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Sinema and he said pretty openly he would like to push the -- just the negotiations, not even writing a bill on the reconciliation side into next year, which of course as you said is an election year which would make it very difficult to pass anything. he's made it clear he would like to basically stall or for stall talking about the reconciliation bill. that doesn't sound movable. >> i will just say i think both senators have been having negotiations and they have been projective with the white house and my hope is that we can all come together and pass the president's agenda and that was the...

Investment in health care, including providing dental, hearing, and vision for medicare beneficiaries, lowering the age of medicare eligibility to 60. we need to put that piece back in the bill to lower the price of prescription drugs. because we ran on, it is good policy, it's a real problem for the american people, and because it would help us pay for the changes and improvements to health care we want to make. >> you run for election in orange county. you converted a republican seat to a democratic seat. you obviously know how to talk to republican voters, and you know how to deal with that...

Changes and improvements to health care that we want to make. >> you run for an election in orange county. you converted a republican seat to a democratic seat. you obviously know how to talk to republican voters, and you know how to deal with that dynamic in your district, which not all democrats do. they don't all have mixed districts the way you do. so you also strike me as someone who knows how to talk to the people that are being now labeled moderates in the house who feel like they want to go slower on the reconciliation side, go smaller on the reconciliation side. how does your dialogue...

They can a little bit of a breakthrough in this process. >> right. garrett haake, you're obviously up there waiting for the president to arrive so we're going to keep an eye on your camera. but two-fold question for you because obviously the president is coming up there to try and take the temperature to convince the 50 democrats to get on board. he's got to did that on the reconciliation side. but i know you've also -- and our colleagues have also been talking with republicans who would be working on that bipartisan infrastructure plan because it is a very delicate balance to try to move thes...

We have a deal. we went from we have a deal to oh, wait, do we really have a deal? i mean, realistically just how precarious is this position? >> good morning, erica. it's very precarious. it was a long shot all along. this bipartisan group that put this together, it was a modest proposal. they took out a lot of things that are of importance to democrats just to make it palatable to some republicans. it's not very big. it's not very ambitious. some of the more controversial areas were moved over to the reconciliation side. the idea being if you can pass it with just 50 democrats plus the vice ...