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Also to signal to members of congress that were coming near an end thats an important and necessary end so that we can -- members can fulfill the goal to the american people, and i think it comes at a really important moment where the president who has been deeply and actively engaged in these negotiations, and as mike said, willing to give up on one of his priorities, saying to members of congress, you should be willing to give up on some of your priorities so that we can come to a closure for ...

My grandfathers pantry, ambrose, can i leave gene and the kids with you? ill be back every weekend, but ill make it up. thats a hard thing for a proud man or woman to do. when we moved to delaware, my friends would say joey, all my friends noticed. heard him say it i dont know how many times. joey, your jobs about a lot more than a paycheck. its about your dignity. respect, about being able to look a kid in the eye and say, honey, its going to be okay. think about it. think about what it is. it ...

Hes hugging. finish your thought, rick. >> so i think hes in scranton because he wants to make sure people understand this is a bill for working class americans. for hard working middle class americans. you know, healthcare. the expansion of medicare. childrens tax credit. free kindergarten. those things are important to every day americans and democrats havent made the case like they should have made about why this helps people. why this helps ordinary americans. thats whats so powerful about i...

In a big way. shane, i want to thank you for that introduction. i really do. eric page, youve got a great job. i mean it. im a big fan and i, she when i got elected, its the gods truth. when i checked the margin in the state of delaware, i called up here. she won that year, too. i found out that i won every precinct in scranton and i looked up and said, mom, i did it. i did it. look, its great to be here in pennsylvania with the great close friend and governor. its great to see you. and matt, th...

I started here in scranton. and i resolved to bring scranton values to bear to make a fundamental shift in how our economy works for working people. to build our economy up from the ground. not from the top down. ive never known a time when the middle class has done well that the wealthy havent done very, very well. im here to talk about whats at stake for families and our country. for most of the 20th century, we led the world by a significant margin because we invested in our people. we invest...

President himself. "washington post" reports president biden told democrats tuesday that he believes they could secure a deal on a new tax and spending proposal between 1.75 trillion and $1.9 trillion. far less than some in the party initially thought even as some lawmakers maintained it would still allow them to accomplish broad swaths of their vast economic agenda. joining us now, ashley parker and msnbc political analyst, rick stengel. michael steele is still here. ashley parker, talk about t...

Doing. so just to be specific, it will reduce child poverty in this country by 50% in a year. it will reduce poverty in african american community by 34%. asian american community by 22%. hispanic community by 39 %. this is a transformational bill. thats why the president is gung ho and working so hard to get it passed. >> cedric richmond, well let you get back to work there. thank you, sir. thanks as always for your time. as we mentioned, president biden is going to be hitting the road in a f...

Hometown. and i think based on my conversations with white house officials, what today is about, they dont want to call it part of the closing argument because they know as well as anybody how this process could change in a hurry and they dont want to signal a finality that might not actually exist, but this is an effort and opportunity for the president to step away from all the concern and the discussion about price tag and sort of refocus the conversation about exactly what he is trying to do...

But senator manchin said today that is not even on the board for him. they are not discussing that at all. we know that other senators had put that forward. i think ultimately you can see this look a lot closer to what senator manchin wants it to look like when it comes to the climate provisions. its not going to be this progressive or as aggressive i guess i should note as what the progressive members had wanted initially when they were laying this out. i still think there is a lot of disagreem...

Bobby where, excuse me, the senator, where he grew up. it was about, if you add it up, about five blocks, six blocks, and his dad and i were about 18 years apart and were 17 years a part. so its like a continuum going on here, but i just want you to know we went to the same schools. same parrish. just a few years apart. give or take a few years. scranton is where i played shortstop in the little league and the first year it was put up, my dad helped build the field down there and spent a lot of ...