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That premise? >> yes. it is. his own party testing the premise, but the reality of having literally not one vote to spare in the senate, a 50/50 senate, and not even a handful of votes to spare in the u.s. house. and the direction of the party and the direction of the country at stake for so many of these members who see this as their moment to use this -- these issues and use this time and use that narrow margin as leverage. joe manchin and moderate democrats in the senate and house have as muc...

I think the blame will be on many quarters of the democratic party. but youre right. there is so much frustration right now or primarily in the senate because of the filibuster, 60 votes that are needed to pass major legislation. they at least had a little bit of leverage by holding back that package. a lot of problems its causing in the republican party because of that agreement were seeing right now. >> what exactly is president biden doing right now, john? is he listening, actively negotiatin...

Support of the senate, then where are we? >> so now the big question is, what happens with that thursday vote because right now progressives saying they have the numbers to scuttle that because they want to use that as leverage to force that larger plan through, to get moderates like joe manchin to agree to an approach to move forward. manchin said its going to take weeks for him to get behind anything and there need to be much more talks. he and kyrsten sinema have been at the center of these t...

Complete withdrawal, apparently contributing statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. and a new development tonight in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiancee, gabby petito. lets bring in senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because theyre both named john. so i have to...

More leverage to pressure here, the progressives or the moderates to get in line to pass the bill? these bills. >> well, look, the reality of the situation, don, is that every member of the democratic senate has a veto, and any group of at least four house members in the house, democrats in the house, have a veto as well. 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 wh...

Both sides hate -- when i say both sides meaning the progressives and moderates you dont like when trump is used as a weapon like this, but that is the fear of failure here. its not just having, oh, its dysfunctional, democrats, blah, blah, blah. its failure suddenly hands the trumpist wing, which is a very dangerous wing, political wing these days of the gop, extra leverage. how concerned are you about that, that this process accidentally gives that wing some oxygen? >> and thats why were fight...

More. so today the white house is agreeing theres no such thing as a free lunch but disagreeing at the end of the day who will pick up the tab. neil? >> very interesting. hillary, thanks for that. hillary vaughn. were just getting this in from bernie sanders who is not to keen on the go-ahead vote scheduled for thursday on the infrastructure only package. the $1 trillion or so bipartisan efforts. without it being attached to far bigger spending commitments, lets be clear in the bill is passed on...

Firm in their demands that the bipartisan infrastructure bill not be passed until the broader reconciliation piece is passed at the same time. and theres every indication they are ready to do so. one of the most powerful progressive voices, senator bernie sanders who founded the progressive caucus in the house before moving to the senate put out this statement a few minutes ago. quote, if the bipartisan infrastructure bill is passed on its own on thursday, this will be in violation of an agreeme...

Are not alone, a lot of progressives are, senator cory booker had his own reasoning why he didnt want to go down this route. explain why you dont trust that process to work for you. >> sure. well, i think its the pop eye cartoon from growing up, i will gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. this group doesnt want to do the rest of the bills unless we put a little extra pressure on. were trying to do these ideas that are the big ideas the american people are going to benefit from and see t...

Deliver on 9% of the presidents agenda and, you know, i want -- the president has a good vision here, i want to make sure we have his back. >> i mean, is it the leverage just not -- i mean, if they pull back on the word, there are going to be a lot of progressives that primary these moderates if they walk away. isnt that the leverage that should be hanging over their head? >> what we care about is getting these things done. we have a moment right now to do this. we have several hundred democrats...