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And i'm willing to talk and work on the other. i've said that in good faith. >> reporter: reforming the 2017 tax cuts to be basically the nuts and bolts of the reconciliation, and then you want the social programs and all of that to be kind of negotiated out separately from there. zblouf got to pick your priorities like in your life. you figure the restourss you have and the things you want. you can't get everything. so you take the highest needs you have. our children need help. okay? families that want to go to work and should be at work, i think means testing means that you are targeting th...

And senator sinema. there's no senate reconciliation package. the senate finance committee never put up his tax increases as you probably know. if you had one and put it on the floor, it would lose 52-48. over. dead. >> martha: i'm watching jen psaki. we're still working on it. one of the things that strikes me, the question that came from the back of the room. what is it that the president wants? what is he fighting for? what is the president musseling for? what is his number? here's what joe manchin said when he was asked. what did the president say to you. watch this. >> are we targeting th...

Is this a case they're trying to do too much with too little political power in >> i would argue it is a case of starting with everything you'd like and realizing the process will work its way toward something slightly smaller. you know, i think that joe biden knew with a 50 vote majority, the slimmest majority his party could possibly have, capped off with a senator from a state that trump won by 40? i mean really? do the progressives think they'll elect a progressive from west virginia? do they really believe that? and so the point is that joe biden knew when he put the number out there it w...

Testing but this other sound bite first. >> he would like to have more than that. i said mr. president, i understand that. it's just hopefully you -- he's been so respectful. he said hey, joe, i never asked you to go against your convictions. >> martha: no problem. don't do what you don't want to do. >> they never had it. the biden administration never had a rationale for $6 trillion of spending particularly because we're having a economic recovery from the pandemic and also we're still playing by trump's low tax rules that hasn't been overturned yet. so they never had a rationale. the inflati...

Trillion figure number one is already a compromise. the chair of the senate had a $6 trillion proposal which i supported again because of the urgent need to invest in all aspects of infrastructure. how do we get the number from 3 to 6.5 massaging and tweaking and do we fully fund ten years of a certain program or let's narrow it to six or five and add means testing along the way. there's different ways to massage the number but i don't think we restrict the areas of impact that we are trying to make. so, you know, we're going to do it right. the other piece here let's not misrepresent the $3.5...