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Lets bring in cnns kaitlan collins. shes in rome traveling with the president. biden has a packed schedule with world leaders. so does his part in negotiations with democrats on capitol hill over that agenda, does that, for now, get put on the back burner? >> well, the white house seemed to think it was a concern going into those meetings because they were the ones making the case to democrats last week, including the president, that they needed to get that agenda passed or have a solid agreemen...

Momentum as he heads to that climate provision -- to give momentum on climate provisions as he heads to the uk this weekend. now, biden himself has been optimistic saying he hopes things can get done. it would be positive for them to have a deal and a vote by the time that he heads there, but still, as of this early tuesday morning, laura, there is no deal reached. >> yeah, you know, deadline is always a loose word in washington. it sounds like the presidents trip has added a new level of moment...

Has any respect, really, for equality. we saw it from some of the emails that came out from coach gruden, some of the conversations that were being had behind closed doors that were i think eye-opening for a lot of people but for some of us, we thought, well, yeah, theyre just putting it in writing. for me, as much as football has done for me, as much it was a part of my shaping and forming as a person, the nfl as an institution is something im frustrated with and needs to have some reforms. >> ...

Demonstrate what were going to do. let me give you a couple of examples. >> let me just follow up very quickly on that. the key climate provision that was in the build back better plan as you call it, the clean electricity performance program, thats been dropped now from the spending bill -- >> no, it hasnt. >> it has not. but senator manchin is opposed to that. >> hes opposed to it. but heres the deal. that is only one of well over, well over a trillion dollars worth of expenditures for climate...

To the world that we will in fact get to net zero emissions on electric power by 2035 and net zero emissions across the board by 2050 or before. but we have to do so much between now and 2030 to demonstrate what were going to do. let me give you a couple of examples. >> let me just follow up very quickly on that. the key climate provision that was in the build back better plan as you call it, the clean electricity performance program, thats been dropped now from the spending bill -- >> no, it ha...

Earlier this week. im told hes going to continue that engagement until there is a deal. the pressure is on because remember, that infrastructure package passed through the senate. they just needed the house to vote on it, but progressives wouldnt move on it until they had a deal on this second piece of it, this social security net that also aims to deal with the climate crisis. now, for his part, president biden and officials here behind the scenes say he wants to make change. thats why the orig...

Get a result, well come back. but theres so much happening in washington, we have to talk about the other big story. democratic leadership vowing things are on track for a spending bill framework -- and we can debate what that means later this week. but behind the scenes new debate on unfolding portions of the plan. this includes debates on climate provision, with senator manchins provisions central to those talks. then theres the child tax and the one year timetable. theres also prescription ...

He has a ton of leverage. this policy of clean electricity program, it really is the core of the climate provision. its designed to pay electricity to shutdown coal and gas plants and sort of slowly year over year transition to win solar nuclear clean energy. end game for this program is cut the use of the fossil fuels that is are apart of his home state economy and you know i think for several weeks, there was a sense that maybe senator manchin would be able to -- that would kind of throw a lif...

The sides of the streets to children walking to school. theyve walked into churches to kidnap pastors and parishioners on sundays in broad daylight. >> reporter: the conditions in haiti prompting thousands to flock to the border. >> theres no police. theres no military. there hasnt been a military for decades. so who do you go to to say i just -- ive just been kidnapped. >> reporter: american citizens trying to lift up the suffering, desperately in need of help themselves. turning now to capit...

Huffman. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, good morning. jacqui: appreciate your time. this week the white house really for the first time sort of signaled impatience here that theres not been progress since the vote on, and its been stalled. and the democrats are pushing for a deadline and you just appeared in a town hall with alexandria ocasio-cortez to make the case for the climate provision. what are you holding out for? >> well, im holding out for a package of legislation...