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So a glimmer of hope for two critical pieces of president bidens progressive agenda, progressive caucus chair jayapal. the progressive wing has been in a standoff with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema along with an infrastructure bill. many progressives saying they want both toing pass simultaneous while manchin and sinema say they dont support the $3.5 trillion price tag of the larger spending bill. joining me is whip of the progressive caucus ilhan omar. good evening. thank you for joining. >> t...

Bill we have an electric vehicle infrastructure i could go through a list of issues that everybody agrees on. and yes, we have a lot of strong-willed people right now but we got to get it figured out, because it is either mutual disruption or we are going to do whats right for the country in this once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference in so many peoples lives. >> you say that failure is not an option, but you know that it is actually a possibility. it is something that could happen ...

Their best shot. theyre looking at his approval ratings which have gone down a bit in the last couple of weeks and theyre aware of the congressional rules that make it tough for -- and the constraints of their narrow majorities in congress. and what hes going to be arguing is that this is the democrats best chance to get something done, that this is a popular unifying pose of legislation and that frankly democrats need to do it so they can have something to run on in mid-term elections that are ...

Willing to engage with other ideas. it makes politics more complicated and forces us to actually think. >> so just going right to left basically the way lee did is was youve got your christian conservatives that are morality first, and then youve got your trump-type people, your populist americans. and then you have whatever you want to call growth and progress, which are traditional republicans. fiscal austerity. but, you know, center-center-right on social issues. then, you get to the new libe...

Could come to our shores but also draw down our carbon output in order to make sure we prevent future calamities from happening as well. >> youre from a more progressive wing and partly by pledging work across party lines. as you clearly know, the bipartisan infrastructure bill seems stalled because democratic moderates are balance b balking. is this split among democrats? what do you make of it? there seems to be mistrust. >> well, i certainly dont think its healthy that exxonmobile lobbyists a...

In order to make sure we prevent future calamities from happening as well. >> youre obviously from a more progressive wing of the democratic party than president biden who got elected in part by pledging to work across party lines. as you clearly know, the bipartisan infrastructure bill seems stalled because democratic moderates in the senate are balking at the price tag of a separated but related budget resolution thats key to the house even taking up the infrastructure bill. is this split amon...

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Package. the reason is it was always meant to include the most ambitious and most progressive aspects ofjoe bidens claim. bold climate change per division, child care, taxes on certain things to pay for the package— all things republicans are very much against. the question and the political battle here is really going to be within the democratic party between the more progressive wing that wants as progressive and ambitious of a package as they can get, and the moderate democrats, who like so...

>> hes taking sharp aim at woke-ism, does he have a point. >> of course he has a point. he is rumored on his way to becoming speaker if democrats could hold the house. he was also in 2016, in that congress he was the co-chair of the democrat policy and communications committee. the group that puts together the talking points, that angles of attack, the heart and soul of the democratic congressional campaign and they won 41 seats and control of the house in 2018. so he knows what he is talking ab...

>> activists are in congress. so expect for things to be different than what maybe people are used to. >> they may be activists but they are not informed. theyre not policy makers. >> overall progressive achievements are thin despite lots of noise. no senate passage of a voting rights bill. police reform stalled, efforts to hike the minimum wage are stagnant. no action on gun control. >> dont make assumptions that somehow the democratic party is being controlled by this progressive wing. >> afte...