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Parts in president biden's attempts to secure passage of his social safety net plan, telling house progressives the price tag has to drop to somewhere between 1.9 trillion and 2.2 trillion from the current 3.5 trillion. and senator joe manchin, who has been insisting he won't go higher than 1.5 trillion, now hinting that he might. a lot to discuss with cnn's senior political commentator david axelrod. david, good evening. good to see you, sir. >> hey, don. good to see you. >> thank you very much. president biden telling senators manchin and sinema decide what you like in the plan and then they...

Can use, right, in order not to be bipartisan. finally. i hope most of the democrats in washington are waking up to this. okay. so, listen, president biden told house progressives that the social safety net package has to come down from $3.5 trillion to somewhere between $1.9 trillion and $2.2 trillion. so where are you willing to make cuts? >> yeah. well, i think we have to decide what is most important in this. what are the programs that we feel have to be in? and then we can decide on the top-line number because it will be variable depending on how many years those programs are for, whether...

Breaking news tonight, facebook's ceo disputing the powerful testimony by whistle-blower frances haugen. she told a senate subcommittee that she believes facebook harms children, stokes division, and weakens our democracy and says congressional action is needed. but mark zuckerberg fighting back, saying a lot of haugen's claims don't make any sense and denying that facebook puts profits over the safety and well-being of its users. also tonight, president joe biden trying to save his domestic agenda, selling his massive infrastructure bill to union workers in michigan while telling house prog...

Each other. there wouldn't be this trick or this sort of bypasses in the system that you can use, right, in order not to be bipartisan. finally. i hope most of the democrats in washington are waking up to this. okay. so, listen, president biden told house progressives that the house safety net package has to come down from $3.5 trillion to 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. where are you willing to make cuts? >> yeah. well, i think we have to decide what is most important in this. what are the programs that we feel have to be in. and then we can decide on the top line number because it will be variable dep...

Attempts to secure passage of his social safety net plan, telling house progressives the price tag has to drop to somewhere between 1.9 trillion and 2.2 trillion from the current 3.5 trillion. and senator joe manchin, who has been insisting he won't go higher than 1.5 trillion, now hinting that he might. a lot to discuss with cnn's senior political commentator david axelrod. david, good evening. good to see you, sir. >> hey, don. good to see you. >> thank you very much. president biden telling senators manchin and sinema decide what you like in the plan and then they'll go from there. listen. ...