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With all of the issues that you mentioned, those things are in progress. it's been nine months since joe biden has been president of the united states. what has he gotten done? he got the american rescue plan done, in and of itself, if you look at the size of that bill and the things that it actually did and accomplished, it's nothing short of amazing. take one aspect of that alone, just the child tax credit. it's cut poverty in half. nothing has ever done that in the history of this country. we were able to get that done. we saved pensions, we got shots in arms. we did so much in that bill. r...

Their direction, and attempting to keep everything under control. ultimately the way they'll resolve this is through some form of compromise. it's messy, going to take place behind closed doors and both sides are going to have to give some. that's the way the legislative process works. that's ultimately how this is going to resolve itself, or somebody's going to leave the party and that would be really destructive for the 2022 elections for democrats. >> and david, i've got to get your really quick reaction to all of this on this story. apparently there's a republican congressman from indiana ...

That's why they've been so active here, telling me that they negotiate with progressives and moderates to map out what that price tag is but more importantly what they're able to do with that money. they say it will be transformative. they know this is the way the legislative process works. they compare this to the last four years where they never were even in range of an infrastructure bill which they feel strongly they will get passed here. to give a sense of the president's plan, first that relates to the debt ceiling the house presumably passing that sometime day. that extends the date to ...

Message that he has for those republican senators who voted to pass that bill on its merit of this bill is somehow not linked with the reconciliation because of its happening in the house? >> it's because it doesn't have enough votes. i think republicans in the sun i understand that and know how this process works. but that's what we are working towards now and that's what the president has been making phone calls about. that's what we have the schedule cleared for this afternoon and i'm not going to make a prediction of how the outcome will look several hours from now. >> the vice president, ...

On the details. tell me if you think that's right. tell me what else we are missing from our perch. >> yeah, i think that's right. i think that the irony of the situation in which we find ourselves is we are in radical agreement about the moving parts in both bills. and i also think, frankly, we find ourselves, whether we fully understand it or not in a situation of mutually assured destruction, if you kill my bill, i'll kill yours. that's the kind of situation we are in. it ought to be possible, given those dynamics, to work something out. working it out in public is always messy. and usually...