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Style, how he lets everyone vent. this after all a of that press hailing him as the next lbj. >> thats whats amazing about this moment. this is not in the media coverage. we have one time in our history had a congress this narrowly divided. we have a near tie in the house. we have an actual tie in the senate and we have a president who was elected on the claim he would be a moderate and unifier. howie: he wasnt bernie sanders. >> nothing in the coverage even deals with this reality that we have ...

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...

The democratic party would allow the hard infrastructure bill and the reconciliation to sink? >> thats an excellent question. it would be a bad time for the democrats to implode. look. the bottom line, this would be a disaster if the bills got nothing out of it because if democrats really believe that democracy faces a challenge and in the midst of this rolling assault on the democracy then the democrats need to act like it as opposed to playing a game of political chicken that could result in p...

From two senators. were committed to passing both bills by the end. lets be clear. you know, were on the verge of making history. and in the long arc of history, no ones going to remember the process. no one remembers the process that led to fdrs new deal or lbjs great society. people are going to remember the end product so whether it passes on september 30th or october 31st, is irrelevant in the long arc of history. we are going to get the job done, and its better to get it done right than to ...

>> youre confident you will, by october 31st? you feel confident at this point that you guys can actually get it done by october 31st? you can all get on the same page? >> the president is willing to spend all of his political capital. he recognizes that we are in an fdr moment, that we have a historic opportunity to govern as boldly in the 21st century as fdr did and lbj did in the 20th century, and were going to make the most of that once in a generation opportunity. the stakes are too high. >...

There wasnt a vote on monday. she said there was going to be vote on thursday, theres not a vote on friday. because in fact they dont have the votes. and this is, you know, the fundamental tension here between the great aspirations of the democratic party and the constrained majorities they actually have to work with, right? president biden was quoted today as telling the democrats in that meeting that they have fdr and lbj-like ambitions but they dont have lbj or fdr majorities. they literally ...

Trying to redefine the cost of a $3.5 trillion bill as zero must rank among the most...

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Then. the kind of phone calls, face time with the president. his critics call it hand holding that he required before he signed on. probably instructive for all those trying to figure out whats going on now. >> they used to call it the treatment with lbj. the pressure from a president to a senator or a member of congress to come along. when you read "peril," we detail vividly how president biden at times uses curses, he uses pressure to try to get manchin to come along. and whats so interesting ...

We think that nancy pelosi is in her final term, her valedictory term as a member of congress, as the leader of house democrats, but she has been reluctant to address that because, of course, because once you say youre on your way out, you become a lame duck. that is one of the few times shes kind of played the legacy card in talking to her fellow members of congress and to the reporters and to the public. >> she certainly has been relentless in trying to get this done. i was at the congressiona...