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provisions may change. pramila jayapal of washington state was optimistic about it. >> at this point, we don't have a final hearing on this point, but what we're hearing is good. we feel like the vast majority of our priorities are in there in some way, shape or form. the president was clear he took the same approach we were advocating several weeks ago which was to try to get as many of these transformational priorities in as possible, even if it meant for a short period of time. look, all of these details, this isn't a deal yet. not everybody is agreed to. in negotiation, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. i spent an hour and a half yesterday with the president. i spent two hours today with my colleagues. and we're getting there. we're moving the ball down the court. >> congresswoman's optimism is certainly welcomed by the white house. meanwhile, climate change has come to the forefront of the
situation going on in one of our once great cities, portland, oregon. this is what happens when you have stupid policies in place, which is exactly what this it administration and the democratic congress has done anti-american people see it for what it is. >> laura: now, "the washington post" is reporting tonight, congressman greene, i president biden told democrats during that private meeting today that he believes they could secure a deal on a new tax and spending proposal between 1.751.9 trillion that includes at least some expansion of medicare to offer new benefits to seniors, the introduction of universal prekindergarten -- oh, my god, -- billions of dollars to address climate change. congressman greene, what happened to old manchin, why it was thought would sallust on the river, 1.5 trillion, what happened to that? >> well, it sounds like they've -- hopefully joe biden is as wrong as he's been on everything else. and that there isn't a deal. i mean, that's what i'm praying
for one year. negotiators tell nbc news they are also considering lowering the duration of paid family leave from 12 weeks to 4, and a rethinking the clean energy climate proposal. sources say there will be a focus on renewable energy in that package. chair of the progressive caucus, pramila jayapal of washington state sounded optimistic about the negotiations. >> at this point we don't have a certainty on the final thing, but what we're hearing is good. we feel like the vast majority, if not all our priorities, are in there in some way, shape, or form. the president was clear that he took the same approach that we were advocating for several weeks ago, which was to try to get as many of these transformational priorities in as possible, even if it meant a shorter period of time. look, i mean, all these details, this isn't a deal yet. not everybody has agreed. i always say in a negotiation, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. all i'm saying today is that i
done the whole thing as the democrats only bill but the republicans in that group want to be able to support and take some credit for doing the transportation infrastructure. so this is not a bait and switch. that's the deal itself. >> dana: steve, is that how you heard that? >> i wouldn't call it bait and switch but a double cross. the whole purpose of these negotiations was to basically say we'll do a slimd down infrastructure bill and all these other trillions of spending. covid is over. we should cut government spending now that the crisis is over not massively increasing our debt. i have been talking to conservative leaders around the country the last 24 hours. they're infuriated with this deal that any republican would go along with a deal that -- increases spending for the i.r.s. by $40 billion. why would any republican be in
favor of that after the scandals we've had at the i.r.s. going after conservatives. more money for transit, more money for amtrak and all the things that should be privatized. less than one out of every five dollars has anything to do with airports, roads and bridges. all the green energy, green new deal stuff. i don't see what's in it for republicans. i hope they sprint away from this deal. >> dana: we'll see what happens. then there was this. president biden yesterday was talking about how employers could find more workers. this is how he said they should address that. >> president biden: employers can't find workers. i said yeah, pay them more. this is an employee's bargaining chip now. what's happening? they are going to have to compete and start paying hard working people a decent wage. >> dana: is that the answer,
we will follow up on every single one of those things. i believe there is possibly some validity to a lot of that stuff because it is obvious buildings just don't fall down in america like that. there had to be something very wrong with that property. but like i said today is not the day or tomorrow. we're doing what we're doing right now. trying to get people out of the rubble. >> bill: we are sending you our best. thank you for your time. >> many thanks. >> dana: moving on over to this story now. critics are accusing president biden of pulling a bait and switch announcing a deal on a 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill with a group of lawmakers but hours later saying he won't sign it unless the senate passes another $6 trillion spendsing package without republican support. mitch mcconnell says the gop will not be going for that. >> what it does is put my members, including myself who
coming up this sunday? >> we'll be talking about kamala harris and this trip. we're also going to be talking about the infrastructure deal which isn't a deal yet. it will take a lot of work. but we're really going to focus on one of the big subjects this week, the explosion of crime especially violent crimes across the country. big spike in homicides and shootings. the president had some ideas. we'll talk to a white house official and republican critic an capitol hill some of the rhetoric coming from the president and democrats criticizing police has caused a big spike in retirements of policemen. questions about prosecutions. so basically we'll drill down why are we seeing the spike in violence and violent crime and what can we do about it? >> dana: i will be on the panel with you this weekend. >> i was going to say we have a great panelist on the show this sunday. dana perino. she will make sense of all this.
were optimistic doing a bipartisan infrastructure bill in the position of our democratic friends having to guarantee that the 2017 tax bill is unwound. that's our one red line. >> dana: former economic advisors to trump and obama. what happened here. you had a bipartisan deal for two hours and it was completely undercut by the president. >> i don't think that it's being undercut. what mitch mcconnell is describing was the deal itself. if you ask the republicans in the deal they perfectly well understood that there were two tracks. one is the part that republicans will support that does not involve any repealing of the trump tax cuts and the other was left to be a democrats-only bill. the only reason that they carved out a part of the bill they otherwise could have just
retirements up 45%, resignations up 78% according to the numbers we have. also the crime surges in major u.s. cities, some of them deal with guns and so many don't deal with guns. you heard the president the other day. do you think that leadership is sufficient for the moment? >> well, i don't think it did anything to help police address crime. it is like chicken soup. it doesn't hurt. these are things that aren't going to cause a problem but they aren't going to help police reduce crime or help police go after the individuals you talked about from daytona. police are under siege. they've been demonized and vilified and they are not going to put their families well-being or their well-being on the line and jeopardize what they've worked so hard for. the article that we just talked about in the "new york times"
life to this work since i've been an out gay man in 2008 and 2009 and our organization has existed for nearly 40 years and we're doing this work. >> bill: doesn't sound much like inclusion, does it, brian? >> no, no. it is actually -- it causes a great deal of pain to our members who go into a system every day that historically has not been for them and they put on uniforms or sit at a desk and they work in an environment where they are kind of forcing the system to deal with them, you know. they choose to go on and put on that -- in those systems and spaces and put this identity on and make it known. and there is a lot of correction that occurs with that. so if you have a transgender police officer that is going