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This morning president biden is expressing confidence that he can get democratic holdout senator joe manchin on board with the emerging deal, what he hopes is a deal on his domestic spending plan. we have new reporting on manchin's chief concerns with the biden agenda. cnn's melanie zanona joins us live with that in person. what's manchin saying? >> reporter: manchin is saying he has a number of concerns. he had a defiant press conference, he was upset they delayed the infrastructure vote, he had long time fiscal concerns about the impacts of this bill. in an interview with our cl colleague ma...

The bipartisan infrastructure bill that got 69 votes, first time in 60 years that we addressed infrastructure. it was a joke line under president trump. every other week was infrastructure week and nothing happened. we produced a bipartisan bill. i agree with the vast majority of the president's agenda in the build back better agenda. we could have sequenced that infrastructure vote in september. but we get this done, the sausage making people will forget very quickly and what they'll remember is the country stepped up on climate change, the country stepped up on child care so women could get ...

Perfect and it's going to be enemy of the good if we don't sit down and be rationale about what we're doing. >> joining me now, cofounder of punch bowel news. jake, good morning. what should we make of what senator manchin is saying today? >> well, we should make that he's not a party to whatever deal exists. and i'm not sure that there is a deal that exists at this moment, between the white house and house democrats or whoever -- whatever deal exists. let's put it that way, joe manchin is just not a part of it. joe manchin made clear yesterday that he's not for, "a," being held hostage on the...

Seizing the chance to damage a president just as the president tries to rally global action against climate change. democrat leaders say the infrastructure vote is likely this week even as progressive support remains unclear. while his legislative agenda stalls, president biden is making waves for apologizing on america's behalf, appearing to does off at the climate summit on the planet despite typing climate change as an accidental threat to humanity. todd: the president prepares to head home today. >> it is day 2 of 26 in scotland and some protesters are calling climate hypocrisy for the wor...

We used to be on lists that we department want to be on. we're now getting on lists safest state in america. number one state in america to raise a family and live in. we have to keep moving forward. we cannot slip backward. i'm running against somebody who would take us back to the days in new jersey when it worked for the wealthy and well connected but not for the rest of us. we can't let that happen. forward, stronger, fairer, forward. that's what our mantra is. god willing, we'll be successful. >> governor phil murphy of the great state of new jersey. thank you very much for coming back to...