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To the people that he's trying to reach. so i guess to answer your question, that was one difference, and broadly, i think, i would assess what he said today as confident. he's confident that he can get this done, and he's clearly -- he's heard some of the criticism that he hasn't gone out and sold this to the country enough, so he's going to do that too. he's going to go on the road next week and do more of that and basically try to gin up support for his agenda. >> jen psaki release add statement, so what's the purpose of that if we had just heard from the president himself? >> i think that'...

White house believes that's going to give space for those negotiations to go more in depth and happen in a way that both sides have crystalized their positions publicly and more committed to getting to a deal. >> is there any timeline from the white house? i know the president made a point of saying it could be as long as whatever. but obviously, speaker pelosi, whether you think she should have set a deadline or not, she did bring this to a head. if there's no urgency, this could just drag on. >> that's one of the risks here and so it's interesting. we heard the white house focus on this dead...

Rer, release add statement in part saying i'm sadly disappointed and dissolutioned with the process. she criticized the speaker's decision to delay the infrastructure vote again. a misguided attempt to assert leverage over the reconciliation bill? >> no one's going to assert leverage over president biden. two-term vice president. this is what he wants and that's what we were always saying. the idea a few progressives and the house were going to exert leverage over the peeker and the president is not true. he wants both of them because he wants to help people. stephanie murphy's been a construc...

Pelosi that she's not bringing the bill to the floor means this bigger $3.5 trillion or smaller package, however large it turns out to be, social safety net bill is so tied inextricably 2450 bipartisan infrastructure bill and they're concerned because the argument behind the scenes that leadership has been making according to aids i've been talking to is that bipartisan infrastructure bill is a gateway drug to the bigger socialist package. that's what republicans are calling it. so, if you vote for the bipartisan bill, you're helping bringing the bigger bill along. now that pelosi is saying th...

On the hill? clearly it seems the progressives are at least now going to be going back, looking, as she said, their priorities and perhaps coming down from the number of 3.5 trillion? >> and that's one of the reasons why white house officials i spoke with tonight feel pretty good about the visit to capitol hill accomplished. they feel he the president acommentlished what he went there to do. first of all to remind them of what's at stake. and more importantly, really to try to relieve some of the pressure that has been building up on capitol hill over the last several days. what's interesting ...