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Joe manchin killed. what kind of goodwill negotiation leverage, what is left here? >> well, you said justifiably, that's right, alisha. this was first a $6 trillion package and then $3.5 trillion and then $2 trillion and they voted for the infrastructure package knowing that this warning in fact, this very thing with manchin backing out might happen. what regular americans care about and know as well what are you delivering? it would be great to get universal prek, still be great to get some sort of investment and would be great to address elder care at affordable, maybe a package that's simil...

Afford, you have no house to borrow against. you have no savings. it's wrong. but all the things in that bill are going to reduce prices. and costs, for middle class and working class people. >> so biden saying he's not giving up. and democrats huddling tonight, trying to move forward. joining me now, former hud secretary julian castro. you heard the president there. the stakes are incredibly high here. we're talking about pre-k, child care, huge investments in climate change. you have leader schumer planning a vote for january. your read on the likelihood of this bill actually getting passed?...

Lose the infrastructure bill. and actually, what i said to all of our members is i know you don't love the infrastructure bill but listen, we got to vote for that and if we, you know, we tie it to the build back better act, let's everybody vote for all of these things. there may be things we don't like in infrastructure, there are other people that don't like things in build back better. let's deliver this because if we don't energize our black and brown voters that delivered us these majorities and indigenous voters, if we don't energize with a significant investment in climate and if we don'...

That's women, that's a lot of people of color, immigrants that are going to get these jobs that will be good paying jobs and of course, families across the country that will benefit from universal child care, prek, home and community based care. this is really, really significant and of course, the child tax credit as you mentioned and so our caucus has been, you know, frankly just really committed to delivering the entirety of the president's agenda and we understand the pressures on the white house and we understand the pressures on the speaker and we understand the pressures on our front li...

The equation. it's that bill that will go much further in helping people of color of those in poverty because it is as biden used to call i infrastructure and women of color that are under represented in home health care and more likely than their white counterparts to have to change their jobs due to child care with low income single parents, again, being disproportionately women of color and happen to be the democratic base that voted biden and this slim democratic majority into power. the first round of child tax cuts for instance, tax credit payments lifted millions of kids out of poverty....