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Shes the most brilliant tactician in this capitol and maybe one of the most brilliant in the history of the united states congress. she knows how to get votes. its a difficult task but shell figure it out and maybe standing on the edge of a pin. shell be able to do it and ill support nancy, and shes going to be supporting biden and thats what democrats need to do and americans need to do. the items in the build back better billowering costs, lowering taxes, getting people jobs, health care, chil...

Thing -- this thing will go if manchin and sinema negotiate and say heres our bottom line. this is what were willing to do, probably for the progressives it would need to have a 2 in front of it instead of a 1. its certainly not going to be 3.5. thats the way the legislative process works. theyve taken the posture, particularly sinema. were not going to negotiate until you pass that infrastructure bill. and theres not a lot of trust. theyve taught the progressives a lesson in leverage, but the p...

Vaccine or no masking is akin to supporting drunk driving.. it impacts both the person driving drunk but all the rest of us. that is not the way we beat this. >> tucker: how was it like drunk driving? have unvaccinated people hurt anyone? hey, no murphy, got a second? explain that to us. a year ago for so, onstage if you would have said that you would have been left off the stage and a politician with thousands of health care workers during the pandemic calling in criminals dehumanizing them wou...

Our people home safely? because joe biden says we have all the leverage. i dont see it. >> yeah, sean, we gave up all her leverage when we ran out, when we abandoned and created this debacle, we not only gave of our leverage, but 13 american lives as well. there are lots of americans were working to help get their fellow comrades home from behind enemy lines. i hear from folks nearly every day, if try to help as i can as well. we are fighting our own government. we are working to try and work ar...

Because joe bidenwh says we have all the leverage. i dont see it. >> yeah, sean, we gave up all her leverage when we ran out, when we abandoned and created this debacle, we not only gave of our leverage, but 13 american lives as well. there are lots of americans were working to help get their fellog comrades home from behind enemy lines. i hear from folks nearly every day, if try to help as i can as. well. we are fighting our own government. we are working to try and work around and get assistan...

Joe manchin revealed that $1.5 trillion number that. is far less than what the liberals want, which is 3.5 trillion, and the liberals want manchin to agree on something, and have actually a passage of that larger safety net plan before agreeing to vote on the infrastructure plan. theyre concerned letting that infrastructure plan go would give away key leverage at a point in these negotiations. manchin earlier today in a back and forth with reporters for some time talked about that top line. and ...

What we do know is that they are very far apart. not just on the numbers but on the philosophy, on the ideology, the notion of the social safety net bill, which is really what theyre negotiating about right now. the moderates, as melanie just laid out, they actually dont want to have more of an entitlement society in america. these are democrats. they say we have leverage. we want this. our constituents voted us in for this, and we are not going to give up our leverage at any point. . >> you tal...

And progressives in a very public standoff, despite this, speaker pelosi is standing firm, she says, in holding a vote on the infrastructure bill today. >> the plan is to bring the bill to the floor. >> are you worried you may not have the votes? >> one hour at a time. >> one hour at a time. well, progressives remain defiant, willing to sink the bill over their push to strike a deal on that $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. >> if we do have a vote, then well vote it down and well continue the n...

Even though she has said that, that is not what she plans to do. she says she never brings a bill to the floor that will fail, but at the moment, im told from a source with direct knowledge of the matter shes still pushing ahead. shes telling her colleagues that the path is to have a vote. shes making phone calls trying to get enough of a coalition together to get this bill forward today. remember, we only expect a handful of republicans to vote for it. they need 218 to approve it in the house, ...

Pause on the negotiations in august, it looks like he was not joking, and it looks like a lot of people thought that he was. >> reporter: right. and thats really the key here, is that this deadline and the reason why were up against the clock and theres such urgency and so foert,rth, its a deadli nancy pelosi put in place as a negotiating tactic to bridge the two sides of her caucus, the progressives and the moderates, because, again, just to remind people, because it gets confusing, what they h...