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Wants to get this done before going to glasgow. i think the message got through. >> is that enough? >> house progressives would want more. lets look at what is in this. the first time we will have universal preschool. were going to have child care. were going to have elder care. vision, dental, hearing. so the exact details are still being worked out. i believe senator sanders and senator manchin are meeting. if senator sanders signs off, i think the progressives will follow. >> free community c...

Long time. we havent heard this specify fistity about where it would come from. now the president and the white house is getting pretty specific about this. >> yeah. remember, were getting this now after a series of meetings. i dont mean just yesterdays meetings. the last several weeks we have gotten lots of reports of biden meeting with senator manchin, senator sinema meeting with house progressives. he has done a few cycles of this. clearly the list was building where biden could see the poten...

They cant abide supporting it in any way. so i think they are just going to see that it is an illegitimate vote to begin with. and right off. i will absolutely be stunned if anybody steps forward. to supported beyond the two that are on this site committee. >> thank you for your candor. though, im not so its a message people want to hear. yamiche alcindor, bidens meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down and remind the good folks watching that that wont be greeted as good...

Number, 1.9, to 2.2, around 2.2 trillion dollars. and that is about a trillion dollars less than what progressives were going for which is about 3.5 trillion dollars. thats what house progressives are saying when i was talking to them at the white house when i was talking to the president. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of the president that he was doing. he was calling him the mediator in chief, the closer here. with that being said, the...

He also met with senator sinema as well as senator manchin. its 1.9 to around $2.2 trillion. that is about $1 trillion less than what house progressives were going for, which is $3.9 trillion. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of what the president was doing. they were calling him the mediator in chief, the closer here. that being said, there are also some critical things we know are coming out of the bill. free community college, im told, i...

Ive heard him make on the need for an agreement on a specific time line. cnns daniela diaz is live on capitol hill following all of the twists and turns for us for weeks now. daniela, whats the latest? >> reporter: laura, christine, its really crunch time here. you can see why president joe biden is part of these negotiations, controlling with a heavy hand how these negotiations are playing out. now, i want to talk a little about some of the developments that happened yesterday that came from th...

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Alternatives to deal with that, meeting first with house progressives today, then with moderates. the progressives represent a larger share of the caucus. the moderates are the holdout group. that includes manchin and kyrsten sinema. theyre trying to narrow the differences on the size of the package, on the elements of the package. manchin is concerned there are some things that look like welfare in this package. too much spending on giveaways. so hes looking for, say, means testing on things li...

Good tuesday morning, everyone. this is early start. im laura jarrett. >> it is tuesday. im christine romans. 31, almost 32 past the hour. time for stories to keep our eyes on today. former president trump suing to keep records from his presidency secret by claiming executive privilege. president biden holding onto hope for his economic agenda with two critical meetings this afternoon. one with house progressives, the other with moderates. vice president harris and treasury secretary yellen wi...

But the president is also going to be hearing today from some of those house progressives, people like jamaal bowman, who spoke on "new day" and said representing the views of the progressives, hey, what about our views? >> i asked joe manchin is he okay with violence in our communities continuing, public housing falling apart, black and brown people disproportionately dying from covid, the climate crisis, ask him to go bigger instead of asking us to go smaller. >> reporter: now, of course, jama...