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It, it would be transformative and historic. >> reporter: but tonight, progressives not convinced. >> clearly to my mind, it has some major gaps in it. >> i feel a little bamboozled because this is not what i thought was coming today. >> reporter: whats more, sinema and manchin wont even say whether they actually support the presidents framework. senator, you said you were making progress. do you support the framework? senator, people are just confused on where you stand. do you support the fram...

Im not going to give up until the deal is signed. jillian: progressives have said they would not pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill without the social spending bill being used as leverage. alexandria ocasio cortez says this must be linked on climate issues tweeting i need more than an iou. its not too much to ask but speaker policy is moving ahead with the without progressives, the process of setting up next step in a timeline to pass the reconciliation bill even as there is no bill yet. to...

Postseason hitters ever? its "way too early" for this. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that has a policy to always leave for rome as soon as possible. im jonathan lemire on this thursday, october 28th. well start with the news. president biden is expected to make an appearance at this mornings house democratic caucus meeting. before leaving for europe, the president will push for the house to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. two people familiar with the n...

Here, how committed is she to having that vote today? she has made clear, behind closed doors to her caucus, that that vote is going to happen today. when joe biden addressed the democratic caucus, he wanted both bills to pass, a larger plan, that has not been drafted into legislative text, and separate infrastructure bill. pelosi came on right after and said she wants that vote to happen today. a number of members got up and cheered and said, vote, vote, vote. other members sat down. those memb...

Because there are big differences. they come from different places, different kinds of districts, from ruby red west virginia to the bronx in new york. and so that is the reality that the house speaker and the president are dealing with. the difference between now and, say, even, i would -- ten years ago when i was covering the hill or even before that is that the kind of members who have been elected to the house in particular, are different. and theyre different in that they dont have the pati...

Leverage. dont forgot. these are democrats arguing with democrats. its not like these are democrats arguing with republicans and joe biden went up there today and effectively did what ronald reagan used to do which is to say, look, just win one for the gipper. weve got to get this done. its not hyperbolic to say my entire presidency is on the line here, and yet -- and yet there are still problems, and, you know, this was a high-risk thing for biden to do, and its not over. the question that i wo...

Few months. the fact that progressives are skeptical whether or not they can believe that the senators are going to come through for them on this if they were to come through on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. that brings us back to the same place of leverage weve been in weeks for now. they continue to hold their line. some even telling me down stairs that they said they felt bamboozled by today because this is not a framework that senators have come out and said we agree with. we will vote...

Statements but their statements are not anything that we can rely on. >> when they tell you to your face we arent going to help you, do you think they are kidding? do you think they will really tell us? >> isis-k, al qaeda and associated forces continue to be. >> were talking about the taliban. the taliban has told the united states they will not work with our counter terrorism forces when it comes to al qaeda or isis. what response should we have regarding the taliban when they say that? >> i t...

0 about a conversation that im not -- >> im stunned that you cant recall that. so lets talk about afghanistan. the secretary -- undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? >> i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. >> the question is whats changed? you say always. has any rece...

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