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Win would mean. so you have the democrats, the progressives, the moderates making their own calculations right now intraparty, intracaucus. but they are also aware of what a trump run, the rise of trump again could mean. although one final thing. in talking to people in the white house, they actually think that right now the best thing that could possibly happen for them, which seems unlikely, is donald trump suddenly declaring he's running because that takes a lot of the pressure off of them and puts the pressure on the former president's controversial statement. >> interesting. robert costa,...

Then. the kind of phone calls, face time with the president. his critics call it hand holding that he required before he signed on. probably instructive for all those trying to figure out what's going on now. >> they used to call it the treatment with lbj. the pressure from a president to a senator or a member of congress to come along. when you read "peril," we detail vividly how president biden at times uses curses, he uses pressure to try to get manchin to come along. and what's so interesting about this in the book but in this unfolding story right now on capitol hill is president biden, t...

Today, and if it comes to a vote, he is urging his colleagues to vote no. that is significant because a lot of house progressives look up to him and respect him and that is significant. not what happens tonight is highly unclear. officially the house of representatives is saying no votes until 10:00 p.m. but there is still expectation they will pass the infrastructure bill tonight which means two hours to pass the bill. it is not scheduled yet. i'll leave it to your viewers to do the math on what is likely to happen there. as you correctly point out speaker pelosi does not put bills on the flo...

He said he was unhappy about these late night closed door talks. that seems significant given what a driving force the progressives have been in the house and what a progressive icon senator sanders is not only in the country but to progressive democrats on capitol hill. is that significant? what do we think is going to happen tonight? >> it is significant, rachel. senator sanders says this is an absurd way to do business, a direct quote from him. that they are trying to negotiate a multi trillion dollars bill in one night to have a vote on the infrastructure bill. he does in the believe that ...

Leader i would look at that and say you know what? let's enough house republicans vote for this. lots of republicans like that legislation. let's let enough republicans vote for this that it passes. because we don't mind this bill. it's fairly conservative. it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities. and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progressives have. the larger bill will never pass. the whole debate will be a waste of time for the democrats and we have something to brag about next year for our re-election campaigns in our home states. why is that not a leave possibility? ...