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White house. first, to chad at the capitol. chad, what can you tell us? >> good afternoon, neil. this underscores the infighting among democrats about what they can do with their narrow majorities. that is the reality. house speaker nancy pelosi insists it's all about -- it's all possible despite a three-seat advantage in the house of representatives. pelosi says the social spending package is coming. the speaker didn't have a number. >> no doubt that we will not have a reconciliation. we will have a reconciliation bill. that is for sure. >> this comes as liberals have threatened to nuke the b...

If this does not get done in the next couple of weeks, the treasury secretary says the loss could be catastrophic. as for those spending bills, the house is planning, key word planning to vote on that frut bill, but progressives are threatening to vote against it until they get their vote on that bigger, broader social programs bill first. in the past hour, top white house officials wrapped up a meeting with kyrsten sinema. and our team, the only woman with alexandria ocasio-cortez where she says this. >> some folks in our party have reneged on that agreement. and that's where i think that we ...

Democrats will have to decide what comes next. they can make moves to put this in reconciliation. that could be a messy, complicated process. some democratic sources that we've talked to doubt they'll be able to do it in time. they can do something more extraordinary like a filibuster carveout that triggers the nuclear option to change the rules. we know some democrats are not in favor of that. one way or another, they have to get it done to avoid a catastrophic economic calamity. >> super secret plan b discussions are any least favorite. >> i want to turn to one of the key players. the chair ...

Presidency. first up on this set of meetings an hour from now is the two leaders, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader schumer schumer. after that, a meeting with the moderates. who are concerned the party is going too far and too fast on the legislation. yes, joe biden in that meeting, by the way. then to end the day, a meeting with the progressives who are withholding their support from the bipartisan infrastructure bill as leverage to prevent moderates from watering down or walking away from the reconciliation bill. so we are at the beginning of the end game. it is down to the wire....

Critical. but what about the other piece of this? what about the president's economic agenda? where does that stand? >> reporter: that's right, laura. that is its own problem. separately from this funding measure that is going to the senate, you know, house speaker nancy pelosi has been facing a lot of issues within her own party, within moderates and progress ichlds in her own party about what to do about this $3.5 trillion economic bill, the tax and expanding bill that would expand the social safety net and the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed the senate. so, look, mode...