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Permanent, get a bunch of stuff in there about climate, get a bunch of other stuff in there about, say, human -- i'm sorry, home health care and things like that, things that would have immediate impact for the american people, and it comes in at a price tag, over, $2 trillion, you think that folks aren't going to vote for it if they can go back to their districts and say look, this is what we've done for you? so the next few days are going to be very fascinating to watch to see if the rhetoric goes from calm and soft to well, we were always going to get here all along. >> you know, i always t...

Chuck schumer says the senate will vote to advance on tuesday. joining me now is michael harriet, author of "the black af history of america" and jonathan cott. let me start with you, mr. cott. there's been skepticism about senator manchin's role and whether he is playing above board. that audio makes it sound like what he is doing is looking out for the future job prospects of republicans, trying to pad and pave their way with wealthy donors as a way to do the sausage making of making a deal. that is called negotiating with the wrong people. he is not talking to the people who would be affect...

States and these districts from gerrymandering and disenfranchising black voters. i think that's most important part. if it's done, it won't be republicans. they won't sign on to anything. we have this fruitless effort. joe manchin isn't going to get it done. he has never done it. >> i think it's impossible to do. michael, jonathan, thank you for being here. appreciate the debate. the two big rulings from the supreme court today on adoptions byparents and obamacare. does this put an end to the obsession with killing the affordable care act? silly question. we'll be right back. be right ba.

West virginia broadcasters and host of the radio program, "metro news talk line." also with us, jonathan cott, served as communications director and senior adviser to senator joe manchin for seven years. jonathan, let me start with you, since you worked with him every day in the senate for seven years. nancy pelosi says -- she said she read the op-ed. and she sees an opening. i read the op-ed. and i don't see the opening. did -- did you see an open in the op-ed that nancy pelosi could get in there and -- and get him to go along with the for the people act? >> i don't think he's going to go alo...

Infrastructure needs in west virginia. he doesn't like all the green-new-deal stuff that -- that's in the biden plan. but i can very much see joe biden making a deal or doing whatever is necessary to get an infrastructure bill that brings back millions to west virginia. channeling his best memory of robert c. byrd. >> jonathan, quickly, before we go. will there be something on voting rights that joe manchin will support and join the democrats on in the senate? >> yeah. he supports the john lewis voting rights act. and i would remind you, he was secretary of state and he was governor. he knows ...