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>> exactly. >> i want to get to build back better. something did not have bipartisan support but there are pieces of it that have bipartisan support. i'm curious if you two guys who worked well on the bipartisan infrastructure bill see a way forward of aagreement. first of all to you congressman gottheimer, pieces you'd be willing to take out of bbb and work with folks like congressman bacon to get passed? >> i'm always willing to work with congressman bacon and i thank him for the bipartisan work on the hard infrastructure package. he and others voted for it in a bipartisan way the historic i...

Seven to ten days to see if they work out. we're coming up against that deadline and why is there this deadline? there' not enough time to get all the priorities done for the biden the administration. they are waiting to see if the group can come to some sort of aagreement. we're waiting for their proposal which totals about $1.2 trillion over the next eight years including assumed and new spending. the biggest problem why they haven't released their proposal after weeks of negotiating they can't figure out how to pay for it including if there should be a gas tax tied to inflation moving forwa...

They have every single get on board because that's how razor thin their majority is, they need every single democrat to vote in favor of that. that remains to be seen. jake also fshs they go the other route and they do come to an aagreement with this bipartisan group, including senator john tester and senator mitt romney, it's not guaranteed that the progressive wing of his party is going to automatically be on board with whatever consensus they come to either and we're told by sources that progressive members made that clear in the lunch with senate democrats today so really either way there ...

Extension because of the strike taking longer than expected. >> 25,000 fire chiefers walked off the job. nearly 300,000 students have been out of school. class size and staffing are two of the issues holding up the aagreement. >> i hope as the strike ends soon, i'd like to get back to school. meet with my teachers. >> reporter: just think about this, today there was supposed to be a psat test. >> that had to be cancelled. a lot of the students are coming to some of the schools that are even opened despite the fact that teachers are out here. the weather is not that great. it's raining. the tea...

It's the largest strike by any union against any business in over a decade. almost 50,000 members of the united autoworkers union walked off the job as the leaders and general motors failed to reach a deal this week. right now they're back to the negotiating table with the union demanding better wages and job security. gm saying that they have made a fair offer. let's go there right now. joining me from detroit is cnn's vanessa. what are you hearing from folks there this morning? >> reporter: hi, good morning, kate. these individuals behind me, they left the job at midnight. they're here in pr...