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Them? joining me now, nbc news congressional correspondent leigh ann caldwell. leann, walk us through why republicans aren't budging on the sticker price of this plan. >> hey, alicia. so the sticker price is one of the key sticking points obviously. republicans opened their offer at $568 billion. the president came down to $1.7 trillion, as you mentioned. mitch mcconnell, the minority leader, had mentioned a couple of weeks ago up to $800 billion. while the rank and file republicans are doing the negotiating, what we really have to listen to is what mcconnell says because he is really pulling ...

Senators had put forth something in the ballpark of $568 billion. so the two sides are very, very far apart at this time and it doesn't seem there's anything that's going to get them to find actual common ground, at least in the immediate sense, these talks, alex, the best way to describe them, are quite stalled out. >> so it looks like you're trying to for bipartisan success here but if they have to go it alone, they'll consider it seriously. thank you very much, monica. the senate could vote as soon as this week on the january 6th commission. democrats need support from ten gop senators fo...

Great state of california, we will follow the talks. thanks so much, sir. >> thank you. mike: now let's bring in oklahoma congressman markwayne mullin, also on the house energy action team. congressman, welcome. >> the thank you for having me, appreciate it. mike: you heard your colleague, congressman sherman, how do you respond? >> the democrats believe you can tax your way out of spending. their idea is to tax more. while they're still trying to spend more. you've got a $1.9 trillion infrastructure tax -- or bill and only 6% builds infrastructure, and they want to talk about raising corporat...

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...