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Wisconsin democratic congressman. for our purposes, thankfully hes also on the appropriations committee. congressman, are you guys going to fund the government? >> well, first thanks for having me, garrett. we will. i think theres going to be an extension probably to mid january to give us a little more time. look, any time you have a 50/50 senate, less than a hand vote of vote margin in the house, its like juggling cats on a high wire with a fire under you and a head wind. nothing is to do in c...

Here. they dont have the votes to pass that bill. we will see if they are able to execute this strategy, because you know the philosophy here by the liberals has been to marry those two bills together and it just the best possible dome a couple of moments they put out of the statement, because these moderates are saying they want s what the progressive say. "if six of our colleague still want to wait for a score, we would wait on both bills together." they only have a three vote margin, so if yo...

Vote so far. you can see theyre all democratic counties which means that most of the votes still to come in is from these areas including places like hudson county, new jersey, where phil murphy has 73% of the vote, just 81% in, essex, nearby, newark, the biggest urban county, murphy, 73%, just 84% in. so you can expect over the next couple of days as they get more of the mail vote counted and it grows, his margin will grow. again, a win is a win. democrats are thrilled about that. what theyre n...

Democrats here. if you go back in time. still under performing what the democrat was four years ago when he hand-- he won handily. heres the challenge. if you are at 75, 78, you think boy, when you see so many of the places at 95, its getting hard. >> true. >> its richmond city, 95%. and 95% here. you come down here to charles city county. the last thing you are looking at is down here, we have talked about it tonight. you flip the playbook, look at the democratic areas. 75%, so, theres more vot...

Is that separated within the ville sack better act or within the bills act better act. >> are you building an infrastructure most of the day? have you made that decision? >> so are you holding an infrastructure vote today? that sounds like its a no. beta-1 so thats the critical question. she did say they are moving forward with the vote. i thought chads question about the progressives, thats not much of an answer on behalf of the house speaker. when infrastructures he said this is professional, ...

Transformative terms like f.d.r., like lyndon johnson with the great society and the new deal. the problem is he doesnt have roosevelt or l.b.j. majorities. a three-vote margin in the house and a zero vote margin in the house and yet trying to pass sweeping huge spending. thats a lot harder to do when you have literally no vote margin. you cant lose a single vote in the senate and three in the house. as a result, you have in the house progressives saying, you know, were not going for this. they ...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. thats why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the action...

Progressives could vote no, more than ten gop members could vote yes. but the math doesnt addup. it begs the question, is the presidents domestic agenda too ambitious in a split senate and house with a three vote margin? >> from what i can imply from what you say is that we should just have done nothing because we had a slim majority? thats not who we are. no, its not too big. in fact, it will be a compromise. >> reporter: pelosi believes the bill will pass, maybe later tonight. jim clyburn said...

Margin in the house, he understands, i understand, i think the majority of the american people understand, because what we are doing is and norm asleep popular. the american rescue plan was popular, this is popular. the american people want us to address the crises facing working people, and have the guts, finally, to stand up to the big money interests in the united states congress. >> you name the most difficult part of this, which is you need a unanimous vote and unanimity is tough. you come ...

Raise the revenue we need to pay for this, by the way, chris, your point about taking a look at what we are trying to do. the evidence is overwhelming that when you invest in child care when you invest in education when you invest in children you get that investment back, many times over. in terms of climate, what are we supposed to say, how do you deal with this issue, how much is too much when youre talking about saving the planet? how much? and if the planet goes down in 50 years, well, gee w...