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Our term. why bipartisan? >> that's true. i want to ask you specifically about this. some of your fellow senate republicans say they're going to oppose this. and they're pointing to a congressional budget office estimate that it's $250 billion that it adds to the deficit that much. here is what some of your gop colleagues have said. chuck grassley said it was dpointing. jon cornyn called it a real problem. mike brawn called it the swamp's debt bomb. what do you know that they don't? >> we absolutely said this is how it was going to be. half of what we proposed would be scored by cbo's paid for...

>> okay. >> i'm proud of what we have come up with. president biden was great in the oval office today. his team has been intimate in the negotiations over the last couple of weeks, and god knows there are things like voting rights to make my heart sick that we have not gotten the bipartisan support but most of the same group came together under equally challenging circumstances under president trump with a second largest investment ever in late november, early december on covid relief that many of us who were standing at the white house today came together on a bill that didn't get a lot of a...

That if joe mafrn ipo sees that the republicans are completely dug in, that he will become so frustrated with their lack of bipartisanship that he might join with the rest of the democratic party and certainly do what the president wants and come up with as he did a compromise that might then put the progressives in the democratic party on the spot with something that he would support? >> i think the hope among progressives and activist wing of the democratic party is that manchin will see this and come around to changing his position on the filibuster. a more likely possibility than that is t...

Hard line with vladimir putin when he met with him, including stepping up sanction on that nordstream gas pipeline into germany. they wanted to see this robust response. some of them coming away unsatisfied, perhaps none more so than tom cotton, who spoke on another network a few minutes ago. take a listen to this. >> if joe biden had gone into this summit from a position of strength, if he had not extended a very badly one-sided nuclear arms control agreement with russia, shut down that russia pipeline, we would have been in a much better position coming out of this summit as well. >> reporte...

Like texas but fundamentally disregarding them? >> i want to invite them to see it for themselves in texas. this is the toughest state in which to register to vote and it's not tough for everyone equally. it's disproportionately born by black voters, voters of color, those voters with disabilities, the very young, the very old, and those lo live in big cities. can you not have a democracy if everyone who is eligible cannot participate in t i believe those three senators you just mentioned. once they've exhausted every effort to bring in bipartisan cooperation, they'll put this country before p...