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Hopes of hitting his climate goals and setting an example for the international community, all of it hit another major roadblock tonight thanks to this man, west virginia senator joe manchin. the new york times reporting tonight that the most powerful part of biden's climate agenda, the 150 billion dollar clean electricity program is now effectively dead, the centerpiece of the climate proposal is likely to be cut from the overall plan because of a democratic senator from the coal rich state of west virginia. times report tonight that because of manchin steadfast opposition quote, at least fou...

Reconciliation bill, the second part of the build back better agenda he has some issues with and that's part of the negotiation that has to occur that is not fully baked yet. that's part of what i think is holding up the vote on the infrastructure bill today. >> what more could senator manchin do to be helpful other than write this, you know, response with that criticism? >> yeah, i think, you know, senator manchin and his team are in right now negotiating the contours, particularly of the climate provisions, he obviously comes from a state where 90% of the energy comes from coal, he doesn't w...

>> remember the campaign about infrastructure was to basically say their infrastructure deal was also their climate proposal. so you can understand senator marquee, senator white house, some of the other climate focused lawmakers on the hill who see the infrastructure talks moving in a direction that might leave climate to the sidelines and they're frustrating. an interesting insight into the president's thinking on this when we were on the foreign trip and i had a chance to be in the pool one day, talking to a white house official, what's the president talking about, trying to get him to talk...

What the climate proposal is going to look like. i think schumer is trying to take care of that by moving forward with the reconciliation bill so they can say vote for this bipartisan bill. here is what we've already got moving on for the reconciliation. >> both issues -- voting and infrastructure -- this is the challenge of the biden presidency in this moment. he wants to pursue bipartisanship but every step he or moderates take toward a bill that could bring some republicans onboard risk losing democrats on the left. he just doesn't have the numbers right now to afford to loss those progress...

Can you tell me the story again? every family has their own unique story. give your family the chance to discover theirs this holiday season, with ancestry. ♪ this holiday season, >> well, this week, michael bloomberg became the latest democratic candidate for president who roll out a climate proposal. climate change is a big issue in the democratic 2020 primaries. his plan would phase out emissions in the electricity sector and calling for ramping up for clean energy products. when it comes to the price tag,