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Democracy in action? >> well, part of it is the latter, democracy in action, but what's made it messier is democrats have really decided to double down and gamble a little bit here to try to swing for the fences instead of take the double. what i mean by that, reverend al, is joe biden and democrats have largely already accomplished something that donald trump couldn't do for four years. the $1 trillion physical infrastructure bill that passed out of the senate, planes, trains, automobile, water, waste water, that got 69 votes. that got 20 republicans roughly. 19 republicans including mitch mc...

She is part of this enigmatic presence on capitol hill. she only speaks to her reporters on her own terms. it is often hard to get inside her head. she does not disclose her private conversations. this is brewing frustration amongst many democrats across the country, including, in congress, who publicly went out and attacked for this, including congressman roxana, in a private democratic caucus meeting last week, our team reported, sort of grew frustrated with her, out of all of the senators and moderators in the house, that he is frustrated with, for holding up this human infrastructure packa...

She is just not publicly disclosing it. but look, senator kyrsten sinema has always been this sort of figure, when she was in the house a few years ago, including, she used to be a great party activist, climate change is hard on her priority list. i am told she has never been this sort of liberal democrat that these progressive sort of won her to be, as they are negotiating this human infrastructure package. and people across the country, democrats in arizona and washington are growing frustrated. they say she is holding up president biden's agenda, as the democrats control the house, senate a...

Larger plan is democrats haven't agreed what to call it. we hear build back better. american families plan why the human infrastructure package why without a clear definition does that make it harder to promote and easier to attack? >> probably true. so i think that what joe biden is doing is super important because less important than the name is actually communicating to the american people what's in it and joe biden actually did run on these things. talk about what's in the bill. what is in the bill is an extension of the child tax credit. what is in the bill is help for child care. we are ...

Hill yesterday, one democratic aide described it to me like a visit from the principal being called into the principal's office and he gave a very frank assessment to moderates and to progressives, he said look, we don't have the votes to pass this trillion dollar infrastructure package right now, the statements that you read at the top are coming if two of the moderate house members who were in the room, obviously walking away disappointed but let's talk about senators manchin and in the senate now, you often see them together, with kyrsten sinema, there is a meme combining their two names bu...