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Congress. because it may be that she will be unable to get it through her chamber without doing something like this. but for biden, it's best that he just takes the deal that was cut here now and tries to move that through by itself and leaves this tactical type of strategy to the house speaker. >> yeah, heidi, you got to what i was going to ask you before. we have to let you go, because we have these two parts of the bill. this physical infrastructure piece that would need real bipartisan support from senators to be filibuster proof. and then the human infrastructure piece, which is supposedl...

Now, when the president said that, i'm not going to move one without the other, he sounded a lot like the house speaker, nancy pelosi. this is more a question of how they're going to get it through congress. because it may be that she will be unable to get it through her chamber without doing something like this. but for biden, it's best that he just takes the deal that was cut here now and tries to move that through by itself and leaves this tactical type of strategy to the house speaker. >> yeah, heidi, you got to what i was going to ask you before. we have to let you go, because we have the...

Who say that was a starting point. we're okay with people building on it. the sad thing is, and the thing that people say is frustrating for them is when people say, well, we need to pull that out completely, and start all over again. democrats in the obama administration recognize how hard that's going to be. >> so mika, again, biden is going to be talking tonight about mending it, and not ending it. and again, you look at how difficult that was to pass. it's going to be fascinating. i would love to hear progressives tonight on stage when they start talking about, oh, no, no, obamacare is a s...

Republicans joined with 47 democrats, so 59 members of the senate voted to basically disapprove of this declaration of the emergency, not enough for a filibuster proof of majority, which needs 60 votes, however, very close. the question is whether any republican senators were hanging back, expecting the courts to basically smack down the president's declaration, now that we have seen what's happening in the courts, whether there might be some additional votes in the senate to go forward with the filibuster proof majority disapproving this national declaration of an emergency. >> i'm realizing ...

I think reasonable people might say leave it alone. but if it's three bill to stop a hundred bill, what's the point, does that cut the independent taxing and authority. >> the power of the purse belongs to congress and what this ruling does is it basically takes away that power. interestingly back in the april/may time frame, you might remember, the house and the senate in bipartisan majorities voted to disapprove of the declaration of the emergency by the president. interestingly in the senate, 12 republicans joined with 47 democrats, so 59 members of the senate voted to basically disapprove ...