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Smaller than the president initially saw. and how does he plan to frame that tonight? >> reporter: yeah, look, they certainly believe that they are nearing that point. that is one of the reasons why what were seeing this week is president biden ramping up his public salesmanship of his domestic legislative agenda. even as those negotiations with congress are still ongoing. they see this town hall tonight as an opportunity for the president to reframe some of the debate about this legislative age...

Senate and perhaps that big governors race in virginia that will be settled 12 days from now. everyone in the negotiations, you heard the speaker at the top of the program. everyone sees things are closer. everyone also says there are giant issues, among them getting a key moderate senator on board with how to pay for $1 about 5 trillion to $1.9 trillion in new spending. lets begin with our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly. the president trying to sell the bill and also his own pa...

After all, the 40 fifth president of the united states is still banned from twitter where is the television leadership use the platform every single day. we really do have to stand up hard and im hoping when we get different social media platforms emerge over the coming months and years that otherwise free-speech is literally dead. >> great to see you tonight. president biden goes back to scranton. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

The biden administration is now reportedly considering a range of other options including a stax on billionaires assets, a new tax on corporationses, overhaul of tax revision and beefing up tax assessments. a spokesman reiterated that quote. the price tag for this legislation is zero. meanwhile the president returned to his roots to continue his build back better plan. he was in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, lag out the infrastructure bill. >> this has been declared on arrival from t...

The sales pitch and well see if it works. >> a new take, if you will, almost a take two or take three and because of the unfortunate timing, political timing, which is why its interesting to listen to the president, if you talk to people with him during the campaign, joe biden lost iowa and nevada, didnt do well in new hampshire and everyone said joe biden is done. the president yesterday in scranton said ive been here before. now this is my agenda. ill fix it. >> this has been declared dead on ...

Nothing. i mean nothing for four years. we cant afford to sit while other countries pass us buy. were going to breathe new life into this economy. >> you may have heard joe biden is indeed from scranton. the democrats worked to cut down the price tag of the plan without sacrificing their top priorities. joe manchin oob jecked to the clean energy electricity plan. congressman sean casten is with us. talk about this and the measures. do they do enough to compensate the removal? >> it is tragic it....

Of the week, uncertain if they can do that. >> kaitlan, it sounds like president biden has a sinema problem. what is he doing and what more can he do? >> well, i think it was really telling what speaky said, not to raising corporate taxs. they know its very unpopular to raise taxes on high earners and corporations. one of the things that the president was talking about last night when he was in scranton, pennsylvania. yesterday the white house left open the open that senator sinema could be pres...

Build back better agenda. those are two economic policies thats going to grow the middle class, as the president just said when he was in scranton, which he puts in to this plan the values that he grew up in, where you talk about dealing the middle class in, not leaving anything behind. this is the presidents plan. and so all democrats, regardless if youre a moderate or a progressive or wherever you fall in that big tent that we have believe that we need to move this forward. and so its going to...

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U.S. President Joe Biden heads to his birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to promote bills on infrastructure and social spending, while measures to combat climate change remained a stumbling block among his fellow Democrats.