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Cost analysis before they voted for it. they also were the ones who were the reason the bill was delayed an additional two weeks until final passage into that cbo score was released. but those members, those moderates who voted for it include representative spanberger of virginia, remember, there was a very tough virginia election just a couple of weeks ago where democrats lost in that state. ed case, who i mentioned before, of hawaii, a curt schrader of oregon, another moderate democrat who was not expected to vote for the legislation until a couple of days ago. the party is united. this is a...

The split is here, how many of these people were motivated by national politics, and how many were motivated by who they thought would do a better job in virginia? >> yeah, it's a great question. i'm not there on the ground, i'm not out there reporting at the moment. but i will say, the term ed case, i'm a parent, i'm concerned about like covid vaccine mandates here in california. so it's sort of a lot of issues can be wrapped in the banner of education. we obviously know this was a huge issue towards the end of the race. i want to point out, i think this ties into your question, i hope, we ca...

In arizona in 2018. and yet you have people from very safe blue districts, kathleen rice, new york congresswoman from a 13 plus democrat district. she's one of the people balking at this prescription drug reform and the reconciliation package. this is good politics. these provisions are supported by the public. these are issues biden himself and down ballot democrats campaigned on, the democrats in swing districts, collin alp red from texas, other people whose political livelihoods are at stake here in 2022, they want to vote for this package. i think it's good policy and good politics. and it...

And the reconciliation package. these are issues biden himself and down ballot democrats campaigned on, the democrats in swing districts, other people whose political lively hoods are at stake here in 2022, they want to vote for this package. i think it's good policy and good politics. and it's special interests that are prevailing right now which from one of the bluest districts, ed case. pelosi and biden are aligned with the caucus on most of these policy measures. >> and listen, when you listen to -- i think that the progressives have a very compelling argument in the sense that they so far...

Is also very real and not going away with this assurance that there is a way to pay for all of this whatever they land on as their priorities. >> that is no small thing. you know, one of the big problems that someone like joe manchin or other moderates, kyrsten sinema, have had with this price tag, is they are not convinced it won't add to the deficit, that it won't increase inflation. so that is another part of what you just heard from the democratic leaders, which is we will make sure that that won't happen. the price tag is irrelevant if we make sure that it's paid for and doesn't add to th...