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The president's ambitious agenda is enting a make-or-break period. house speaker nancy pelosi is facing a party at odds with itself and a looming deadline to move the president's agenda forward. can she strike a balance between progressives and moderates in the party, and what's at stake for the president and his sweeping proposals? let's bring in cnn's senior white house correspondent phil mattingly and congressional correspondent jessica dean. jessica, the deadline set by speaker pelosi for a vote on this $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure explain week from today. what's the holdup you ...

The obama case one fifth as many, down to the border and they were assisting the border patrol in five, six, 7% of the apprehensions. not really an effective strategy. and remember that the president said they will remain on the border until the wall is built. that's a big ticket item. >> that could be a long time given the success of the president's attempts to build the wall. ray, good to talk to you. thank you, my old friend. ray suarez, journalist and author. up next scott pruitt is pushing back to try to defend himself, albeit without much success against the avalanche of critics and et...

V.a. secretary david shulkin again denying the administration's claim that he resigned. add that to the turmoil cabinet this morning with the rumor that scott pruitt is on thin ice. he's under fire for report zli renting a $50 a night room in a capital condo. it was apparently linked to a lobbyist. first air blake joining me now. aaron you are writing about specifically this prosecuuitt c situation and what you call swampy as specks to it right? >> there are a if you remember of red flags. this was ang arrangism in which scott pruitt stayed in this condo, he only paid for nights in which he ac...

With some staying at luxurious accommodations for long periods of time. hadley, really? >> yeah. as if the irs was a particularly popular or likable arm of the federal government anyway. i don't know how you defend something like this. this is the kind of attitude that americans are sick of. it's a some of us are more equal than others animal farm kind of mentality. shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars that way and there's no defense of it. >> john, long stays at the grand hyatt, the ritz carlton, renting a $1 million house out in the burbs outside of d.c. >> why is no one ever prosecuted in...