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Working behind the scenes to get a 50 vote from his party. i dont think it will be problematic, look the infrastructure component needs to be tucked in. they knew in advance they were going to have to take the two votes. if they have to do it in one vote, im assuming it will be fine. does the size of the package get too big where the moderates say this is too much money, and secondarily, this has been getting little attention but my colleagues at politico have a good piece about it this morning,...

>> reporter: as a possibility grows that president biden may have to change course, something interesting happened in the senate. they released a transportation package that sought to increase funding for railroads, bridges, roads. but, of course, that falls far short and falls short of the infrastructure component that president biden has put in the bill. a couple of questions going forward are, one, do republicans come back? if they do, how do the two parties that are now so, so, so far apart ...

We do have a historic precedent for which is the railroads in the 19th and early 20th century railroads were notorious for starting fires sort of up ending landscapes by allowing logging a land clearing and then casting sparks with abandon i mean they were huge infrastructure component of the country they were an armistice. economically powerfully politically and we wrestled that down i mean we had mega fires an order of magnitude larger in scale and we thought what were seeing now so it is poss...

Again by senator jeff merkley from oregon. senator, one of the issues here that we were talking about in the last segment is -- we still have a jobs crisis in the country. we still dont have much growth and we have tens of millions of people out of work. obama was talking about originally having an infrastructure component in any deal. some spending on infrastructure. some more stimulus for the economy. is that a part of these negotiations right now do you think? and does that -- does it have to...

Good afternoon to you. first is the jobs bill as it is now constructed is it officially dead in. >> even the white house will acknowledge it is going nowhere that the death nail was put in it last night when the senate had most democrats but all and couldnt get tot the next phase. there is a plan b. the way the president laid it out with many parts to it, a total price tag in the $450 billion range. now the democrats in the senate will try to break out certain pieces one policy at a time. and re...

president barack obama and his re-election campaign. the today the president and the jobs act face a critical vote, a important vote in the senate. they are pushing hard to rally support. if you wonder what the president jobs bill could mean for you, heres a brief overview. in addition to other things were talking about extending the current payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. there also would be new tax credits for businesses that hire people who are unemployed. president obama...

anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, u.s. intelligence officials are uncovered a new terror threat and describe it as specific credible, but unconfirmed information about a potential al qaeda plot. its believed to involve three individuals and explosives such as a truck or a car bomb. washington and new york are cited as possible targets. we are covering this from all angles. fran townsend is in washington and susan candiotti in new york and barbara starr at the pentagon. fran, lets...