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>> joining me, one of the republicans i know is watching the negotiations closely, north dakota senator kevin kramer. senator, obviously the motion to proceed on infrastructure framework failed yesterday while everyone was watching the house. are you confident the senate can start work on this monday and what do you need to see in the bipartisan package for it to get your vote? >> great points because i am confident, garrett, largely because i trust people that are negotiating, both the republicans and democrats. there's a sincere effort. framework from the beginning was a pretty good start. a...

From a compromise package of $1 trillion to a democrat only package of $6 trillion. $5 trillion is a big difference. it's a big difference. you're not going to get republicans to go along with that. arthel: to that point, what is the republican comprehensive plan to fix highways, bridges, some of them are on the verge of collapsing and at the same time to boost or bolster the economy for the benefit of the middle class, the working class, low income families and the question becomes in terms of timing, how quickly does congress need to act and can the republican agenda get accomplished within ...

Realistic, track one may happen, but track two may not. >> we have to have the commitment if we went for track one, you have to have a solid commitment that track two will be supported. this is about people's lives and quality of lives and we're coming out of a pandemic and people's economic security needs to be addressed and the infrastructure of this country needs to be addressed. so we can't have one versus the other. so, we have to have an iron clad commitment that if it were two track that we would be able to pass the second bill. >> so, it sounds like you have an open mind on this compro...

Among the republicans for negotiating some kind of a compromise package on the infrastructure matter. the two sides are millions of dollars away from each other, and progressives, the progressive wing of the democratic party is publicly disappointed with the president for not pushing harder for the entire $2 trillion question, and the issue for president biden is does he want to run, does he want democrats to run in the midterm elections on having gotten no money for infrastructure or getting about a trillion dollars for infrastructure. some of it's re-purposed money, and the rest is about 3 o...

Can go home until this national emergency got thrown back into the mix, which takes it potentially from a good moment for the president, whose numbers have been trending positively, and throws it back into chaos. >> members say they will not vote for this compromise package, alexandria ocasio-cortez, chomar, pressley and tlaib. there was an opportunity for progressives to say republicans hate this bill. >> the message he stated at the state of the union, continued in el paso. instead he's uniting democrats against the more outrageous thing that he wants to do.