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Majorities with the rest of his presidency will be determined by what happens over the next week. that doesn't sound like an argument or negotiation from a position of strength. i am not saying it is wrong but it sounds a little desperate in some ways. >> i disagree. he has been in office ten months and he has gotten these amazing things potentially through, certainly the american rescue plan, the bipartisan infrastructure deal through the senate and it is sitting in the house. house members say they'll vote for the bill and the only question is this third piece which is the framework. he's do...

Congress? he doesn't represent anyone besides himself in the party. >> yeah. i tell you, democrats -- my fellow democrats out there, if you are looking for a reason why we need to expand our majority beyond the one threshold vote that we have right now, exhibit a is joe manchin. the idea that someone who represents less than 2 million people in the country can hold 300 million people for ransom is absurd. it shows the failure of how our process isn't working. the breed erbroader implicatione end up having is for weeks nonstop narratives about process stories, about inside baseball, how democra...

Washington media, do tend to focus more on process stories. that's always been the case. this particular bill is so hard because it's so many things, it's hard to focus only on one and it's competing in a media environment where we're talking about the pandemic, afghanistan, abortion, so many stories. i also think strangely both parties for very different reasons have not been focusing on the substance. i think democrats in part because of how they were scarred with the obamacare fight and so many others, they want to move along as fast as they can. if they don't get bogged down in sites like ...

This. it's maybe how little attention we've given over the past few months to these potentially transformative pieces of legislation. charlotte mentioned a couple, childcare, paid leave. every other country in the world has a paid leave law. we don't. we could get one. this can be transformative to hundreds of thousands and billions of people who are elderly or disabled, and can't get home care and they end up in nursing homes. that's not even to mention the profound change in policy on climate change, which is really, you know, an existential crisis for the planet. there's a lot in this bill,...

Emergency, the polls show overwhelmingly joe biden. that's really what is keeping him still at the top of the pack. >> one of the interesting things i saw this week was an article of how all of the coverage of joe biden, almost 90% of it is negative, and he is still posting some of his strongest numbers since he has been in the race, or even talked about being in the race. >> yeah. and you also saw a story talking about the wokeness of his cress core, there are a lot of young folks on the trail with him. i don't know where i fall on tra spectrum. i'm perhaps somewhere in the middle. >> you're ...