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Trillion so-called human infrastructure package that might ultimately just need incentive to pass by a simple majority. that looks likely the way things stand right now. does it worry you? >> very likely and very scary. and you're right, republicans and democrats have contributed to this problem over the last several decades, but it has reached an all-time high. in fact, this morning i read the consumer price index in the first half of this year has already reached 5.4%, and the last time it spiked this high was in 2008 during the recession. and on top of that, you know, the democrats have alr...

Sinema on board with this reconciliation package. >> absolutely. you basically hit the nail on the head there in terms of the tricky basically dynamics that the president and the senate -- and the democratic leader chuck schumer is having to deal with when it comes to this package. i think you're going to see a lot of climate activists and others on the left happy that joe biden really details those, you know, where he sees climate and being so important because there's been a lot of frustration among the left that the president hasn't been putting enough pressure on this human infrastructure ...

9-year-old at home you can't get anyone to take care of them and you can't go to work. >> how much deficit spending are you comfortable with? it appears there will be some pay fors in this package, some pay fors in the larger, let's call it the human infrastructure package that the democrats only bill being worked on, there will be some pay fors there. but it is clear there will be additions to the deficit there. how much are you comfortable with. >> i'm not comfortable with very much because we're already in such a deep hole. to me the only way to get out of a hole is to stop digging. the las...

>> so why do you think we have so many open jobs? >> we're still coming out of a pandemic. you think that if you look at the last six months and the president's economic plan, you look at the american rescue plan, and you look at the amount of people being vaccinated, as more and more people get vaccinated, as more money goes back into industries, we will hopefully see that number grow in a good pace over the next two or three, four months. >> given that we are clearly and it is good news on the road to recovery, and we have over trillion dollar bipartisan proposal for infrastructure package, ...

Whole process is that there's still a real lack of trust in washington, lack of trust between republicans and democrats and potentially a lack of trust between progressives and the party and president biden himself because what happened here, what caused this problem was biden saying the quiet part out loud, that in the view -- the cost of getting democrats on board with the bipartisan deal was making sure they got this larger human infrastructure package together and saying that was what concerned the republicans. i thought mitt romney had the sort of best snapshot of it over the weekend by s...