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Matter. as a caucus, we agree on those. >> reporter: the projected spending bill is currently around $3.5 trillion. it's the number that moderates like senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin have been wrestling with. the new york times tearing sinema, claiming she wants to cut 100 billion of proposed climate funds. that provides more fuel to the file for progressive activists. there are plans to bird dog her at the boston marathon today. the president addressed the dnc virtually on saturday. >> we need to stay together and bound by the values that we hold as a party. here's the deal. we won 2...

Republicans joining with democrats to vote to advance this bill however slow the process was going. now in just the last little bit, we're also seeing the second track of this process beginning to play out. republicans clearly on board for the bipartisan part of this, but things start to revert back to their normal partisan order once you start talking about this $3.5 trillion push for human infrastructure, the kinds of legislative priorities that we have long heard about from progressive activists, as well as democrats and the white house, key items like free community college, university pre...

And day-out urgency and prioritization on this issue that you have seen over the past couple of weeks on the infrastructure negotiations, for example, and that's really one of the problems in the minds of a lot of progressive activists who would like to see this voting rights issue top and center for the president and seeing him using his bully pulpit to make this sort of macro populous argument to the country, to get out of the process mindset and focus on what is at stake for people's right to vote. >> representative bernal, i mean you have talked about being from texas. i mean i worked for ...

Vote threshold is carved out for something like voting rights to be able to get that through or it is eliminated entirely. progressive activists is hoping to use this to twist arms, to try to get the two senators to move on the filibuster. the truth is president biden's own position may not be enough. simply forcing senators to hold the floor won't be enough to get republicans to back down given how determined they are led by mitch mcconnell to scuttle the election bills. >> mike, as the president said this is not an anomaly what we're seeing play out right now. as i mentioned, he drew this lo...

Part of the company, which progressive activists seem completely uninterested in talking to. >> progressive activists. >> this is not my opinion. >> that's not the bulk of the democratic party. >> don, that's who's calling the tune in the democratic party. no, it is. let me tell you. if we have an election today for the u.s. house -- >> stand by, producers, please. hold on. you're talking. i got it, but i want to hear what john has to say. this is a great conversation. go on. sorry. >> what i'm saying to you, don, is the middle of this country today -- look, this whole woke culture, what's hap...