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what nancy pelosi is doing is saying, "trust me. i'm nancy pelosi. i'll give us the leverage. and trust me, we'll get joe biden behind us to get the package that you'll be happy with at the end of the day." progressives are saying, "i don't trust you." i look at how much power a nchin and a sinema have when you have a 50/50 senate. might not be many moderat left in america, buthe two in the senate are as powerful as the president right nown terms of dictating the deal. that has progressives frustrated. it is not clr. anna is probably right, it doesn't get done this week. next week, who knows what will happen? i work under the assumption they'll get an infraructure bill. but getting anything around $3.5 trillion or even half of that is exemely difficult, especially when you get into the details. i don't think any of us know how it'll play out. joe biden is sayinge's not going to beg. you're the president. you have to g. you can't just say, "i'm the demoatic president, therefore,
we have several progressives in "punch bowl a.m." saying they are not going to move forward with this infrastructure vote. nancy pelosi hates to put a bill on the floor if it'll fail, but this will be a true test for her. so far, she's not made much progress in convincing the progressives it's time to pass the infrastructure bill. i think infrastructure ultimately happens, but i think it is doubtful it happens this week. >> okay. so what is she going to tell -- what is speaker pelosi going to say to khanna, to bernie sanders, to the progressive wing of her party, who has now held the line, and say, "these two things cant be separated." what are the negotiations? what are those conversations like? >> they're really difficult. the progressives want some assurance that they are going to get a number, at least a top-line number. so far, you know, when joe manchin came back from the white house yesterday, he wouldn't even say they had even talked about a top line number. so nancy pelosi needs to give them something, some assurance besides the fact that, yes,
i think janet yellen's appearance yesterday was a part of that effort on behalf of the administration, to spell out what the catastrhic consequees would be of the republicans saying, "no, we're nogoing to help. we're leaving you to handle this one." >> anna, this is a real adline, as the secretary said, with huge consequences if it's not figured out. what is left for chuck schumer? he's not getting help from republicans. theresident says, "i don't want you to change the rules and use reconciliation in this se." what options are left for schumer? >> the hse is expected to take up aebt limit bill this week. they're going to try to pass that. it is unclear if pelosi even has the votes there. democrats continue to make this intellectual argument, that mitch mcconnell should help them out. he's not going to help them out. i don't quite understand why we continue to go through this process. as you said, we are three weeks from the deadline happening. this is going to be a big issue, and they're probably going to have to use recreconciliation.
democric party going to tell a single nator, it's time to get behind our president. it is time to get in line. talking about senator sinema there. co-founder of punch bowl news, anna palmer. from the white house and "associated press," jonathan lemire. jim vandehei. co-author of the "confidence" code series, katty kay. this vote is supposed to be tomorrow on the infrastructure deal. this bill may or may not pass. there's a lot of work to do. in a letter, nancy pelosi said to her colleagues, we're not going to tie these two together. we just can't do it. let's get infrastructure passed, then we'll deal with the reconciliation bill. yesterday, progressives saying, nope, these need to be tied together. where does that leave them? >> nancy pelosi is in a really tough place here, you know, when it comes to the progressives. so far, they are holding firm.
they doesn't bring it on shore or find the hospitals because the roads and infraructure of puerto rico, which is ashamed and it's -- >> quickly guys we're running out of time. >> that's one of the reasons we need to say that, you >> exactly. you can't compare texas and florida. precisely because we all knew the infrastructure in puerto rico was amess, that their government is going through a financial crisis. precisely because we knew that, because the government knew that, they needed to have done more earlier. not less and later which is what happened. okay, i've got to run. thank you, both. i need to clear up some facts here when mike was mentioning earlier about democrats going to visit nascar. and at the time homeland security chairman vinny thompson said in a letter whereb erb, since committee staff members are visiting hospitals and other
families have depended on continues to crumble. we have budget defics that have improved but have not disappred and we have deficits in infraructure and we know we need comprehensive tax refor and comprehensive immigration reform. there is a lot more for congress to do, it doesn't solve all our problems, but i think it is an important step to heal some of the wounds here in congress, to rebuild some trust and show we can do something without a crisis right around the corner and demonstrate our value in making the government work for the people we represent. so when all this is done, i am very proud to stand with chairman ryan and anyone else who wants to work on this. nothing is easy here. but i know the american people expect nothing less. i want to take a minute to especially thank chairman ryan. he and i do have some major differences. we cheer for a different football team, clearly.
jobs back that were lost under the bush administration so we can get people back to work. prd we'rgoing to contie to focus on policies, which is what the president said in cleveland when he gave his speech about investing in infraructure and creating job the other thing,andy, i want to mention is we have an agenda, not just for the balance of thio year, but an agenda for the th coming years, and that's the ma make it in america agenda. people are concerned and frful they're not going to be able to make it in america. one of the things they believe is we need to make things in america. we need to manufacture things in america so people have the availability of good paying jobs with good benefits. so our make it in america agenda is going to be one of the w hallmarks as we move forward. and frankly, when you look at the clinton administration's creation of 21 million new jobs in the private sector as opposed to george bush's 1 million, you see that there's a real contrast. >> and just quickly on a matter of strategy, we know that there has been much made over the fact