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House caucus that he has the agreement. that would facilitate the vote on the infrastructure bill. chris: speaker pelosi was on another sunday talk show this morning and she said, well, we may not have a deal on the reconciliation part, the big tax and spend part but we would have the framework. would that be enough for you? >> well, the details matter. my view is that the president's words saying i have the commitment of 50 senators and those 50 senators are going to vote for this bill and here are the details that that's good enough. different members have different issues about what is exac...

Have meaningful change. chris: on the spending side, as david spunt made clear, the president and democrats are coming down sharply from 3 and-a-half trillion dollars to somewhere closer to $2 trillion, tops and i want to put up some of the programs that could be cut back or eliminated. letting medicare negotiate lower drug prices, expanding medicare to cover vision, hearing and dental cost, paid leave, cut from 12 weeks as it was proposed to four weeks, scrapping the clean electricity program. here's white house press secretary jen psaki. >> come he pro mice is not a -- compromise is not a di...

Wallace host of "fox news sunday". a lot of movement this week trying to get a deal done. some democrats are very frustrated with the president and feel like they haven't pushed hard enough and looks like they'll have to take a haircut on all the different issues they wanted to get passed. kyrsten sinema said no to higher tax rates. senator manchin is fighting with bernie sanders but they project this confidence. how do you see it, chris? >> well, they aren't going to have a deal this weekend or even a framework this weekend and i doubt they will next week. self-imposed deadline of october 31....

Small businesses. this bill is superfluous to that. this bill has nothing to do with that. it's not going to make the inflation better, it's not going to make small businesses handle what is going on with worker shortages. it's so out there that wall street knows this and anything that waters this down both on the tax increases side, on the spending side, is a good thing. this thing is really interesting, neil. if there was ever a bill, a spending measure that was not needed, if the time was not called for it, it's this thing. the time is calling for getting people -- >> neil: you're talking a...

She cares more about taxes than the spending side that he cares about. yet she came through college through pell grants and cared about climate. >> her colleagues are more frustrated with her. i think you hit on it. she's also given a number she's comfortable with. tell us what's her end game here and also comparing with her colleague, park kelly. >> she takes the d after her name. seriously what you are seeing is that she's willing to walk away. as you know from your own reporting. the white house has always been confident. joe biden is the democrat and in