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Wants to get this done before going to glasgow. i think the message got through. >> is that enough? >> house progressives would want more. let's look at what is in this. the first time we will have universal preschool. we're going to have child care. we're going to have elder care. vision, dental, hearing. so the exact details are still being worked out. i believe senator sanders and senator manchin are meeting. if senator sanders signs off, i think the progressives will follow. >> free community college is out. paid family leave cut down to four weeks from the 12 weeks that you wanted in thes...

Long time. we haven't heard this specify fistity about where it would come from. now the president and the white house is getting pretty specific about this. >> yeah. remember, we're getting this now after a series of meetings. i don't mean just yesterday's meetings. the last several weeks we have gotten lots of reports of biden meeting with senator manchin, senator sinema meeting with house progressives. he has done a few cycles of this. clearly the list was building where biden could see the potential for a deal. and i agree with you. i think some are enormous gives here in many ways. we don...

They can't abide supporting it in any way. so i think they are just going to see that it is an illegitimate vote to begin with. and right off. i will absolutely be stunned if anybody steps forward. to supported beyond the two that are on this site committee. >> thank you for your candor. though, i'm not so it's a message people want to hear. yamiche alcindor, biden's meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down and remind the good folks watching that that won't be greeted as good news by all the democrats. >> that is right, the president today spent a lot of time meeting w...

Number, 1.9, to 2.2, around 2.2 trillion dollars. and that is about a trillion dollars less than what progressives were going for which is about 3.5 trillion dollars. that's what house progressives are saying when i was talking to them at the white house when i was talking to the president. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of the president that he was doing. he was calling him the mediator in chief, the closer here. with that being said, there are already some critical things that we know that are also coming out of the. bill some free co...

He also met with senator sinema as well as senator manchin. it's 1.9 to around $2.2 trillion. that is about $1 trillion less than what house progressives were going for, which is $3.9 trillion. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of what the president was doing. they were calling him the mediator in chief, the closer here. that being said, there are also some critical things we know are coming out of the bill. free community college, i'm told, is coming out of the bill. also paid family leave. the timing of that will come down from 12 weeks ...