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Quite a fete for them to back up the promises being made at the podium. >> they will start to be available in january. in terms of the numbers, different families can order, we are working through all those very important details right now. >> within the hour we expect to see jen psaki, the press secretary, at the microphone for her final briefing of the year, alissa. >> thanks, peter. we turn to capitol hill where house progressives are calling on president biden to act alone to implement parts of his massive social spending agenda which stalled out in the senate when senator joe manchin said...

Schumer promises a vote next year. even schumer needs the vote of joe manchin just to start debate on the bill. democrats are drying to term what could be different come january. >> what we need to know from senator manchin is where can he get to. where does he want to end up with this. i heard yesterday on the call, a sense of determination to do the best that we can and a sense of urgency to get through with this. >> the senate and its arcane folk ways are exasperating the house democrats that voted for the bill. >> the problem is when we get to the senate because of their stupid rules over ...

Clean air and energy. these are programs that democrats can pay for and that would be a significant bill. democrats need to try to get agreement. it is not going to be easy. house progressives feel like they compromised a lot to accommodate senator manchin. if they shrink it further, house democrats will be a hard sell. >> sahil, thank you. i'm joined by congress member suzan. >> good afternoon. >> one of the things you heard president biden say with the q&a in the east room of the white house is he believes, senator manchin and i will get something done. he told this joke, he told this to mem...

Way more popular in west virginia than joe biden. there's a lot of things in play here, but there's also political pressure on biden from those house progressives who say now is the time to get serious about filibuster reform. right now. is that pressure having any effect on the way the white house thinks about the filibuster? >> it sounds like it's having some effect because i remember earlier in the year, i questioned the president about whether or not he could get behind some sort of filibuster carve out. he said he's he'd be okay with the talking filibuster coming back, but was less on boa...

And i don't know exactly know the details of exactly what they did, but you can juxtapose that with what the white house put out, which is really saying that joe manchin betrayed the senate, as well as congresspeople in the house. the white house's statement was as lengthy as it was biting. i talked to some white house officials this morning who said they were taken aback by the tone and tenor of that statement. and you don't usually see the white house put out a statement that says, essentially, joe manchin is changing his mind and doing it on fox news and we're not quite sure what was going ...