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About it. there were a lot of them that agreed that keeping a presence there would not change the overall outcome of the war or would not change how afghanistan would ultimately be in the matter of months or years. the reason that they recommended keeping them there is because they were hoping they could prop up the ghani government a little longer and have more of a peace agreement on the ground there. the reality is and we heard this from general milley today, it wasnt going to change the stra...

Veto threat for the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he has just encouraged the senate to sign. because it had to be held hostage to this bigger tax and spend bill, the human infrastructure bill 3.45 trillion. so now, cooler heads have prevailed and democrats are looking at $1.2 trillion. it has already made it through the senate. the bottleneck it got through and if the house can approve it, they have got 1.2 trillion in spending. so it seems very unlikely to me that in the long run and by t...

Bipartisan infrastructure deal. speaker nancy pelosi finds herself caught between progressives who want to enact the ambitious social programs in the reconciliation bill and centrists who balked at spending trillions more. she sent a letter to colleagues yesterday, saying it is morally imperative to pass the act. progressives will not vote for the infrastructure deal tomorrow until $3.5 trillion plan passes first. senator bernie sanders urging house democrats to vote against the infrastructure d...

Thats where all the leverage is. senators manchin and sinema have a lot at stake here. they negotiated that bill. they took the lead on it. this is their legislative victory. they dont want that to fail. so its not just the progressives that have the reconciliation bill that is problematic in passing at this point. its the bipartisan bill, as well. and how to get past this and move through this especially in the next 24 hours where speaker pelosi says that she is still planning to have this vote...

I knew you would understand. in terms of what do we gain and what do we lose, its all about leverage. its really important for people to understand if we pass that senate bill on thursday, its done. it goes to the president, it becomes law. we give up an enormous amount of leverage. why is that leverage important? because we need both parts of the deal that was always the deal. >> okay, so wait. hold on. congressman, fair point. but lets just take a look at that point. youre making it sound like...

Progressives say they have tried it your way, to do it incrementally on things like voting rights, police reform, and every time they get almost to the finish line, the rug is pulled out from under them. now they have leverage. you just heard in the piece, congresswoman cori bush of missouri say you have forgotten what real people need. yes, they need bridges and tunnels, but they also really need child care and so its not going to just help to have a good bridge if you cant get back o to work. ...

>> she committed to bringing the bill up by monday. we had to debate the bill as is normal practice in the house but the vote needs to take place not just because of the commit she had to have the vote tomorrow but our surface transportation bill runs out tomorrow. and we really cannot leave the american people without the necessary funding for infrastructure across this country. that would be a dereliction of duty. >> the progressives are calculating, as i dont need to tell you, but the progres...

And progressives in the house. dont know what the timing of all that will be in terms of a vote, as ryan indicated in the segment before us. its not likely that that vote is going to happen tomorrow. but its a matter of finally forcing these senators to provide some information that would allow a deal to be struck. dont know if it is going to be struck by the end of the week or even next week, but they do seem to be moving forward incrementally. >> one of the things, seung min, that progressives...

So with majorities this bare, everybodys got leverage, and president biden has to bring all of them along. now, one of the challenges here is you cant negotiate with somebody who doesnt tell you what they want. and so far, the progressives in the house have outlined what they want. even to some degree, the moderates in the house have outlined what they want. but senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have not. so the efforts right now pushed by the house are to try to get some definition from s...

Substantially. there need to be an agreement on what that package looks like with the white house and with manchin and sinema signing off on that as well in order for that to reassure progressives in the house who are threatening to vote in mass to sink that separate bipartisan infrastructure plan headed to a vote tomorrow. at the moment, nancy pelosi is moving forward to that vote, but she could potentially delay it if the votes are simply not there. if talking to a number of progressives, they...