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Does hallway interviews, shes not a senator who is accessible in the same way that senator joe manchin, another moderate holdout is, and still isnt quite ready to vote yes on the presidents build back better plan. >> with president joe bidens social safety net bill in jeopardy, democratic senator kyrsten sinema wont commit to vote for the nearly $2 trillion bill. schumer said he wants to vote on build back better before christmas break. are you prepared to vote yes when that comes to the floor? ...

Like a senate republican threat to shut down the government may be off the table. but theres a catch. heres president biden not too long ago. >> i spoke with mitch mcconnell, spoke with schumer. there is a plan in place unless somebody decides to be totally i rattic. and i dont think that will happen. >> we are live on the hill with the latest. plus at the white house the president in that same speech where he took that question there rolling out a national winner strategy to fight covid with ...

We know that right now with folks like representative lying about members and spewing dangerous antimuslim rhetoric, that is the lane they want to play. thats the lane theyre going to continue to play. i think the other thing to emphasize here is that in saying these things they are creating dangerous and harmful work environment for the members. especially the members of color and the women of color in congress. and grateful democrats are the only ones standing up. mccarthy has demonstrated he ...

It. if they wanted to hear a funny laugh. >> bill: what has this administration done well? tucker thinks he has failed on public policy with regard to the vaccines. you have more deaths this year than a year ago. you came into office and had a vaccine, had a roll-out plan, had a distribution plan in place. what has this administration managed well? >> i would be hard pressed because look, if you look at it you are right. a little bit upside down on covid. the important thing to look is how far h...

Trump is fighting a ruling that would force him to turn over the records to the committee. tomorrow, the federal appeals court in the case will hear arguments from both sides. aside from the inquiry the next few weeks will be critical for the house and senate. democrats are under pressure to pass bidens social policy bill. schumer said he wants to get it to the president by christmas. federal agencies run out of the money at midnight this friday. and the treasury secretary warns the nations borr...

It is now in the senate where its being held up. senate leader schumer promised to try to bring it to the floor and get that vote before christmas. its likely of course the senate could change the bill. we have to go to a conference committee. its unclear exactly what the changes might be. and this is a really messy and complicated negotiation that we have seen play out for months. it would take a lot for it to come to completion in the few weeks between now and christmas. >> chuck, lets back up...

They actually had a meeting to discuss the debt ceiling, while they did not announce a breakthrough, it does seem they resumed discussions to go at this together. well learn more when they come back from recess this coming week. another thing that the senate needs to address is the national defense authorization act, which lays out the priorities for the defense spending for congress. now, they also are planning to tack on schumer announced theyre planning to tack on a separate bill to the ndaa ...

Into a mini series. the debt ceiling, if republicans want to scrooge on us and increase peoples interest rates and make it hard to make car payments. go ahead. make that case. well stop them from doing that. voting rights, fundamental to our country. you see partisan gerrymandering going on and were talking about restoring the rules of the senate so we can pass a bill that senator manchin signed his name onto the bill i lead and senator schumer is bringing people on and thats freedom to vote act...

At the middle of this. you wrote senator manchin is focused on the cost, that schumer wants to get passed by the end of the year. what is his mindset looking like in this? >> wait and see. none of us should try to predict what joe manchin is going to do and where hell end up on any given day. one thing clear, hes always warning about inflation and always wanted to go slowly. at a certain point we should listen to what joe manchin says, worried about inflation, the numbers that come out, 6.2% yea...

Might crash as opposed to being concerned that that train could still be rolling, if you will, coming into next year when youre going into the year of the midterm elections. >> yeah, thats right. i mean, for manchin that could the, in effect, be a win for his constituents. theyre obviously rewarding him for that, hes 30 points above water with his approval rating in west virginia, and every senator gets to have a seat at the negotiating table when it comes to negotiations in the upper chamber. t...