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Kyrsten sinema holding up the agenda with the end of a month deadline proposing to pass two big bills. >> you have a message for senator sinema and mansion now. >> i'm about to deliver it. >> they're ready to see movement on the bill and soon but aides are keeping mum about the president's private conversations with mansion and sinema and the president himself is tamping down expectations today. >> we'll probably not get 3.5 trillion this year. we'll get something less than that but i'm going to negotiate and get it done with the grace of god and good neighbors as my grandpa would say. >> sour...

Kyrsten sinema holding up the agenda with the end of a month deadline proposing to pass two big bills. >> you have a message for senator sinema and mansion now. >> i'm about to deliver it. >> they're ready to see movement on the bill and soon but aides are keeping mum about the president's private conversations with mansion and sinema and the president himself is tamping down expectations today. >> we'll probably not get 3.5 trillion this year. we'll get something less than that but i'm going to negotiate and get it done with the grace of god and good neighbors as my grandpa would say. >> sour...

World politics. well, barack obama with his lack of experience was a question mark. >> so our face-off tonight, does obama have the foreign policy credentials. >> he is great on the themes and photo ops but it is not governing in foreign policy. >> so we decided to send obama just a few months before the election to afghanistan, iraq, jordan, israel, france, the united kingdom, germany. >> he becomes the first afro-american president in november, he will bring peace. >> i doubt we're going to have a million screaming germans. let's tamp down expectations. >> 900,000.

Welcome to "the lead," i'm briana keilar in for jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. it may be must-see tv, but president trump says he's not sure he'll watch special counsel robert mueller's testimony before congress wednesday. the president going after mueller's credibility today, tweeting, quote, highly conflicted robert mueller should not be given another bite at the apple. in the end, it will be bad for him and the phony democrats in congress. as abby phillip reports, the president also stepped up his attacks on four democratic congresswomen of color. >> reporter: as washington a...

Great job. >> good to see. follow me on facebook and twitter and instagram at jake tapper and tweet the show at "the lead," our coverage continues right now. thank you so much for watching. happening now, breaking news, defense of the deal. labor secretary alex acosta defends the secret 2008 plea deal he arranged as a u.s. attorney which made multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein an sentence for sex crimes. president trump pushed him before the cameras but could he still push him out the door. call to resign, nancy pelosi adds her powerful voice to those calling on alex acosta to resign adding tha...