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Transformative terms like f.d.r., like lyndon johnson with the great society and the new deal. the problem is he doesn't have roosevelt or l.b.j. majorities. a three-vote margin in the house and a zero vote margin in the house and yet trying to pass sweeping huge spending. that's a lot harder to do when you have literally no vote margin. you can't lose a single vote in the senate and three in the house. as a result, you have in the house progressives saying, you know, we're not going for this. they can block the infrastructure bill and then in the senate you have people like joe manchin and kr...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. that's why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the actions his administration took including at this point we're 77, 78% of the public having received one v...

Progressives could vote no, more than ten gop members could vote yes. but the math doesn't addup. it begs the question, is the president's domestic agenda too ambitious in a split senate and house with a three vote margin? >> from what i can imply from what you say is that we should just have done nothing because we had a slim majority? that's not who we are. no, it's not too big. in fact, it will be a compromise. >> reporter: pelosi believes the bill will pass, maybe later tonight. jim clyburn said he has the votes to avert a government shutdown. the lights remain on until december 3rd. >> br...

Margin in the house, he understands, i understand, i think the majority of the american people understand, because what we are doing is and norm asleep popular. the american rescue plan was popular, this is popular. the american people want us to address the crises facing working people, and have the guts, finally, to stand up to the big money interests in the united states congress. >> you name the most difficult part of this, which is you need a unanimous vote and unanimity is tough. you come out of this, some universe of old left, you know unanimous consensus groups, trying to get people to...

Raise the revenue we need to pay for this, by the way, chris, your point about taking a look at what we are trying to do. the evidence is overwhelming that when you invest in child care when you invest in education when you invest in children you get that investment back, many times over. in terms of climate, what are we supposed to say, how do you deal with this issue, how much is too much when you're talking about saving the planet? how much? and if the planet goes down in 50 years, well, gee whiz, how much we had spent or not spend? it's crazy stuff, and every economist understands, economi...