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Mentioned -- it's 23 after the hours. we mentioned his name five times. that's fine with him despite his ah shucks exterior. but he has virtually cleaned out a lot of the green energy provisions that were so important to biden and so important to democrats on the left. does this make him -- since we in the media need labels -- the most powerful man in washington. >> it's pretty darn close, brian. i mean, just the way our institutions are set up, folks may not like it but at the end of the day, congress is a check on the executive branch. and the fact that the president can't just get his agend...

Victoria and bill crystal. thank you for coming on both of you. welcome, bill. i would like to start with you. critique two things for me. how is biden selling the agenda, and how has the sales effort been with the ultimate customers, the american people, the messaging? >> yeah, i think not as well as they could have done, the biden administration and the democratic party as a whole. just doesn't sense the kind of job you have where reagan sold his tax cut in the first year or even obamacare. it turned out with political effects in the short term. but certainly they made the case to many peopl...

We are so happy they did. great thanks to our starting line tonight. thank you for spending part of your friday night with us. coming up for us, the president concedes there will be compromise before he can build back better. two seasoned political observers standing by to talk with us on the chances of that happening. and later the republican party and those in it are under the control of one man who tried to stay in office and overturn his own defeat. nothing about it is normal, which is why we wanted to talk to rick wilson tonight. all of it as your "11th hour" is just getting underway ...

Really? >> yeah, that's a good question, brian. they passed of course with 67, 69 votes, i can't remember in the senate. pretty good bipartisan margin. the infrastructure bill because of internal party bargaining got held up in the house. so, president biden has neither. he has 70 votes, had bipartisan votes for the less controversial measures. he doesn't have that to tout as a success at this point. they have time in the sense a lot of these things can be passed whenever they're passed. and i don't think his support -- it's holding okay. it's drifting down, but he's not in some terrible situa...

[ gasps ] [ screaming ] convince to get it done. we're not going to get $3.5 trillion. we'll get less than that, but we're going to get it and we're going to come back and get the rest. >> president biden acknowledging the obvious today. also sounding an optimistic note on his build back better agenda on where the negotiations stand, however, the hill tells the story this way. quote, after one-on-one meetings between the president, manchin and sinema, democrats don't seem any closer to agreeing on a framework. then a month ago. and so it goes. here to talk more about it two friends of this b...