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Legislate i text of the frame work. thats another thinking that the progressives want. joe manchin did not really comment on the frame work. he says it is up to the house right now. senator sinema said there was good progress, but that was the extend of it. you have generally from senators sinema and manchin. and speaker pelosi is trying to round out the votes for the bipartisan trillion dollar roads, bridges, and highway bill, and she doesnt have those yet either. she needs the progressives to ...

For better. >> reporter: the president outlining a $1.75 trillion plan to provide free universal pre-k for kids and extend the child tax credit for families. it would also include money for childcare and eldercare and expand medicare to cover hearing. and it would set aside more than half a trillion dollars to combat climate change, including tax incentives for manufacturing and buying electric cars, for installing charging stations. the president insisting the time has come. >> somewhere along ...

Back now to our breaking news out of capitol hill. house progressives still pushing back on holding a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill without assurances that the social spending package will get through. one in fact saying hell no. another said she feels bamboozled by cuts to the social spending bill. senator bernie sanders were learning fighting to include provisions on drug pricing which are currently out and saying there shouldnt be an infrastructure bill yet because of that. joini...

Joe biden to the nation, but to really house progressives. this is a resignation that every time they reopen, the number goes lower and things come out. i think theyre saying that we have the best question get. i need you in this moment, and look this is a test of joe bidens leadership in the last few minutes. barack obama is out with a statement saying this bill has a lot of wins in it and the fight continues. house progressives have hard decisions to make now. if progressives are correct to po...

Cover hearing, dental and will vision benefits which was another key priority for progressives. but this really shows how president joe biden needs all democrats united behind these bills because they want to pass this using a process called budget reconciliation. so every single democrat needs to get behind this. so thats the bottom line here for why president joe biden is visiting the capitol today in an effort to try to unite his party behind both of these bills, namely, try to get house prog...

Extremely hard on this package of ideals. his vision is broader as is mine. as are many of the senators and the democratic party but we also know that taking this very positive first step is really important and getting these investments in place is essential. so i think there is a lot of good will power and i feel optimistic. we have an opportunity to do another investment and i think we can make those efforts then. i think people will come together, and i think this is an extraordinary opportu...

Important, and it will not be minimized, and we will keep fighting for it. >> let me ask you what youre message is to the house progressives. you were in the house before you became a senator. they feel they have given and given and given in terms of compromising. basically saying as of now, to the president of the united states, their party leader, who is making this plea, and saying that im not going to do summits, but we could lose control of the house and the senate. if we dont go along. i n...

Talking about, wheres the text? she came out and said, the text is up. our producer tells us its over 2,000 pages. i havent had time to read it yet, manu. seems you might have. >> yeah. >> but where are we at this moment? >> well, the question is, is that going to be enough to satisfy the progressives? remember what a number of them said was not just text needs to be released, they want the house to actually approve that bill. they also want all 50 senate democrats to say they would support that...

Peoples lives. >> are they shooting for the moon, and it is something so big that instead of focuses on some really positive things for progressives in this final package, if it gets through, and everyone is focused on the top line and then as senator sanders said, we started out at $7 trillion an we have come down a long way. >> i think it is up to us. it is up to leaders voting for this whether or not we want to go talk about what is not in the package or talk about what is in it. i think we g...

It and weve been talk, there is so much riding on this. real quickly, gloria, before i let you go. the fact that former president obama is putting out a statement about this and hes basically saying, look, this could be transformational. this is a real big deal. theres a lot in that bill. >> right. >> hes also in that statement saying suck it up. get on board. >> right. >> who is that for, do you think? is that for progressives? >> i think it is. >> for disgruntled voters. >> i think hes talking...