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So a glimmer of hope for two critical pieces of president biden's progressive agenda, progressive caucus chair jayapal. the progressive wing has been in a standoff with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema along with an infrastructure bill. many progressives saying they want both toing pass simultaneous while manchin and sinema say they don't support the $3.5 trillion price tag of the larger spending bill. joining me is whip of the progressive caucus ilhan omar. good evening. thank you for joining. >> thank you so much for having me, don. >> you were at tonight's democratic caucus meeting, and you w...

Bill we have an electric vehicle infrastructure i could go through a list of issues that everybody agrees on. and yes, we have a lot of strong-willed people right now but we got to get it figured out, because it is either mutual disruption or we are going to do what's right for the country in this once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference in so many people's lives. >> you say that failure is not an option, but you know that it is actually a possibility. it is something that could happen where do things stand now as it relates to the discussions between more progressive wing and moder...

Their best shot. they're looking at his approval ratings which have gone down a bit in the last couple of weeks and they're aware of the congressional rules that make it tough for -- and the constraints of their narrow majorities in congress. and what he's going to be arguing is that this is the democrats' best chance to get something done, that this is a popular unifying pose of legislation and that frankly democrats need to do it so they can have something to run on in mid-term elections that are going to be pretty tough for them and also to make good on their campaign promises. but what i t...

Willing to engage with other ideas. it makes politics more complicated and forces us to actually think. >> so just going right to left basically the way lee did is was you've got your christian conservatives that are morality first, and then you've got your trump-type people, your populist americans. and then you have whatever you want to call growth and progress, which are traditional republicans. fiscal austerity. but, you know, center-center-right on social issues. then, you get to the new liberals, which would be, like, you know, cory booker. and then, you get, you know, which is the old d...

Could come to our shores but also draw down our carbon output in order to make sure we prevent future calamities from happening as well. >> you're from a more progressive wing and partly by pledging work across party lines. as you clearly know, the bipartisan infrastructure bill seems stalled because democratic moderates are balance b balking. is this split among democrats? what do you make of it? there seems to be mistrust. >> well, i certainly don't think it's healthy that exxonmobile lobbyists are bragging about how many senators, democrat and republicans, that they get to have on speed dia...