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Will happen. >> reporter: let me try and one thing that president biden said is he is not going to sign a bipartisan bill if thats the only reason that -- only one that reaches his desk so that was another commitment. now you have pelosi and schumer and biden telling essentially the progressive members of his conference that the only way that they will move this bipartisan package forward is if they also get the partisan package. this works through the complicated process of reconciliation which...

Schumer to ensure that they move through promptly and in tandem. let me emphasize that. in tandem. we need physical infrastructure, but we also need the human infrastructure as well. part of my overall plan. we agree on what we can agree on. there was no agreement on the rest. we are going to have to do that in the budget process, and we need a fair tax system to pay for it all. i am not going to rest until they are at my desk. and i know that there were some of my party who discourage me from s...

Do that. schumers saying theyre not done fighting as the vice president, but they havent previewed how theyre going to go forward with this. >> and, of course, they really have an activist base on this issue thats really pushing them particularly hard and was particularly disappointed by what unfolded yesterday. olivia, lets talk briefly about the infrastructure deal. we thought we were going to get something on yesterday, on monday -- excuse me, on monday, early this week, at the very least. we...

They cant do that with the filibuster in place and that is one place where it is within the democratic party to have control. i thought it was interesting, that op ed that senator sinema wrote yesterday last night said one thing they found very interesting which is that although we talk a lot about manchin and sinema, they are not the only ones that are perhaps, uneasy at the very least with eliminating the filibuster and theyre the ones that have the chutzpah to talk about it publicly. so perha...

Bipartisanship is hopeless in the united states senate on voting rights and so much more. joe manchin got an agreement with checked schumer, but democrats would adopt the compromised version of the bill and still, joe manchin could not get a single republican to go along with that. so republicans won today by preventing the bill from reaching the necessary 60 vote threshold to proceed. senator manchin released this statement today saying quote, unfortunately, my republican colleagues refused to ...

State and beyond from gathering today in d.c. to march on his office. ali vitali. tell us whats going on there. >> we spent time in west virginia, watching as the protesters marched to protest his views on not saying he wont reform the filibuster and on that point, saying he will not support the for the people act. we know that in the last 24 hours that has changed in part because of a conversation with leader chuck shumer and also in part because he was able to take part in negotiations around ...

Particularly on how to pay for it. and so key biden administration officials will head to the hill to meet with pelosi and schumer to plot their path forward. and leigh ann caldwell is joining me with more. good to see you. take us through what i guess are fraying bipartisan negotiations. what are you watching for ahead of the meeting? >> so there is a couple meetings happening today that were going to be watching for. lets just start with this heating with speaker pelosi and leader schumer with...

Like having 41 votes to hold a filibuster or having people hold the floor. are those conversations going on in the democratic caucus, including manchin and sinema saying maybe we add some of these things but at least it would be more realistic than trying to find ten republicans to do anything? >> i just dont think thats realistic when it comes to voting rights and i want to make that clear. it may be on other things. but they instead of changing their candidates or changing their views on issue...

Try to build to a crescendo the argument to fellow democrats were either going to figure out a way to act on infrastructure, voting rights, other things or were going to accept that we cant act at all, and that is, in part, an argument about somehow altering, evading, creating an exception for the filibuster, not likely to succeed, but its not impossible. >> president biden just tweeted this photo and wrote, quote, today senator schumer and i held our latest strategy call on getting the for the ...

Legislatures. all right. moments ago senator chuck schumer using incredibly strong language to call out mcconnell. >> if senator 60 years ago held that the federal government should never intervene to protect voting rights, this body would have never protected or passed the voting rights act. the republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an indefenseble for any senator, any senator, let alone the minority leader to ...