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Administration's commitment to climate? because the crisis is upon us right now. and it is upon your administration to lead us the right way. >> that's right. you know, climate effects that we thought would happen in the middle of the century are happening right this minute. we don't have time to debate whether it is real or caused by humans or whether we got to do something about it. we just have to act. my message to people who care about climate like we do is first of all, this is the biggest investment in these kinds of things that we've had in the history of the republic. and what we're d...

That are trying to do the right thing. and to create the standards that lift the country up as a whole. i think that that is the right federal role. and this infrastructure framework contains the dollars do just that. >> and how do we encourage good clean behavior knowing what an influence we have over it? >> i think good policy means not so much less growth, but more growth but having it be cleaner. no reason why driving has to be bad for the environment. but we need to make sure that there are alternatives to driving and that there are ways to drive that are clean which is why electric vehic...

However, it is connected to the separate bipartisan infrastructure bill, which one can collapse the other. lisa murkowski came out of one of the meetings on the bipartisan group quite optimistic. others are more skeptical. you've seen some i would say under pressure from their leader senator mcconnell to say let's not give joe biden this. but if you add it up, the infrastructure framework, the bipartisan, $600 billion. then this resolution, $4.1 trillion in spending. the question is when the republicans who are right now part of the bipartisan plan see the 3.5 trillion, will they say, okay, it...

Package, but it is important to keep the focus on the bipartisan part of package, and that is part of the real recognition of the package, but that is not what the mayors signed on. and individual mayors can sign on that, but we are focused on the core infrastructure included in the bipartisan infrastructure framework, and i don't necessarily have a position on that, and it is an important one with the country, but i see what is happening with the infrastructure part, and that is why millions of mayors signed that letter and the particular part has bipartisan support in congress. >> as a mayor...

Then you have to contend with people on the left who say that figure was not going to be enough. we wanted 6 trillion plus to go really broad to reform the government social safety net. the reporting shows in the senate it's not going to be an issue on the left, but it certainly will bubble up in the house. while president biden is trying to keep 50 democratic senators on board with the 3.5 trillion, he's also going to have to do a sales job on that bipartisan infrastructure framework. he's going to be talking with governors and mayors this afternoon. the bipartisan has a key deadline of tomor...