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Vote, right, on monday. but in terms of -- supposed to be, right, in terms of where were at, this was supposed to be a big win for biden, looking at infrastructure. now it has turned into a bit of a mess. is it salvageable at this point? >> it is, but, look, the -- the progressive view of this is they want to have negotiating leverage over moderates so they want the bigger -- they want their prize, the reconciliation package finished, wrapped in a bow and ready to vote before the moderates get t...

>> and afghanistan. you are a member of the armed services committee. how do we get asis tabs to the people in aghanistan without sending money through the taliban? is it time to unfreeze some assets? the country is going to cave in under this crisis and the starvation is profound. theres been a drought. is there a way to use the ngos, all the aid groups, international and american groups there, to get money and supplies to the people? >> look. im sympathetic to the people of afghanistan but we ...

This is coming from the elitist point of view. they said he reached out the public health in advance to share their proposed. they said they reach out to us and everything was okay. but with money being thrown around as their leverage that the rest of us dont get to enjoy? is the biggest defense is not that they are human. they pretended not to be in the only hold us the ordinary americans to that standard. the men and women of oklahoma say they are causing gunshot victims to not have hospital b...

Difficult negotiation, and it may be that in many ways it gets the government off the hook that no early deal is going to be done because there would be some difficult negotiations on things like agricultural issues and access to medical issues, so i am not sure it is a surprise or probably privately a huge disappointment. in a post—brexit world, how much leverage could the uk have in negotiations with the us. indie leverage could the uk have in negotiations with the us. we have to be realisti...

He was never political. he was a mechanical engineer with a love of astronomy. throughout his entire life he has put me and my brother first. but in august in 2017, while visiting his elderly mother in tehran, anoosheh ashoori was thrown into irans notorious evin jail, one of around a dozen westerners being held in iran, including nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe. their families describe them as hostages being used by iranian authorities for political and financial leverage with the west. evin is not...

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Kyrsten sinema is threatening to withhold her support from that spending bill if the house doesnt vote on infrastructure by september 27. joining us now from capitol hill is nbc news political correspondent ali vitali. ali, we have this face-off between moderates and progressive the in the house and between the progressives and kyrsten sinema. whats the bottom line, what does this mean for passing things like the reconciliation bill, infrastructure, and raising the debt ceiling? >> reporter: it ...

One of a dozen westerners being held in iran, including nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe. their families describe them as hostages being used by iranian authorities for political and financial leverage with the west. evin is notorious for being horrific. each room is shared by 15—20 people. they have rats and cockroaches all the time. he was interrogated very, very heavily. they threatened to hurt us throughout the interrogations. they told my dad that they knew where we lived, where we worked, wha...

The weekend are privately saying if its a $3.5 billion paired with infrastructure we would rather have neither. these are moderates who worked on this product for weeks, for month, trying to get this passed, and now they are -- this sort of changes the political calculus because, you know, if they are not going to get eat, wheres the leverage for progressives and the question is does leadership have the votes for this vote thats coming a week from today and right now our reporting indicates that...

Minorities. that is their history, and were starting it see indications that they really have not changed and reformed themselves. i am not a believer of providing lemgt ma psy to a regime of that nature. that doesnt mean we dont push them in a positive direction and see if there are ways we can provide leverage to push them in a direction they can be pushed in to join the international community. we have to be doing both right now, its a very delicate time. >> it was good to see you. >> as well...