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Agenda. president biden is leading a flurry of meetings with lawmakers to break a stalemate and find a way to pass the reconciliation bill. the president spoke with senator joe manchin of west virginia over the phone yesterday. manchin has signaled in recent days he opposed the clean energy provisions in the bill, endangering the biden administrations climate change plan. progressive caucus chair congresswoman pramila jayapal of washington met with the president as well and will lead a delegatio...

Democrats had hoped or said even a wk or two ago. >> i think thats rit. she wont bring it to the floor if she doesnt have the votes and right now she doesnt have the votes. you know, youve got a couple dozen progressives that say they will not vote for this infrastructure bill if its not tied in some way to a future larger, more generous, robust, necessary reconciation bill. and the problem is theres really -- theres two problems. senator joe manchin and senat kirs stin sinema. they dt like the ...

Trains, automobiles reimagined with someone should tell manchin or sinema theyre going the wrong way. the senators arentaniac drivers, theyre trying to brand themselves independent of the rty and independent of biden. theyre both flirting with the fame of individuality at this and rebellion. manchin, with coal indust stri pressure. to be positioned as a moderating force and thus it wont matter how much biden or the progressives want tospend. manchin has to be publicly against it for a while whic...

Switched sides joining republicans to vote yes. sinema voted yes despite her warning a year ago about the vernment borrowing more and more money to pay for the tax cuts. >> this is polic calvin ball. its not a joke. sinemas done this on other issues in the house. she called for raising the minimum wage and then this year in the senate she spiked a democratic plan to raise it even including a dramatic thumbs down vote you can see on the screen. if youre getting a sense this isnt all about policy,...

Are nonconform mists, who do not like to lten to political wisdom. kyrsten sinema could be a nonconform mist. same with joe manchin, he was a popular governor in west virginia. governors tendo be soloists. manchin by temperament, by personality might be more comfortae in that groove. thirdly, this is where i would bring in the watergate movie, all the presidents men, follow the money. furaising i think is very important here. theeality is that modete democrats cannot fund raise nationally online...

Isnt this business as usual? but it is kind of a break with what was understood to be the deal. i mean, whats the point of having theseeals if they dont hold through the vote? >> exactly. honestly, im semsemioptimistic. >> i dont think there will be a senate reconciliation bill voted on before. i think its too complicated. i think theres too much on programs and money that that is not realistic for this week. what i do think they could agree on, and i believe -- i cant speak for any of the progr...

>> we dont -- thats the frustration democrats say. they dont know what joeanchin wants. they dont know what his bottom line is and they dont know what her bottom line is. >> right now they could kill the presidents legislative agenda. >> there may not be one to have if manchin and sinema are flatly refusing to put any kind of number out there. >> look, real talk. manchin and sinema arent playing hard ball here. this is more like theyre playing calvin ball. thats the famous game from the calvin a...

Understanding where i am. >> so you dont care how much this bill is, you just need to -- >> i -- >> you want -- >> i do care about the bill. i care about the size of the bill. >> 3.5 is too high for you. >> thats pretty high. >> pretty high, like how high. like manchin, sinema not clarifying what amount of spending she this is right. shes holding the line against raising taxes in private conversations with democrats. shes fundraising and a fact check here. some of these great tax reforms would r...

Calvin and hobbs were at its height in u.s. newspapers but its not something that makes sense now, which is the idea you can have a brand in your state that is somehow independent of what joe biden has. the only brand that mattered in arizona is the biden brand, not the sinema brand. the idea sinema can have a mccainaverick brand is a fallacy. what matters is how popular or unpopular joe biden is. or in the case of republicans -- the other thing i would say, everything i politics tends to be abo...