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American people, about believer. about blechg. look at the history of the injury of this nation. what becomes clear is this -- given half a chance, the american people have never, ever, ever, ever, ever let the country down. just a fighting chance. no guarantees, just a chance. thats what this is all about. it does not increase the debt. when talk about the number, we shouldnt even talk about the number. its all paid for, written in the same piece of legislation. you pass the spending, you also ...

Road to sell the bill in scranton, pennsylvania. but heres the thing, how do you sell it when you dont know whats in it. monica alba joins us. that is my number one question. how do you sell a bill to the public when you dont know whats going to be in it? isnt the answer to sell it to washington? >> reporter: well, thats whats tricky, steph, and we did see that on friday when the president went to connecticut focused almost all of his remarks on the importance of child care and the child tax cre...

Welcome back. any moment were expecting joe biden to speak in scranton, pa, pitching his scaled back plan to expand the social safety net and combat climate change. what are we expecting to hear from the president? >> well, hes in a bit of a position here, jake, where he is going to be selling a bill thats shrunk since the last time he was on the road selling this proposal he laid out over the summer, what he wanted it to look like. this week weve just seen how much the bill has been scaled back...

Of the aisle. they will need to move the needle on a plan to expand the irs and monitor bank accounts uping the transaction from $600 to 10,$000. republican say the change subjects almost everyone to unprecedented government surveillance. >> what you are literally talking about, the irs dragnet across the bank accounts of every single american. president xi would be proud. >> socialism is going to be free of charge but it also needs the biggest irs cash grabbing decades in order to pay for it. >...

Matamoros camp in really squalid conditions. and so the biden administration promised to end that program, and it did so as soon as the president took office. but now the states of missouri and texas have successfully sued in federal court and a federal judge has directed the biden administration to restart the program. the administration has been in talks with mexico to do so. and we know that theyre saying that theyre ready to restart remain in mexico as soon as mid-november. >> nick, apprecia...

More realistic terms because now they are in the nitty-gritty part of the negotiations hoping to get to an agreement by friday. but we know that even as they say theres progress being made on certain provisions of this bill, that they say it can still fit the scope of the plans theyd like to see put in this social safety net and climate change package. there are other aspects at play that are still very much under way. including how to pay for this because we know that we have heard from sources...

Thats a history we need to embrace. thats a message and lesson that we need to look at. energy changes, our planning and ability to be resilient, climate resilient is going to change, we need to be realistic about that. were not going to change things overnight and maybe not in the next decade, but we shouldnt hold ourselves back from future competitiveness and future economic success. we need to do the work now, put in the plans now to be able to be successful over the coming decades. >> part o...

Scaled back. its nearly been cut in half. the falkt it does not include tuition-free community college, something president biden has been talking about since he was on it campaign trail and something that also has republican support, the fact that the child tax credit is going to be scaled back. and thats something, by the way, that democrats today are coming out pushing back against. so not clear hes going to get the support he needs for that to actually make it into the final package. and the...

Grew up not very far from bobby, the senator. and if you added up, its about five or six blocks, and his dad and i were about 18 years of hard apart, and we are 17 years apart, so its like a continuum going down there, but i just want you to know we went to the same schools, same parish, just a few years apart and give or take a few years, and scranton is where i played shortstop in the first year that put up my dad helped to build the field down there and spent a lot of time buying pending cand...

White house correspondent mike memoli who is in pennsylvania ahead of the presidents visit, and punchbowl news co-founder jake sherman. i dont think well betraying any confidences, you texted a siren emoji because when president biden goes back to scranton, he means business. help us understand how hes using scranton as the symbolic venue no drive home the case for his build back better agenda in this critical moment in these talks. >> well, geoff, as i was heading into scranton today, i took th...