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Leadership. senator, welcome back to "fox news sunday" schema good to be with you, mike. mike: senator blunt, your democratic colleague joe manchin sunk the build back better bill this week, but that overlooks the 50 gop senators were no votes as well. here's president biden tuesday making an impassioned plea on behalf of a families he says would benefit from passing legislation. >> imagine being a parent looking at a child, can afford, you have no house to borrow against, you have no savings, it's wrong. mike: how do you respond to the criticism from the president? >> well, i think the bigges...

Is in a very tough spot with kamala harris because i think their plan is failing. they essentially tried to declare victory back in july. i happen to have-- i've been vaccinated, i've had the booster and nine encourage other people to get it, but what really rubbed people wrong, i think, are the mandates, forcing people to do it, saying getting an injection is something you have to have in terms of getting -- going into a restaurant, to having to show your paper. there's a lot of people that believe in the vaccine. they just don't believe in the mandate, and i think politically the president i...

So i felt this way when we were in the minority when i could not offer amendments and i feel this way and the majority when we can't get votes up or down. let's listen to each other and fix the senate and take-up issues such as voting rights. mike: in that letter to colleagues this week senator schumer seemingly took a shot at senator joe manchin stating every senator would have the quote opportunity to make their position known on the senate floor, not just on television. here's a joe manchin from an interview he did this week. >> i'm from west virginia. , not from where they are from and the...

$1.9 trillion in has created a big problem. i think another $2 trillion in build back better idea will also create a big problem and families are suffering whether the administration and democrats in the congress wanted to admit that or not. this is not a transitory problem. it's a real problem. this is no time to make that problem worse. mike: senator, one of the casualties of the collapse of that bill is that enhanced a child tax credit which expires at the end of the year. according to the urban institute, continued the benefit could have a significant impact on child poverty, reducing chil...

Sends most students back to remote learning we will ask dr. ashish jha, one of the nation's top public health-- experts about the surge. then? >> our focus is moving forward with our relationship with senator mansion in our efforts to get bill back better done. mike: the front-- fate of the president's signature spending bill dashed by fears of debt as the-- those call on the president to take action. we will talk to senator cardin to get reaction to the fate of the spending legislation from senator roy blunt, a member of gop leadership. plus, from the botched withdrawal from afghanistan to th...