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Catching allies by surprise. and thats something obviously president biden did not take well to. well see how the world leaders receive him on the afghanistan withdrawal and other issues as well, jake. >> kaitlan collins traveling with the president in rome. thanks so much. here in washington, d.c., democrats bought themselves a little more time to work out their differences on the so-called build back better act. roughly $1.75 trillion in social safety net programs on everything from clean en...

Monstrosity build back better plan and to throw a lifeline to the democrats when they clearly still dont have the votes within their own caucus there was another rough ugly day for the democrats in washington. >> yeah. the house just voted to pass that interim until december 3rd for the highway programs as expected. but, obviously no big vote leslie. what about what guy just said there the linkage of those two bills. the progressives who said we are not voting until we see the text. until we kno...

Picks up our coverage. >> i got to bring you a cake. happy early birthday. at this hour, the fate of the presidents agenda on the line. after democrats decided late friday to shelve a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. doing so until they can agree on a legislative framework for the reconciliation plan. heres what the president had to say today as he left the white house. >> theres an awful lot thats in both of these bills that everybody thinks they know. but they dont know whats in the...

Help them lift the debt ceiling in a bipartisan way. something i should note thats been done over the last few years. then when you move through the month, you have october 31st. now, thats when those funding for the key highway programs, the surface transportation extension that the house and the senate just passed as early as today, thats when that will lapse. so they essentially have 30 days to figure all of these items out because speaker pelosi outlined in her "dear colleague" this morning,...

Congressman, thank you for taking time on a saturday. obviously what youre seeing on the senate very important to prevent construction workers from losing their jobs, from highway programs from being suspended. what is your overall reaction to what weve seen here in just the last 48 hours after tumultuous week? >> thanks for having me on. the senates vote is going to give us another 30 days of negotiates window for us to deliver the presidents agenda. we are going to build back from the bottom u...

Congresswoman pramila jayapals the progressive caucus chair. and she wanted this vote to be paused until the senators can share their top line for this economic bill that they want to pass that would expand the nations social safety net. things like combatting climate change. paid family and medical leave. expanding the child tax credit. these are priorities for the progressives. but house speaker nancy pelosi ultimately failed to please both sides of these groups yesterday. and as a result, the...

Date, was that a mistake? >> no. we could agree to that because in the bill all the reauthorization for highway programs and the rest of that. its our best gres interest served by passing this bill today. okay. okay. what have you got? >> reporter: thank you. >> dont take blue, any mistake for the dodgers. okay? >> reporter: dodger blue. >> no. >> reporter: will you talk about these concerns? and i know theyre going to ask about senator manchin, but when senator sanders says theyll blow up the b...

Highway programs and the rest of that. our best interest is served by passing this bill today. okay. okay. what have you got? dont take blue as a mistake for the dodgers. okay? no. >> when you talk about the concerns with senator manchin and others, what do you say to the left of the caucus and the moderates in your caucus to get them together? >> were on a path to have something that i can say to my colleagues with integrity and certainty is the path were on. and in terms of timing and the rest...