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There a democrat from minnesota, she knows how important the bipartisan infrastructure bill will be to her state. minnesota planning an expensive highway high speed rail project right now. she like her fellow democratic colleagues in the senate also know they need that human infrastructure package, that cradle to grave policies for americans like child care, paid family leave, climate change ask so on. but she also acknowledges there that they have to come down in the price tag and some of the priorities to meet senators manchin and sinema in the senate and get them on board. there are moderat...

Covering the latest negotiations on capitol hill as well as the women's marches across the country for you. welcome to all of you ladies, first we're going to go to nbc's julie tsirkin who's on capitol hill for us. >> reporter: if we firmed up one thing this week after a chaotic one on capitol hill, it's that the number for that human infrastructure package, the price tag, will be far lower than progressives were looking for. president biden behind closed doors in a meeting with house democrats last night told them that his range is between 1.9 to $2.3 trillion, far closer to the range that se...

Progressives have said that they have still not received a counter offer from sinema or manchin. >> we're waiting on a counter offer. so if you ask me whether i can accept a number or not, i'm not negotiating. >> there's been reports that after this meeting with the full democratic caucus wraps up with the president, the progressive caucus will hold their own meeting with their members after that. neil? >> neil: hillary the one thing i didn't understand when they said we're not going to negotiate with ourselves, there's a number out there, 1.5 trillion number on that human infrastructure packa...

Positive for covid. he says he's been fully vaccinated since january and as of now, has no symptoms. and breaking news about a new drug that could be a game changer in the fight against covid. and we begin this friday morning with a divided democratic party. after calling democrats' reconciliation bill fiscal insanity, senator joe manchin finally came out with his top number for a human infrastructure package. >> i'm at $1.5 trillion. i think $1.5 trillion does exactly the necessary things we need to do. take care of our children and take care of our people at the end of life, our seniors ...

This afternoon with white house correspondent peter doocy. how do things look there? >> so far they look quiet and you know how these things go. you don't hear a lot from the president if he doesn't have some good news to share with the people or with members of his party. and as of right now it's a sign of things not looking so good. no public events on the president schedule. but a few moments ago we got some rare insight from joe manchin about the president's negotiating style or a lack of negotiating style because joe manchin has really been getting worked by biden for the last couple of d...