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I mean the first challenge, of course, is republicans, which there's no republican support, so they are trying to pass this sort of second big grab bag of democratic priorities. what is really the crux of joe biden's domestic agenda through a reconciliation, a process that goes through only democratic votes. in the house they have a vote margin of three and in the senate they can't afford to lose a single vote. so you have this fascinating situation where, yes, there's clear disagreement with the republicans, but what we're really seeing play out now is the progressive wing and the moderate wi...

Senators and all but three house democrats agree this is sufficiently paid for. that is in the mind of the beholder. >> important point on the pay fors. the infrastructure plan looking to make long term investments in a way the economy will grow on its own and eventually pay for itself. in terms of taxing the rich, this is a core focus for the democratic party, and yes, you're seeing increases for taxing corporations, but you don't have the wealth tax in there. "new york times" puts it, it leaves the rich basically unscathed, why is that? >> they couldn't get democratic moderates to agree to i...

In the house, right? they're going to be focused on that more vast social spending reconciliation package and also there is a concern among progressives in the house that if you raise the infrastructure package immediately then some of that support may dwindle for the reconciliation package. meanwhile, moderates when you talk to people close to them they're saying, look. we've got our chips right now. let's cash it in. so it really poses this question that has come up before for the president. how do you unite and keep your party together to really pass these agenda items you've touted and mad...

The bigger human infrastructure bill were linked. you just said speaker pelosi is going to link the two or that is her plan. once the senate votes on this, have republicans lost their leverage, she can do whatever she wants? >> well, i mean, remember, this is a procedural vote when they go to -- today they do final passage on the hard bill. and they start on soft infrastructure, the human infrastructure. so the human infrastructure will be a democratic only bill. and democrats have the narrowest of margins, 50/50 in the senate. only three vote margin in the house. republicans are betting that ...

Growing impatience both at the white house against biden's advisers were also with democrats in the senate and progressive liberal leaders who are allied with the administration and these senators. they feel like enough is enough and were coming on the august recess. it's time now for schumer to call this vote, to call the republic who can blush and get to that vote margin and push this bill forward. we're gonna see whether the votes are really there when schumer begins the debate on this infrastructure bill. you know, a lot of people on the left feel like they've waited for too long now for a...