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President. you got the details what's in this thing, what's in the plan? >> reporter: i can tell you that the president is delayed. he has not left the white house yet for that meeting with house democrats. that's significant because he has already pushed back his departure to italy and scotland because he's trying to hash out the final negotiations and details of this brand new framework we can report that the top line of this package has been scaled down from the original 3.5 trillion now to something in the $1.75 trillion range. there's a lot of headlines on what stays in and what's cut out...

Social programs, an expansion of the earned income tax credit and child tax credit. you'll see universal care for children and pre-k, also a huge piece of this. but really climate is the biggest engine of the bill. and, of course, what is going on this morning is an attempt by democratic leaders to sell progressives on the idea there is a deal on the reconciliation bill with the senators so they can free up the infrastructure bill they're trying to get done before terry mccal liv is on the ballot in virginia for tuesday and president biden leaves for europe. i talked to a democratic member of ...

Of course, is the 15% minimum tax for domestic companies that have more than $1 billion in profits, and that's something senator sinema was negotiating with senator warren, in here it appears that's something that sinema will go for and it's something that's going to hit a bunch of companies in new york and in california and san francisco and washington state, so that's pelosi, schumer and jayapal, going for that or sink it because of their constituents. >> crazy thought, leigh ann, we talk about what democrats are on board. any republicans, are there any republicans supporting this and if not...

Bill, a transformative bill, that as far as progressives are concerned this is as close as they can get to another new deal style agenda. president biden has an enormously difficult task because he is trying to pass a new deal style agenda without new deal style majorities. he has no votes to lose in the senate, only three votes to spare in the house of representatives and there are so many demands, so many conflicting demands, the issue of paid leave was dropped yesterday, the latest casualty of the bill. there are a number of democrats who are angry and disappointed about that. i have not he...

You just don't need to have it. the other thing is, it would block faith based child care providers from participating in the program and that is wrong so that is where you get the culture war stuff in the bill. pay attention to it. >> judge jeanine: okay, so geraldo, she says only 10% know about what's in the bill >> geraldo: i think that's an exaggeration. >> judge jeanine: yeah, i do, too. but she says, but if they knew what was in the bill, she's convinced americans would support it. >> geraldo: let's take the example that dana makes about the pre k. what is pre k? i'm all for it, you get ...