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Senator tina smith, who is echoing that, kind of underscoring the fact that for republican and democratic senators alike there is this idea that this is sort of a fait accompli. it is a question of when they get to the bill. yasmin. >> thank you for rolling with that, my friend. looks like i'm reading too many children's books these days. appreciate it. good to see you. so as the senate is edging towards the next crucial infrastructure vote, president biden praising the bipartisan effort so far, calling it a potential historic investment during his address yesterday at the white house. mike ...

After that bipartisan infrastructure vote. that package contains the remainder of president biden's priorities including climate and child care. joining us now, congressional reporter for politico, nicholas wu. good morning, nicholas. thanks for getting up with us today. we've segued from the rise in covid cases to the state of play on capitol hill. with the threat of covid hanging over all that's happening here in these negotiations, can the country afford this price tag with the pandemic still looming? >> it really depending on who you ask, jonathan. i mean, the republicans have been hitting...

Midterms and all of the leverage points that we're going to see on that, whether it's the infrastructure vote or the redistricting that's coming down the pike. so i truly believe there are many people in both parties who would like congress if not an independent commission to do a proper accounting for historical purposes of what happened and how to prevent something like this, but i think it's going to be and has always been true that it will be pretty difficult to do it in this venue. >> we want to bring in cnn political reporter ryan nobles. he was in the room while this was happening. ryan...

Nearly all republicans involved in negotiations will need to vote in favor so it can overcome the 60-vote requirement. president biden sounded frustrated when he said, quote, we should be united on the passage of the bipartisan bill that we shook hands on. republican senators are already saying tomorrow's infrastructure vote will not pass. the fast timeline was an attempt by the senate majority leader. the republicans said that's no chance to opening debate on a bill that isn't finish. bill thune told reporters the senate was not going to get the needed 60 votes. senator lisa murkowski said sh...

About negotiations are going on, we're making progress. but we haven't gotten there. so i just want to ask the question again and i know you want to hold out hope for bipartisan agreement at this vote on wednesday. but if that yet one more marker day passes, are you and your colleagues ready to say, okay, we tried, we got to do this alone? go alone, do it through reconciliation, you only need 50 votes plus one. >> we got to get this package done. there really must -- it must move forward. we're still hopeful that will start with a bipartisan infrastructure vote. we think we could get there. we...