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This follows our earlier call earlier this evening in the 11th congressional district in ohio. this is a district that was vacated when representative marcia fudge left to become hud secretary in president biden's cabinet. that's a cleveland-area district that's very heavily democratic. tonight shontel brown is the congresswoman elect to succeed marcia fudge in that district. want to welcome our friend chris hayes to the set. chris, it's great to see you. thank you for being here. >> great to see you as well. that's a plus one in the house margin with shontel brown's election. >> that's right....

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Get you to pass. you would think the mood today would be great. let's pass an infrastructure plan be and see what comes next, but -- >> 11 plus 50 gets you past 60 but you have to have those first 50 in the democratic caucus and the problem right now is that there are a bunch of the more liberal members of chuck schumer's caucus, ed markey, bernie sanders, jeff merkley who have said, wait, wait, we're going to do this bipartisan thing and all the traditional roads and bridges and locks and dams with the promise sort of kind of that we're going to get to the stuff that we want to do on climate ...

To make some concessions and then at least get something that you want on the table. >> i do wonder, congressman, how much you think this group of ten, these new negotiations are about letting -- about the white house and senator schumer, the leader of the democrat, the majority leader, letting kyrsten sinema and joe manchin do everything they can to exhaust that and say manchin, sinema, we tried, you have to pass this plus 50 votes and the vice president. >> look, i think that's certainly part of it and i hope they're successful. i hope they can get ten republicans on board and find ten repub...

Democrats? it's a high number because you're in a plus 50 range. >> i think what it says is we're going in the right direction, but we have to be careful. you had three members of congress on earlier. my concern is that after all this impeachment is said and done, we need to get back to the business of policy, appropriations bills, other types of bills that actually need to get pushed -- even if they die in the senate, we have to go back and tell our constituents that we were doing the business, continuing the do the business of the people. one thing that is going to happen after the -- as the...