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To the american people. to bring legislation that impacts their lives. but when he was put to the test yesterday, he now faces this important and really large setback on his agenda as you said. it begs the question of where does the white house go? what does the president do? because, remember, this setback came after president biden put a lot of time, equity into trying to get this done. from white house, oval office meetings to going to congressional baseball game, to his own white house offic...

And so we will need some additional time to finish the work starting tomorrow morning first thing. but make no mistake about this. after the setback, the presidents agenda definitely hangs in the balance, as you just said, laura. and so the question is, what comes next? because, right, there is really kind of this inability to bridge the gap right now as the president said. they are saying he is going to go forward. the work is going to continue, but it is a real question of what comes next for ...

Yesterday calling the reconciliation package a culmination of her service in congress as democrats work to pass the multi-trillion-dollar legislation. joining us now, the perfect person to discuss this. washington bureau chief, susan page. susan, were so delighted youre here today. tell us what you make of yesterday, the speaker talking about how this would be the culmination of her career, but later having to delay the infrastructure vote. we heard all week she doesnt bring the vote to the floo...

But position taking that at the end of the day politics is about some compromise and people will get 2/3 of what they want. somebody else get 2/3 of what they want and they will be able to do it. if not it will be a big setback to the president. >> bill: inflation ticks higher. global supply chain. dont know whats moving in the sand beneath the surface. thats a lot of what joe manchin is talking about now. austan, thank you. apologies to steve moore. well fix the signal next friday. back to dana...

Arlette, its got to be a tough morning there. >> reporter: it is, john. white house officials are insisting they have not reached the end of the road just yet, even as democrats remain on the standoff over the path forward for president bidens agenda. officials were working late into the night at the white house and up on capitol hill. but emerged from the evening without any deal. and officials insist they will get right back to work back at the negotiating table. white house press secretary je...

Beat bernie sanders. its very interesting to watch now. bernie sanders wanted $6 trillion. he came down to 3. 5 trillion. now mansion wants 1.5 trillion. so nancy pelosi is trying to work out something that is somewhere in the neighborhood of around 2 trillion. still an enormous amount of money when you say couple down from 3 1/2 to 2 trillion. its still a lot of money. and then the question becomes will the progressives vote for the infrastructure bill with the promise of a frame work or do the...

Not just the agenda on the line, but perhaps the prospects for controlling the house and senate next year? >> yeah. craig, the white house officials weve been hearing from, they may be down playing the idea that there are serious divisions within the democratic party. they might be down playing the setback it would appear to be that there wouldnt be a vote today or tomorrow or didnt have one yesterday. what theyre not down playing is whats at stake. you heard the press secretary talk about all o...

Morning in the press. very harsh coverage. call it humiliating for the president, severe setback, he cant govern his own party, much less come to bipartisan agreement. so, you know, i think his presidency is on the line now. if he come out of this, they will go on from strength to strength. if they fail to pull it off, hes going to pay a huge price politically. but let me just say one other thing, there is some good news around the corner in your reporting earlier today, suggesting that. that is...

Biden, not necessarily fatal but a real setback be he cant get a deal with the progressive saying okay, with the promise of this frame work and your assurance, well pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. if they say we have to see legislative language passed in the senate, were going to be well into october before that happens, if it happens. >> martha: its interesting to look at this $2 trillion number and whether or not it becomes a magic number that can put to rest progressives dismissivene...

Do things stand on the hill. do we know even for sure if there is going to be a vote today. >> speaker pelosi continues to express a lot of optimism. shes saying she can get it done, but theres yet to be determined if its going to happen today. this could be just another setback, but its not failure just quite yet. house democrats are meeting as a family at 10:30 this morning. and there should be a lot of discussion about how to move forward. but what became clear after a lot of the meetings amo...