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Leave as well as child care and an expanded child tax credit. those are the issues they see they need more promises from moderates in the senate like kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. but the problem is there is still not an agreement on even a framework or a top-line number, and that is where the key sticking point is. now, progressives have a lot of leverage over this debate. and they have shown that over the last several days on capitol hill. one of the reasons for that is they have large numbe...

Provisions and chuck schumer and he along with other senators well asks experts a lot of leverage here. he comes from a conservative state where democrats are not the constituency he needs to win over. >> and pramila jayapal. >> yeah. if anything, the winner in the short term really with -- over the course of the past few days, look. she was given power here and shes taking advantage of it. she is using it. the progressives -- you heard mondair jones saying some of the things in reconciliation p...

Ive always felt it was better to claim a moral victory. >> this is very interesting to hear because it sounds like some progressives who have been very vocal in the past few days see congressman kucinich as a cautionary tale. they are saying we have caved on police reform, voting rights, were not going to be fooled again. >> they also think that they have more leverage now than they did back in the obama years, and that may be true, and theyre trying to use their leverage now to squeeze every do...

Inevitable but likely we could see afghanistan turn into a syria situation where you have the taliban fighting isis or fighting old factions of the northern alliance. they havent really had a good fight against the taliban over the past month but i think its very possible that people are waiting things out and that we could see a very bloody 2022. i hope it doesnt get like syria but it could head down that path. so then you look to see were talking about the terrible situation for women in afgha...

Fundamental thing that we need to have as leverage as citizens. they are impeding that as we talk. we dont have leverage in this discussion. >> if they can change the voting restrictions and requirements in state while we are arguing about washington and policies. >> rev, congratulations on your paper back out during an important time. whats the path forward on voting rights? are you going to continue with your activism on the issue of continue writing about it? how do we actually move forward o...

It seems to me like the progressives are correct in their assessment if the small roads and bridges bill passes, the bipartisan infrastructure bill passes, the chances that bidens larger agenda, the big $3.5 trillion bill will ever pass diminish significantly. their best chance of getting it done is for the more conservative bill and the larger, more progressive bill, to move together. if i was a house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what? lets let enough house republic...

Military leverage we had. >> dana: mike tobins report about the refugees resettled here. eight new americans will have a very different life because of that. >> thank god for that. i was instrumental in helping a friends family get to canada. you have had so many people on the air who have done that. what worries me are the thousands of sivs weve left behind, green card holders and american citizens still there. there is no effort by our military to get them out. >> dana: there was a private eff...

Meeting youre talking about right now between cinema and the white house. >> they were not in the meeting, but they did meet for about 45 minutes together. we know theyve also been asking discussions with various white house officials through the course of the last several days, including today. so there have been communication back and forth, but they were not at that meeting. this was a meeting between chuck schumers staff and white house staff, including susan rice. she also is on the house s...

D blue shield plan at benefitofblue.com >> tomi, lauren, and of course julie, happy friday to you all. thanks to everyone. enjoy the weekend. it is going to be a great one. here is "america reports." >> thank you, fox news alert, awaiting the white house press briefing. president biden faces off against members of his own party with the agenda at stake o stake. im sandra smith. >> im mike emmanual in for john roberts. nancy pelosi says they will take up the infrastructure bill today. the left ho...

Larming possibility for democrats recent events revealed broader problem, losing support among voting groups they take for granted. congressman. >> that voting group are working class blue collar americans who thought they were going to get something a lot different when joe biden became president than they have got. they know this tax hike, spending bill will make it harder to make ends meet and they are rejecting democrats and joe biden. when joe biden appears before the democrat conference, h...