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Because other democrats thought he was going to budge? reporter: there s a lot of reasons for it. it s true. manchin did what he said yesterday, wasn t exactly new. he did say it pretty forcefully when you re seeing democratic leadership involved in shell games in how they re presenting, you know, their proposal to both him and the american people. it s pretty serious stuff. listen, a lot of issues with progressives. there s narrow issues with moderates. their concerned house moderates, they re concerned about not having a score of this congressional budget office analyzing the bill, and saying whether it increases the deficit or not. words of revenue and spending targets where does it meet those? concerned ak immigration. a lot of last-minute kind of end game jockeying here, but i think ali said it up well. i think there a very good chance ....
A second term. so what extent that factors in to the white house, we don t know. it s clearly in the either. neil: i get a read from a lot of moderate democrats are not keen on the bigger spending package, not the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package. the better part of valor might be to lose it and just stake your claim on getting the infrastructure-only package through. that is so controversial. it could make this inflation situation worse. that might get past their legislative skis here, but what did you make of that? well, maybe not lose it but delay it. we have news that just broke here where you have five house moderates, murphy, gottheimer, names that you re aware of, house centrists saying they will not vote nor the big package, the $2 trillion package, 1.75 ....
Speaker says this. no bill is everything. we cannot miss this opportunity. let s get straight up to cnn s manu raju on capitol hill, that from the house side and the speaker. earlier today you talked to a key senator in all of this, and he didn t seem all that pleased. yeah. bernie sanders who is budget committee chairman and represents viewpoint of the left, pushing back at the moderates in his own caucus. kyrsten sinema and joe manchin over two key issues emerging as major sticking points. allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, something that senator sinema along with house moderates have resisted and expanding medicare to include dental, vision and hearing. joe manchin said that would be fiscally irresponsible to include in the bill and moments ago bernie sanders made it clear both need to be in the final package. so to my mind any serious reconciliation bill must include real medical negotiations with the pharmaceutical industry to lower the cost of prescription ....
Congressman chamberlain, not real republicans, they re taking part in a partisan effort to attack people and the former president, and this isn t a fair process, so they can t abide supporting it in any way. i think they re just going to say it s an illegitimate vote to begin with and write it off. i will absolutely be stunned if anybody steps forward to support it beyond the two that are on the select committee. well, thank you for your candor, though i m not sure it s a message people want to hear. yamiche, biden s meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down, and remind the good folks watching that that won t be greeted as good news by all the democrats. that s right. the president today spent a lot of time meeting with members in his own party to try to scramble to really unite his party so he can get these infrastructure plans through. he met with house progressives as well as house moderates. ....
They can t abide supporting it in any way. so i think they are just going to see that it is an illegitimate vote to begin with. and right off. i will absolutely be stunned if anybody steps forward. to supported beyond the two that are on this site committee. thank you for your candor. though, i m not so it s a message people want to hear. yamiche alcindor, biden s meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down and remind the good folks watching that that won t be greeted as good news by all the democrats. that is right, the president today spent a lot of time meeting with members in his own party to try and scramble together to really reunite his party, so he could get these infrastructure plans through. he met with house progressives, as well as house moderates, he also met with senator sinema, and senator manchin. what came out of this is he s been talking to white house sources. he put an actual top five ....