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And said that this negotiating style was what he described as being just plain absurd. that it didn't make any sense, that they were going to try and pass something in the middle of the night instead of methodically coming up with an agreement that everyone would sign off on. that was enough for pelosi to say this just isn't happening tonight. the house progressives held firm in a meeting of their own. so the big question is what happens now. it is important to keep in mind this was an arbitrary deadline. this wasn't a deadline set by any official -- any official need, i should say. this was a...

This despite speaker nancy pelosi's plan to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure package in the house of representatives. ment speaker waited until 10:00 on thursday night to say there would be no vote, and that is because she just didn't have enough votes for the measure to pass. house progressives held firm throughout the day, saying that they were not interested in passing this bipartisan infrastructure package without specific assurances that the much larger $3.5 trillion social safety net expansion would also be passed. it required a lot of negotiation between many of the most important pl...

Trillion dollar bill will ever pass, the mission misses significantly. the best chance of getting it done is for that more conservative bill on the larger more progressive bill to move together. if i were to house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what let's let enough house republican votes for this, again lots of republicans like that. legislation lets another republican vote for this, that it passes. because we don't mind this bill, it's fairly conservative bill it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities, and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progress...

Without a college degree, they track together. about two-thirds. and a pretty big gap on both sides. here your seeing this is a group of voters that goes democratic typically. a group of voters that goes republican, but you're seeing the same vaccination rate. the common thread is without a college degree. when we say without a college degree, it's a question of social class, social trust. you have surveys showing there's much lower levels of social trust, trust in institutions among folks that have a college degree than with a college degree. that divide might be what's driving a lot of the p...

And they know that manchin, senator manchin felt burned earlier in the year. and our book shows this. about the rescue plan, mitch mcconnell and other republicans feel manchin may have been asked to do too much earlier in the year and maybe he's going to sit on the sidelines for a while. so democrats are dealing with that dynamic. but speaker pelosi is trying to balance reality of the vote with the concerns of her progressives. she's close to the progressives. she doesn't want to get too far from them. >> shannon, the lights were on in the west wing including the oval office until just a short...