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What schumer and democrats are going to do about this, but whatever it is, theyve got to do it fast. government funding expires on thursday and even with all of that drama going on, todays biggest draw on capitol hill could actually be a senate hearing, an extraordinary clash between senators and military brass, it is starting just a few minutes from now, its when top military leaders will be facing members of congress for the first time since the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan and the firs...

Hopefully it will reach the level that we need in order to pass both bills. >> we also dont have a price tag on the social spending bill. its likely less than $3.5 trillion. thats why pelosi told her members circumstances "necessitated a change but not in democratic values." also the gop just blocked another effort by democrats to raise the debt limit. the gop wants democrats to stuff the debt ceiling increase in their reconciliation package for the social spending billion. its except from filib...

Centrists and liberals all democrats mine, you are fighting over which bill should be voted on. furs biden remains engaged with both sides trying to get a deal. >> what he is working to do now, is unify the party around the path forward. thats why were in the middle of, and i think its a little too early to evaluate how its going to. and >> so speaker pelosi met with her fellow democrats behind closed doors today, shes planning to bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill up for a vote on thursda...

Ultimately be the way out of the debt limit fight here. republicans have already made clear they will filibuster this, too. just to make it clear, this is chuck schumer saying if republicans want to go to happy hour, if they want to go to dinner early they can leave the capitol, democrats will do this entirely on their own but republicans will say no. republicans want to exact some political pain here, they want to force democrats to go through the reconciliation process to get this done. theres...

Bill is on the line until they get that, jeff. >> yeah. and on that point, shannon, we know that president biden m today with senator sinema. hes going toeet with senator manchin separately this afternoon. by my count this is the third time in as many weeks as these two democrats areoing to the white house to discuss the presents agenda. we know tt democrats in the house want to hear from these two docrats in the senate. how is president biden going to get some clarity from these two senators? >...

Change proposals first and foremost. senator manchin is a whole other situation. hes being vague in part because he doesnt want this bill to pass now. he has said over and over again that there is no rush, its not necessary, and he told me yesterday that he has concerns about the country moving to an entitlement mentality with this legislation. and in large part, he just isnt on board with this yet. there are two different pressure points that you have to put on these members separately. they ar...

Shutting down. that deadline coming thursday at midnight. there is a lot of work to do still ahead in the u.s. senate. like you said, republicans united in voting against that bill to both fund the government through early december as well as increase the countrys borrowing limit. that deadline coming sometime in mid-october. but the question this morning, what is chuck schumer going to do next? the majority leader has a few options. he can continue to force republicans to vote on that same piec...

Sides, even, in this case if you talk about the democrat progressives, moderates and republicans particularly on the senate side. so the president is involved, but the indication that white house officials have given is that they see him playing the role as sort of honest broker. lee ann talks about that trust deficit on all sides the white house hopes to position the president as someone who can fill that void in that trust gap that can bring these parties together after a few months of stalema...

Job to figure out where is the common ground there and where can they come up with some ways that might be amenable to both sides. we know that president biden as he has been at camp david throughout this weekend, according to the white house, was planning to stay on the phones throughout the course of the two days, with both pelosi and with schumer, as well as other key members of his team who are trying to work this out. the president, as he was heading to camp david on friday, was asked by re...

Goal here is to ask democrats what are you for? what -- what can we agree on? and he is trying to narrow the differences within his own party on a couple of -- of big-ticket items. and you know, between that effort which involves some intensive meetings at the white house, phone calls last week, some phone calls this weekend. beyond that, we also have speaker pelosi saying today that an infrastructure bill will pass this week, period, full stop. she is confident of that. she also said that she i...