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Senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, and do so in roughly 48 hours as they press to finalize an agreement to bolster bidens hand and he arrived at the u.n. climate change conference. >> that would be his preference. >> publicly, democratic leaders pressing even in a scaled back form, its a domestic agenda that would rank among the most transformative in american history. >> we had the new deal era. we had the great society civil rights era. were on the verge of delivering the build back bet...

And that, at least based on what the president laid out today with negotiations very much still ongoing, was what the president said he was planning to do. now, something to keep in mind here, there are still a lot of details to be worked out, particularly on the climate piece. but democrats, with a level of momentum, we simply have not seen up to this point. erin, you have been following this very closely. want a framework by the end of this week. they are pressing for a framework by the end of...

Avenue. phil mattingly is at the white house. this is the third meeting for president biden today. any progress being made? >> look, i think it underscores theres been a clear acceleration in the talks and emphasis from the white house and democratic leaders that the time window is closing and hard decisions need to be made now. the president met this morning with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, separately. the two key moderates. over the course of the last several weeks, jake, the white house a...

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...

>> i think the american people want the sorts of things that are in that bipartisan bill, roads, bridges, ports, airports, all of those things are important. i had some concerns with some of the gimmicks that were used to fund it. i thought it spent too much. there was some issues that i didnt like in terms of i thought it was going to make energy more expensive and undermine our grid. but, look, you have a 50/50 senate. 69 votes is a big number of votes to support something. but on this $3.5 tr...

>> why wont it add it -- >> because thats too small to get our priorities in. its going to be somewhere between $1.5 and $3.5, and i think the white house is working on that right now. >> we have more now on the plans to push through bidens legislative agenda. >> reporter: joe biden will hit the road this week to promote his economic agenda, which hes still hoping to get across the finish line. he will travel to michigan, where he will promote the infrastructure proposal, and also that more swee...

Howell, michigan, where he will promote the bipartisan infrastructure proposal. and also, that more sweeping economic agenda which would expand the social-safety net in this country. both of those measures, currently, remain stalled in congress as dem -- as moderates and progressives remain at odds over the two measures. the president is also expected to host democrats here at the white house to get those negotiations going, again. but there has been frustration voiced by some democrats in the p...

>> i think the american people want the sorts of things that are in that bipartisan bill, roads, bridges, ports, airports, all of those things are important. i had some concerns with some of the gimmicks that were used to fund it. i thought it spent too much. there was some issues that i didnt like in terms of i thought it was going to make energy more expensive and undermine our grid. but, look, you have a 50/50 senate. 69 votes is a big number of votes to support something. but on this $3.5 tr...

Infrastructure proposal as well as his larger sweeping economic agenda passed up on capitol hill. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz is a key member of the democratic caucus and the former chair of the democratic national committee. and she spoke earlier with cnn about the difficult but necessary legislative process that was unfolding. >> democrats were elected to make sure that they could pass transformative infrastructure policy as well as family imp...

Both of those senators said that that is far too high. and the president has been urging both sides to compromise and remember that they share these democratic priorities that they are trying to accomplish for the american people. but right now its really a heavy lift as the president is hoping to get both that bipartisan infrastructure proposal as well as his larger sweeping economic agenda passed up on capitol hill. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. abortion rights activists hit the stree...