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Theyre threatening to use the power -- their power to prevent us from doing our job. saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frankly its hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. as soon as this week, your savings and your pocketbook could be directly impacted by this republican stunt. its as simple as that. >> in a letter to president biden monday, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell reiterated republicans will not help raise the debt limit and democrats will have to do it...

Agenda. christine? >> a lot going on there. jasmin, thank you so much. nice to see you this morning. time for three questions in three minutes. historian and professor at princeton university, julian, so nice to see you. the debt ceiling thats been raised 49 times under republican presidents, 27 times under democrat presidents. how do they get it done, then? >> well, the path mcconnell is pushing, reconciliation, might be the only option. its hard to imagine that coming out of a pandemic wed b...

Progressives can get behind it and vote for the bipartisan infrastructure package. but the bottom line here is everything is up in the air right now. but well get a sense of what happens as these lawmakers arrive later today. >> all right, daniela diaz, thank you so much for that. so, what is the white house saying about all of this? lets bring in cnns white house reporter jasmin wright. jasmin, good morning. so, help me out here. where does the white house come down on what the progressives h...

And so we will need some additional time to finish the work starting tomorrow morning first thing. but make no mistake about this. after the setback, the presidents agenda definitely hangs in the balance, as you just said, laura. and so the question is, what comes next? because, right, there is really kind of this inability to bridge the gap right now as the president said. they are saying he is going to go forward. the work is going to continue, but it is a real question of what comes next for ...

2.4 or 2.1 or nothing, take it or leave it. and the progressives in their calculation are going to take it, and that will be the second part of bidens agenda. then theyll pass the infrastructure bill. >> the progressives feel like theyve already compromised. theyve come down from 6 or 7. they feel 1.5 is not beginning to negotiate. the progressives -- >> its still a lot of money. >> a huge amount of money. they say this is about the presidents agenda. listen. >> this is all part of the build bac...

Addictive and marketed to teens, they grilled the social media giant how it pushes a product they know is harmful to its youngest users. donie osullivan has more. >> reporter: facebook found itself on thursday trying to downplay and discredit some of its own research on how its platforms, including instagram, affect teenagers. have a listen. >> facebook is just like big tobacco, pushing a product that they know is harmful to the health of young people. >> i want to be clear that this research is...

$1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill because progressives vowed to vote it down without a firm agreement on president bidens larger cradle to grave package. they are staring at a possible default in 2 1/2 weeks. lets bring in cnn correspondent john harwood. nice to see you on this first day of october. lets start with a quote late last night by moderate democrat cindy axney from iowa. when voters tell me they are sick of washington games, all at once, it is no way to governor. this bill ...

Closer. but one senior gop aide, john, tells cnn republicans can hold out, quote, longer than biden and the democrats. thats for sure. do you think thats true? >> reporter: probably. but, look, biden and the democrats are the governing party. they are in charge. this is a true game of chicken where if the two cars collide, the world economy blows up. and it is true that republicans are playing political games, trying to extract a political pound of flesh from democrats. but democrats do have the...

Theyre doing it. theyre trying to get very serious negotiation. the white house aides were on the hill in intensive talks. joe biden is engaged during the week with sinema, manchin and others on the telephone. i think theyre getting closer. this is an interesting, guys, transition in politics. they are standing up for what joe biden laid out and its a little bit hard for people to get their minds around. you think, well, joe biden was the moderate democrat. he was more moderate than the rest of ...

Maybe even a couple of weeks. but they do think theyre closer to the goal line. >> washington loves a punt. lets talk about joe manchin. all week weve been hearing from joe manchin. whats his top line number? turns out he has a top line number and far short of what progressives want. $1.5 trillion. hes actually been pretty clear about that number since at least july. politico scoops this yesterday, this agreement that he has with chuck schumer, the senate majority leader. he also hinted on it pr...