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Approval of the parliamentarian in order to preserve the 51 votes. >> speaker pelosi, progressives are still threatening to block this bill by the end of today. can you still move forward with the vote tomorrow? >> we take it one step at a time. you're the one that started this. >> two questions. i want to clarify what you just said. legislative language -- you want legislative language on reconciliation before you bring up the infrastructure bill, right? >> we're doing it simultaneously. >> on the debt limit, there are clearly some issues on passing the stand-alone today. are those solved? ar...

Expansion of social programs. essentially saying what the democrats are proposing is not needed given the economic state we're in. there needs to be more means testing and raises concerns about spending trillions of dollars in new money. says he cannot and will not support trillions in spending or an all or nothing approach that ignores the brutal fiscal reality our nation faces. this is why this is important, jake. in a 50-50 senate, every vote matters. one democrat like joe manchin could tank the whole thing. nancy pelosi made clear that she'll not move forward in the house on that larger pl...

White house and capitol hill is the belief that these repeated meetings with sinema and manchin are making some headway. no concrete specifics. we don't have visibility into what they're talking to. generally speaking, presidents don't have people back to the white house over and over again if nothing is happening. still a long way to go,nd it's complicated because what you have is this negotiation within the house democratic caucus on the infrastructure bill versus reconciliation that cannot be settled until they get agreement from the other side of capitol hill from those two holdout senator...

They might get republican support on that. but with respect to the filibuster, sochi, what do they do about this? at some point do manchin and sinema come around to the idea we have tooted our horns about bipartisanship, no one else is interested? >> well, look, everybody knows there are two years to get things done. democrats want to make sure as they have the white house, the senate and the house, they want to make sure they're getting as much done as possible so that they can go into the mid-term elections and in 2024 and tout that. and we don't know what will happen in the mid-term electio...

Which is endorsed by stacey abrams. what is of extraordinarily dubious constitutionality would remove redistricting from state legislatures and hand it over to computers. equally unacceptable. totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose that, as well. >> that was mitch mcconnell also in an alternate reality and slapping senator joe manchin across the face. republicans were very quick to come out against manchin's offer after stacey abrams endorsed it. where do manchin and the democrats go? i want to bring in my friend and former democratic colleague former senator doug jones of ...