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Keep fighting until the ink is dry on this. and the ink is far from dry, because there's really no legislative ink. and that's one thing that senator sanders said that really stood out to me. said that he needs explicit legislative language on this framework. and that is something they don't have yet. this is a framework. this is a talking point. these are bullet points. this is similar to what chuck schumer said a month ago. made a big announcement they had a framework. we weren't really sure what he was talking about. he kind of was out over his skis there, but now they finally have this fra...

How to move forward. our senior white house correspondent is joining us right now. he's here in rome covering this summit. you know, phil, the president clearly wanted to show up here with a win on his agenda. it hasn't happened yet. >> it hasn't. the president starting his day going up to capitol hill making an urgent pitch to house democrats that the stakes were enormous. the time was now. he wanted votes on at least one piece of his package. the $1.2 trillion bill. he's going to land here without those votes and without a clear path forward. >> i know we have an historic economic framework....

Hour and a half ago. the president meeting with them on the hill to try to get the bill across the finish line. joining me now, someone in the meeting. congressman, you just got out of the meeting with president bidenen. what did the president have to say? and what did your house colleagues have to say to him? >> look, the president laid out the framework that he has, i believe, worked out the senate. he's asked us to trust him on this, and he'll deliver on this. our colleagues, i think, were clear that we trust president biden. the problem is we don't have trust in the senate. the program is ...

Been taken out to try and appease primarily senators sinema and manchin. universal pre-k. elder care, in. free school meals, in. expanded health care coverage that would include -- excuse me, not include dental and eyeglasses but would include hearing aids. expanded medicare for the hearing services. those are the things that are in. out, and we heard senator sanders talk about this. no mention of paid family leave. no free community college. and again, that expanded medicare coverage for dental and vision and prescription drug reform also out of the bill now. we caught the sort of tail end of...

They need to see legislation and they need to see it passed. >> biden publicly and privately, urging democrats to focus on what's in the proposal. not what's been left out or the mechanics. >> any single element of this framework would be viewed as a fundamental view in america. taken together, they're truly k consequential. >> it includes hundreds of billions of dollars. >> this framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate address is ever, ever happened. >> but it's a proposal that drops some of the most coveted pieces of biden's agenda from paid family and me...