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High for republicans. there was some back and forth, and then yesterday, the white house came back with a $1.7 trillion bill, so that's much smaller. but that is still three times what republicans want to spend. their original offer, just $568 billion, and so after this meeting between five senate republicans and the white house yesterday, senate republicans immediately rejected the offer, saying that is way too high, $1.7 trillion, to get any bipartisan support on capitol hill. and the white house today is responding to the republican response by saying that they put forward a reasonable offe...

Good faith counteroffer. so this is now for those keeping track, it would be the counteroffer to the counteroffer to the original proposal. so we are seeing these face-to-face and virtual negotiations continue. remember, it was the president himself who had said he wanted to see major progress by memorial day, so just about a week from now and they really don't seem anywhere close to an agreed framework and they really don't agree on how to pay for this massive plans and the republicans huddle and their proposal was $568 billion and this number from the president is triple that amount. so ther...

Back to that breaking news in negotiations on infrastructure. republicans saying no deal to biden's counterproposal which cut his original american jobs plan $500 billion. what's next? is there a way to move the agenda forward. joining me now, nbc news leigh ann caldwell. walk us through why republicans aren't bundle on this plan? >> >> the sticker price is one of the key sticking points, obviously. republicans opened their offer with $568 billion. the president came down to $1.7 trillion, as you mentioned. mitch mcconnell, the minority leader, had mentioned a couple weeks ago up to $800 billi...

Would make the bill better, frankly, but if we cannot find republican cooperation, we're committed to invest in a historic way in american infrastructure. >> from there now to nbc's monica alba for the latest on the stalled infrastructure talks. i know that the president was hoping to make significant progress by a week from monday, memorial day, does that seem realistic? >> it doesn't seem very likely, alex and exactly what senator kaine told you in that interview is the biggest clue because democrats are having that conversation, if we can't get any republicans onboard, what are our options....

On. it's something his constituents in the military expect. you also have a situation where just a few years ago in 2011, the budget cap that kept the defense spending of $568 billion, those were lifted in order to get the government running again just months ago and that is when congress went to work to try and find money to rebuild the military that was been hurt so much of the last two years and that's where you about this figure of $700 billion. it's a large amount but that is because the defense budget had been cut so severely as a result of those budget caps. >> harris: you know interest...