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Cassidy was on neil cavuto and neil asked him, is this bernie sanders world and were living in it? and the senator said no, because bills have not passed yet. but did he add this, take a listen. >> if you mean that people are willing to hold hostage a piece of legislation that would make the american, the life of the average american much better with better jobs, and they hold it hostage, either because they want to oppose it because one side puts it up and they dont or they want to hold it host...

Live in it. thats not bad for a guy who lost the democratic presidential nomination to a moderate, joe biden, but it does say something about the times now certainly for the democratic party and its priorities going forward. >> i dont know if its bernie sanders world because of the tax and spend extraffic -- extravaganza, the 3.5 trillion. if its making the life of average american with much better with jobs and hold it hostage either because they want to oppose it because one puts it up or hold...

Projects suspended. you have a larger ripple effect from this. general contractor of america group put it this way, that would put countless construction workers out of jobs and leave materials and equipment suppliers across the country holding the bag on orders they are already ready to fill, but wont be paid for. republicans sorely disappointed by this. they wanted to pass the bill separately. house speaker nancy pelosi promised progressives to move it through if she moves the presidents multi...

Complete idiots. that were just not going to watch this or we are going to -- we are going to believe this garbage. i mean, everyone knows that there is no free ride and this is a perfect example of it. we are talking about 5. -- over $5 trillion in spending. this is going to wreck this country if it goes through. take the win and do the infrastructure -- get the infrastructure bill passed. but its the far left of the party thats controlling all of this right now. and they are holding it hostage...

Today. but, again, that doesnt mean these are two separate pieces of legislation. you dont hold up and not vote for an infrastructure package that is historic once in a century that will help fix everything from water, broadband, to fighting climate change to the gateway tunnel between new york and new jersey. you dont hold it up, hold it hostage while working on another piece of legislation. were going to get both done. it doesnt make any sense to me that you have a faction of folks in my party...

Once-in-a-century that will fix everything from water, broad band, gateway tunnel between new york and new jersey. you dont hold that up and hold it hostage while were working on another piece of legislation. >> if this falls apart, will progressives be blamed? >> reporter: its hard to see -- its hard to see right now who will get the blame at the end of the day. a lot of this, remember, just stems from a simple fact that members of the same party, moderates and progressives, do not trust each o...

And you know, there might be a good use for that, right? but we are about to see the democrats try to pass a $3.5 trillion bill here in the united states. how much will be left over to these -- to do these projects around the world? >> and they cant even seem to come to agreement on it. they are literally in -- have a gun to their own heads. they cant pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill the president agreed to and the senate agreed to in a bipartisan fashion. they cant get it out of the hous...

Its a significant piece of legislation and well spend the next months doing that but to hold up the infrastructure package that was bipartisan, made no sense to us. we got to get those shovels in the ground and people to work and thats what were really fighting for. talking about 2 million jobs a year for the next 10 years to hold it hostage just didnt make any sense to some of us and we fought for it and got a date certain and kept those two pieces of legislation separate. >> cory bush and othe...

Our audience, and maybe your host, can you please explain what is going on. >> okay, without getting too much into confusing process detail, they are having a process fate, just as congressman jeffries was talking about, which is a battle over whether or not to consider, what is already a real bill, that has broad bipartisan support, meaning enough republicans in the senate, enough in the house, to pass and be signed into law quickly, it is a them a done deal, whether or not to pass it first, or...

Meaning enough republicans in the senate, enough republicans in the house, to pass and be signed into law quickly. it is pretty much a done deal. whether or not to pass that first or to sort of hold it hostage to this reconciliation package which is the word that the viewers have heard for so long, a special process to wrap around something so that it can pass through the senate with 51 votes instead of 60. in that bill are the social welfare programs the democrats are calling human infrastructu...