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Schumer. contributed money to him. contributed a lot of money to democrats. more comfort socially around chuck schumer than paul ryan. is there any reason for americans to hope that this congress and president get it right in areas they have not? >> ed rendell mentioned infrastructure. we all talk about infrastructure. everyone agrees that we need a big infrastructure push. so my question is how do you get the republicans in the house to go along with that? how do you get them to spend the money...

If mr. trump in fact has the courage to take on wall street, and take on the drug companies and to try to work forward and go forward to create a better life for working people, we will work with him on issue by issue. >> all right. that is senator bernie sanders saying today that he would help president trump to rebuild the middle-class and also with the olive branch, nancy pelosi says that she has offered trump a infrastructure push, and elizabeth warren looking for common ground, but make no ...

Wasteful and inefficient program that doesnt exist. going back to the government is whats wrong with a highway tax thats always been pay a couple of cents for gas. it was two, now 18. youre paying $4 for regular anyway in places. as a percent saj its not big. whats wrong with that going to the highways? presumably 18 cents is railroad going to that. -- already going to that. >> its expensive. >> yes, but the question is how do you get money into the system without raising taxeses? there is not a...

This house especially. >> your reaction to how it will play out? i assume hillary clinton will be a bread and butter democrat. thats what my hope is. i cant write her script. i have been pushing the president in this direction. as head of the infrastructure push. it took him a while to get into it. we have to keep him up there. be a builder. be robert moses. do something. >> absolutely. the chamber of commerce and the aflcio that could barely agree today is tuesday agreed to raise the gas tax. i...

Single corner, you have to think that a lot of members of the house are not going to want to hand the president some sort of win particularly when it looks like they will come together on immigration reform. thats going to be the one main thing that they achieve this year. however, the infrastructure push is very similar to what he talked about in his state of the union, continuation of themes of investing in america and my progressive ideal for how we do this and its all a preview of his budget...

Meet with senate democrats about it. all of this comes as the president is getting together today as well with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors from across the country to continue his push for a massive infrastructure deal. a lot going on. cnns lauren fox is live on capitol hill. shes joining me now. lauren, what is in this new budget deal that they just announced? >> look, this is really the first step. democrats trying to cement the presidents agenda items here. this broader package,...

Resolution that would allow democrats to enact a range of party priorities without republican support. schumer may be right to not wait around, by the way, for republicans to get onboard. thats because the twice impeached former president is telling gop lawmakers to stop the infrastructure push and stop negotiating with democrats over a bipartisan infrastructure deal. joining me now from capitol hill is nbc news reporter amanda golden. good morning to you. what is the latest on this? >> reporter...

You make important decisions for the american people. >> he made that clear, you know, when we started writing about this early on, someone close to him said we know we have an audience of one and that is president trump. and that is the approach that scott pruitt took from the beginning. and it is unusual that someone who is the epa administrator is constantly in the oval office, regular phone calls on a regular basis. president trump had raised the prospect of him leading trade talks with mexi...

A . michael wolff for his part said that he spoke to mr. trump, both during 2016 campaign and here in the white house. he is dismissing his claim that he never actually spoke to him. you made the point the president is headed to camp david in about the next hour or so. and we expect him to talk with the top congressional republicans about getting behind his big infrastructure push. that of course all overshadowed by this drama circling the west wing. >> initially the president said he never talk...

Congress and mayors and governors. their response so far has been much better outside the beltway than within it. speaking with some democrats, the response is that they think the administration is going to try to make an end run around environmental rules, around wage protections, union protections. as the administration is part of its big infrastructure push tries to cut through a lot of red tape and to speed up the permitting processes for these jobs. >> we know you can speak to developers ac...