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Bipartisan deal with his bipartisan group of lawmakers outside the white house. they were celebrating. we still don't have actual legislation yet. we don't have bill text. they are working to figure out how to pay for this. they do not have 60 votes. they aren't going to get joe manchin to change his mind about the filibuster. that is the issue that is stuck. you have the issue of immigration that they are basically trying to push through in this broader infrastructure and social safety net bill that they will try to pass along democratic lines. i think that will be really long shot too. i thi...

Schumer. republicans are going to be unified in voting against beginning debate on it. was this deadline counterproductive? >> well, jim, we've made great progress, and i think we are very close to finalizing every detail today. i'll just say generally that if you look back a year at the process that produced the unanimous vote in the senate for the c.a.r.e.s. act, there were two motions to proceed votes just like we're going to have today that failed before we finally got the unanimous bipartisan vote that produced the c.a.r.e.s. act. i think it was helpful to have a clear forcing mechanism a...

Proposal in the coming days in the hopes of coming to a deal as early as next week. and some sticking points of course include how they will pay for this $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal. and there are two key republican senators of course senator mitt romney and senator rob portman who both say that they just don't think that there should be a vote on this when there is not even text for this legislation yet. but chuck schumer defended his decision to put this to a vote later today, he said yesterday that these gnegotiations have been for more than a month and it is time for a...

Category, particularly something as important as infrastructure. we should come together in a bipartisan way just like we did in the competitive act where we came together. we said let's move this forward. let's have a motion to proceed. again, when nearly 40 republicans joined us, even though we didn't have bill text, there were amendments that were put forward. there were 22 roll call votes, and it passed a wide bipartisan way. we just did this just recently. we can do it again, but i think this will be a test. are the republicans really serious about coming together and dealing with infrast...

Stand. >> well, i think there's still some disagreement on some of the terms. that group is still working through that, but i think the important thing for us right now is that we need to proceed. and that's why leader schumer wants to put this on the floor tomorrow, a motion to proceed to go forward so that we can come together as a senate, and deal with infrastructure, physical infrastructure. this is something that we need to do. this should be bipartisan, it's about investing in roads and bridges, expanding the high speed internet to folks all across the country in rural areas, urban areas...