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Specifics are taking shape. you can look at them on screen. things like universal pre-k, climate provision, cap on childcare expenses will be in it, but some of the more popular policies like paid leave, free community college and expanded medicare, that did not make the cut. im joined now by former senate majority leader from nevada, harry reid. senator reid, great to see you. thanks so much for being on with us. youre no stranger to these -- great to see you, sir. youre no stranger to these ki...

Legislative package includes voting rights, right, to the extent that his priorities include -- anyway, the presidents evolution on this is important. >> yeah, no, the legislative package im referring to of course is just the reconciliation bill, which bypasses that whole 60 vote threshold thing. hes got to get that done, and then, yes, you dont get anything done after that. not a single thing. nothing moves through the senate after that if you leave that 60 vote threshold in place. >> but well ...

To the extent the legislative package includes voting rights, right, to the extent his priorities include -- anyway. the presidents evolution on this is important. >> the legislative package im referring to is the reconciliation bill which bypasses that whole 60 vote threshold. hes got to get it done. you dont get anything done after that, not a single thing, nothing moves through the senate after that, if you believe that 60 vote threshold in place. >> we will see, i mean, with senator manchin ...

Sell it, jobs are created, half families are being helped, i dont think any of thats punching through. because youre engaged in backroom sausage making, which is never fun. but joe biden is someone who has done this throughout his career, he skilled at it. hes used to trying to get to them to the finish line. and this is going to get done, maybe all eat those words, but this is the whole enchilada. joe bidens legislative agenda, may not be very robust after this year. you gotta get everything yo...

What happened in this. youre going to have to do it on your own. you didnt allow us to come at the table when we were talking about some of the stimulus package at the beginning. they did it through budget reconciliation and now mitch is not going to just give it to him that easily. >> congressman kennedy, we could be right back here having the exact same conversation were having right now. do you think that this is -- you heard senator baldwin a few minutes ago maybe talking about how they cant...

Taking this temporary deal but what does jen psaki have to say about it? >> jake, they dont seem nearly as excited as the senate democrats are. theyre not framing it as mcconnell the way you saw elizabeth warren saying as they came out of that meeting. if they accept this agreement which as manu noted, senate democrats say they are ready to do so. its only going to prolong the process. and that is something the press secretary jen psaki says president biden does not want to do because she believ...

That process again and democrats simply do not want to do that given they are running into a midterm election year where control of congress is at stake and also by going that process, as i noted theyll have to specify the exact level they want to raise the national debt limit to. rather than suspending the national debt limit which is what democrats want to do. suspend it and say it does not apply up until after the november midterms. all about taking very difficult votes that democrats dont wa...

In georgia, one, i think shocked the political world but recognized the incredible potential of this moment, but also just how hard it was going to be. you were still in the midst of a global pandemic. we were starting to come out of it. you had an enormous amount of economic weakness that we had to shore up and finally a potential to do what the country has been asking for which is invest in our infrastructure. address issues on education and child care. try to finally address climate. and to t...

Issues some democrats dont want to take. at the moment theyre signaling well avert this crisis in the short term. but in the long term, a major question and almost certainly will be back debating this in a couple of months once they sign off on the details of how the short-term agreement will work. >> couldnt democrats, if they get their build back better reconciliation act together, and get 50 votes for that, couldnt they also put raising the debt ceiling in there and then just pass it with 50 ...

Inflict, i should say as much political pain as he can around this process and, look, yes, im glad it looks like theres an offer on the table here, but as you heard, that just postpones a process that doesnt need to be postponed. this is ultimately a question as to whether the united states of america pays bills that we have already incurred. and the answer to that is, yes, of course we are going to and we should. this could just get kicked and should it get kicked now. glad to see some progress...