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>> is there any real threat from the progressive caucus when it comes to getting this bipartisan bill through? >> i think the progressives in the house in particular are going to be focused on this human infrastructure package where the real threat is if the speaker were to move forward with just this bipartisan package as a lot of moderates have said, you have the problem solver's caucus saying we want to pass this right now. the progressives' threat is we will not support this package unless you do it at the same time as reconciliation. the speaker knows the numbers. she's got a four-seat ma...

Part of keeping this country going. i mean, they are what makes sense in terms of investments. so you can have one without the other. people are -- people who -- people require the support out of this pandemic to get good paying jobs, child care, the care economy, all the issues we have included in the human infrastructure package. we have got to have both and i believe we will get both. >> when you talk about that investment in people. part of that investment is also an access to voting. let's talk about voting rights for just a minute. attorney general merrick garland wrote an op ed and urge...

At that point it could happen tonight, but very likely tomorrow when senators have an opportunity to offer their amendments. mcconnell and schumer will negotiate, decide which ones will get a vote. it will take 60 votes for any of those to pass and it will be hours and hours of debate that will play out in the days ahead. the goal is to try to get the senate out by the end of the week. we'll see if that passage happens. but it has to go then to the house and, as you know, this is tied to a similar $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. it is democrats alone on the senate and the house side that...

I hate weak people. i can't stand weakness. these politicians were weak because they didn't have the cojones to stand up to the aoc members and the squad and say you know what? i'm not going to cut funding for my police a because people are going to die. they didn't have the guts because they are weak. they are pathetic losers and that's why people are dead, because of them. and people need to wake up and vote these chumps out. >> sean: if we do that, things will get better. dan bongino, as always, thank you. now shifting gears to the swamp in d.c. where senator lindsey graham, standing up to ...

Plan to pay for their human infrastructure package with that approach. joining me now, democratic representative lois frankel of florida. she's the co-chair of the democratic women's caucus. congresswoman, i think when most of us hear this talk about how this will get funded, it's just very easy to get lost in the technocratic elements of the bill. can you explain in just like normal people talk what it is we're talking about when we talk about how to fund this? >> first of all, alicia, great to be with you. just to let you know, i just spent the day with my 2 1/2-year-old grandson. i raise th...