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Bipartisan bill until there is passage in the senate from this big reconciliation package. so that timeline does not seem to be shifting in the house of representatives at this point, andrea. >> and, while that gives her, i guess, leverage on both side, but is it all or nothing? >> reporter: well -- it -- well see what is happening. i mean, so there is a group of moderates who have said they want to vote on this bipartisan bill immediately, and shes having to weigh that against the progressives....

Who went along with it, but the 45% include russia and china. china alone is 27% of the emissions. so what leverage do we have with two of our toughest adversaries, really, competitor, china and -- geopolitical adversary russia. >> weve been meeting with both, andrea. i went to russia just recently. we had negotiations with their team. they are building a new plan to try to axe dress some of this. we dont know how much that will be yet. were going to obviously encourage them to do what they need...

Issues that he has power over and call in the favors, and he is fully going to do what he can to limit his exposure. i dont know that he is going to get away with too much, because the decision to impeach, i dont think that he can have any impact there, because too many of the assembly have made it clear that they are willing to move forward, and i dont think that he will have much leverage with the criminal case, because there is a lot of pressure on the prosecutor to do something. at this poin...

Taking a bit of a victory lap after a huge bipartisan win on infrastructure in the u.s. senate. but celebrations, as we said in the previous segment may be premature. our nbc news political team points out thusly quote, there is already a growing standoff between moderates and progressives with both factions enjoying leverage with slim democratic margins in both houses. just one senator or just a small handful of house members can threaten to sink everything. speaker pelosi said again today she ...

Not be impeached. i dont remember that ever being given to other people who have been impeached, right? the democrats want to cut a deal with him, not to mix apples and oranges but was president trump given an opportunity to cut a deal? this is a deal-making situation. so the attorney comes out and she lays out the case where she is poking holes in the states case. the attorney general, when she came out and said they have a case against this governor, there were receipts with that, right? these...

The bigger human infrastructure bill were linked. you just said speaker pelosi is going to link the two or that is her plan. once the senate votes on this, have republicans lost their leverage, she can do whatever she wants? >> well, i mean, remember, this is a procedural vote when they go to -- today they do final passage on the hard bill. and they start on soft infrastructure, the human infrastructure. so the human infrastructure will be a democratic only bill. and democrats have the narrowest...

Ground territory to use a similar argument to hope to slow that progress down. now obviously in the past the u.s. had the leverage of forces on the ground and significant deplorable air power. theyre still using air power but the defense suggested there was air strikes around helmand just recently but that is reduced and has a clock ticking on it of about 3 weeks and it will stop when the u.s. has fully withdrawn. it may be that we hear a similar argument in dohar and they some power and some in...

0 how about this boy? he is only a toddler. look at his golf swing. is it perfection? >> bill: thats good. what do you think? 2 years old? >> dana: wearing a diaper. he is out there let me hit this for you, dad. you think dad is proud? real proud. all right. here is harris faulkner. >> harris: we beginning with breaking news. senate democrats are ready to move forward with their multi-trillion legislative agenda and your tax money, of course, is on the line. im harris faulkner. you are in "the f...

If shes not going to run, she loses leverage. >> thats right. shes got some time. as you can imagine, i didnt leave it there. there were follow up questions. including whether or not shes going to put chuck shuman out of his misery or in his misery in the near future. she also didnt answer that. but one of the other questions i asked is about the highest office because there were post it notes outside of her office. people love saying aoc for president. she didnt answer. she just said i dont wan...

Capitals. theres a number of others under threat. theres growing question of whether they are moving to cut off major pop pop youulation centers. there had been a question of what strategy the taliban would pursue. wasnt one of using the territory they gained for leverage and negotiations to create the government or was it a continued offensive. that answer at this point is all too clear as they build on the gains they have already made taking more territory and controlling more people and popul...