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Votes for this bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass. now, again, you guys laid it out perfectly, but i do want to make clear there are two bills that were supposed to pass together in the house. the bipartisan infrastructure bill is $1.2 trillion bill that's hard infrastructure, roads, bridges, transportation funding. and then this $3.5 trillion economic bill that would expand the nation's social safety net. that the house will wrote, until sinema and manchin decided to, in a lot of progressives' minds, derail the whole time line. this is really tricky for president joe biden. these are two ...

Democrats in the senate to support this, which is why sinema and manchin have a lot of leverage. and house speaker pelosi can only lose three votes in the house. that is why you saw president joe biden last night having these conversations with members that were at this congressional baseball game. you saw house speaker pelosi on the phone. there is a lot of frustration toward these two lawmakers, sinema and manchin, for not getting behind this bill and waiting to voice their opposition so late, even after the house wrote this bill. so that is part of it. and it's not just democratic leaders w...

House moderates, agree on how to move forward? what do we know about communication, if any, between the two wings of the democratic party? >> yeah, it's been sort of all over the map and very tense just as it looks like in public. but, look, we've seen really detailed private efforts again to bring manchin and sinema on board. we've reported on efforts by western lawmakers to talk about the extreme weather problems in their state. he's been very reluctant, resistant on some of the climate change provisions talked about here. we've seen efforts to bring sinema on board when it comes to the corp...

Relationship. house speaker pelosi is also dealing with navigating relationships in her own caucus because she can only lose three votes. parts of the problem here is that i did not mention earlier is that progressives will not support the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the house floor until there is a commitment from manchin and sinema on what the top line number is going to be on the economic bill because they are opposed to the $3.5 trillion price tag. so house speaker pelosi is trying to navigate these relationships with progressives because she wants their vote for the bipartisan infra...

Margaret, good morning. president biden attended that congressional baseball game last night. he's talking with republicans and democrats while his plan to help american families ream i hangs in the balance here. is he going to be able to be the closer in chief that he wants to be? >> the closer -- it might feel like a baseball game, right? nine innings, infrastructure debate, it's like a 32-inning game. no base hits and a bunch of foul balls, four different presidents, you know. the way biden has handled this so far has been largely to focus on kind of who can unlock, you know, the key to thi...