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Manchin. we have a photo, with each other before some votes earlier today. senator sinema who was he had with the white house more times than you can count this past week says talks have been productive and they are making progress, but there's nobody in this town who thinks they are going to have even a framework, right? we have agreed to spend, you know, the house democrats want $3.5 trillion, agreed to spend $2 trillion and these programs would be part of it. that might satisfy enough progressives. we're not going to get there today, right? >> doesn't seem like it. a matter of shuttle diplo...

Will vote no. >> i think we're in a good place. we're making progress. i can't stay here too long because i have to deal with step by step with this, but i'm only envisioning taking it up and winning it. i do not plan on not doing anything. i plan on moving forward in a positive way. we are on a path to win the involvement i don't even want to consider any options other than that. >> that's her trademark and it's part of her strategy, stay upbeat, but -- >> but the votes aren't there right now, right, and everything in pelosi's mantra of governing, her main idea i will not bring a bill to the ...

The big democratic spending bill as full of vital investments and things like child care, pre-k and health care and joe manchin calls it fiscal insanity, and we'll hear from him any moment now up on capitol hill. let's go to manu raju. there's senator manchin. let's listen. >> okay. who is first? >> i'll go. >> senator. you are always first. >> what's your expectation -- what's your message to progressives who worry, you know, that this isn't going to come together? >> it's got to come together. we have a real good piece of legislation that's over in the house right now, two good pieces of leg...

Meetings with senator sinema. my colleague kaitlan collins said he spoke to senator manchin by phone. there's been a series of meetings over the last several days and they were expected to continue at least by phone over the course of the morning. one thing to keep in mind when it comes to how the president approaches this moment in time he has implicit trust in speaker please, and he's never going to go in a different direction than she's going. she's made very clear for the morning the direction she's heading and the white house is not going to verge from this point but they are also very cl...

We call general dollar senator, dollar general, they are no longer dollar general, they are now 1.25 or 1.50 general. that's hard for people in west virginia who shop there. we need to take a lot of this in consideration and we have a lot of good things we can do. here's the thing, you've got the the infrastructure bill, this bill that we have right now and a reconciliation bill. i'm willing to sit down and work through that $1.5 and get our priorities and they can come back and do later and run on the rest of it later. i think there's many ways to get to where they want to, just not everythin...