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And serious money towards tackling the climate crisis, but it is missing several programs democrats campaigned on, as well as the explicit support of two moderate senators who could make or break the deal. joining me is the chairman of the budget committee, senator bernie sanders of vermont. thank you so much for joining me. you have said there are major gaps in this plan, several of your priorities, paid leave, dental and vision for medicare, giving the government power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for seniors, that's not in the deal. you saw that house progressives endorsed th...

American people to get transformational legislation on everything from childcare and pre-k to elder care and maybe hearing aids and, you know, the child tax credit and the earned income tax tax credit, the biggest housing legislation ever. and by far the biggest climate change legislation ever. that's what is at stake, and that's why we've been wanting to make sure we can get it all done and pass the bills together. so i don't really feel that much angst about it. we're going get it done. >> okay. fair enough. you brought up senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. let's talk about them. part ...

Transformational legislation on everything from childcare and pre-k to elder care and maybe hearing aids and, you know, the child tax credit and the earned income tax tax credit, the biggest housing legislation ever. and by far the biggest climate change legislation ever. that's what is at stake, and that's why we've been wanting to make sure we can get it all done and pass the bills together. so i don't really feel that much angst about it. we're going get it done. >> okay. fair enough. you brought up senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. let's talk about them. part of what caused the dela...

The infrastructure bill on tuesday. president biden has expressed confidence and other democrats are starting to see the light as well. nbc news reports house progressives and the moderate new democratic progression are on target with the bills. however, some democratic officials are negotiating hoping to salvage the change. as of yesterday new york senator kyrsten gillibrand and others haven't given up all hope on paid family leave. the bill is being finalized amid the back drop of the wide ranging january 6th investigation. 650 people have now been charged with breaching the capitol on that ...

Two key moderate holdouts, senator manchin and senator sinema, on that $1.75 trillion bill that he said he believes they could vote on potentially as soon as this week, which he said he does believe it's going to get passed because neither of them, jim, have explicitly said yes publicly, that they do endorse that framework and will be a yes vote on it. they've kind of talked around it publicly. but as the president was leaving the room, he did flash a thumb's up saying he believes they have committed to signing on to that. it's something significant. reporters on the hill will follow up on it ...