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Approval will get more people vaccinated? i'm skeptical to say the least. take a look at what the nfl has announced this week in terms of how it is going to handle vaccinations and covid outbreaks. commissioner roger goodell announced this week that if a team has an outbreak and it affects the schedule, it prevents them from being able to play, they forfeit the game and those players don't get paid for the week. that might be what it takes to get people to actually get the vaccine, is some arm twisting as opposed to, well, you know, i've been playing web m.d. for a really long time and i've be...

Bipartisan plan demonstrates that the american people are united in their demand that we make these investments, and congress is responding to that. >> let's talk about some of your colleagues, senator joe manchin, kristen sinema, who have been on one accord, not ending the filibuster is something they're not a fan of. senator manchin says he's not ad vo advocating for any agenda where it seems it's one party who benefits. is there any arm-twisting, any conversations with him as it pertains to protections of the voting rights act of 1965? >> i talk to senator manchin all the time, and we've di...

>> so matt dowd, you are one of the best not just messengers but persuaders in the country. but the persuasion part of the job is done. 71% of americans support the access to voting. and if people understood the disenfranchisement of the election officials who walked the line in november who made the difference between that arm twisting that we know from journalists was happening all day every day at the white house, what is underneath was vast and probably just as ugly. what is the message not just to bring along democrats but to make it untenable for republicans to oppose the legislation tha...

They were looking for magneto. so it's going to be a fascinating, fascinating, we have a lot of bilats coming tomorrow. >> john: didn't get much out of the initial bilateral meeting between erdogan and president biden. president biden apparently said we had a very good meeting. we'll probably get more from that when the president does come up to the podium. in terms of the relationship and back to what you said, president trump wasn't particularly popular with some of the nato countries leaders but he was very popular with the secretary general jens stoltenberg, really putting the arm, twistin...

Can take, and maybe a bit more arm-twisting he can do. but joe biden cannot personally blow up the filibuster. he can only apply so much pressure to someone like joe manchin. as much as he wants him on voting rights, which is clearly not happening right now, he also needs him on infrastructure. so it's a practical game, a delicate balance. and he's running up against entrenched partisanship in washington. he's not the first president, and likely will not be the last. >> anna, we could have built a couple of bridges in the time they've been talking about infrastructure. is the white house level...