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Earlier this week. i'm told he's going to continue that engagement until there is a deal. the pressure is on because remember, that infrastructure package passed through the senate. they just needed the house to vote on it, but progressives wouldn't move on it until they had a deal on this second piece of it, this social security net that also aims to deal with the climate crisis. now, for his part, president biden and officials here behind the scenes say he wants to make change. that's why the original package topped $2 trillion, actually $3 trillion, but now it's nearly half of that, jose, s...

Get a result, we'll come back. but there's so much happening in washington, we have to talk about the other big story. democratic leadership vowing things are on track for a spending bill framework -- and we can debate what that means later this week. but behind the scenes new debate on unfolding portions of the plan. this includes debates on climate provision, with senator manchin's provisions central to those talks. then there's the child tax and the one year timetable. there's also prescription drug reform. and kyrsten sinema reportedly complicating that. we've got medicare expansion that...

He has a ton of leverage. this policy of clean electricity program, it really is the core of the climate provision. it's designed to pay electricity to shutdown coal and gas plants and sort of slowly year over year transition to win solar nuclear clean energy. end game for this program is cut the use of the fossil fuels that is are apart of his home state economy and you know i think for several weeks, there was a sense that maybe senator manchin would be able to -- that would kind of throw a lifeline to those fossil fuels, didn't seem to happen. it seems like over the weekend, the people that...

The sides of the streets to children walking to school. they've walked into churches to kidnap pastors and parishioners on sundays in broad daylight. >> reporter: the conditions in haiti prompting thousands to flock to the border. >> there's no police. there's no military. there hasn't been a military for decades. so who do you go to to say i just -- i've just been kidnapped. >> reporter: american citizens trying to lift up the suffering, desperately in need of help themselves. turning now to capitol hill, the debate over a carbon tax is making its way back to washington as a key climate pro...

Huffman. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, good morning. jacqui: appreciate your time. this week the white house really for the first time sort of signaled impatience here that there's not been progress since the vote on, and it's been stalled. and the democrats are pushing for a deadline and you just appeared in a town hall with alexandria ocasio-cortez to make the case for the climate provision. what are you holding out for? >> well, i'm holding out for a package of legislation that's net positive for the climate because we're running out of time to address the most import...