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And their constituents. so they have to make really tough choices, do we get rid of paid family leave, child care, what do we do with climate change, helping the homeless. they have to make really tough policy choices underneath that topline number. chris: marie, you have close ties across the party. some people are saying this is no longer just a fight between house moderates and house progressives, this is now a fight between the house democrats and senate democrats, between chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and between nancy pelosi and president biden. >> chris, it's interesting. a lot of thos...

Until, after the passage of the build back better act. i spoke with minnesota senator tina smith earlier this evening. >> senator smith, welcome, and thank you so much for your time. i want to start with that letter of support that you signed on to explicitly say that house progressives intend to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, only once the build back better act is passed, is that a verbal commitments? that a deal is not enough, must the build back better act be formally passed first? or just agreed upon? . >> as progressives in the senate, the progressives that signed on to that...

Republicans making us go at everything alone? we have to do the american rescue plan alone. the good news is, we have a united democratic party. we are always going to put people and purpose first, not politics. we will get it done. >> to be clear, i think he said united. did he say united? with all due respect, if this is what united looks like, i would hate to see what a divided democratic house looks like. let's begin our discussion with one of the 11 democratic senators who last week voiced support. i spoke with tina smith earlier this evening. senator smith, welcome and thank you so much ...

Succeeded. otherwise, they may fools of themselves. >> martha: so on the big ticket, which is enormous and which is free, according to the white house, we just heard a go-around on this moments ago. peter doocy asked jen psaki this is free or cost zero dollars. here's what happened. watch. >> you said the president will have a virtual meeting with house progressives to talk about how this build back better package will be smaller than $3.5 trillion. you had been saying it cost zero. so are you now admitting the plan does not cost zero or is it less than zero? >> let's not dumb this down for th...

Earlier this week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus refused to support the infrastructure bill without tying it to a $3.5 trillion social spending package.