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Interested in getting this over. it was a beautiful meeting. i'm so proud of them. >> everything on board for a thursday vote? >> i'm sorry? >> thursday vote still on track? >> still on track. cnn's jasmin wright live in washington for us. jasmin, good morning. what is the state of play at the white house, optimism? >> reporter: well, listen, laura, president biden's make or break week still continues. but white house officials pressing what president biden doing what he does best, which is engaging with members, negotiating, trying to get something done. i guess you could say a little bit of ...

That social safety net package through reconciliation, potentially setting up the vote to fail as progressives had been really hard and fast saying they won't vote for the infrastructure bill without that safety net vote. so we will see what happens there. and now she also told members that president biden was negotiating with senators about what that top line number should be for that social safety net package. but officials have contended to cnn privately there is a lot between here and now before trying to do some type of agreement on thursday so everyone can go along. still, president bide...

We know the french are obviously upset about the deal the u.s. made with uk and the australia. they cancelled celebration of french/u.s. relations and friday took the step of recalling their ambassador to the u.s. what sort of efforts are the white house doing, president biden doing to prepare that breach? does that include a phone call with french president macron? >> yeah. john, you were with me in europe just a few months ago when the president got just such a warm welcome from his european allies. it was pushing on an open door. all he had to do was say i am not president trump. i'm presid...

Politics gets inserted into it, and suddenly they have amnesia. >> yeah. joe, you know, i think the republicans over the last three or four months, actually last seven, eight months, the big three. what's front and center for what they stand for. you mentioned two of them in terms of getting in the way of the investigation of january 6th insurrection, getting in the way of keeping people healthy and, of course, we have texas. basically getting in the way of women's freedoms to have an abortion, even if raped by their uncle after six weeks. their two big things against biden, well, he's old and...

I literally jumped on the 6:00 train from washington to go to philadelphia which is how i get home. they stopped the train. it couldn't make it to philadelphia because it flooded. now we have the same problem going on in philadelphia. it's terrible. >> you know, jonathan lemire, i just want to tell our viewers what we're watching. this is some footage from earlier today. president biden doing what white house officials say president biden does, comforting comfort victims of the storm. we've been going back and forth between a live shot, which is the president's remarks, which are expected to g...