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If that doesnt work between biden and manchin, you are going to see more progressive outrage blaming manchin, especially as they have negotiated this far at this point. >> two things are true. one, is yes, joe manchin has been moving the goal posts but joe manchin has said 1.75 trillion and joe manchins objection or one of his objections this week is that he thinks this is really a $4 trillion social spending package cloaked as a $1.75 trillion spending package. he wants to see it scored before ...

That deal signed into law. if not signed into law, he wanted at least a vote on it where he could come to europe and say, look, my climate legislation is as good as done. he didnt have a vote on that. if he didnt have a vote on that, he at least wanted to say, look, i have all the democrats in my party behind this. its a matter now of dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s. theres more uncertainty now. today, manchin seems to be a little bit softer, seeming more inclined to support something tha...

I believe we will pass my build back better plan and i believe we will pass the infrastructure bill. >> bill: you have an ear to the ground up there. 96 progressives hanging tough. will they both pass? >> well certainly they dont have the votes today. bill, as ive experienced, im in my fourth term in the house. the devil is in the details. there are a lot of details they have to work out. whats important for the american people to know is that the legislation democrats are considering is the lar...

Spending agenda on the economic crises, now one of the top advisors argues the spending package, wait for it will actually help stop inflation and the supply chain issues, lets bring in freedom most economists, fox news contributor for economic adviser of president obama, welcome to both of you. you will have to explain that one to me, how you can implement more spending and actually help the inflation problem, is in all the spending what leads to the higher prices of just about everything? >> t...

Meeting among progressives sunday, most of them signal they are likely to back the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the social safety net bill when they come up for a vote likely sometime after tuesday. >> that is an important development. one of the sticking points is the signoff moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. lauren fox is on capitol hill this morning. we know one of the things progressives are working on is to get drug pricing reform, further medicare expansion into that ...

Secretary general on day one of a climate conference. quote, we are digging our own graves. the global summit brings together the leaders of nearly 200 countries, although two of the worlds biggest polluters were noticeably missing. more on that in a moment. president biden is in scotland tonight where he made a remarkable apology to the world for the actions of his predecessor donald trump. mr. biden told leaders hes the historic paris clint reeer t global agreement when he took office. and the...

Democrats want. one poll shows 84% of all voters support paid family leave. breaking it down now is my panel. i am happy to see yall. katie, explain to me how paid family leave ended up being one of the very last things left on the chopping block. >> thanks for having me on. that is a tough pill to swallow at this point especially among progressive democrats. we did not expect to get to this point. so much has been cut from this spending package, a lot that has been priorities for working class ...

The i.p. puts out. and it means 11 different countries that were most at risk at insecurity with climate change. some of those countries are close to united states, down in central america where countries have faced hurricanes and food shortages due to drought that is pushing migration out of those countries. it named countries like india, and pakistan and north korea, armed with nuclear weapons. pakistan has a tough relationship. when you add climate shocks on top of that is creates a real comb...

President bidens human infrastructure bill. this morning, the president arrived at the g-20 summit in rome without clinching a vote for the bipartisan bill after confidently proposing a $1.75 trillion framework for special spending package that he says won over democratic progressives alike. house democrats are not ready to play fall, however, the bill is not expected to be voted on until next week. listen, there are key provisions that have been made. lets talk about that. $550 billion is being...

Looking for tuesday as a new possible date to put both of the bills to a vote and real test here. we have heard this story before, weve seen it before, but there seems to be at least some momentum that is building toward that day. youre talking about the $1.2 trillion infrastructure, bipartisan infrastructure plan, as well as the $1.75 larger spending package that would go through with democrats only in support of it. so, fred, what is this about? part of it is optics, momentum, some of it is dr...