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Their president either on the big spending plan or on changing senate rules to pass the flust yermt our report remembers back with us to discuss the challenges ahead as well as a look back at the year past. democrats resisted, jeff zeleny, for months breaking up the social safety net plan. listen to the president say i guess i have no choice. >> its clear to me that -- that were going to have to probably break it up. im not going to negotiate it myself as to what should and shouldnt be in it, bu...

That are in there. joe manchin strongly supports early education. 3-year and 4 years of age. there is strong support for, i think, a number of the way in which to pay for these -- pay for this proposal. so i think there is, im not going to -- im not going to negotiate myself as to what should and shouldnt be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now and come back and fight for the rest later. ken, "wall street journal." >> thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask...

Parties and staff will get details about infrastructure projects being funded. meanwhile in his rather zroort news conference yesterday president biden acknowledged build back better may have to be broken up into smaller pieces. >> its clear to me that were going to have to probably break it up. im not going to negotiate myself as to what should or shouldnt be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest later. >> the president...

And i think we can get it done. >> reporter: youre not going to scale down any of these priorities, but so far, that strategy isnt working. you havent been able to get some of these big ledgislative - >> oh, i got two big wins done. bigger than any president has ever gotten in the first year. >> reporter: but currently, mr. president, youre spending package, voting rights legislation, theyre not going anywhere. so -- >> thats true. >> reporter: is there anything that you are confident you can ge...

Not get passed and senator manchin would find a way to back out of whatever agreement or word he gave to the white house as we have clearly seen play out and here we are. last week we saw conflicting messages from the president and speaker pelosi. watch this. >> im confident we can get pieces, big chunks, of the build back better law signed into law. i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, come back and fight for the rest later. >> so what the president calls chunks i wou...

0 of your second, third, and fourth years? >> ashley? >> when you gave thattors forceful speech about voting rights in atlanta you conveyed it as being on the right side of history. my question, does president biden believe those people who voted against the filibuster to open up debate on voting rates, are they racist? >> joe, quickly to you. >> american consumers are hurting so much. what additional measures are you prepared to take to curve inflation and bring it down. >> that does it for us....

0 skis. ambition is a good thing. aspiration is a good thing. thats how you motivate people. you should advance your policy agenda but the president was unable. not sure he could have in this social media age. unable to manage expectations in his party for how much they could do. and for americans who dont check their list every day they look at washington and say what the hell is going on there? >> and they look at the prices at the grocery store and they look at the prices at the gase station....

Republicans. on the build back better bill, manchin just said it. i saw a scroll just before i came on the show -- break that big package up into things that people can understand. i mean, people do care about a child tax credit. they do care about family leave. break it up. dont shove it all through. figure out how youll pay for it. and then also, in the group think inside the white house, you have to have people telling the president the truth. everybody cant tell him what he wants to hear. fi...

Along on a dual track saying in order to get one, you have to get the other. but some of the moderates tried to press her to just pass that bipartisan infrastructure plan without worrying about the electri reconciliation piece. and they said that they wouldnt vote on the reconciliation without the infrastructure plan. but this is where they settled, the speaker nancy pelosi agreed that she will bring that package up for a vote, the bipartisan package up for a vote, by no later than september 27....

Not supported by a transformational leader reflecting a majority that the democrats have in the house and senate. i have never seen a president so unwilling to tell the american people over the last two years that the democrats are the majority and they are going to break the will of the republican minority indentured to corporate power who thinks that they can rule as if they are a majority. and so, what i think in this late hour, and it is always a late hour when it is easy to concede and surr...