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Here they are. heres the situation. theyre going to talk about a path forward for the agenda on the build back better act. today ahead of those meetings president biden met separately with one key progressive democrat, congresswoman pramila jayapal. throughout this whole caucus shes been the lead negotiator for the progressives. shes been doing this to make sure the build back better act would get a vote, that it would not be killed in the united states senate. now, shes been the lead on the pro...

Bipartisan infrastructure it approximate bill as the united states senate. shes been the lead on the progressive side. on a sing get side, there is no need for a voter. he would probably still not have to fight against who has their p. on the wos tchl. ly penl drat to watch thim nsly. there are more talks directly between her and president biden. what is even more interesting and newsworthy is what she did after her meeting with president

Thats enrollwellcare.com. ♪ ♪ wellcare. its medicare done well. welcome back. seemingly neverending back and forth negotiations over the larger democratic biden agenda bill, also known as reconciliation in congress speak. the president is set to meet with two separate groups of lawmakers. one on the moderate side of things. one on the progressive side. both of the meetings will be this afternoon. theyre meeting separately, so were a ways away. biden met with senator manchin this morning as...

Tomorrow, the white house is scheduled to hold another round of meetings. separate meetings, with democratic moderate, and democratic progressives. to talk about path forward of the biden agenda, for the build back better act. today, ahead of those meetings, president biden met separately with one key progressive democrat pick. congresswoman pramila jayapal, who is the chair of the progressive caucus. throughout this whole progress, congresswoman pramila jayapal, has been the lead negotiator for...

These are negotiations among democrats. these are debates within the party about how far they want to go on what is president bidens agenda but certainly is on the more progressive side. and there is so much frustration. ive talked to several house members who have said point blank, wolf, that they really want the president of the united states, the leader of their party, to be more aggressive in getting the different sides of these issues in a room and just figuring it out, because the chaos, p...

Numbers. he chose 1.5 trillion as his ceiling. and sinema has basically turned herself into something of an "snl" punchline for vagueness and trolling. >> we have the moderate senator kyrsten sinema. >> were joined by jason boss, msnbc contributor. jason, tell me what you want. >> i think people in d.c. are surprised that biden gets along better with his friends on the progressive side. that it seems like hes kind of

All remember the obamacare experience where both sides kept arguing. it looked like a mess. even though they did a really big important thing that changed peoples lives, people didnt feel that way about it for a long time. it had a lot of stink on it. you dont want this process end up the same way where people feel like even though theyre getting a lot of good things out of it, it has a lot of stink on it. think about this from the progressive side. theyre not getting policing reform. we dont ha...

Shes a master in such situations. she always seems to bring it home at the last minute. i must say, this is the steepest mountain ive ever seen her try to climb. i think it is going to be very tough. if you think that -- mentioned 1.5, the democrats are 3.5 and will scale it, they want the democrats want to -- some democrats want to scale it back to 2.1, thats a huge problem for the progressive side. taking all that money out. the way out of this may be to shorten the time length of the applicat...

>> i never heard about that. >> you were never part of a deal? >> he said he never heard of that and he said over and over yesterday hes been negotiating in good faith. do you believe that? >> the president was very clear when the bipartisan deal happened that it had to be together with the entirety of his agenda. i do believe senator manchin is negotiating in good faith. one of the things he suggested is lets repeal a lot of the trump tax cuts. that is at least a start. we could also have a fro...

-- >> bret: we always knew senator manchin was going to be crucial. we talked to him on this show many times and asked him specific questions. today, mara, youre right. $1.5 trillion top line that he talked about. take a listen to this and reaction on the progressive side. >> elect more liberals. im not asking them to change. im willing to come from zero up. >> i believe in my heart that what we can do and what we need to address right now without basically changing our whole society to an entit...