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Months of negotiations. >> reporter: it was days. it was weeks. it was months. several congressional aides i spoke with said it was like a bomb going off essentially, blowing audiotape and killing any possibility of pushing for the most significant legislative pieces of the democratic party and administration. we're talking education, health care and climate change. the democratic leadership got about 40 minutes' heads up before manchin went public on television this morning to say he was out of it. he was done with the negotiating process, and this was very frustrating. it came after a week o...

Is that by applying all these rather improbable criminal sanctions that they can say if there is any kind of negotiating process that they can keep out of it. she is what they fear because she is so popular and it's such a successful election winner, the military has its own political party and they were consigned to a fraction of seats in the last election so they are hoping to claw back some kind of role. but really the country is in such a disastrous state it is impossible to predict what it's going to be like even three months from now. a barrister representing the victims of the grenfell ...

50 members of the senators are supporting it. >> cnn's suesan malvo is with us now from capitol hill. another deadly for the democrats. where do things stand? >> good afternoon, friend. well it does look like they are getting closer to potentially voting for both of these bills, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $1.75 trillion, that's trillion, both "ts" for those bills, for the social safety net program, but there are criteria, fred, three hurdles that progressive democrats have to get over. the first up you just heard senator sanders really spelling it out quite clearl...

Everything becomes how much is he falling back rather than how much is he achieving. >> i think you're right. that is why jen psaki said to me today the alternative is not 3.5 trillion, the alternative is zero. they want to demonstrate a transformative agenda and bill. but as you see the reporting, as we hear from our friends garrett and others covering it right now. those items being willed away. among democrats in the negotiating process it leaves frustration that they're not getting some of the things. so, as you noted as robert just said, this is a real challenge for them and the polling d...

An array of ideas were thrown out there. stocks buy backs. i know this news is breaking but you know what many be going on in the negotiating process. what do you think we're at right now there? >> there's a lot of crazy ideas out there like taxing unrealized capital gains, for example. a lot of problems with that trying to figure out, okay, if you have a capital loss, you get your money back or take a deduction? just the idea of something like that. but this is a search and destroy mission for more revenue to grow government. they're not concerned with the technicalities of how they get the m...