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The biden agenda. >> im pleased to announce that after months of tough and thoughtful negotiations, we have a historic economic framework. >> a framework which is washington speak for we are close to a deal but dont yet have a deal, it turns out they dont. despite an aggressive whipping campaign from democratic leaders and a trip to the hill by mr. biden himself, there is no deal insight for the presence build back better plan, nor for the senate infrastructure offering. undone as it turns out b...

Especially because the centrist by and large they say that they support the component parts of the big budget bill as well. and that idea will pass them together. will pass the two bills in tandem. it is a two track process, they are both going to go, or neither. that was actually an agreement that the two sides appeared to have reached this summer, and it was explicit. the leadership, even the president talked about it, explicitly, that this was the ground on which they were going to move forwa...

Cents to congress to do, but well do it. well vote for it as long as the centrists vote for the big budget bill, too, especially because the centrists, by and large, have said they support the component parts of the big budget bill as well. and that idea will pass them together. well pass the two bills in tandem. a two track process. they are both going to go or neither. that was actually an agreement the two side appeared to have reached this summer. it was explicit. the leadership, even the pr...

Together. well pass the two bills in tandem. a two track process. they are both going to go or neither. that was actually an agreement the two side appeared to have reached this summer. it was explicit. the leadership, even the president talked about it explicitly that this was the grounds on which they were going to move forward. but now it is the fall and the centrists, the conservatives apparently no longer want to do that. and so now we are facing the very real prospect that neither of these...

Seven hours left. you think it is not realistic? >> it is seven hours. what made me wonder, the whole time this weekend tony will probably have the same feelings, nobody is really in charge it doesnt feel like. pelosi will do what pelosi does, shes in charge of the house. they needed a deal with sinema and manchin. that was the presidents responsibility to get. schumer was not going to be able to get that deal. thats something joe biden would have to deliver, senator manchin, so you have a top l...

Right? its kind of rerkable where we are in the process, legislation is messy. we all know. th the democratic party has to make sure everybody is happy from bernie stand theres, to joe manchins in order to pass legislation. but for months the focus has been about helen president it is for the democrats have been united. they were on this two track process and everyone had agreed, and then the wl started to fall off, and i think that the white house, a lot of the people in the white house were su...

But now she says because of the negotiations over the larger plan are ongoing, she is facing pushback from the left. i am told from multiple sources that chuck schumer himself told democratic senators at a lunch just moments ago that he was not consulted by this decision and he faced pushback from democratic senators who are concerned about going this route, and i also asked schumer at his press conference whether he agreed with the speaker, and he did not say that explicitly. >> you stood with ...

I am ping-ponging between issues now. the stuff the administrations may be doing. i want to go back to the thing they are not voting on yet, that is the larger reconciliation bill. the human infrastructure. i dont know what we call this anymore. the big bill, three and a half trillion dollar bill. there are a whole lot of people in the house saying, we are not moving on this, we are not signing off on the smaller infrastructure bill, the one for roads and bridges until we see what is happening w...

Republicans who have voted for it so far, you know, none of them want the $3.5 trillion extravaganza for infrastructure thats not really infrastructures. how are you so sure that one, the little infrastructures bill is going to lead to the great big one? >> well, i think that nancy pelosi has made it as clear as anyone foo she is not going to take up the small one if you want to call 1.2 trillion a small one. until she gets the $3.5 trillion debt bomb in her hands. president biden revealed the s...

But this dual track process is very important and chuck schumer is going to be paying attention to where kyrsten sinema ends up on the final details of the size as well as scope of this reconciliation package. >> ana palmer of punch bowl news, thank you so much. earlier in the show we asked the question, why are you awake? kevin writes im up way too early because little sofia wanted to party all night long again. shes sleeping peacefully there. jewels tweeted this, up way too early with severe...