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Tell us whats going on behind the scenes. it sounds like its not a done deal. >> reporter: thats right. far from a deal. yesterday, house progressives signaled that they were open to this new accelerated timeline, that ambitious plan house democratic leadership wants now to vote on the bipartisan bill, and that $1.5 trillion build back better plan. we havent heard a peep from holdouts manchin and sinema, and bernie sanders speaking out this morning for the first time since this new timeline was ...

Everybody understands. there are 100 members of the united states senate. unfortunately, we do not have one republican prepared to take on the pharmaceutical industry, take on the private health insurance companies, not one republican prepared to go forward to deal with the crisis of climate, not one republican prepared to say to the richest people and largest corporations they have to pay their fair share of taxes. were down to 50 people. any time you have 50 people with different ideologies co...

Your priorities, paid leave, dental and vision for medicare, giving the government power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for seniors, thats not in the deal. you saw that house progressives endorsed the compromise. do you? >> its not in the bill yet. we are working right now, i spent all of yesterday on the telephone. we are paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. the pharmaceutical industry has spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to make certain ...

Of climate, not one republican prepared to say to the richest people and largest corporations they have to pay their fair share of taxes. were down to 50 people. you have 50 people with different ideologies coming from different parts of the country, thats what we are struggling with right now. >> sorry so interrupt you. given that reality, do you believe house progressives should insist on a publicity xhment from senators manchin and sinema before they vote yes on either of the bills this week?...

Group of lawmakers are working with sinema still negotiating with that centrist holdout on adding lowering prescription drug prices back in to this build back better plan, that may tick up the price of this thing which wont make senator manchin happy happy. were over his $1.5 trillion he set at the start of the process this summer. tomorrow will be a busy day as were chasing these answers in congress. one important point we just also are reporting is that at 2:30, about 25 minutes from now, sena...

Other people because we had been hearing about these death threats. we had been receiving death threats more so than some of our colleagues for many years. what happened on january 6th was a combination of, you know, trump really bringing in all these, you know, thousands of people, some planning by some really, you know, extreme militias, and then some incompetence, you know, i would say police forces although they did some great work in terms of that day. but the planning was poor. in order fo...

Good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonights lead, holding the line. right now im invested in things working out with the presidents infrastructure plan, not because its my number one priority, but because in order for democrats to keep their majority next year, victories are needed. yet the disconnect between house progressives, senate moderates, and the white house meant yet another vote was punted this weekend. progressives balking again at a vote on the physical spending bill unti...

The bipartisan infrastructure bill thats already passed the senate, and the separate massive economic bill that has been negotiated for weeks and weeks, and weve been covering that would expand the nations social safety net. this is what its going to look like the next couple of days -- a new version of the bill could be introduced as soon as tomorrow with some revisions, and then the rules committee, it has to go through the rules committee procedure here on the house side, could take up the ru...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib reportedly opposes Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) push to pass the $2.1 trillion "bipartisan" infrastructure bill.

A number of lawmakers who were in the room on Thursday say the report that Rep. Pramila Jayapal kicked Nancy Pelosi out of House lawmakers meeting is false.