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Get on this, let's get to work. the white house said they want progress. they haven't defined that. that's just a little over a week away. the two sides are even in on agreement on what should go in an infrastructure package, much less are they having serious conversations about to me that's always been the most difficult part of this. the two sides started with completely different sets of ideas about what to pay for. in the last few weeks we've heard a third option, sort of center of the conversation options like increasing tax enforcement or public/private partnerships. all those things are...

Garrett, thank you very much. bob casey, represents the finance committee and the health education committee. thank you for joining us. first off, i want to find out, senator, i'm sorry, excuse me. i want to know where the democrats are specifically willing to negotiate with the republicans if there is a bipartisan deal. >> we have been saying for a long time that republicans in the early early part of the year, back in january, chose a reconciliation path, a stiff arm to democrats. we have offered ideas but offered a way to sit down. the only way question do that is to take repeal off of the ...

There's a feeling -- mcconnell i'm sure is making this point, which is the political prois for failing this will be really high, higher than you think -- >> to the point you were making with maggie, clarissa, they weren't attacking their own in the house the way they did this time with these ads. >> chris, the margins are different. it's just -- when you have two seats or two people to work with rather than the 20 -- >> this was the easy route. this was done on the reconciliation path which they only need 50 votes. obamacare they did with 60. >> joust to go back to the point of attacking their...

Goal of the summit but we went prepared to negotiate in good faith if the president and the democrats wanted to negotiate in good faith which as it turns out they didn't. >> what was your overall take away from the meeting on thursday? >> my overall takeaway is that the president would be a great professor at the harvard law school. he has a grasp for the detail but that the republicans had ideas and were prepared to discuss them and they are ideas that would work and it wouldn't cause a massive restructuring of government run healthcare if we were to implement some of our ideas like just sell...