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Time frame, or they could actually cut and pull some things out of the package, and that seems to be what the ongoing internal deliberations are between house progressives and house moderates and then of course those two key senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, who have balked at the hefty price tag that this bill contains. and this is also a part of the messaging strategy, of course, for the biden white house, because there is concern that there's been too much focus on the price tag and not enough of a focus on what it actually delivers, and if you get to the point that you have to star...

More in the bill. more of those proposals in the bill. say instead of ten-year funding, go down to five-year or even three-year. that would reduce the cost dramatically. it sounds like a house progressives are in lock step on this strategy, but where does the white house stand? >> i first floated that on your show and turns out a lot of colleagues agree. we can deliver for the american people, make sure that they're getting the benefits and childcare, making sure they're getting the benefits of dental and vision, but not do it for as many years and you dramatically lower the cost. that is one ...

His massive spending plan with the price tag remaining the huge sticking point at this point. >> john: progressives calling for $3.5 trillion in spending but moderate say they want to package that costs less than half of that and a key biden ally said it could fall somewhere in between. around $2 trillion. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich is here with the latest from the white house to kick things off, hey. >> good afternoon to both of you guys. chris coons said publicly what we have known through our own stories same for a little over two weeks now at the white house to broker roughly $2 trillion r...

Fixed the technical problem. sanders said i could listen things up, i want the medicare reform and single-payer health care, 50-50 senate, come my way, i won't do it. i'm part of a family, i have to compromise. come on, manchin. >> that's exactly the point he's been making publicly and privately and the question is can they get together? mean, they need every single member of the democratic caucus because one of them can scuttle this. this is what the real concern is among democrats because the belief is that if manchin and sanders can get on the same page, keithin sinema, too, on the manchin ...

Republicans, and warned he would not cooperate in the future, we'll see if that happens. nevertheless, didn't go over well particularly with republicans. >> staying with senator man chin, you've got new reporting about the difficulty of getting senator manchin, even into the same room with chairman of the budget committee, senator sanders, tell us about that. >> reporter: this came up in a conference call earlier this week where house progressives were talking to president biden about the way forward. why don't we get the two different leaders of the factions, manchin, the leader of the modera...