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>> yeah. >> think it will be an early spring? >> didnt we do this yesterday? >> i dont know what you mean. >> dont mess with me, pork chop. one days this? >> it is february 2nd. groundhog day. >> yeah. thats right. i thought it was yesterday. [laughs] >> oh, [laughs] . >> take a breather bill murray. good news is. time unlike his collector in the movie groundhog day, this time we have a pretty good idea of what is going on and how it will and. senators just voted minutes ago to swap out a shell ...

Last night. its almost like -- >> morning! off to see the groundhog? >> yeah. >> think it will be an early spring? >> didnt we do this yesterday? >> i dont know what you mean. >> dont mess with me, porkchop. what day is this? >> its february 2nd. groundhog day. >> yeah. you know, i thought it was yesterday. >> oh. >> take a breather, bill murray. theres good news this time. unlike his character in the movie "groundhog day," this time we have a pretty good idea of whats going on and how its going...

Start another 30 hour waiting period the infrastructure bill could pass tuesday morning, and this infrastructure groundhog day will finally wrap up in the senate. that can be when things really get difficult. we will get to that in just a minute. lets begin tonight with the latest details on this vote, from nbc news senior political reporter jonathan allen. hes the coauthor of, lucky how joe biden barely won the presidency. jonathan, the senate has reject an effort from senator lankford to -- ov...

Another vote on cloture. cloture, not closure but cloture, shuts off the debate and starts another 30-hour waiting period. now, at this rate the infrastructure bill could pass the senate tuesday morning. and this infrastructure groundhog day will finally wrap up in the senate. but that could be when things really get difficult. well get to that in just a minute. but lets begin tonight with the latest details on this vote from nbc news digital senior political reporter jonathan allen. he is the c...

Infrastructure bill upwards of $3.2 trillion. that one would be passed along party lines through the process of budget reconciliation. so now weve got the text or were waiting to get our hands on the text. but the text has been filed of this megabill which looks like something north of five reams of paper that now have to go through the regular process. they put a shell bill, place holder bill in until the next is done. now the text is done and well see what happens from here. its not quite clea...

To stick to. martha: thats a very ambitious. democrats told the house, the senate, the white house, can you get those two things done by this august recess, senator? >> i sure want to. and by the way, theres a little bit of wordsmanship going on. there were a half dozen times when mitch mcconnell was leader of the senate where he would put up whats called a shell bill because theres not the full details then you substitute the actual text once you get into the negotiations. there will be amendme...

And thats the schedule i intend to stick to. martha: thats a very ambitious. democrats told the house, the senate, the white house, can you get those two things done by this august recess, senator? >> i sure want to. and by the way, theres a little bit of wordsmanship going on. there were a half dozen times when mitch mcconnell was leader of the senate where he would put up whats called a shell bill because theres not the full details then you substitute the actual text once you get into the neg...

That he will make that immediate business of the senate, meaning he will swap in that deal for the shell bill for the empty legislation that they will be considering at that time. so in plain english, they need to get a deal, they need to get 60 votes and then its off to the races with the infrastructure bill. that is no easy task, john, because if you think about it this way, they need to have legislative text, they need to write the bill, get it scored by the budget office and the joint commit...

There -- she said that if there is no shutdown today, next week he will bring an immigration bill to the floor but not -- he didnt say what might be in that bill. what are your predictions as far as that goes? >> mitch mcconnell has been intentionally vague about what that piece of legislation might look like. he wants it to be a freewheeling debate and immigration, probably include daca. like most things in the senate, you have to get 60 votes. hes basically saying, all right, well have a freew...

And the taxes gone. if they dont get that money, $500 billion to $1 trillion out of health care, their setback on their next big, more favorite goal of tax reform. whats amazing to me is when the house bill was floundering and it was a mess in march, failed march 24th. in april, it seemed like they could never get anything done and they did get the house bill out in the first week of may, all the members said why dont we pass a shell bill, the senate is the one that can write this bill. we can n...