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Requirements is so frustrating to have in the context of what we know as a civilized society in the 21st century. but i can tell you -- >> congressman -- go ahead. >> i can tell you that progressives are certainly open to negotiating. we are pragmatic about this. obviously, there's a lot of discussion about going below $3.5 trillion. i think you can still include priorities below 3$3.5 trillion but that's part of the negotiating process and one thing that's been very frustrating is people have been negotiating on national tv rather than telling the president of the united states, even, and now...

Gretchen whitmer, the governor of michigan. we have a problem in our politics on both sides around how we treat our elected officials. to rachel's point, civility is going out the window when it comes to folks getting what they want but now to your point around the politics around the sport back better. when i think we're waiting on with kyrsten sinema is to give us exactly what her topline czar. we've heard where they are for joe manchin and now we need to hear with the top lines are for christians in the muscle we can begin the negotiating process and conduct semblance of a framework. >> har...

Hold on to. there's time line. you have white house senior advisors saying there was no time line for getting the bills passed. it comes a day after speaker pelosi said the infrastructure deal had to be done by october 31 because that's the surface transportation authorization deadline. what's behind the white house's decision to now say there is no time line on this bill? >> i think that the white house doesn't want to rush the negotiating process, because they know that there's a lot of behind the scenes negotiating going on, a lot of discussions between moderates and progressives and a lot ...

Jayapal. thanks for being back with us. you called this last night when you said that this wasn't going to happen. what is the position of your caucus, the progressive caucus right now in terms of what happens now? >> well, anderson, thanks for having me on. our position is exactly the same as the president's which is we are going to get both these bills done, and we are going to send them to the president's desk and it will take us a little bit of time to negotiate because what we are clear is on is that weir not doing one and leaving the other behind. the president re-emphasized that today a...

Minutes, six days, six weeks. we're going to get it done. >> his visit and the words give house and senate democrats time to agree on size and scope of the new social spending and vote on the house on the in infrastructure bill that was held up in negotiations. a short time ago, speaker pelosi, pushing to get this done this week, sent a dear colleague letter to members, agreeing that more time is needed. the last hour, i spoke with the chair of the progressive caucus, who was pleased by tonight's outcome. >> we are doing the work we need to do, to go back and look at our priorities on what we ...