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Manchin is about to speak with president biden. they'll have a phone call conversation. it's a really important conversation. president biden obviously needs joe manchin to come on board with this build back better transformative u.s. economy bill. it would transform entitlement in the country for a long time. here's what senator manchin said when he was asked about the growing coast, which is now estimated to be double, in the neighborhood of $5 trillion for this entitlement bill. here's what he said. >> senator graham said he had conversations with you. you said you were stunned by this modi...

That's the game that's being played by the democrats now, connecting the infrastructure bill to the larger entitlement bill. >> paul: bill, the portman camp, that observation of sinema saying 3.5 trillion dollars i'm not for that, is proof that the senator's political calculation that this will make such a bill less likely to pass. that was the evidence for his point. is in fact that evidence for his point? >> no, i don't think it is. i think dan interprets that the way it was. she didn't actually say she wouldn't vote for the bill. she said she wouldn't vote for the 3.5 trillion. is it a repu...

You're not sticking around for the biggest consequence the trillion dollar consequence with the congressional budget office, what's your response to that? >> entitlement reform is the one thing that i've spent my career working on and i am extremely proud that the house passed the biggest entitlement bill ever passed in the house of representatives. do i regret the fact that the senate did not pass this? yes, but i feel from all of the budgets that i've passed, normalizing entitlement reform, pushing the cause of the entitlement reform and the house passing entitlement reform, yes, i'm proud o...