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Take the pieces and bring the most popular pieces to the floor separately. voting rights is the vote of the moment but this is another decision. do the democrats break up what they say is a critical big plan into small pieces? >> a lot of the frontliners who are concerned about losing their seats next fall they are talking about cutting their losses and just moving on. theres a fear if democrats keep sort of having these big votes and generating all these headlines only to fail, its only going h...

>> reporter: so pelosi on the floor was working over a number of the moderate democrats, talking to them about some of their issues, trying to see if there can be a vote. jake, house majority leader steny hoyer told me earlier perhaps the house could even be in through this weekend to try to force these two issues through both the larger bill and the infrastructure bill. this is still very fluid. can they get the votes? still an open question on the larger bill. behind the scenes the leadership ...

Progressives, even now. there is a sense here, we heard from lawmakers, waiting to see. progressives are saying were not going to vote unless we have firm commitments that they will back the reconciliation program and until they do we wont vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. and so now were hearing moderates in the house saying they may not be for this bill. usually when a president goes to capitol hill he goes to to seal the deal that he is just getting the ball from the one yard line i...

Doing that. >> are you surprised this is the most were getting from paul ryan? i keep hearing moderates express disappointment and people saying things, my goodness, the guys third in line to the presidency and got a custodian at some point. >> hes by kind of conservative, but im disappointed. im disappointed in a lot of our leadership. im disappointed in a lot of our friends. theres a point where the political game has to stop, and its nautica rear over country. these guys are afraid of their p...

Telling comments from the republican side came from a guy whos not been in the game of late because hes in a battle of his life. >> john mccain, i applaud what hes saying. and i hear similar things from other senators in congress on the republican side, but i hear them privately. i think more people have to speak up about this. politics is not declaring war on our institutions for your own personal gain, but apparently this president has no problem doing that. >> are you surprised this is the mo...

Old friend is what hes always been, the bravest and most honest guy in the republican party. i applaud what hes saying. i hear similar things from other senators on the republican side, but i hear them privately. politics is not about declaring war in our own institutions for your own personal gain, but this president has no problem doing that. >> are you surprised by paul ryan? are you surprised this is the most were getting from paul ryan? i keep hearing moderates express disappointment, and p...

It, so i think that they have in a very difficult position and this would be the way to swing the whole thing towards conservatives. the other answer to potentially reform health care is to start to work with democrats and that is what you are hearing moderates start to say. >> rule of thumb is you might not remember who gave it to you, but youll remember who took it away. thank you very much, guys. lets bring in tonights panel. jonathan alter, daily beast columnist. amy holmes, and steve korn...