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Votes for this bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass. now, again, you guys laid it out perfectly, but i do want to make clear there are two bills that were supposed to pass together in the house. the bipartisan infrastructure bill is $1.2 trillion bill thats hard infrastructure, roads, bridges, transportation funding. and then this $3.5 trillion economic bill that would expand the nations social safety net. that the house will wrote, until sinema and manchin decided to, in a lot of progressives...

Democrats in the senate to support this, which is why sinema and manchin have a lot of leverage. and house speaker pelosi can only lose three votes in the house. that is why you saw president joe biden last night having these conversations with members that were at this congressional baseball game. you saw house speaker pelosi on the phone. there is a lot of frustration toward these two lawmakers, sinema and manchin, for not getting behind this bill and waiting to voice their opposition so late,...

House moderates, agree on how to move forward? what do we know about communication, if any, between the two wings of the democratic party? >> yeah, its been sort of all over the map and very tense just as it looks like in public. but, look, weve seen really detailed private efforts again to bring manchin and sinema on board. weve reported on efforts by western lawmakers to talk about the extreme weather problems in their state. hes been very reluctant, resistant on some of the climate change pro...

Relationship. house speaker pelosi is also dealing with navigating relationships in her own caucus because she can only lose three votes. parts of the problem here is that i did not mention earlier is that progressives will not support the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the house floor until there is a commitment from manchin and sinema on what the top line number is going to be on the economic bill because they are opposed to the $3.5 trillion price tag. so house speaker pelosi is trying to ...

Margaret, good morning. president biden attended that congressional baseball game last night. hes talking with republicans and democrats while his plan to help american families ream i hangs in the balance here. is he going to be able to be the closer in chief that he wants to be? >> the closer -- it might feel like a baseball game, right? nine innings, infrastructure debate, its like a 32-inning game. no base hits and a bunch of foul balls, four different presidents, you know. the way biden has...

About his commitment to getting both pieces of legislation passed, both of them through. so right now what were navigating through and were working through is how we can get agreement, of course. 50 votes in the senate on a reconciliation package. thats what were discussing here. we have to see what senators are comfortable with, and with everybody involved thats comfortable with it enough votes t get it across the finish line. >> reporter: for all the meetings that have gone through the last se...