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Partisan stalemate. >> leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling, but said democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawnout, convoluted and risky reconciliation process. that was simply unacceptable to my caucus. and yesterday senate republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work. >> west virginia democrat joe manchin seen -- there he is, sitting behind schumer during the speech. didnt apparently love the lines...

Blink from mitch mcconnell earlier in the week. he said, well, ill make the reconciliation path easier. that was an accommodation that mcconnell was offering. will that be the last accommodation he offers? thats something that joe biden and chuck schumer are going to have to make a decision about, but i suspect that they will end up deciding to do it through reconciliation. and the debt limit will get raised. the question is how much of a white knuckle time for markets and political leaders is i...

Clyburn bill does in the house. infrastructure does dot enough in removing pipes and so what the speaker said is we applaud the bipartisan effort but we need to get the presidents agenda through on a lot of these critical areas, especially when we have the majority in both chambers and the presidency. >> i get that. i get that aspiration. but the fact is in the senate youve got a sliver of a majority and you need ten republicans to join in support for this unless you go to reconciliation path wh...

Indicating, joe manchin, kyrsten sinema and others, because of the states they represent or their own political temperaments, they want to try and see if they can get something done across the aisle, if they can, on infrastructure, a partial package, voting rights, great. if they cant, then they have to see if they can get it done with democrats alone. and the process of failing on voting rights, on infrastructure, both efforts in which joe manchin is involved, may influence his willingness to g...

They know the window to get meaningful things done is short and closing quickly, and the president has an ambitious agenda. they said you make your effort. we know republican voters support it, if not the lawmakers. its time to go this alone. you have shown enough of a good faith attempt to reach across the aisle to modify the moderate democrats. so the filibuster looms over all of this. whether it comes into play on the commission, whether it comes into play, perhaps theres something in the inf...

Get on this, lets get to work. the white house said they want progress. they havent defined that. thats just a little over a week away. the two sides are even in on agreement on what should go in an infrastructure package, much less are they having serious conversations about to me thats always been the most difficult part of this. the two sides started with completely different sets of ideas about what to pay for. in the last few weeks weve heard a third option, sort of center of the conversati...

Garrett, thank you very much. bob casey, represents the finance committee and the health education committee. thank you for joining us. first off, i want to find out, senator, im sorry, excuse me. i want to know where the democrats are specifically willing to negotiate with the republicans if there is a bipartisan deal. >> we have been saying for a long time that republicans in the early early part of the year, back in january, chose a reconciliation path, a stiff arm to democrats. we have offer...

Theres a feeling -- mcconnell im sure is making this point, which is the political prois for failing this will be really high, higher than you think -- >> to the point you were making with maggie, clarissa, they werent attacking their own in the house the way they did this time with these ads. >> chris, the margins are different. its just -- when you have two seats or two people to work with rather than the 20 -- >> this was the easy route. this was done on the reconciliation path which they onl...

Goal of the summit but we went prepared to negotiate in good faith if the president and the democrats wanted to negotiate in good faith which as it turns out they didnt. >> what was your overall take away from the meeting on thursday? >> my overall takeaway is that the president would be a great professor at the harvard law school. he has a grasp for the detail but that the republicans had ideas and were prepared to discuss them and they are ideas that would work and it wouldnt cause a massive r...