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Schumer and many of us said were not leaving and so we get these big pieces in place. >> is your entire caucus, the democratic caucus united on that other front? you sit on the budget committee which is working on that reconciliation bill that you just outlined with things being health care et cetera. where does that legislation stand? you are entirely united with your 50 member block? >> i think were very close. as you say, we have every democratic senator on the budget committee who signed off...

And colleagues to say if we dont have a deal by the end of this time period we have to go it alone and perhaps do it with the other attempt through reconciliation? do you have a dead line? >> will well, yeah. well, the answer is we will stay in session as long as it takes. but to get a deal on the bipartisan agreement and to pass the bipartisan resolution. that, of course, is the other big part of president bidens build back better agenda which includes workforce training, early education, reduc...

Sac is sacrosanct -- >> who fixes this, exactly? over lip theres the influence that the president has if they decides to do this. in fact, its been reported you believe the president might be working behind the scenes to do something like this, but for people like us, who are watching from the outside, how does this change? ive heard a lot of people say jim clyburns suggestion is a good suggestion. how does it come to be? >> its simple. >> schumer, the leader of the senate, simply changes the ru...

With an argument about the filibuster. >> yeah, i mean, e.j., to norms point that weve seen failed attempts at bipartisan agreement before, that made a lot of people think at the beginning of this process oh, weve seen this before. we know whats going to happen. but joe biden has seen it before. chuck schumer has seen it before. and every democratic senator has seen it before. and they are all so much the wiser this time around. which is why ive been betting on them getting it right this time. b...

Repeat to themselves every ten minutes is, obama care. they remember what happened in 2010. they remember republicans saying, well if you give us this amendment maybe well vote for it. if you give us that maybe well vote for it. and they extended the time of negotiation farther and farther and farther out. of course the longer a process continues, the more people focus on the process and not what is in the bill. im glad norm listed some of the things in the bigger bill. and so what schumer has d...

And by the way, i hate to say this but their feet are is probably going to work, theyre probably going to get some moments out of this where they pleased donald trump, and they are going to be able to raise money from the trump base for their caucus. that is just the ugly way politics works right now, they are going to -- democrats are going to struggle to get truth and break truth through this mud. i think they can do it, it just becomes a lot harder now. becomes a lot harder now cornell quick ...

Forward. >> washington really working here, folks. if the senate does not get enough votes to move forward, majority leader schumer can change the vote and bring the legislation back up again. joining us now, jake sherman. thankfully, he is an msnbc political contributor. good morning, jake. thanks for getting up. i want to ask you first about what we jud just heard, congressman steve ka lease is a new voice pushing to get the vaccine. weve seen some voice in the conservative media, not all, s...

Bush strategist, founder of country over party. gentlemen, i hope you are ready for this we, have a lot of work to do, cornell i will start with you and play for you some mitt romney from earlier today. >> are you concerned that if the vote will happen this week and registration -- >> i think the vote should be held next monday, not wednesday. give us a time to solve the remaining issues. >> cornell, sorted out for our audience, what is schumer up to? >> well i think schumer is up to trying to p...

America in the year 2021, given the state of things now? >> first of all, for the good of our country, i hope it doesnt pass, because this drunken spending binge democrats have been on for the last six months is having a real effect on inflation. its increasing the cost of everything the buy because they are spending money like crazy, paying people not to work. its all borrowed money from our kids and its raising costs whether you go to the grocery store, at the gasoline, at the pump, and i thin...

These bipartisan could see a repetition of what we saw with the affordable care act where discussions went on and on and on and never went anyplace. >> reporter: schumers gamble may have paid off. some republicans saying they want a deal by the weekend. if there is a vote monday you will vote yes? in a statement tonight that bipartisan group of senators says that they have made significant progress. just moments ago president biden was asked if he thinks they will reach a deal. the president res...