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Like many others, my organization has had enough with the obstruction from a fringe group of representatives, and we’re going to take them on this cycle. We hope that the rest of the Democratic donor community will do the same.

It’s time to pick back up where we left off. Democrats aren't giving up hope on passing major climate legislation after Sen. Joe Manchin threw up his arms just before Christmas and put the breaks on his party’s reconciliation bill.

Throughout 2022 but we also need to substantially increase vaccination rates. i wish the biden administration would start considering the domestic mandate when it comes to vaccines as another lever to get more people vaccinated. >> its been a confounding question of 2021, how do you get more people vaccinated? its available. the distribution is historic. people have not done it to a large degree over the course of the last several months and the country is paying for it now. coming up next, ho...

But they're still not happy and demand more...

Quite a fete for them to back up the promises being made at the podium. >> they will start to be available in january. in terms of the numbers, different families can order, we are working through all those very important details right now. >> within the hour we expect to see jen psaki, the press secretary, at the microphone for her final briefing of the year, alissa. >> thanks, peter. we turn to capitol hill where house progressives are calling on president biden to act alone to implement parts...

Schumer promises a vote next year. even schumer needs the vote of joe manchin just to start debate on the bill. democrats are drying to term what could be different come january. >> what we need to know from senator manchin is where can he get to. where does he want to end up with this. i heard yesterday on the call, a sense of determination to do the best that we can and a sense of urgency to get through with this. >> the senate and its arcane folk ways are exasperating the house democrats that...

Clean air and energy. these are programs that democrats can pay for and that would be a significant bill. democrats need to try to get agreement. it is not going to be easy. house progressives feel like they compromised a lot to accommodate senator manchin. if they shrink it further, house democrats will be a hard sell. >> sahil, thank you. im joined by congress member suzan. >> good afternoon. >> one of the things you heard president biden say with the q&a in the east room of the white house is...

Way more popular in west virginia than joe biden. theres a lot of things in play here, but theres also political pressure on biden from those house progressives who say now is the time to get serious about filibuster reform. right now. is that pressure having any effect on the way the white house thinks about the filibuster? >> it sounds like its having some effect because i remember earlier in the year, i questioned the president about whether or not he could get behind some sort of filibuster ...

And i dont know exactly know the details of exactly what they did, but you can juxtapose that with what the white house put out, which is really saying that joe manchin betrayed the senate, as well as congresspeople in the house. the white houses statement was as lengthy as it was biting. i talked to some white house officials this morning who said they were taken aback by the tone and tenor of that statement. and you dont usually see the white house put out a statement that says, essentially, j...