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Addictive and marketed to teens, they grilled the social media giant how it pushes a product they know is harmful to its youngest users. donie o'sullivan has more. >> reporter: facebook found itself on thursday trying to downplay and discredit some of its own research on how its platforms, including instagram, affect teenagers. have a listen. >> facebook is just like big tobacco, pushing a product that they know is harmful to the health of young people. >> i want to be clear that this research is not a bombshell. it's not causal research. it's, in fact, just -- >> i beg to differ with you. thi...

$1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill because progressives vowed to vote it down without a firm agreement on president biden's larger cradle to grave package. they are staring at a possible default in 2 1/2 weeks. let's bring in cnn correspondent john harwood. nice to see you on this first day of october. let's start with a quote late last night by moderate democrat cindy axney from iowa. when voters tell me they are sick of washington games, all at once, it is no way to governor. this bill will be invaluable in the future of our state and create thousands of jobs in its life-span. the ...

Closer. but one senior gop aide, john, tells cnn republicans can hold out, quote, longer than biden and the democrats. that's for sure. do you think that's true? >> reporter: probably. but, look, biden and the democrats are the governing party. they are in charge. this is a true game of chicken where if the two cars collide, the world economy blows up. and it is true that republicans are playing political games, trying to extract a political pound of flesh from democrats. but democrats do have the power to do it, to do it as part of this reconciliation process. it's difficult, it's time consum...

They're doing it. they're trying to get very serious negotiation. the white house aides were on the hill in intensive talks. joe biden is engaged during the week with sinema, manchin and others on the telephone. i think they're getting closer. this is an interesting, guys, transition in politics. they are standing up for what joe biden laid out and it's a little bit hard for people to get their minds around. you think, well, joe biden was the moderate democrat. he was more moderate than the rest of the democratic field in 2020. and he won the election. so people presume that his heart is close...

Maybe even a couple of weeks. but they do think they're closer to the goal line. >> washington loves a punt. let's talk about joe manchin. all week we've been hearing from joe manchin. what's his top line number? turns out he has a top line number and far short of what progressives want. $1.5 trillion. he's actually been pretty clear about that number since at least july. politico scoops this yesterday, this agreement that he has with chuck schumer, the senate majority leader. he also hinted on it pretty clearly with dana on state of the union. we've known this number. progressives apparently ...