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Their president either on the big spending plan or on changing senate rules to pass the flust yermt our report remembers back with us to discuss the challenges ahead as well as a look back at the year past. democrats resisted, jeff zeleny, for months breaking up the social safety net plan. listen to the president say i guess i have no choice. >> it's clear to me that -- that we're going to have to probably break it up. i'm not going to negotiate it myself as to what should and shouldn't be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now and come back and fight for the...

That are in there. joe manchin strongly supports early education. 3-year and 4 years of age. there is strong support for, i think, a number of the way in which to pay for these -- pay for this proposal. so i think there is, i'm not going to -- i'm not going to negotiate myself as to what should and shouldn't be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now and come back and fight for the rest later. ken, "wall street journal." >> thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask you about the economy. as you said earlier, americans are feeling the squeeze of inflation. oil ...

Parties and staff will get details about infrastructure projects being funded. meanwhile in his rather zroort news conference yesterday president biden acknowledged build back better may have to be broken up into smaller pieces. >> it's clear to me that we're going to have to probably break it up. i'm not going to negotiate myself as to what should or shouldn't be in it, but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest later. >> the president said he's confident in the support for early childhood education, energy, and environmental fun...

And i think we can get it done. >> reporter: you're not going to scale down any of these priorities, but so far, that strategy isn't working. you haven't been able to get some of these big ledgislative - >> oh, i got two big wins done. bigger than any president has ever gotten in the first year. >> reporter: but currently, mr. president, you're spending package, voting rights legislation, they're not going anywhere. so -- >> that's true. >> reporter: is there anything that you are confident you can get signed into law before the midterm elections? >> yes. i'm confident we can get pieces -- big...

Not get passed and senator manchin would find a way to back out of whatever agreement or word he gave to the white house as we have clearly seen play out and here we are. last week we saw conflicting messages from the president and speaker pelosi. watch this. >> i'm confident we can get pieces, big chunks, of the build back better law signed into law. i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, come back and fight for the rest later. >> so what the president calls chunks i would hope would be a major bill going forward. it may be more limited, but it is still significant. >...