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Adults who have not yet been vaccinated to get vaccinated ourselves. that should be our obligation to one another and the most notable when it comes to our kids. >> dr. wen, thank you for all that you do. thank you for spending time with us today and sharing your expertise. democrats now risk missing another self-imposed deadline on the biden agenda as progressives battle with speaker pelosi over an infrastructure vote and divisions remain over a plan to attack billionaires. that's next.

Happens. i'm hallie jackson to start us off. also joined by tony rahm, congressional economic policy reporter for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor. leigh ann, start with you. a lot of questions this afternoon. hearing from key players where negotiations stand, what the sticking points are. here's what some of what democrats have been saying over the last few hours including chuck schumer just a couple minutes ago. >> i believe that we will get this done and we will get it done soon. >> we have made a significant amount of progress and we are almost there. >> the bill must expand med...

What more can you tell us. >> reporter: this is an important meeting. differences have not been resolved yet. it's also about the process. it's a similar debate that they have been having for months, including in september, that led to the first delay of the bipartisan infrastructure vote that has not yet gotten a vote in the house, despite passing the senate in august. pramila jayapal told me last night she believes both the infrastructure bill and the larger social safety net package need to pass the house simultaneously. that's a problem because democratic leaders hoped there could be a gen...

Presented it tomorrow, could they get an infrastructure vote on thursday? yes. i was told last night as they left the capitol they don't want to vote on infrastructure, the other part of biden's agenda, urn till they see legislation, not only a plan on the package. >> you anticipated my next question. you seem skeptical that a deal should happen this week. in terms of what we do know, paid family leave, child tax credit, are those things going to be in here? so the progressives say they're going to see legislation, like actual tax, like framework is not good enough? >> framework, they say, is ...

More rapidly than expected, and we should have something that we can hopefully agree to and vote on. >> when do you think that would be? what's the timeline? the next two or three days here? >> if we all had a magic ball, i would give you an answer, but we don't. i really don't know how long these things are. >> you're closer to it than i am, right, since you're in the room having these conversations. that's why i asked, because speaker pelosi wants to have that bipartisan infrastructure vote wednesday. president biden says he wants a vote on that before he heads overseas later in the week. to...