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It's fully paid for. it doesn't raise the deficit by a single penny, and it actually reduces the deficit, according to leading economists in this country over the long term, and it's paid for by making sure that the wealthiest americans, the biggest corporations, begin to pay their fair share. again, you've heard me say it 100 times. why should 40-55 corporations made over $40 billion the last couple years why should they pay zero in taxes? i'm not a socialist but the bottom line is everybody should pay their fair share. zero in taxes? come on, and so keep my campaign commitment, it does not r...

>> all right. you probably saw this scene right now where protesters were actually stalking joe manchin, the west virginia democratic senator. this is a familiar theme. he's dealt with this a good deal. in fact, he and his colleague, kyrsten sinema in arizona she was pursued in a restroom. it keeps up because they're saying, let's see if we can keep the costs of the various proposals in a relative balance. senator bill cassidy, the louisiana republican with us right now. senator, what do you think of these incidents that keep popping up, not only for your colleague senator manchin, but kyrsten...

It's fully paid for. it doesn't raise the deficit by a single penny. and it actually reduces the deficit, according to leading economists in this country, over the long term. it's paid for by making sure that the wealthiest americans, the biggest corporations, begin to pay their fair share. again, you've heard me say it a hundred times. why should 40 or 55 corporations that made over $40 billion in the last couple of years, why should they pay zero in taxes? the bottom line is everybody should pay their fair share. zero in taxes? come on. and so -- and keep my campaign commitment, it does not ...

That, you know, democrats are tone deaf. how do you answer that? >> well there's nothing tone deaf about advancing a policy that has 60 or 70 or 80% support among the american people, which if you look at what's under the hood as a build back better package, that's what we're talking about, support for expanding access to healthcare, the provisions that we have in there to get everybody to preschool or to make child care more affordable and my favorite thing about this package is that when you tell the american people how we're going to pay for it, you get into that issue of how's this going t...

But just don't take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breath saying if only i had gotten vaccinated. >> the white house has rejected steps that would require proof of vaccination. also the white house here has argued that they're essentially being forced to do this because of covid rates. the death rate up more than five times since july and hospitalizations have nearly tripled. 35% fewer people are getting their first vaccines. doesn't the federal government have some responsibility to intervene and protect americans?...