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Preserver and sometimes theyre physically put in a lifeboat not only to protect that individual person, to protect the other passengers that may be interfered with in this. thats the situation were in. we have to insist people wear a life preserver, a mask. and weo insist they get a vaccine, a lifeboat. because otherwise, theyre not only endangering themselves, which i want to protect anybody, i dont care what political party you are, but theyre endangering every single community in our country ...

Perspective obviously the president wanting to talk about strengthening those buy america requirements in terms of the amount of content that has to come from u.s. manufactures and anything thats purchased by taxpayer dollars. its a rule his administration released today. they feel like it does very well, particularly in this part of the country, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio. but i also think the broader context of what the president laid out there, it lines up with a lot of what the president h...

For this package dealing with covid relief money already been spent redirecting in certain ways. so some major, major sticking points. democrats came back last night and tried what they called a global offer, along with the white house, to resolve all of the major sticking points. but just moments ago a republican source familiar with the investigation said that republicans have rejected that. they said that this offer was not in their view in a serious one because it reopened issues that they s...

The bipartisan framework on paper. there are disagreements but theres new optimism on capitol hill about that deal coming together. last night, president biden says compromise will happen. >> the answer is absolutely positively yes. >> were going to fix the bridge of yours going into kentucky. >> a tribute to the optimism. this is who he is. hes a creature of the senate. he believes you can put people in a room, theyll work it out. does he have evidence they will after they lost a vote yesterday...

Infrastructure also came up at the town hall last night just hours after senate republicans blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill in what they say is a push for more time to write it. >> the well has been so poisoned over the last four years, and even now there is still this lingering effort. a lot of my republican friends say, joe, i know youre right, but if i do this, ill get primaried. and ill lose my primary. ill be in trouble. but i think that is all beginning to move. >> daniella diaz is liv...

Today the entire republican senate caucus, including 11 republican negotiators working on the bipartisan infrastructure bill were being blocked on an infrastructure proposal. they were short the votes for the measure, but this was expected. all hope is not lost for a bipartisan agreement. before the vote the bipartisan voters made this statement, quote, we have made significant progress and are close to a final agreement. we will continue working hard to ensure we get this critical legislation r...

Situation right now. we have to behave like were taking this seriously and i think that apple is making the correct decision right now. >> dr. irwin redlener as always thank you so much for coming on and taking our questions and for your forth right answers. >> sure. coming up for us tonight the last minute desperate efforts to keep that bipartisan infrastructure proposal now on life support from total collapse. how is that for optimism? washed your hands a lot today? probably like 40 times. h...

Proposal in the coming days in the hopes of coming to a deal as early as next week. and some sticking points of course include how they will pay for this $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal. and there are two key republican senators of course senator mitt romney and senator rob portman who both say that they just dont think that there should be a vote on this when there is not even text for this legislation yet. but chuck schumer defended his decision to put this to a vote later tod...

>> with dr. irwin. redlner, as always dog, thank you so much for coming. thank you for taking our questions and for your fourth right answers. coming up for us, the last minute, the desperate efforts to keep the bipartisan infrastructure proposal, now on life support from total collapse, how is that for optimism? wow fo optimism wo

The infrastructure proposal. and i also understand that the white house has released a statement about everything thats been happening with this january 6th select committee. bring us much speed on that front, too. >> reporter: ill start there. while you were speaking to the senator a few moments ago, i have got this statement saying that the president has made clear that the events of january 6th deserve an investigation to make sure it never happens again. that just in, reacting to the speaker...