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Let me go over to david chalian on this. david, what do you think of what we just heard from pete aguilar? >> i mean, basically you just heard the congressman put this in the hands of the house progressives. are you going to give your president a black eye publicly over his major agenda items in which he says his presidency rests? that's the question that house progressives need to answer. >> exactly right. thank you, david. here we go. president biden and vice president kamala harris. >> today i'm pleased to announce after months of tough and thoughtful negotiations i think we have an histori...

This bill together. he has not come through with those, so we'll see how they react when they study for of this. a major moment for the president trying to get his agenda through. his caucus is not yet in line. do they change their minds is the big question as we talk to members coming up. >> we look forward to that. you'll do your best to get that comment. john, as manu pointed out, we've heard consistently progressives need a firm commitment from man chinn and sinema. we heard from senator dick durbin a short time ago after the meeting started. he said i wish i could say yes but there's a gr...

Keep our eye on the white house. manu raju is standing by with the latest. you've got some great reporting on what came out, what was said inside that meeting with joe biden. tell me what you're learning. >> reporter: right now there is a high stakes game of chicken between the speaker, nancy pelosi, and progressives in her own caucus over the president's infrastructure plan. pelosi, i am told, made very clear she plans to put that infrastructure plan on the house floor today. that of course already passed the senate. if it were to be approved by the house today, it would go straight to joe bi...

The second piece is they are affirming they want to see the two bills go together. we also know in the last few moments that congressman jayapal walked into a meeting with a group of senators that includes senator kyrsten sinema and that is key because right now think of it this way with house progressives on one side, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin on the other. and they need to build some trust because the house progressives are saying, look. we don't want to move forward if we don't have more assurances from the two senators they'll stand by this bill and of course the two senators have wan...

Countries to follow in the united states' lead. that argument is harder to make if there is no agreement on this framework by then. so the white house had been banking on that, which is why you're seeing the president leave several hours later than he was expected to as they were trying to hammer out this last-minute negotiation on this deal and try to get that agreement manu was talking about that of course requires those progressives to get on board and trust that senator manchin and senator sinema and more moderate members will agree to what the framework is right now. so that's really the ...