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Meet with senate democrats about it. all of this comes as the president is getting together today as well with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors from across the country to continue his push for a massive infrastructure deal. a lot going on. cnn's lauren fox is live on capitol hill. she's joining me now. lauren, what is in this new budget deal that they just announced? >> look, this is really the first step. democrats trying to cement the president's agenda items here. this broader package, this budget outline is expected to include other changes as well. it's not just traditional infr...

Resolution that would allow democrats to enact a range of party priorities without republican support. schumer may be right to not wait around, by the way, for republicans to get onboard. that's because the twice impeached former president is telling gop lawmakers to stop the infrastructure push and stop negotiating with democrats over a bipartisan infrastructure deal. joining me now from capitol hill is nbc news reporter amanda golden. good morning to you. what is the latest on this? >> reporter: now we're actually going to see this come to the time crunch and get into the nitty gritty of wri...

You make important decisions for the american people. >> he made that clear, you know, when we started writing about this early on, someone close to him said we know we have an audience of one and that is president trump. and that is the approach that scott pruitt took from the beginning. and it is unusual that someone who is the epa administrator is constantly in the oval office, regular phone calls on a regular basis. president trump had raised the prospect of him leading trade talks with mexico on nafta. and getting involved in leading the infrastructure push. which give you a sense that th...

A . michael wolff for his part said that he spoke to mr. trump, both during 2016 campaign and here in the white house. he is dismissing his claim that he never actually spoke to him. you made the point the president is headed to camp david in about the next hour or so. and we expect him to talk with the top congressional republicans about getting behind his big infrastructure push. that of course all overshadowed by this drama circling the west wing. >> initially the president said he never talked to this michael wolff guy. then all of a sudden, there was a phone call. any explanation about ho...

Congress and mayors and governors. their response so far has been much better outside the beltway than within it. speaking with some democrats, the response is that they think the administration is going to try to make an end run around environmental rules, around wage protections, union protections. as the administration is part of its big infrastructure push tries to cut through a lot of red tape and to speed up the permitting processes for these jobs. >> we know you can speak to developers across the board. they say they've been held up by permits over the last few years. but the president ...