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The tension between the president of lawmakers. >> reporter: president biden landed in the us facing the future of his $1.75 trillion social spending package. before the party was asked if senator joe manchin was on board. >> i wont talk about the specifics of my conversation. he will vote for this. >> reporter: manchin did not sound as sure, more of the details outlined in the basic framework releasing what i see a shell games, budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the bill estimated to be...

So, you know, theyre like -- theyre totally frustrated with their own party. the trust is when you have manchin saying hes playing shell games and budget gimmicks, nobody is buying anything that hes selling. nothing of what he is selling is positive or anybody wants to engage in. >> dagen: the only way he was elected is to not be president trump in style, but not substance. just in style. instead, he comes in and immediately because, again, the republicans lost in georgia and immediately started...

International sea lane, et cetera. we also made it clear that we have to work on dealing with things like cyber security and a whole range of other issues, but im not looking for, i dont anticipate there will be a need for physical conflict, as youve heard me say this before, my dad had an expression, the only conflict thats worse than one intended is one thats unintended, one thats unintended. so my meetings with him virtually coming up, havent set the exact date yet, i want to make sure theres...

Moderate, senator joe manchin, who publicly bashed it, saying its paid for with, quote, shell games and budget gimmicks. manchin today telling abcs rachel scott the house should quit stalling and vote on a separate bipartisan bill to rebuild roads and bridges. house progressives are holding that up, demanding a vote on the presidents social policy and climate plan, too. >> what do you say to democrats who say you threw the president a curveball while he was overseas on the world stage? >> not at...

>> i do apologize for the fact that the united states, the last administration pulled out of the paris accord and put it in sort of behind the eight ball. >> president pointed to his economic plan as proof to this countrys commitment to addressing the climate emergency. that plan would also -- democrats in congress had hoped to vote on both that proposal and the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill sometime this week. its been a moving deadline, today those hopes ran into an all too familiar ...

Working to the point, whereas i said last week in an interview, that well be voting this week on the bill back better act and, as well, well be voting on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. each member can speak on their truth, and as they do so, well continue to work so that we can bring everyone together and thats where were right now. >> congresswoman, you know, obviously, joe manchin in his own words yesterday took issue with what he describes as shell games and budget gimmicks, looking at t...

Was released late last week. behind the scenes there have been a lot of discussions about making changes including dealing with prescription drug pricing, trying to lower the cost of prescription drugs. those last-minute changes are expected to be added into the bill, potentially sometime this week, suggesting now that both bills can get out of the house. the question is the senate, and what will happen on the larger bill. joe manchin making crystal clear here he is not ready to support that pla...

The most interesting comments in the entire press conference by joe manchin who did not take questions, he spoke for 5 minutes and then left, and he said i will not support reconciliation legislation without knowing how the bill will impact our debt and our economy as you allude to he said that they are trying to play shell games. he agreed to 1.75 trillion, but what they might do in this piece of legislation and this is why the details are so crucial, you provide tax increases to fund the progr...

Then that could cause progressives and also voters to say, now its watered down to the point, whats the point? >> take a listen to what senator manchin said in his statement in which hes basically accusing democrats of hiding the true cost of this legislation. take a listen. >> more of the real details outline the basic framework are released. i see budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion bill estimated to be almost twice that amount. if the full time is run out. ...

Been building it in good faith and i will continue to deal with good faith on my colleagues from both sides. its time to pass bill and not the blame game. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: quite a moment, joe manchin announcing he would speak at 2:00 and did so for about 5 minutes, john, saying we need time to analyze the bill, he says he wants a fiscally sound bill telling democrats to stop playing games, accusing his own party of holding a critical infrastructure bill hostage, announcing at times that what h...