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Let walk us through whats happening here. build back better is temporarily on hold and voting rights is in focus. why the switch? >> reporter: stephanie, whats happening is congress appears likely to blow through yet another self-imposed deadline on the build back better act. the christmas deadline is coming and going without democrats properly prepared to get this done in time. they still have policy differences to negotiate. there are still provisions in the bill they need to get all 50 democr...

Diplomacy issue, not policy differences. is that fair? >> well, its really fair to say that im not a politician. im many things. im a doctor. im an army colonel, and many things, but politician ive never been accused of being that. and i dont think its really about sharpness of tone, although, i have to say that when people misrepresent the facts very deliberately, and they put the public in jeopardy because of their misrepresentation, then my retorts might be -- might hurt their feelings a litt...

Needs to know. and i think what i love working in this administration. and i think that it was hard for me to not disclose and be transparent about the things that i thought the public needed to know. even if we needed to give them early information today. weather was tomorrow, a month, or year from now to correct that information as we got more information in. but i would like to put it out there, and speak the truth. but i think it was poorly received in some orders, needless to say. >> and to...

Diplomacy issue, not policy differences. is that fair? >> well, its really fair to say that im not a politician. im many things. im a doctor. im an army colonel, and many things, but politician ive never been accused of being that. and i dont think its really about sharpness of tone, although i have to say that when people misrepresent the facts very deliberately, and they put the public in jeopardy because of their misrepresentation, then my retorts might be -- might hurt their feelings a littl...

Future, not the past. >> such a fascinating dynamic to watch. manu raju, grateful for the reporting, lets bring the conversation in the room and pick up where ma knew left off. when you talk about trump, these two are very different. >> how on the outs with him are you? hes pretty critical of you. >> say that again. >> reporter: hes pretty critical of you, hes not shy about it. >> you get that impression, right. >> whens the last time you talked to donald trump? >> this morning. >> can you tell ...

During that hearing. >> i thought she was the right choice. she made clear what her policy positions were. she clarified at least to my satisfaction, her writings. and, again, if people are opposed to her based on policy differences prosecute like i said, if you listened to the hearing it did at moments remind me scarily of the mccarthy hearing. so, look, im fine if people keep these hearings and questions based on policy and policy differences but i thought that was way out of line. >> senator,...

People? what recourse do we have? >> i mean, its the key question of this generation, of this moment in politics and this moment in america. we have a political party that despite sort of policy differences are democrats, theres also this sort of underlying current of violence and of fear that lawmakers are sort of allowing to grow and grow and grow. i dont know if this is breaking into the mainstream just right now. lets remember that former president trump, that he encouraged people to punch p...

Expollutionary and that they dont think how it affects others. how would stories like that one that enabled people to spread hate and fear we spend a lot of time talking about bullying in schools, children as a result of being bullied online. even the former president, the bully-in-chief, his wife championing anti-bullying efforts, which is ironic. for some reason it seems okay to bully non-white and non-straight individuals and guess where the bullies learn their behavior from? their parents. g...

There is an embrace of violence against politicians based on policy differences. how do you capture the damage thats happening in slow motion but every single day and draw attention to it that inspires that urgent action? >> well, nicolle, youve really laid it all out there and i really like your analogy of the erosion of the coastline there, and of course, you know, if you were thinking of that wonderful highway that runs along the california coast, of course it did get blocked off by a major l...

Embrace against freedoms of the press. there is an embrace of violence against politicians based on policy differences. how do you capture the damage thats happening in slow motion but every single day and draw attention to it that inspires that urgent action? >> well, nicole, youve really laid it all out there and i really like your analogy of the erosion of the coastline there, and of course, you know, if you were thinking of that wonderful highway that runs along the california coast, of cour...