Rather than then because you can be sure that if it had not come then means we would have a no confidence vote next monday. find means we would have a no-confidence vote next monday. vote next monday. and they have effectively said vote next monday. and they have effectively said that vote next monday. and they have effectively said that the vote next monday. and they have effectively said that the rules i effectively said that the rules could change. effectively said that the rules could change. effectively said that the rules could chance. ., ., ., , could change. there would have to be some rule change could change. there would have to be some rule change which could change. there would have to be some rule change which would - could change. there would have to be some rule change which would take . could change. there would have to be some rule change which would take a | some rule change which would take a little bit of time. we saw sir geoffrey clifton brown, the conservative mp and member of the 1922 committee on the airwaves this morning saying that effectively he and his colleagues will wait to see what the prime minister has to say and see what he does then they will have in his words a difficult decision to make, being interpreted as about whether the executive members of the 1922 committee try to change the rules or alternatively, that the cabinet effectively says to the prime minister, look i m afraid the prime minister, look i m afraid the game is up, we have not seen and one of the big strengths ofjoints and so far has been that the cabinet has been foursquare behind him with no resignations are a partygate until today. the last resignation before today was lord frost, if that
Is one they themselves created. speaker pelosi made a deal with moderates she would hold a vote on the president s infrastructure bill by this coming monday. the hope was that the bigger $3.5 trillion bill would be done at the same time, something progressives say has to happen so that they can both vote for both bills at the same time. but it doesn t look like that s going to happen. so that leaves democratic leaders with basically three ways to go here, they can try to pass the infrastructure bill on monday and risk angry progressives blocking it, they can delay the vote and break their promise to the moderates or they can grit their teeth and work like hell to get that reconciliation bill or something close enough to a deal to please progressives done by monday. i want to bring in monica alba at the white house, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from missouri. sahil, i just laid out those three pockets for monday, based on all of our reporting what do you think is the most likely
Outcome? reporter: garrett, they look likely to attempt number three, but i think number one is the most likely outcome. they re going to proceed with that vote and as things stand it does not have the support it needs to pass. they have said there are dozens of democrats, as many as 40 or 50 ready to tank it. they are at least in the teens and the fact that house republican leadership is whipping their members to vote no strengthens jayapal s hand to tank this bill. at the heart of this, this is a bit of mistrust, a disconnect between the centrists and the progressives. centrists got language in the rule saying the house shall vote on the 27th, but progressives are worried if that infrastructure bill passes that the centrists will have no use for for that bigger multi-trillion dollar package and that is their top priority at this moment. they re willing to stop infrastructure. in their view this was a package deal, they were only going to
Support the surface transportation bill while the other one was moving side-by-side. the centrists said we never agreed to that and never wanted to link them. they will have to regroup after that vote and figure this out. we will come back to the trust deficit, but, monica, can you take us behind the scenes at yesterday s meeting at the white house. so many lawmakers were anxious to see joe biden jump into the fray here, he has done so. what role will he play going forward? reporter: the phrase from here was that the president was ready to roll up his sleeves and dive in over the span of these multiple meetings. the white house in a public readout called them very candid and productive conversations where they wanted to indicate that progress was made, but the subtlety there and the subtext that s important is that no solutions were reached. it s not like they came out of these meetings knowing which path forward they were going to take. it was more like according to white house officials the president told lawmakers you need to come up with a plan, come back to me on it, find a number that you re comfortable
Experience in the senate and those close personal relationships, but that there was a level of frustration on his part because he wants to see something get done and the overarching message from yesterday was we need to come together to figure out a way to do that and they are not at that place yet, garrett. yeah, he needs to see something get done, these are really the only games in town for domestic policy for this president right now. senator mccaskill, i want to talk about how you see this playing out. congresswoman jayapal who leads the progressive caucus was on morning joe explaining her position as it relates to that monday vote. listen to this. nothing is sacred about monday at all. let s let the negotiations continue, let s get this done, let s deliver everything to the president s desk and i think we will then be able to say to the country government worked for you. jayapal is a good politician, she knows more negotiation isn t going to lead to a bigger bill, but sahil alluded to this, the trust deficit, this feeling like