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Herd immunity we have. what i say with respect to the economy and larry summers, listen, we need market competition. on the build back better, this is where steve and i definitely disagree. first of all, it's not the 3 to 4 to 5 trillion. right now the debate is 1.5 trillion. >> trace: it goes ten years. >> in a post pandemic world, we need child care, elder care and prek and a reduction of healthcare costs. if it costs $1 trillion, we should be doing it. >> trace: robert? >> we have the government involved in healthcare, healthcare prices went up. education got involved in tuition, it went up...

One and that's what is on -- that's the question. do you want universal prek or not? and it will be interesting to see. i'm not yet convinced you get ten republicans but you make some uncomfortable. >> guys, stay with me. i want to take a break and continue this conversation on the other side. coming up, we'll talk about what happens when democrats layout the high stakes involved in the battle to pass voting rights legislation as the senate makes it a top priority for the new year when "the 11th hour" continues. n "the 11th hour" continues. and to know where you came from. ♪ we're discover...

Way on imposing itself on all kinds of situations. it a 50/50 senate and democrats need joe manchin's vote because there are no republicans willing to cross over and no interest in that. they either get manchin's vote on this bill or they take a different approach and it might not be all bad perhaps legislatively and politically to have republicans go on the record in committee and floor on the child tax credit and universal prek and on all these very popular provisions of build back better. it -- there are some republicans who will find it uncomfortable to vote for them as if they come up one...

Common with democrats than republicans, you made the point he said there are things about build back better he can support. why not start to break it up and get what you can get done and run on that? >> i think it's what the biden administration wants to do there are some in the house presented as sort of take all package in the senate. let's have varyings on the child tax credit and prek, universal prek and support for family leave, medical leave and so forth. there are things i think that are problematic about the bill the way we do legislation and until recently in the quite as we have hear...

Complicated because these policies are very much tied together, right? if you decide not to fund child care but you fund prek that actually basically unravels child care as we know it. it's not as easy as just doing this piece by piece, which i know there is increasingly an appetite for. i want to ask you on the child tax credit. we learned manchin's private offer to biden, prek, climate money, excluded the child benefit. senator manchin got broad push back asking why would you quash a provision that benefitted more than 300,000 children in his own state, secretary. >> inexplicable. for him, i...