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Hours to go. >> now, we have to see wha comes of the negotiations that ar going . hopefully it will reach the level that we need in order to pass both of them. but we will pass both bills. >> the question now is whether progressives will still work to defeat the infrastructure bill. congresswoman pramila jayapal, chair of the progressive congress caucus, says she believ somewhere around 60 members were willing to vote no. remember, progrsives wanted a vote on the social spending package first and they threatened to tank any infrastructure vote unless that happened. but the issue with that swee...

>> bret: right. terry mcauliffe in virginia coming up sooner than that pelosi steering democrats to this infrastructure vote, quickly, steve, without the spending bill in tow, this is a politico sources close to pelosi speaker was left without a choice given looming highway and transit moderates publicly commit to overall funds the program guarantees within broader spending packages some moderates demanding the infrastructure emerged they had secured a win over the left faction of the caucus. meantime you have bernie sanders, steve, saying don't vote for this. very quickly we just heard that p...

Going to vote for one without the other. people are finally coming to the table. and i am crossing my fingers, very hopeful, that we are going to get there. >> and right now is the plan is still to do infrastructure vote on thursday, it sounds like the plan from you and the progressive caucus is still to vote that down unless there has been a significant progress towards the build back better bill, the reconciliation bill. sounds like it might be more on the bubbled in the headlines make you believe? >> i think that's right, i think these are arbitrary dates. i think monday was an arbitrary da...

That takes a very long time, and it puts people in a very difficult position because house members doan want to vote for something that the senate isn't going to vote for. we actually have said we're okay with that. let's pre-conference that, which means every part, the white house, senate and the house all have to agree, and that is the conversation that is finally happening because there is a deadline, because we have said we're not going to vote for one without the other. people are finally coming to the table, and i am, you know, fingers crossed, very hopeful that we can get there. >> and ...

0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker's job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in...