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It immediately to president biden, thus preserving the leverage that progressives want to see but also giving moderates what leadership has promised them, which is a vote on the early side of the spectrum. a lot of jockeying that were going to see over the course of the next few weeks as summer break ends here on capitol hill. >> for sure, and youre right. i have john yarmuth, the budget committee chair right after the commercial break, after the great peter baker with whom im going to spike now...

Administrations policies and paying, wouldnt surprise me if this administration paying terrorists, massive vote ergs of most basic fundamental rights and it want surprise me if they used resources to exert leverage. maria: unbelievable. china waiting in the wings. we have been reporting on this program in the last couple of weeks that we understand china is the negotiating a status of forces agreement to move into the bagram air base so strategically located near china, short distance are from w...

Whats at stake in the days and weeks ahead. bidens entire presidential agenda rests on expansive spending bill. and, indeed, president biden continues to try to rally democrats around his $3.5 trillion spending package, especially senator joe manchin who remains opposed in addition to the separate bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to hold a bill on bidens larger spending package until the end of the month although it is widely expected to be alter...

Theres nothing that she can do except hopes that joe manchin ends up being happy. hes very much in a position of leverage. >> as season who covers the decision space that -- around these folks, do you think joe manchin, senator manchin, is representing the interests of west virginia, the preferences and tastes of folks in west virginia around some of the issues in this legislation, access to community college, things on health care, things on climate. is he in step with his public, or is he work...

U.s. taxpayer dollars to convince the taliban either to allow americans out or for something elsewhere we have no leverage today because of the decisions that this administration made. >> and theyve already been going through pallets of cash that we left behind as well as 86 billion-dollar in weaponry. was that a payment for the taliban? do you think we are going to send aid to the taliban? i mean, its absolutely extraordinary that the united states of america is being held hostage by a terroris...

Weapons. benjamin: is it fair to say the administration is following strategic patience? were not going to do much, were just going to wait for them to crumble under the sanctions which havent worked over the last few decades? >> yeah. strategic patience really was the policy of the obama team. president trump had very, very different programs. he had, actually, two of them. one be tough and is one be nice. they werent strategic patience during the trump years. this is really just the obama play...

West bank who are conducting terror and paying martyrs to kill people inside of israel. it wouldnt surprise me if this administration wouldnt blanche of paying the taliban, the violators of human rights, if they use american taxpayer resources to exert leverage. maria: china is waiting in the wings. weve been reporting that we understand china is negotiating a status of forces agreement to move into the bagram airbase. so strategically located, near china, a very short distance from where the uy...

And you will vote for it because you are not going to vote against child care and paid family leave and early childhood education and community college and all of these top priorities which by the way the country desperately needs. i think that democrats will fall in line and vote for these items. >> reporter: now, the scenario that he is describing is that eventually come the 27th, democrats vote on this bipartisan infrastructure bill and all of the posturing that has come from progressives who...

>> the inflation issue is one the biden administration, if they believe what president biden said they are living in a fantasy land. inflation is showing up and this is one of the concerns manchin and other moderates have, the gushing of all this money into the economy many of which is sitting there and spend from previous programs could really cause inflation to take off. if that happened there was a poll recently that shows the average person what they look at to see the economy is doing well ...

What biden just said there, i think they are living in a fantasy land. inflation is already showing up. and this is one of the concerns that mansion and other moderates have. the gushing of all this money into the economy, many of which is still sitting there unspent from some of these previous programs, could really cause inflation to take off. if that happens, there was a poll recently that shows the average person -- what they look at to see whether the economy is going well or not. its not t...