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Unsurmountable opposition at the moment, at the moment. >> plus, the january 6th committee sends a flurry of new subpoenas. lawmakers want documents and testimony from the trump allies who organized the rally that then spiraled into deadly insurrection, and the cdc puts pregnant women on alert. the message, get vaccinated against covid now or put you and your baby at risk. up first for us though, what nancy pelosi calls the fun part. the house speaker staying trademark upbeat despite giant doubt...

2.2, whatever the number, is do you believe it has to be significantly higher than 1.5 trillion to get the progressives to sign off and get it to the presidents desk? >> the negotiation about a top line number is really distracting from what we have to achieve. >> forgive me for interrupting but for two weeks the house progressives have been saying we need a top line from senators manchin and sinema so we know what were negotiating. i agree its more product i have to say what do we want, stack t...

Gary yesterday, all kinds of things -- you look so alike. all kinds of things could happen very quickly, but we have called for the reconciliation bill to be passed first and then well happily vote for the infrastructure bill and i want to make a point to all of you that i have made before which is that there are many of our members, our progressive caucus members who -- and actually some members mott in the progressive caucus, who absolutely believe that the infrastructure bill as it is crafted...

Anyway? >> you saw the bill. >> theres a lot of good things. >> but you havent said any of that in public. >> i was trying to honor my agreement. >> senator manchin -- >> senator manchin -- >> theres been a debate. >> i know theres been a debate. i thought they would for sure have brought it. i think its time now and people have said i havent. everybody has been pretty clear in my connection whats going on. >> senator manchin. >> did you share that number with the president, and has that 1.5 -- ...

Is that correct? >> senator, on infrastructure -- >> is that correct, anything over 1.5 is a no? >> on the infrastructure bill, this is my question. your 1.5 trillion line, are you willing to risk the infrastructure bill? >> im not risking it. ive already voted for. >> if that means no infrastructure bill at all, will you still stick with 1.5 trillion? >> ive been very up front and fair. the bottom line is 1.5 for this infrastructure -- for -- not the infrastructure but for the reconciliation bi...

Manchin. we have a photo, with each other before some votes earlier today. senator sinema who was he had with the white house more times than you can count this past week says talks have been productive and they are making progress, but theres nobody in this town who thinks they are going to have even a framework, right? we have agreed to spend, you know, the house democrats want $3.5 trillion, agreed to spend $2 trillion and these programs would be part of it. that might satisfy enough progress...

Will vote no. >> i think were in a good place. were making progress. i cant stay here too long because i have to deal with step by step with this, but im only envisioning taking it up and winning it. i do not plan on not doing anything. i plan on moving forward in a positive way. we are on a path to win the involvement i dont even want to consider any options other than that. >> thats her trademark and its part of her strategy, stay upbeat, but -- >> but the votes arent there right now, right, a...

The big democratic spending bill as full of vital investments and things like child care, pre-k and health care and joe manchin calls it fiscal insanity, and well hear from him any moment now up on capitol hill. lets go to manu raju. theres senator manchin. lets listen. >> okay. who is first? >> ill go. >> senator. you are always first. >> whats your expectation -- whats your message to progressives who worry, you know, that this isnt going to come together? >> its got to come together. we have ...

Meetings with senator sinema. my colleague kaitlan collins said he spoke to senator manchin by phone. theres been a series of meetings over the last several days and they were expected to continue at least by phone over the course of the morning. one thing to keep in mind when it comes to how the president approaches this moment in time he has implicit trust in speaker please, and hes never going to go in a different direction than shes going. shes made very clear for the morning the direction s...

We call general dollar senator, dollar general, they are no longer dollar general, they are now 1.25 or 1.50 general. thats hard for people in west virginia who shop there. we need to take a lot of this in consideration and we have a lot of good things we can do. heres the thing, youve got the the infrastructure bill, this bill that we have right now and a reconciliation bill. im willing to sit down and work through that $1.5 and get our priorities and they can come back and do later and run on ...