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The dream sellew dream. >> so congress this fallre allocated more than a trillion dollars for quote infrastructuresstill. te you thought they were going to fix physical things, but we learned yesterday from the vice presidents unemployed husband that actually infrastructure means equity. so what about the bridges? well,f a lot of them in this country are on the verge of collapse and today joe biden promised that as part of that infrastructure push hes going to fix allois the bridges or at a leas...

On the president this week. a lot of other headlines this week for the president that includes ukraine, the economy, supreme court retirement, infrastructure push. where does the most urgent attention lie, peter, for this white house and do they weigh that against what the public might find most important? i mean, do they look at polls, do they get a sense of that, or do they say this is what we need to do and this is our agenda? >> oh, they look at polls, dont worry about that, this is a white ...

Announced so far. the budget is the second paperless _ announced so far. the budget is the second paperless budget... | the second paperless budget... the first few minutes have highlighted what was the biggest ask, increasing expenditure on infrastructure, and the infrastructure push is the major key takeaway from the first few minutes, with investment being lined up to investment being lined up to invest in everything from railways to highways. she has also spoken aboutjobs, made a mention ove...

What does that mean for 2024? well, nothing yet. "the washington post" reports that those close to the president are reassuring his allies he will run for reelection in 2024. joining me now is jonathan allen and jeremy peters. gentlemen, great to have you. jonathan, lets talk about the build back better plan, the second part of his infrastructure push. the social part of it. does he have a good chance of getting it to the senate without joe manchin going in and tinkering away? >> i mean, you can...

I think the white house is trying to do a messaging reset here on the infrastructure push. >> i agree, and i think michael made good points, but i would take issue with one. i think that the white house does have a strategy now, and it is -- was seen just in the guidance that came out this morning or last night announcing president bidens remarks. it said republicans voted twice to let the country default. i mean, that is a direct piece of blame saying that they voted already to let the country ...

Itll probably take the haircut because of senators manchin and sinema and others in the house. its not about raising the national debt, there are tax increases in there that americans want. you know the 55 top corporations in this country dont pay any tax. now youre talking about ceos in this country that make 350 times what their average workers make. they can absorb a little bit of a tax increase and the top marginal rate can go up to 39.6. you know, the last time we did a major infrastructure...

And jobs moving and then of course we can also work on the reconciliation package. >> margaret, it kind of seems like now president bidens big win that he started the week out with is really in hindsight given everything thats going on. >> this is the big time right when youre president, your honeymoon only lasts as long as the rest of the world and life allows it to. it is pretty stunning reversal of fortunes for biden. and i think now that whats happened is particularly in afghanistan is going...