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Count on the number they're actually tackling in the bill and make sure they can last the full duration of ten years. but the other school of thought espoused by progressive was that you could do more things potentially for a shorter period of time, thus bringing down the cost but giving people the policy items that they want. if you pull up what's in the bill and i know our viewers have seen this graphic a few times. there are so many things, it ranges from comprehensive immigration reform especially with that pathway for undocumented immigrants. the senate parliamentarian said that probably ...

Policy items might expire, that they'll be forced to extend them. this has been a real holdup among democrats. there's a lot of disagreement between moderates and progressives, and it's been a real head yat for the white house. take a listen to what some senators have had to say about this. >> my number has been 1.5. i've been very clear. i don't believe we should turn our society into an entitlement society. >> senator manchin really believes that seniors are not entitled to digest their food and they're not entitled to see and hear properly. is that really too much to ask in the richest coun...

I can't underscore how important it is for the democrats to get this done. this's concern if they don't get it pass bfrd the end of the year, they're going to have very little to run on going into the 2022 midterm elections. there was hope earlier on that the president's work on the coronavirus pandemic might serve as a foundation for the party in their midterm campaign strategy, but as it's become abundantly clear, there's not going to be an off and on switch to the coronavirus pandemic, so there's a real desire to have this bill to go out and campaign on as we look ahead to 2022. now, the pr...

And policy items that are in the larger infrastructure bill. so the how remains unresolved. the if and the when, though, you see it on your screen, a whole slew of deadlines that we're ticking through. today the house is starting debate on the infrastructure bill, remember, they were supposed to be voting on that today, so that's already a push in the scheduling. and then on the senate side you will see that there's going to be a vote, it's going to fail, on a bill that's tied government funding and raising the debt ceiling. the reason it's going to fail is because republicans as they're sitti...

Confidence, how is that? how is she feeling does shelf confidence that she can get these moderates and progressives to reach a consensus by thursday? >> that really is the question of the week, here, jose. because she's protecting optimism, but at the same time, it's tempered with reality on the ground you just mentioned what today should have been it should have been the day that we saw a vote in the house on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed the senate now that's being pushed to thursday again, an attempt to bide time, as progressives remain holding out their support...