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Thank you all so very much. now we have got to turn to capitol hill, where in a few hours we're going to see the first vote on the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan group of senators worked through the night to try to craft the bill's language ahead of today's vote. so far, nothing has been finalized. joining me, national political reporter and white house reporter. so there's no bill yet. what are they going to vote on? if i found my dream house out there, would i make a bid on it without an inspection, without knowing what's inside, without knowing what it even cost? no, even if i loved ...

Vaccinated. president biden facing hurdles when it comes to key pieces of his agenda. jeff, what is at stake for the president tonight? >> reporter: that all certainly sets the table for the challenges facing the biden administration. we talked about that house committee investigating the insurrection on january 6th. perhaps all of this could have been foreseen. kevin mccarthy certainly appointed these members for reasons. speaker pelosi responded in kind. this was all fairly predictable. the reason it matters for the biden agenda is this, he really has a limited time period to get these agend...

Inherent disqualifier for those members. three of them voted to object to biden-won elector observe that evening. it turns out pelosi's reason for rejecting them was different. it was not because of their votes, it was about negotiations that she believed they had that were linked in some way form or fashion to that attack that she believed were unacceptable. and it seemts like the democratic caucus is supportive. >> we'll put a pin in this for a second and talk about the other big story on capitol hill. there's just so much news coming from across the street right now. this is about the vote ...

Character. he doesn't have a political bone in his body. >> reporter: and, david, no surprise, donald trump said there was never a coup attempt. >> martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thank you. now to that big test vote in the continuing bipartisan efforts to agree on president biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. not one republican vote for this today but as rachel scott reports tonight that doesn't mean that this won't happen. she's on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight senate republicans unanimously blocking an effort to move forward on a bipartisan infrastructure packag...

Senators worked late into the night. still no deal. walk us through where we are, where things stand and what's expected to happen this afternoon. >> reporter: that's right, aaron. they did work late into the night still trying to figure out the final remaining issues. senator rob portman the lead republican negotiator in this group said on cnbc just moments ago, they're down to four or five remaining issues that still need to be figured out and agreed to. well, this group is going to continue to meet today. but despite the progress, republicans insist that they are going to vote and block thi...