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Do the math on what is likely to happen there. as you correctly point out speaker pelosi does not put bills on the floor that don't have the votes. she has made a promise to her centrist members that she'll do what she can to get the votes here and that is what the long, drawn out drama today is about. she is trying to do that. based on everything i am hearing there is not a deal to be had at this moment to get the bill done tonight and progressives will vote it down if it does come up. >> let me ask you one thing that seems rational to me but doesn't seem to be a live prospect on capitol hill...

And we can't go back there, and we have to just focus very clearly on what we have to do. i'm so pleased judy true introduced our bill and we passed it in the house, the womens health protection act. very important bill, uphill battle in the senate. but people around the country, the polling -- people understand that abortions should be a personal decision. one of the reasons i never talked ability it is because it's nobody else's business. and so hopefully we'll be able to codify this into law, roe v. wade sooner or later, but we can't stop now. we have to keep going until justice is done. >>...

More progressive bill as well. you cannot get the smaller bill unless you get the big bill, too. that has been the plan for months. it's been the deal, overt and explicit from president biden, speaker nancy pelosi and senator chuck schumer, everybody has been explicit about this and everybody has said they're on board. but then a few days ago a handful of conservative democrats in the house decided they would try to blow up the whole plan. it's nine house democrats who decided they would give nancy pelosi an ultimatum, and they would do it their way, instead of her way. and because the democra...

Progressives and lots of people in between. the plan has been, that the house would do, bill one and bill two at the same time. the house said, from the onset, explicitly, and repeatedly, they were not going to pass the smaller bipartisan bill that had the republican support, until senate democrats follow through and passed the bigger more progressive bill as well. you cannot get the smaller bill unless you get the big bill to, that has been the planned for months, that has been the deal, and it has been explicit, everybody from biden to speaker nancy pelosi, and to chuck schumer frankly, the ...

Presented yourself as an antagonist to trump, but you voted with him 68% of the time, u how do you explain that diskept? -- disconnect. >> i also voted with speaker pelosi some 90% of the time, too. the percentages a lot of times mask the reality. i'm happy to stand in front of anyone in my state and defend every individual voes that i have cast. i think a lot about them. i try to do what is best, and in all of my vote it there is a record of sticking up for the working people of the state, their jobs, my interests, and that is what i will defend. putting people like me in congress and preside...