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Democrats last night ahead of the pivotal vote or votes there scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one we are waiting for them to take this hour. now, house speaker nancy pelosi has said she is holding a vote today on the small bipartisan roads and bridges bill that has already passed the senate. this is a little slice of president biden's agenda that was hived off from the main vote because they wanted to pass some piece of something with some piece of republican votes and this is the only piece of it that republicans would consent to support. progressives in the house say that they'...

Today, and if it comes to a vote, he is urging his colleagues to vote no. that is significant because a lot of house progressives look up to him and respect him and that is significant. not what happens tonight is highly unclear. officially the house of representatives is saying no votes until 10:00 p.m. but there is still expectation they will pass the infrastructure bill tonight which means two hours to pass the bill. it is not scheduled yet. i'll leave it to your viewers to do the math on what is likely to happen there. as you correctly point out speaker pelosi does not put bills on the flo...

He said he was unhappy about these late night closed door talks. that seems significant given what a driving force the progressives have been in the house and what a progressive icon senator sanders is not only in the country but to progressive democrats on capitol hill. is that significant? what do we think is going to happen tonight? >> it is significant, rachel. senator sanders says this is an absurd way to do business, a direct quote from him. that they are trying to negotiate a multi trillion dollars bill in one night to have a vote on the infrastructure bill. he does in the believe that ...

Leader i would look at that and say you know what? let's enough house republicans vote for this. lots of republicans like that legislation. let's let enough republicans vote for this that it passes. because we don't mind this bill. it's fairly conservative. it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities. and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progressives have. the larger bill will never pass. the whole debate will be a waste of time for the democrats and we have something to brag about next year for our re-election campaigns in our home states. why is that not a leave possibility? ...

Workers on their jobs. because of republican resistance to doing that because republicans have been refusing to vote to keep the government running congress really was pushed right up to the edge of the cliff today. it was only at the very last minute they did pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown and president biden has signed it tonight. congress barely kept themselves from tumbling over that cliff. the remarkable thing is in normal times that would be the biggest and most dramatic vote on capitol hill certainly all week definitely all month maybe even more than that. cliff hanger showd...