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Hes in constant communication with them telling them all the time whether its telling mitch mcconnell, you know, what he thinks about january the 6th commission, whether hes telling chuck schumer about what hes thinking about the compromises, there is a constant line of communication between joe manchin and leadership on both sides in the rank and file on both sides. and i saw somebody yesterday write that manchins the type of person that could make that statement and accept a $2.75 trillion rec...

Is looking increasingly unlikely there will be a vote on the infrastructure built today, sibley because the progressives who want that other bigger bill, and they want them tied together and didnt believe theyll get that other bigger bill if they vote through the infrastructure built, this is their point of leverage. aaron mind, this infrastructure vote today is a self—imposed deadline by nancy pelosi, the house speaker. was meant to be monday, shifted to thursday, but she is not going to brin...

Democrats all the time. they come on his house vote and hes in constant communications with him and telling him all the time whether its mitch mcconnell what he thinks of the january 6th commission or whether hes telling schumer of what he thinks the ccompromises. there is a constant line of communications with joe manchin on both sides. and i saw somebody yesterday writes that manchin is the type of person that can make that statement and comes in and expect the $2.5 trillion reconciliation bil...

That we pick you biden, months ago, and joe did not listen. that sound familiar to you guys? mentioned mick want them about what his top dollar number it was in july. what this he do all day? he sits in his soft chair and lets susan rice when the country. you think you can turn texas blue? that is the goal. it is going deep red in the short-term. poll came out. texas, it has been expected 30% approval with texas hispanics. only 25% of texas hispanics support what joe biden is doing on the border...

Leverage that we have here with at least two senators in order to pass the more important reconciliation bill, which will deal with the crisis in child care. it will make community colleges tuition free. it will lower the cost of prescription drugs. itll end the disgrace of us being the only major country not to have paid family and medical leave. and something that i have been working on, itll expand medicare so that we will finally cover the dental needs of seniors, hearing aids and eyeglasses...

Leadership had to make promises to the moderates that they would have a vote on it at a certain date, a date certain. and that is today. what weve ended up having happen is this sort of random dealine that isnt necessarily binding that has caused all this panic on the democratic side about whether they will forfeit leverage over the senate moderates if they vote on this thing or not. and its really precluded a larger discussion about the actual policy specifics here which is what youre alluding ...

Cnns manu raju for the latest. speaker pelosi is still moving forward with the infrastructure bill in does she have the votes? >> reporter: at it moment it appears unlikely there are the votes but she is working behind the scenes making phone calls, and not delaying this vote yet. in fact, she is conveying the opposite that they are moving ahead. ultimately could she change her plan? possibly. would different realities are e-merri em emerging caucus. he said there will be a vote tonight on the i...

Democrats in the senate to support this, which is why sinema and manchin have a lot of leverage. and house speaker pelosi can only lose three votes in the house. that is why you saw president joe biden last night having these conversations with members that were at this congressional baseball game. you saw house speaker pelosi on the phone. there is a lot of frustration toward these two lawmakers, sinema and manchin, for not getting behind this bill and waiting to voice their opposition so late,...

But the problem is if we pass that bill tomorrow, we lose the leverage that we have here. with at least two senators in order to pass the more important reconciliation bill which will deal with the crisis in childcare. it will make community colleges tuition free. it will lower the cost of prescription drugs. itll end the disgrace of us being the only major country not to have paid family and medical leave. and something that i have been working on, itll expand medicare so that we will finally c...

Generation alley you have democrats who couldnt get their arms twisted before the ballot box. they ousted long-time establishment democrats. they are there to do what they have to do. its hard to twist their arms because they have the numbers, the leverage and feel they have a mandate that no group of progressives i have seen to date have felt they had. >> that brings me to question number three. they are giving me the hook here. question number three, what can biden do about it, kasie? quickly....