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A bipartisan win. well, after months of gridlock, mitch mcconnell was one of 17 senators backing a test vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. joining us now, mike emanuel. between mitch mcconnell voting on this thing and taking off pro-vaccination ads on kentucky radio stations, hes getting good press which is rare for the republican senator leader. >> most media folks dont care for mitch mcconnell. hes not a sound bite machine. he tells you exactly what mitch mcconnell wants you to know a...

The nations public works system. this is a bill that includes $110 billion for roads and bridges, 66 billion for passenger and freight rail, 65 billion for high speed internet as well as other projects. and ultimately, 17 republicans joined with democrats to vote in favor of moving forward with this bill. joining us now, cnns political director david chalian and kaitlan collins, cnns white house correspondent. this is sometimes referred to as a test vote, but this is a vote for this. this is hug...

The future. this is a very progressive bill that will allow us to win the future and were ready to make the case to democrats and republicans and independents at the appropriate time. >> former president trump tried to sabotage this. he threatened to primary republicans who supported it. you still got 17 who voted for cloture, this key test vote. you also saw that his pick in the texas special election recently did not succeed. another test case in ohio coming up here next week. do you think tha...

Not support the $3.5 trillion price tag. a lot to get through here. first senator schumer says they plan to work through the weekend on this program. it has a $550 billion price tag, but it is a trillion dollar plan. whats in it? >> it sure is. the fact that they took this procedural vote, the fact that it got 17 republicans was more than expected. mitch mcconnell came out and voted for it on this procedural test vote. there is good things in this legislation both sides say. we can run down what...

Capping the orphan wells, over thousands of them abandoned and abandoned mines, and modern resilient electric grid bill, and guess what, a lot of those abandoned wells are leaking methane, and guess what, the same union guys that dug those wells, they can make the same eugen union wage capping those wells. im working with democrats and republicans to get this done because while theres a lot we dont agree on, i believe we should be able to work together on the few things we do agree on . i think ...

There are even more people involved. so that is the bi-partisan, and they had a deal last week, and then you had the powerful committee cheers not a part of the bipartisan group, saying, we are not okay with this, and senator schumer was not okay with it, and it blew up everything, and they had to reopen the negotiation again, and now, what it seems is that the white house is involved and on board, and senator portman ushered this in on behalf of the republicans and working closely with the whit...

Expedia. it matters who you travel with. big breaking news in washington today. just moments ago republican negotiators announcing theyve reached a bipartisan infrastructure deal with democrats. theyll have the language written in time for the senate to take a test vote that could come tonight. >> senators continue to make good progress on both tracks of legislation. members should be prepared to vote again on cloture on the motion to proceed to the bipartisan infrastructure bill as early as t...

They cant get the days off work or they dont feel well after the vaccine. ive heard all these different sorts of things. but mostly i think what keeps us under 50%, still, is politics. >> yeah, i think youre absolutely right. dr. sanjay gupta, dr. paul offitt. thank you very much. the story seems to be getting worse. just ahead, a critical test vote on infrastructure after a new agreement that potentially could move one of the presidents priorities forward. youre looking at live pictures comin...

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Leigh ann, how are you. >> there seems to be some significant -- >> sorry to bankrupt. >> there is movement on the infrastructure bill. it has been negotiated between republicans and democrats in the past few days. it seems like theyre on the press miss of some sort of agreement. the fact that schumer said moments ago that a key procedural test vote will take place today. we saw key republican negotiation eithers walking in to senate minority leaders office.