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Manchin and kyrsten sinema, this not entirely completely baked package. he'll say to them, i made a commitment to the house progressives, you need to keep my presidency from coming down, raising the stakes. i think that given, say, nancy pelosi's track record, if she puts the bill on the floor today, it would be unwise to bet against her. and joe biden is gambling his own credibility on what will happen in the senate. >> that's one interesting element of this, manu, which is all the reporting is that biden thinks that he's within inches of a deal with manchin and sinema on this. i'm curious wh...

Progressives to change their mind, saying trust me, i can get manchin and sinema on board. that's what i heard joe biden said today, we are within inches of getting them together, but he did not say they signed off on that deal. that still is not going to be enough even if he were to say he's signed off on this deal to get a lot of liberals on board. they don't trust the moderates here. not to mention, kate, the enormous amount of concessions they believe they've already made, medicare, paid leave, other key issues here. so how this ultimately gets resolved in a few hours we'll see, but there'...

Which is support for not just this bill but support for the future of his presidency. >> which also even more important on what we're habit to hear from president biden, because it's what he'll pronounce to the public. and part of the audience, john harwood, part of the audience for what he's going to be speaking to, are members of his own party on capitol hill. >> reporter: that's right. i think it's important to keep in perspective the nature of the splinter within the democratic party. it's a very narrow splinter. the vast majority of the democratic party has been united behind the bulk of ...

>> do you think you have enough of a framework to get progressives to support the infrastructure bill? >> yes. >> everybody's on board. you're on board, aren't you? >> the president joking everybody's on board, but there are still a lot of questions. you heard some from senator markey a short time ago. a lot of questions this morning as he is selling that. we'll continue to keep an eye on it. for now, we'll send it over to you in rome, jim. >> reporter: that's right. the president delayed his departure for rome to go to the hill, try to get members of his own party in board. in a matter of hou...

Vote for this. they are saying it's up to the house. sinema's not really commenting. then you have dick durbin who said i need to look them in the eye to have some sort of assurance on this. ron wyden saying something similar. if senators were trying to give house progressives a good reason to doubt that they are with them on this piece of legislation, they're doing a good job. >> it's going to be an interesting question. jake, quickly, what is your understanding at punch bowl news of how many house progressives could be a no vote on infrastructure if it gets brought tonight or tomorrow. >> i ...