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The infrastructure bill and a tailored approach to the economic and climate package. >> these are serious policy decisions often on nitty-gritty details. they arent duels between factions. >> reporter: underscoring a moment that calls for equal parts personal touch and tough choices. biden facing a cold reality in order to secure the support of moderates hell need to cut at least $1.5 trillion from his $3.5 trillion plan. and significantly reshape key elements on climate, paid leave and health c...

It. and by the way, hes back on the road this week trying to sell this still in development plan. how does the white house view that balancing act? >> reporter: well, i think that it you highlight one of the challenges. first of all, the president is trying to do this full-court press. how does he sell a plan, garrett, when he doesnt know what the details are in this it plan? when they are still being hashed out. nonetheless, hes going to pennsylvania tomorrow. thats his hometown. he is going to...

Meetings here at the white house today. tomorrow he goes to scranton. this all comes against a politically fraught backdrop in addition to the midterms that you have been discussing. there are critical elections with democrats saying their races could be impacted. >> thank you, and patrick, is it past time for the president to be holding separate meetings and just bring erin together? i remember when it was over at blare house and he was trying to get a bucket sdmael. >> he is a great negotiator...

Meetings is a sign that progress is happening. they feel that the pace of these talks has accelerated and theyre encouraged by what is happening so far. theyre also encouraged by the fact that were starting to see not just the white house meeting with these different factions, but were starting to see the different sides of this issue begin to meet together. yesterday we saw senator joe manchin, senator bernie sanders speaking on the steps of the capitol. we know senator manchin met with pramila...

Face-to-face meetings by president biden. i feel like there is a similar tone that were seeing now as they try to hammer out a reconciliation bill. the white house, though, wont commit to trying to get this done before the president leaves later next week for europe, though they did indicate strongly last week that they want to see this wrapped up soon, quickly, that the talk has to come to an end and certainly the president making an effort to wrap that up. i want to say one other thing, the pr...

President Joe Biden will travel to Scranton on Wednesday as the Democrat works to rally support in Congress for a social services and climate change package...

President Joe Biden will visit the Scranton area Wednesday to promote his plan to rebuild the nations roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure, the White House confirmed today.

People trapsing down to the white house to perhaps meet with president biden, but ultimately, its going to be up to president bide ton get his party together and well see if hes able to do that. >> well, whats that effort going to look like here? we know now the president is going to travel this week to try to promote this plan. what is he doing in public and perhaps more importantly, whats he doing behind the scenes to get everyone on board and move this package forward? >> yeah. well, i, too, ...

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