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Compromise infrastructure bill that joe marchen headed this up. he has 11 republicans on board. going to be about 560 billion extra spending, re-purposing past spending. gets you close a trillion. senator tom cotton, have you seen this? could you see yourself signing on to this? >> i don't think they have legislative text yet, brian. i commend senators working on it. some i strongly support. we need more infrastructure spending especially on maintenance and operations around the country. in arkansas and tennessee we have a real challenge because the bridge on interstate 40 across the mississip...

Basically scoffed at and said thanks, but no thanks, this is not going to work for us. so they said president biden is going to speak to senator capito tomorrow before he goes on his trip but he's also going on a trip. this is a really critical time for these negotiations. so whether they actually pick up steam as democrats are saying it's time to move on kind of remains to be seen. >> the truth of the matter is the biden administration has calmed down a lot on their offer. he's down 1.3 trillion from where he started. republicans have only come up $100 billion. so are we dealing with a good f...

Telling republicans that ball is now in their court. after republican senators rejected president biden's counter offer to their inter infrastructure proposal. >> the white house says it put out a reasonable counter proposal, luring that price tiger from two trillion to 1.7 trillion dollars. the republican saying it is still too much compared to their 560 billion dollar plan. >> lauren egan is in d.c. to bring the latest on. this lauren, so what is next? >> yes, good morning guy, well it's looking increasingly unlikely that that memorial day deadline is going to be met. republicans and democra...

Deal could be truck? >> listen -- could be struck? >> $115 billion, $1.7 trillion infrastructure bill, 115 billion only goes to actual infrastructure. so let's narrow it down and actually look at the infrastructure that we're going to use, the infrastructure on broadband especially in rural areas, roads and bridges and waterways, and then take away all the fat and just get to the crutch of the issues and infrastructure, and i think we can talk about actually having an infrastructure plan. the dollar on that will depend on what we need to spend, but i don't think either side actually knows what...

U.s. mission employee for alleged links to a cleric who was blamed to be behind last year's failed coup. the u.s. says those allegations are baseless. and catalonia may be declaring independence as soon as tomorrow. amazon, interesting story friday and over the weekend. according to many reports the company is in the form of the final stages of deciding as to whether it wants to move in the multi-billion dollar prescription drugs market. very lucrative business, worth some $560 billion each year. obviously also fraught with complexities. amazon well aware of that news. it has been looking into...