Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20211019 13:11:00

for many democrats. this is a life or death issue here. and some senate democrats are warning they could vote against the overall spending bill if those key climate provisions are nixed. what are you hearing? there is a lot of reporting this week, because you don't have agreement with the manchins of the world, you are have to pull it entirely out. is that why we end up? >> it is like a rubik's cube. this is the latest sticking point in the negotiations. joe manchen who we should point out represents a coal state has come out against a key part of the bill, so now negotiators are scrambling to come up with an alternative, a carbon tax or watering down the clean energy provisions. but the risk there is then you could lose lawmakers on the left. and several democratic lawmakers have said they cannot support a bill that does not have a robust climate change agenda in there. however, they are leaving it open to what that looks like. all of this is just one of

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