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Will keep them safe if they dont have any police. garrett tenney, thank you very much. see what happens there. >> bill: fox news alert. protests outside the u.s. supreme court. they are hearing arguments about abortion. >> the president has shown extraordinary leadership. time for this party to get together and deliver. >> bill: some house progressives plan to vote in favor of both spending bills as the poll numbers fall and the party struggles to pass a massive domestic agenda. house republican...

Dropping poll numbers back home mainly over his stalled agenda in congress. he was asked about that on sunday. take a listen. >> i didnt run to determine how well im going to do in the polls. i ran to make sure i would follow through what i said i would do as the president of the united states. i said i would make sure we were in a position where we dealt with climate change, where we ruled in a direction that was significantly improved the prospects of american workers being they have good jobs...

Framework the president had just promoted. >> what i see are shell games, budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion bill estimated to be almost twice that amount. this is a recipe for economic crisis. >> reporter: tonight, the presidents agenda now hanging in the balance. house progressives say unless manchin signs off on the framework, they will not vote for a separate bipartisan infrastructure bill. manchin says he wont fold. >> holding that bill hostage is not go...

Apologize for the united states, the last administration. a key piece of the hundred of billions to fighting climate change in biden two signature legislative packages back home. those bills are far from finalized but a potential breakthrough is creating new optimism. house progressives signal that they support the latest framework for the build back better package and while there are still a number of sticking points an agreement could free up the smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill for a ho...

Few days better encapsulate the empty rhetoric and cowardly leadership of President Joe Biden than this past Thursday.

And serious money towards tackling the climate crisis, but it is missing several programs democrats campaigned on, as well as the explicit support of two moderate senators who could make or break the deal. joining me is the chairman of the budget committee, senator bernie sanders of vermont. thank you so much for joining me. you have said there are major gaps in this plan, several of your priorities, paid leave, dental and vision for medicare, giving the government power to negotiate lower presc...

American people to get transformational legislation on everything from childcare and pre-k to elder care and maybe hearing aids and, you know, the child tax credit and the earned income tax tax credit, the biggest housing legislation ever. and by far the biggest climate change legislation ever. thats what is at stake, and thats why weve been wanting to make sure we can get it all done and pass the bills together. so i dont really feel that much angst about it. were going get it done. >> okay. fa...

Transformational legislation on everything from childcare and pre-k to elder care and maybe hearing aids and, you know, the child tax credit and the earned income tax tax credit, the biggest housing legislation ever. and by far the biggest climate change legislation ever. thats what is at stake, and thats why weve been wanting to make sure we can get it all done and pass the bills together. so i dont really feel that much angst about it. were going get it done. >> okay. fair enough. you brought ...

The infrastructure bill on tuesday. president biden has expressed confidence and other democrats are starting to see the light as well. nbc news reports house progressives and the moderate new democratic progression are on target with the bills. however, some democratic officials are negotiating hoping to salvage the change. as of yesterday new york senator kyrsten gillibrand and others havent given up all hope on paid family leave. the bill is being finalized amid the back drop of the wide rang...

Two key moderate holdouts, senator manchin and senator sinema, on that $1.75 trillion bill that he said he believes they could vote on potentially as soon as this week, which he said he does believe its going to get passed because neither of them, jim, have explicitly said yes publicly, that they do endorse that framework and will be a yes vote on it. theyve kind of talked around it publicly. but as the president was leaving the room, he did flash a thumbs up saying he believes they have committ...