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Breaking news just into cnn. you see the pictures there on your screen. a small plane crashing this morning outside of houston executive airport. the waller county sheriffs office says all passengers were safely removed from that plane. look at the pictures, with just one minor injury. thats remarkable. well continue to stay on top of that story. if there are any new developments. back here in washington, if meetings guaranteed movement then the biden agenda would be in much better shape by the ...

White house officials say theyre dialing up the urgency on talks over joe bidens stalled legislation. the infrastructure bill that has not passed the house until there was a agreement on the megaspending bill. they are holding a meeting today at the white house with house progressives, house moderates, and joe manchin is there as well. after sanders and manchin spent weeks going after each other in public comments. >> were talking. >> were talking. >> youre going to have a resolution by the end ...

Manchin threw cold water on that, too. >> when will talking actually amount to action? >> we have a lot of action going on. >> are you saying you oppose the climate tax or you just arent talking about it right now? >> the carbon tax. >> carbon tax. >> the carbon tax is not on the board at all right now. >> so now on the docket, as we said, are those house progressives, including the leader of the house progressive caucus, pramila jayapal. in about two hours from now after the president leaves th...

Continue, wolf. -let president sitting down in separate meetings in the oval office with house progressives and moderates. again, trying to bridge the gap that has existed for such a long period of time and its not just a gap between blocs lawmakers. its individual lawmakers. we saw over the course of the last several days, a very public spat play out between senator joe manchin and progressive senator bernie sanders. sanders taking to a west virginia newspaper with an op-ed making clear manchin...

Its sitting in the house. house progressives are not going to vote for it unless they get a successful vote on the larger social safety net bill. are you frustrated by that delay? do you think that was a mistake for progressives to demand this other legislation be voted on before the infrastructure bill? >> the reality is, america needs both of those pieces of legislation, not only to make sure we have the right kind of infrastructure, but to make sure that life gets better in this country for p...

My department working with state dmvs to speed the issuing of cdls, the commercial drivers licenses, to get more qualified, safe truckers on the road. there are a lot of steps were taking to address this in the short-term, but at risk of repeating myself on something i have been talking about and the president has been talking about one year, this is why we need to pass the infrastructure bill. there is $17 billion in the plan for ports alone. we need to deal with the long-term issues that have ...

Of saying these are lazy black people, lazy people of color, lazy poor people, because we shouldnt help them, because whatever financial situation theyre in, whatever struggles theyre going to, its their fault. joe manchin, his take on this, he has a different idea of what critics say this is, but at the end of the day, just that language makes these negotiations harder. so you have president biden in here, some lawmakers calling him the closer, but i can tell you just talking to white house off...

>> insisting on a vote on the bipartisan $1.2 trillion proposal first. a starter for house progressives. man chins concerns from the paid leave and community college and expanded medicare. biden has spoken to both this week and talks remain ongoing as they fix two critical dates consuming democrats. the october 31 expire operation of transportation and the november 2 virginia senate race. >> hope the house will get that to president biden asap. with biden increasingly concerned.

Trillion. sinema voting on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal first. a nonstarter for house progressives. manchin has laid out the package from the scale of free college and medicare and the coal state democrat sharply opposed to many of those climate measures. biden has spoken to both this week, according to officials as talk remain ongoing and the clock tickets to the end of the year, two considering democrats. the october 31st surface transportation fund, an unofficial deadline of sort...

Component of his frozen multi-trillion-dollar package. >> both bills are not about left versus right. theyre not about moderate versus progressive. >> reporter: facing criticism for not selling that agend abiden using public remarks in connecticut to press the urgency of the moment. >> these views are about competitiveness versus complacency. >> reporter: while privately top advisers have made clear theyve grown impatient with the pace of the talks. as two key moderate democrats, joe manchin of ...