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Take the pieces and bring the most popular pieces to the floor separately. voting rights is the vote of the moment but this is another decision. do the democrats break up what they say is a critical big plan into small pieces? >> a lot of the frontliners who are concerned about losing their seats next fall they are talking about cutting their losses and just moving on. there's a fear if democrats keep sort of having these big votes and generating all these headlines only to fail, it's only going highlights you know, what they didn't get done when it comes to their re-election so that's why you...

>> reporter: so pelosi on the floor was working over a number of the moderate democrats, talking to them about some of their issues, trying to see if there can be a vote. jake, house majority leader steny hoyer told me earlier perhaps the house could even be in through this weekend to try to force these two issues through both the larger bill and the infrastructure bill. this is still very fluid. can they get the votes? still an open question on the larger bill. behind the scenes the leadership is working it hard. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thanks so much. let's bring in democratic congress...

Progressives, even now. there is a sense here, we heard from lawmakers, waiting to see. progressives are saying we're not going to vote unless we have firm commitments that they will back the reconciliation program and until they do we won't vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. and so now we're hearing moderates in the house saying they may not be for this bill. usually when a president goes to capitol hill he goes to to seal the deal that he is just getting the ball from the one yard line into the end zone. this is not what he has done before. this is him trying to get an agreement and...

Doing that. >> are you surprised this is the most we're getting from paul ryan? i keep hearing moderates express disappointment and people saying things, my goodness, the guy's third in line to the presidency and got a custodian at some point. >> he's by kind of conservative, but i'm disappointed. i'm disappointed in a lot of our leadership. i'm disappointed in a lot of our friends. there's a point where the political game has to stop, and it's nautica rear over country. these guys are afraid of their primaries. there's kind of a herd instinct in both parties, which have become tribes. but the...

Telling comments from the republican side came from a guy who's not been in the game of late because he's in a battle of his life. >> john mccain, i applaud what he's saying. and i hear similar things from other senators in congress on the republican side, but i hear them privately. i think more people have to speak up about this. politics is not declaring war on our institutions for your own personal gain, but apparently this president has no problem doing that. >> are you surprised this is the most we're getting from paul ryan? i keep hearing moderates express disappointment and people sayin...