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Infrastructure stuff and say this is a guy with a firm grasp of how to do the job. and for independent, i think the competence part of it is a bigger driver than the ideological part of it, but you put the two many tandem, that hes way too left wing and hes bad at getting it done, and people are like what the hell is going on here? jon: very quickly, hes going out on the road to try to sell these big spending bills. how do you expect him to do? >> not too great. you know, he, he is not great at ...

Adding less, but by way of context, $3.5 trillion, like theres two comparison points and would i say one of them is two decades of war in iraq and afghanistan. we know thats somewhere in the ballpark of $2 trillion and the other is the 2017 republican donald trump tax cut. just a little bit north of $2 trillion so even if you took half of what the democrats are swinging for the fences on it would be at once massive and substantial and also comparable to what republicans have done in recent years...

Bill we have an electric vehicle infrastructure i could go through a list of issues that everybody agrees on. and yes, we have a lot of strong-willed people right now but we got to get it figured out, because it is either mutual disruption or we are going to do whats right for the country in this once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference in so many peoples lives. >> you say that failure is not an option, but you know that it is actually a possibility. it is something that could happen ...

One assumes the economy will be okay and well get some infrastructure stuff through. i think biden is at least in decent shape to define to a draw and then it will be trench warfare in the house and the senate in 2022, and then we go back to the question we were talking about in the first segment, can you get some of those moderate voters that did vote for biden to stick with the democrats in 2022, which goes to the question of how worried are they about the republican party? do they think its a...

Infrastructure stuff they want and do all the other things that they want. if they let democracy collapse, it all doesnt matter. >> thats why we love having you. because you tell the truth. facts, first. and by the way, youre right about the ease of voting and what you can do. you know, now -- you know, i sit in my kitchen and i -- checks. i cant believe people still send checks, right? um, and i deposit them. and then, people laugh at me because they are like, youre still writing checks, old ma...

Lives, you can dockusign a $500,000 loan our why house in your bathrobe. you can transfer any amount of money from your living room. for some reason the technology and making it easier for people to vote and access the ballot box is something that we still are struggling with. to me, voting is the only possible way that the american public is given as an individual. they cant hire lobbyists. they cant do all the things wealthy people do. the only thing they have to hold people accountable is the...

Still have redistricting thats going to be led by a number of gop state legislators. and that is going to be a structural battle. so thats not even anything that messaging can handle. on the other thing that speaker pelosi said in her weekly conference was that she also empowers her members to customize their messages to appeal on a local level, because we recognize that it does not catch the individuals members popular down the district. level so that something that shes encouraging people to d...

Something shes encouraging people to do. but overall objective is they are leaning on agenda wildly popular with the american public and theyve done so much. time to highlight that, and let people know they did that alone without help from republicans. will create a dichotomy of what you see from republicans. theyre more focused on culture wars and democrats on the results they delivered. >> bill, when you look at infrastructure stuff, polling 2-1 in favor, including with a majority of republica...

Friend chris hayes here on msnbc. president biden tonight published a new op-ed on his infrastructure plans, conceding that the bipartisan deal he made with those republicans, quote, is missing some critical initiatives on climate change that i proposed. he then said those climate initiatives are things that, quote, i intend to pass in the reconciliation bill. by which he means that second bill that republicans wont support that democrats will try to pass on their own say so anyway. we shall see...

You have said that when has this ever worked before. ainsley: is he not happy with the infrastructure plan, the proposal because its a lot less money than he want. original plan more man 2 trillion. 11 of them consider voting for it. 1 trillion. he says doesnt include enough on climate change. republicans are saying we are concerned withdrew infrastructure. steve: right. ainsley: bridges, tunnels, that kind of thing. steve: when bernie goes on television and says look, im good with all the real ...