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Partisan stalemate. >> leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling, but said democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawnout, convoluted and risky reconciliation process. that was simply unacceptable to my caucus. and yesterday senate republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work. >> west virginia democrat joe manchin seen -- there he is, sitting behind schumer during the speech. didn't apparently love the lines. his face in his hands. republican senator mike rounds who actually was one of those 11 republican...

Blink from mitch mcconnell earlier in the week. he said, well, i'll make the reconciliation path easier. that was an accommodation that mcconnell was offering. will that be the last accommodation he offers? that's something that joe biden and chuck schumer are going to have to make a decision about, but i suspect that they will end up deciding to do it through reconciliation. and the debt limit will get raised. the question is how much of a white knuckle time for markets and political leaders is it going to be. >> there is a story about trillion dollar coins to get out of this. this is dangero...

Clyburn bill does in the house. infrastructure does dot enough in removing pipes and so what the speaker said is we applaud the bipartisan effort but we need to get the president's agenda through on a lot of these critical areas, especially when we have the majority in both chambers and the presidency. >> i get that. i get that aspiration. but the fact is in the senate you've got a sliver of a majority and you need ten republicans to join in support for this unless you go to reconciliation path which looks likely. i just wonder if strategically, politically if it would be smarter to separate t...

Indicating, joe manchin, kyrsten sinema and others, because of the states they represent or their own political temperaments, they want to try and see if they can get something done across the aisle, if they can, on infrastructure, a partial package, voting rights, great. if they can't, then they have to see if they can get it done with democrats alone. and the process of failing on voting rights, on infrastructure, both efforts in which joe manchin is involved, may influence his willingness to go along with them and unify in the case of infrastructure on a reconciliation path, the special bud...

They know the window to get meaningful things done is short and closing quickly, and the president has an ambitious agenda. they said you make your effort. we know republican voters support it, if not the lawmakers. it's time to go this alone. you have shown enough of a good faith attempt to reach across the aisle to modify the moderate democrats. so the filibuster looms over all of this. whether it comes into play on the commission, whether it comes into play, perhaps there's something in the infrastructure bill, although that likely is going down the budgetary reconciliation path, but the bi...