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Sinema, your colleague from arizona, would not last year a big fan of that. in fact explicitly it -- opposed -- should not a fan of lowering prescription drug loss, at least in recent years. how do we know she's not gonna throw a -- what is your message to senator sinema? >> i am not doing predictions about any of my colleagues. i am talking about what makes this a bill that helps reduce inflation and on the part about taxes. that if we can get this through, it not only pays for the climate portion, and the health care portion. but it also has hundreds of billions of dollars left over to actua...

To look at the three pieces together. >> so ultimately -- >> so carrying on -- >> please, of course. >> we know kyrsten sinema, your colleague from arizona, was not last year a big fan of that. in fact, explicitly opposed to the carried interest law. she hasie not been a big fan of lowering prescription drug costs at least not in recent years. how do we know she is not going to throw something into the works. what is your message to her? >> i'm not doing predictions about any of my colleagues. i'm talking about what makes this a bill that helps reduce inflation and on the part about taxes, tha...

Done. we should bring a bill out in february onto the floor of the united states senate. the time for talking is over. it's now a time for action. the time for negotiation is over. it's now time to reach an agreement so from my perspective, climbed has to be the foundation. it's the healthcare, environment am, economic, national security, moral issue of our time. we cannot miss this historic moment. we can reach an agreement upon that issue. joe manchin said it's the easiest area for him to reap an agreement. we should take him at his word and add in everything else on social issues. >> we sho...

Executive level, which is to push these projects forward. >> absolutely. i mean, as we have all seen in this administration, they are struggling to pass -- build back better act, which would go a long way to reach president biden's goal to cut emissions in half by the end of this decade. and so, they are taking plan b. and maybe that is not quite the way to say it. because i think the administration has always been planning to use several routes to achieve their goals. but there is certainly much more of an emphasis right now on the things they could do without congress. >> yeah, and we should...

Before i went on your show that manchin actually communicated his plan, communicated what he was about to say on fox news to the white house, to democratic leadership, and that sort of fills in all the blanks and all the questions we had this week, right? but i have to tell you something, he has been negotiating seriously on these provisions. we have spent months staked out of manchin's office, he's gone back and forth, been in multiple meetings and this last week multiple times with the president too, on specific provisions of this bill, like methane, like the climate portion of the bill, lik...