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Cross it before everyone else. the we have finish strong. >> one of the hurdles crossing the finish line is that bipartisan bul is part of a two track process on infrastructure. the other part of that, the reconciliation sbil where things could get a lull bit complicated. one of those 49 colleagues of yours, arizona senator says that she will vote to begin the process on that bill but does not support the large pricetag. and that can derail it. and the caucus said this in a statement yesterday. ...

Additional funding without having to worry about a filibuster. >> im enthusiastic about the fact they they will have a bipartisan bill. i hope it will be soon. yes, i stand by. because the fact is is that the president has said that he wants to have a bipartisan bill and we all do but that is not the limitation of the vision of the president. he wants to build back better. >> but republicans are slamming this as just another ploy for democrats to force through their liberal agenda. >> what she h...

Agenda. what stunned republican negotiators who were in the white house just a few hours prior signing off on that bipartisan agreement with that the president said he wouldnt sign that bipartisan agreement unless the other bill was also on his desk. that set on of a rollercoaster over the next 24 hours. the five republicans who would agree to the deal called a meeting to try and address the issue. and white house officials im told have been working carefully over the course of the last several ...

Particularly on how to pay for it. and so key biden administration officials will head to the hill to meet with pelosi and schumer to plot their path forward. and leigh ann caldwell is joining me with more. good to see you. take us through what i guess are fraying bipartisan negotiations. what are you watching for ahead of the meeting? >> so there is a couple meetings happening today that were going to be watching for. lets just start with this heating with speaker pelosi and leader schumer with...

>> reporter: white house officials ive spoken to firmly believe that there is time to pursue the bipartisan deal and they firmly believe that there is a possible deal to be had. however, they are keenly aware of the anxiety levels on capitol hill amongst democrats particularly progressive democrats who want to stop the negotiations now and just move along on their own way. it was something that kind of came to pass in a call, a private call, between president bidens top legislative affairs offic...

Hes relatively confident in the final analysis, if it takes reconciliation to enact these programs, not just what the president has proposed which is overwhelmingly popular with the american people, that he thinks theyll be able to get the 50 votes in the senate, and we hope we can get our majority in the house. but people are beginning to understand that we cannot -- we have a limited amount of independence. and i think joe manchin understands that, too. >> if this becomes a two-step process an...

Look like and what the white house would support. because we have seen them come out tougher against the idea of indexing the federal gas tax to the price of inflation. that is something that the white house has not supported and they come out saying this is not something part of our what we would like to get behind given the president said he is not raising taxes on people, making under $400,000 a year. they believe this would be part of it and say it would essentially punish people taking kids...

Thats why if you talk to reporters who are on the hill yesterday who covered the caucus meeting after muellers testimony, there were members who said they felt like there has been some movement by speaker pelosi and shes allowing if more members come out over this recess that she herself may switch positions. when she says were not going to move until we have everything we need, shes not necessarily talking about evidence. theyre not going to get anymore evidence over the six-week recess. theres...

We know that north koreas gained a great deal of capability in building reactors, in refining nuclear materials, in reprocessing plutonium and building and testing it. theyve built a great deal of indigenous capability and cant assume we can stall out the administration. >> two track process, one on delivery and one on the bomb itself. we saw a lot of delivery tests, ergo the missile test. and now were seeing a major claim on the bomb side. will you put this together, while they can do what rich...

Sure that will get to the summit and then if we get to the summit what follows do we now have a two track process where the north south koreans are talking to centrally about a peace arrangements and humanitarian assistance being of kind of first step of that in the u.s. and north korea talking about denuclearization in the past is that right imagine those two parents going forward after the two summits and then maybe multi multilateral diplomacy as well ok we thank you so much for your your ass...