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Fact, will participate on that call. and it's also unclear what exactly that path forward is. a number of democrats want to find some kind of consensus on a pared back bill. particularly democrats in the house who voted to approve that bill last month and now are left with nothing to show for it. but there are concerns among progressives they can't get out behind something if they don't know joe manchin will support and there's ongoing back and forth that persisted between the president's staff and joe manchin himself. manchin, i'm told, was concerned, was furious at the white house for callin...

Happens, the scaled back bill will be the high point for liberals of the biden presidency. no next step to give them a victory. >> martha: some indications progressives are getting closer to agreeing to some version of this. it looks like as you say they have to pass something. they really can't come away with nothing with the house, senate and white house all in their back pocket for now. here is bernie sanders over the weekend. watch this. >> this is not easy stuff. but what we're trying to do is put together the most conscious quensal piece of legislation in the mott earn history of this co...

Social safety net and fight climate change. >> there was universal, universal agreement in that room that we have to come to an agreement and we got to get it done and want to get it done this week. >> reporter: first, biden sitting down with two hold-outs. >> he met with senator manchin and sinema this morning. >> reporter: and then progressives who want a bigger price tag, expanded medicare coverage and aggressive proposals to fight climate change. that followed by a meeting the moderates, who favor a scaled back bill with income caps on key provisions. >> those are the would ho disag. why w...

Progressive colleagues in the senate and i want to read a piece of what you are backing. you say we, it is you senator booker, gillibrand and others, we support the caucus and members in the house who have said they intend to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill once the build better back bill is backed. you are giving the weight to the progressives meeting with president biden in a bit. what do you need to see, what will you accept on that front? >> look. i'm not saying anything i haven't said now for months. remember when the whole question about how we were going to do build back bet...

And anti- masks and the going to recover as the covid-19, the party of the democrats will be recovered is the party that took care of covid-19 because the republicans are going too far on the mandates. what you think that strategy. carl: maybe that argument could hold in some states but overall i think the president is shifting the blame is saying that you need to blank the republicans from covid-19 when he is the guy in charge and assiniboine get this done. the republicans cannot overreach and hurt themselves of the local level but ultimately the worst covid-19 situation is, the worst the pre...