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Legislate i text of the frame work. that's another thinking that the progressives want. joe manchin did not really comment on the frame work. he says it is up to the house right now. senator sinema said there was good progress, but that was the extend of it. you have generally from senators sinema and manchin. and speaker pelosi is trying to round out the votes for the bipartisan trillion dollar roads, bridges, and highway bill, and she doesn't have those yet either. she needs the progressives to sign on and she says at this point you don't have our support until we have this other bill. >> an...

For better. >> reporter: the president outlining a $1.75 trillion plan to provide free universal pre-k for kids and extend the child tax credit for families. it would also include money for childcare and eldercare and expand medicare to cover hearing. and it would set aside more than half a trillion dollars to combat climate change, including tax incentives for manufacturing and buying electric cars, for installing charging stations. the president insisting the time has come. >> somewhere along the way, we stopped investing in ourselves, investing in our people. >> reporter: but some of the pr...

Back now to our breaking news out of capitol hill. house progressives still pushing back on holding a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill without assurances that the social spending package will get through. one in fact saying hell no. another said she feels bamboozled by cuts to the social spending bill. senator bernie sanders we're learning fighting to include provisions on drug pricing which are currently out and saying there shouldn't be an infrastructure bill yet because of that. joining us now, democratic congressman from new jersey josh gottheimer, also the chair of the problem s...

Joe biden to the nation, but to really house progressives. this is a resignation that every time they reopen, the number goes lower and things come out. i think they're saying that we have the best question get. i need you in this moment, and look this is a test of joe biden's leadership in the last few minutes. barack obama is out with a statement saying this bill has a lot of wins in it and the fight continues. house progressives have hard decisions to make now. if progressives are correct to point the fingers an manchin and cinema, but the numbers are not there. this is a real telling momen...

Cover hearing, dental and will vision benefits which was another key priority for progressives. but this really shows how president joe biden needs all democrats united behind these bills because they want to pass this using a process called budget reconciliation. so every single democrat needs to get behind this. so that's the bottom line here for why president joe biden is visiting the capitol today in an effort to try to unite his party behind both of these bills, namely, try to get house progressives behind the bipartisan infrastructure bill. christine? >> daniela, thank you. it's time for...