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By. what's the president planning here in the days and weeking ahead to try to lock this thing in? >> reporter: he understands after yesterday everything that we saw that maybe moderates like sinema needed time to be angry and at the end of the day they know that the votes just were not there. he made that clear on friday with the democratic lawmakers in the house. so moderates wanted the infrastructure alone package. they wanted to do a much more scaled down social safety net program and the president said this cannot be a zero sum game. they have to give and gave them a range if you will tha...

We have fox team coverage. north carolina republican congressman will join us to weigh in on this in a few minutes. but we begin tonight with mark meredith, live at the white house. >> good evening, jon. president biden says he's convinced that congress will eventually get around to passing his economic agenda. after a wild week at capitol hill, not even some democrats are convinced it is going to happen. the president went up to the hill on friday to get a chance to convince some of these lawmakers to vote his way. he wants moderates and progressives to make a deal and pass a massive spending...

Lower prescription drugs and help on childcare and community college and all these other things. it also will create millions of jobs, many of them tackling climate change. and it's paid for. and that's a good package for the american people. we want to get as close as possible to president biden's vision and i think we can still get there. >> what's your reaction to those who say that democrats talk about this social spending bill like it's a safety net program for the poor, when it's really a government subsidy engine for everybody including the rich? we just heard jonathan kott, former aide...

Different bills, the bipartisan infrastructure deal and the social safety net program, that they were going to move along on the same track. and the second that the moderates decided that they wanted to do it in two different pieces of legislation, two different points in time, they no longer felt that they were b bargaining in good faith. and they are not going to feel comfortable. and they've really not backed away from this at all without seeing that bill passed in the house and the senate, the big $3.5 trillion plan. that, for them, is an assurance. they're open to some other guarantee tha...

Little bit more than 24 hours before a potential government shutdown, and if congress lets that happen, hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be furloughed, and millions of social security payments could be threatened. now, solving that could be easier than getting his two signature pieces of legislation passed, the infrastructure bill and his social safety net program. the total price tag is in the trillions of dollars and mean new tax hikes and it is a few fellow democrats who are standing in the way. the white house has gone into overdrive tonight to try to win last-minute suppor...