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Error. republicans not playing on the larger social spending bill so his negotiations are with his own party where he cant lose a single vote in the senate and three in the house. but hes left the american public confused what theyre debating. they hear numbers, tactics, progressive versus moderate. they dont hear what is at stake, a bill that encompasses one of the largest social spending initiatives since lbj and great society, expand medicare, have universal pre-k, help for parents for colleg...

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Moment with infrastructure and an lbj moment with voting rights and thats what we want the president to do. deliver on his promise. >> its become a partisan issue and that is what senator joe mansion of west virginia is actually using as his opposition. the reason for his opposition stating i believe that partisan voting rights, hes calling this partisan because it has no republican support. i believe partisan voting legislation will destroy the weakening divides of our democracy so ill vote for...

Bigger than lbj, hes trying to have an fdr moments. but he can have an fdr moments with infrastructure, and an lbj moment with voting rights. and thats what we want the president to do. deliver on his promise. >> its become a partisan issue, and that is what senator joe manchin of west virginia is using, as his opposition, the reason for his opposition. hes calling it partisan voting registration, because it has no republican support. i believe -- of our democracy, and for that reason, i will vo...

Morning. >> what do you want to happen? the frustration was clear that there are enough exexcuses. weve heard the executions. what were witnessing is what the 1965 act was supposed to prevent staged with a history of discrimination in the voting not being allowed to discriminate in the voting but thats the world we live in now. >> one of the things we want more than anything is for president biden to use his voice to use the power. he is a master of the senate were hearing a lot of promises but ...

Morning. >> what do you want to happen? the frustration was clear that there are enough excuses. weve sort of heard all the executions. what were witnessing is what the 1965 act was supposed to prevent staged with a history of discrimination in the voting not being allowed to discriminate in the voting but thats the world we live in now. >> well, i think one of the things that we want more than anything is for president biden to use his voice, to use the power of his bully pulpit to use the powe...

I spoke to cuban community and really pushing back. if you want to rearrange the furniture of american government, you have to have a big enough mandate to do it. you cant ran it through with the tiny minorities you have in a moment in a country where people are resistant to it. the label socialism is known. you are not a socialist country but its all too easy to come up with the idea. >> is this stuff angela merkel will be happy with? this is not the radical lbj, both defenders -- >> you dont t...

Come to an agreement but hes a straight shooter. chris: lets talk about something that he has shot straight about. he says that this social spending program needs to come down dramatically. hes saying not $2 trillion, $1.5 trillion. here was something he said this week. take a look. >> i dont fault any of them who believe that they are much more progressive, much more liberal. god bless them. we have to elect more i guess for them -- i guess elect more liberals. chris: dozen tore manchin -- does...

These sort of disconnects, is that joe bidens agenda and interests arent the same as nancy pelosis. nancy pelosi is looking at the midterms, shes looking at her own age, and shes thinking these may be my last 18 months or a year, whatever it is, my last time as speaker, and she wants to put up these massive progressive victories on the board. joe biden doesnt need to do that. in fact, doing that undermines his ability to run for re-election. again, everyone said you couldnt get republicans to do...

Take one or both of the houses, then biden is a second press, and hes wagered so much by putting so many elements of his agenda, his priorities in a single bill, almost like lbj put the entire society on the line with a single vote, he has made it a an all or nothing situation. if he were to not get this through, it would put him back on his heels. he would have to rethink how he wants to progress in the presidency. >> peter baker, i love those. ient know if theyre sunflowers or daisies, but the...