they thought this deal was never going to get done. republicans did make some concessions, though not nearly as many as the left. for example, this new deal has billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars and more new spending than initially republicans were willing to back. is so in that sense its a concession, but all of those pro...

Which would amount to more than $4 trillion and the total number here we are talking about, which is $6 trillion, you get to by a slight increase in defense funding and another additional $1.5 trillion that would be for health, education, and climate programs. so, of course, any presidential budget is more of a list of priorities reflecting what they would like to see happen. of course, its not yet reality until he can do that and work with congress. the main question of course is on infrastruct...

Comes to this infrastructure deal, to try to get that bipartisan agreement on that deal. to get some buy in from republicans, even though they dont necessarily have to have it. and yet, the clock has been clicking and they dont seem to have it. well find out, of course, tomorrow what the republican counter offer is. biden is going to have to make a real choice about whether to go with that watered down compromise, that would leave a lot of funding for climate programs, which is an essential part...

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