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Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that i wanted. They gave more than maybe they were inclined to give in the first place. There are some significant hurdles ahead of course, finding a way to get to 60 votes in the senate to proceed to debating the bill. Some Progressive Democrats complain that its been pared down way too much. Some republicans say they gave too much especially regarding the price tag. But to reach a bipartisan deal of this size in this era, more than 1 trillion in spending, thats an accomplishment in and of itself. This Infrastructure Deal might pave the way for other biden agenda items as Kaitlin Collins now reports. Reporter its finally actually infrastructure week in washington. Its hard, but its necessary and it can get done. Reporter with a smile on his face, President Biden emerged from a 30minute meeting with a Bipartisan Group of senators today with this announcement. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. Reporter the president officially endorsing a longsought and hardfought agreement that features 579 in new spending on roads, bridges, broadband and other traditional infrastructure. The deal is big but still a fraction of what biden initially wanted. He made clear today he wont sign it unless Congress Also passes a bigger Reconciliation Package that democrats want but republicans oppose. If they dont come, im not signing it. Its real simple. If only one comes to me, if this is the only thing that comes to me, im not signing it. Its in tandem. Reporter passing both will prove to be a heavy lift for the Democratic Party that only has the slimmest of majorities in congress, with skeptics already emerging. Could you vote for it. For what . The deal. There is no overall deal. There is one deal. Reporter but the president voicing confidence today. I dont have any guarantee. But what i do have is a pretty good read over the years of how the congress and the senate works. My party is divided but my party is also rational. Reporter if biden succeeds, this plan will be one of the biggest investments in the nations crumbling infrastructure in history. Talk about public transit, 49 billion. 49 billion for public transit. When i raised that before, some of you looked at me like where have you been, biden . Reporter biden also singling out democrats who urged him to end talks with republicans and focus on a bigger deal within his own party. I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone. To them, i say this. Ive already shown in my young presidency that im prepared to do whatever needs to get done to move the country forward. Reporter the president praising the republicans who sat down with him. Mitt romney has never broken his word to me. People i was with today are people that i trust. I dont agree with them on a lot of things, but i trust them when they say this is a deal, well stick in the deal. Reporter biden relied on his years of congressional experience throughout the negotiations and even became a little nostalgic today. This reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up in the United States congress. We actually worked. We had bipartisan deals. Reporter now, jake, there is a long way to go from those smiles in front of the west wing to actually getting this passed through both chambers of congress. But the president is clearly optimistic not just talking about what this plan if passed would do inside the United States but also on The World Stage and the Competitive Edge he believes it would give the United States against countries like china. All right, Kaitlin Collins, a potentially historic achievement announced today. Lets bring in cnns ryan nobles whos live on capitol hill for us. The other part of this puzzle of course is whats called a Reconciliation Package. Its a Budget Blueprint that democrats are putting together. It could have a price tag of 6 trillion. Do we know whats in that . Reporter we have a general idea what both the white house and Democratic Leaders here on capitol hill would like to see in that plan. We should emphasize, jake, in order to get that bipartisan infrastructure plan over the finish line, democrats are insistent that that reconciliation piece be brought up and passed at the same exact time. That big American Families plan as the president calls it has a number of Human Infrastructure Pieces associated with it. Expanding health care access, providing for child care in work programs, job programs, things along those lines and of course the permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit which was a signature part of the original covid relief package. This is a high priority, particularly for the progressive members of both the House Of Representatives and the senate. Many of them not all that enamored with this bipartisan hard infrastructure plan of which a deal has been struck. So that means that both republicans and democrats will have a lot of work to do in the month of july to get both of these packages passed and put on President Bidens desk at the same time or else neither one of them will be signed into law. Jake. President biden said he wont sign the bipartisan Infrastructure Deal unless it comes to his desk in tandem with this budget Reconciliation Bill. If its going to take months for the Reconciliation Bill to be put together, does that mean we could be waiting months for the Infrastructure Bill to be signed . Reporter there is optimism they can do it quickly. I just spoke to john yarmuth who believes they can get both things done. It wont be easy but they believe they can do it. The key here is to have progressive buyin. Theres only a fourseat margin in the House Of Representatives and progressives are not going to be interested at all in that bipartisan package if they dont get the Reconciliation Package at the same time. I talked to one of the leaders, representative alexandria ocasiocortez just a few minutes ago, and this is what she had to say about the negotiations. They can have their cake and eat it too and negotiate a bipartisan deal and lower the Reconciliation Package . No, i think thats part of the push and pull here. Reporter so essentially what were dealing with here is a big tension rod. Both sides holding each other up. If either one backs out at any time, the entire thing could blow up. Joining us now to discuss, White House Press secretary jen psaki joining us from the north lawn. Jen, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Lets talk about the Infrastructure Deal right now. Do you have the 60 votes in the senate necessary to to proceed to debate and then amend the bill, et cetera . Do you have the 60 votes . Well, look, jake, theres no question theres hard work ahead. There were five republicans and five democrats here today with the president finalizing this deal. There were more republicans and of course more democrats who were involved in negotiating the deal. So were confident that we have a good path forward, but we also know theres going to be hard work ahead and thats what happens now. Did the five rips that were there tell you the names of five republicans, five other republicans who they think they can get . Well, they didnt whisper any names in my ear, jake, but what they all knew and what they said when they stood in front of the white house today is they need to go back and sell this to their caucuses. Make sure their caucuses understand why a historic investment in rail, a historic investment in our nations infrastructure, making broadband accessible to people across the country, rebuilding our lead pipes so kids have access to Drinking Water is something democrats and republicans in the country agree on so they should agree to that in congress as well. But thats what theyre starting to do, even this afternoon. As you know, theres no guarantee youll get all 50 Democratic Senators in the senate. There are a few Democratic Senators who today raised concerns saying that the bill is too small. Take a listen to connecticut democrat senator richard blumenthal. Way too small. Paltry, pathetic. It has to be combined with a second much more robust, adequate package to be deserving of a vote. How are you going to get blumenthal to vote for a bill he called pathetic. With all due respect to my hometown senator, i think those comments were made even before the details of the deal were put out. It is a historic investment in rail, a historic investment in our nations infrastructure, something his state, connecticut, where i grew up definitely needs. But i also say the president made very clear today, jake, that he wants these packages to go in tandem. He wants it to happen promptly and he wants a Budget Reconciliation Process that has additional investments in caregiving and child care, universal prek to happen at the same time. Were just beginning that process but he made that Crystal Clear today to the republic. So what do you say to a republican whos working with the white house to come up with a bipartisan bill on infrastructure who said you got our help to have this bipartisan bill so we can get 60 votes and everything were saying we dont want youre shoving in the budget Reconciliation Bill. How is that good faith . The president s view is we should find areas where theres Common Ground and areas where we agree and we should not rule out or eliminate options where we need to move forward on our own. The Budget Reconciliation Process has a lot of stuff thats hugely popular across bipartisan lines, democrats and republicans in the country love. Universal prek, making college more affordable, Community College more affordable. These are things that the American People really like. They can make a choice whether they support a final Budget Reconciliation Process or not but the president has been pretty clear in introducing these plans and believes they should work in tandem and believes democrats and republicans should find areas where they agree and Work Together on those deponents. Reconciliation refers to a process by which budget items can pass the senate with just 51 votes instead of the 60vote threshold. Thats why we keep using the word reconciliation. It just has to do with the Senate Maneuvering and only needing democratic votes. President biden said today hes not going t sign the Infrastructure Bill unless it comes to his desk with that Reconciliation Bill. Realistically, of course, all of that could take months, especially the budget reconciliation. Were talking about 6 trillion Bernie Sanders says. If infrastructure is so important, why wait for the Budget Reconciliation Process . First id say, jake, that the president proposed all these components because he thinks theyre all important to the American People and the american public. The Infrastructure Package will create jobs. A lot of democrats have said today theres urgency. Youve heard Speaker Pelosi and oo others convey that. Theres no question theres a lot of important work, hard work ahead, long nights ahead. Were ready for that and well continue them to move forward as quickly as possible. I actually said 6 trillion. Thats the Budget Committee chairman, Senator Sanders plan, for the budget Reconciliation Bill. Democratic senator joe manchin says thats way too much money. How high is President Biden willing to go . Well, theres going to be a whole process here. The president is going to fight for, stand by his American Families plan and the key components of that. Hes proposed in his budget about 4 trillion of spending. There will be a discussion about it, there will be a negotiation among members of congress. You need 51 votes. That means every democratic senator to support a final proposal. But theres going to be a lot of negotiations, conversations ahead about whats going to be in this package. Were going to continue to fight for the pieces in the president s budget and the American Families plan. Jen psaki, thanks for your time today. Appreciate it. Thank you, jake. A desperate search going on right now after a 12story Condo Collapses in florida. 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At least 99 people are missing after a 12story Condo Collapsed early this morning. Witnesses say, quote, everybody was screaming and panicking. This is the disturbing moment when the Building Collapsed. The reason for the collapse remains unknown as of now with the focus entirely on rescuing residents from underneath the rubble. Lets get right to cnns randi kaye whos live from surfside, florida. You spoke with the fire marshal about the Search And Rescue mission. What did he tell you . His message, jake, was really one of hope. I spoke to the state fire marshal and he told me earlier today some rescue teams thought they heard a noise in the rubble, possibly someone alive. No word yet that anyone was pulled fro