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Will be questioning the president here tonight. president biden arriving in cincinnati tonight for a cnn town hall meeting. as the white house urgently tries to sell its domestic agenda. >> there's nothing that america is unable to do when we do it together. >> but it congress, both sides are far from together. that divide was on full display again today as senate republicans voted against the president's bipartisan infrastructure plan in a key test vote. >> so who's playing games? >> raising questions about whether a deal can still be reached before democrats try passing a bill on their own. ...

This test vote needs the support of 60 senators, so that means 10 republicans, and we don't expect 10 republicans to vote for this. the reason is because they say they are still in the throes of negotiating their bipartisan infrastructure package and they don't want to vote to start this morose. this is not a vote on final legislation. this is just a vote to open up debate and start the process. and they say they're not willing to do it until they have a agreement and they have seen legislative texts. they've worked through the night and working all day today to try to finalize that, but they ...

It's at the heart of the news today, a test vote in the senate. as president biden is flying here to cincinnati. we do know that vote is going to fail because republicans say this bipartisan infrastructure bill has not had time to work through how it will be paid for. that does not mean it's not still important. in fact, that's one of the reasons president biden is coming to sfcincinnati. take a look at the pictures of the brent spence bridge. this is really exhibit a of infrastructure problems in america. it stretches from cincinnati to northern kentucky. this has been at the heart of every p...

Would lower prices. consumer prices rose 5.4% in june compared with a year ago. it was a large increase since 2008. joining us now. anne gearan. she is, i'm glad to sea, an msnbc contributor. good to see you. republicans have said they won't vote for this incomplete infrastructure bill. what do you think? what happens if tomorrow's vote doesn't pass? >> john, this is a bit of a game of chicken at this point. the ball is now more in schumer's court than in the republicans'. they've already said exactly what they're going to do. the question is whether he does, indeed, force this test vote tomor...

She's well within her right when the minority leader decides to activate people to overturn the results of the election and not only active participants in the dangers and what we saw in the insure rec insurrection of january 6th and leaders and drum majors of the insurrection. she's within her right to veto picks. i think they are frankly insulting and kevin mccarthy and kevin mccarthy's picks are insulting not just on a party basis but to this country. >> i don't disagree with you on that. so let's turn now into infrastructure. the senate minority -- majority leader excuse me, chuck schumer ...