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Progressives and the moderates distance from each other that are holding it out. why nancy pelosi couldn't do a vote last night. how do you move this forward. >> we're going to see this today. we have a republican party that's fighting for failure. even on the infrastructure bill where some republicans support it, kevin mccarthy is whipping against it. number two, the democrats progressives and moderates are in favor of both bills. there's a discussion about the order of how we proceed. and house speaker pelosi is trying. >> that's not insignificant. that's why we are are where we are this mor...

Hill. >> we know now that this $1.5 trillion is the number joe manchin was talking about a couple months ago. it always seems, ask you certainly can argue with this premise that the intense negotiations don't happen until everybody's back is against the wall. that's what frustrates a lot of folks. >> deadlines focus the mind. deadlines focus the mind on capitol hill and at the white house. democrats set this deadline for themselves saying thursday there was going to be this infrastructure vote even earlier in the day. nancy pelosi was exuding confidence saying that she was in it to win it. she...

Democrats are being focused on and what their efforts are. this is a momentous time, an inflection point in the presidency of president biden. he's someone who is the leader of his party. there's a lot of democrats around the country who are banking on democrats getting something done in congress to make the case they can get more seats in congress to have even bigger majorities so things like what happened yesterday with nancy pelosi really not even being able to lose four votes doesn't happen in the future. i'm hearing what peter is hearing from other democrats. this is not a catastrophic fa...

We can't have anyone block the president's agenda on monday or stop an historic infrastructure vote. this is once in a century. >> reporter: there is a plan for work to be done even through the weekend to try to get this to a position where there can be a vote on monday. house speaker nancy pelosi keeps saying the same thing over and over again, jake. she keeps saying they are on schedule. she hasn't really told us what the schedule is but the only thing we know they have plans for is the vote on monday. >> ryan, president biden met with dozens of these democrats progressives and moderates. wh...

He didn't die, just on a leave of absence, and can hand over power to somebody else. that is considered a middle ground, but again he's stubborn, doesn't feel he should go, and doesn't feel it would be in the country's best interest. >> thank you, richard engel. i meant every word, you're the best. thank you for joining us. a new poll shows that 40% of the republicans believe the protests will have a negative impact on our country. 1 in 12 republicans think is it's good. the democrats are even split. eugene robinson, and pulitzer prizewinning columnest for "the washington post." i guess this...