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It's fossil fuel business as usual, so we got to have the other half of the deal to make this package climate positive. >> you need the spending bill to balance out the deficiencies in the infrastructure bill. now, that is a novel argument, congressman huffman. what i have heard from the progressives slash, left, liberal, whatever, i don't know what we call them these days, that, oh, no, we finally have the numbers, they're all popular, we want all of it. not that it had to be done to make anything correct, but it's about advantage. >> yeah. on the social investments, that's correct. but on th...

Political issue and this is a domestic agenda issue. >> reporter: i think what we're seeing right now from the white house is an inside and outside game. and that memo was an outside game in the course of the last several weeks due to probable frustration over constant fighting and intra party battles over top line numbers or strategy or timing and deadlines and not about what is in the packages. and when you take the items particularly on the the economic and climate packages and the second piece of the president's agenda and pull them in isolation, they have almost always pulled very well. w...

Climate piece also part of the agenda. so we expect him to talk about it. i was in the state dining room today when the president made his remarks about the job's numbers. i thought it was notable that he did acknowledge at more than one point in his remarks, about his concern that the numbers weren't better. a real acknowledgement that this is not the picture they were hoping for and could that be used as a lever to try to get that divide through the party. he did not respond to a question about joe manchin. he took one question related to the texas abortion law. so the president will have a ...

Plan lacks teeth for the climate piece. what's your take? >> reporter: it's a pretty smart fight to pick, punching up at the frontrunner on an issue you've staked your entire campaign on. i will also cover that o'rourke put out his climate change plan also. this is becoming increasingly important to the democratic electorate. every candidate who takes questions on the trail will often get a question or two or sometimes three on climate change and its effects in their town hall events. so the fact this is essentially the second major policy rollout by joe biden's campaign should not be terribly...