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Media shy and the president has been very clear where he stands on what congress should be doing. >> members of congress talking to the president's negotiating team say biden is keeping his team's hands tied. >> what we need is is a team fy empowered by the white house to get the thing done. >> they are absolutely empowered. >> this is a team that the president collect selected himself. >> the administration is signaling any deal will need to garner dozens, if not 100 or more democratic votes. as in recent years, including under former president trump. progressives have more than 100 members. ...

Will give democrats actual majority on committee to speed up the process of confirming nominees as well as a little more breathing room on their whip count." . this is not the cleanest elevator pitch to make to entire voters. on the gop side, it does meet some committee positions and so forth, republicans would desperately love to win this seat. >> absolutely. this is a firewall against the biden agenda and it is a firewall against chuck schumer in the senate to the point relative to the committees. those break downses are done after the majority are set and minority are set of what the number...

Reconciliation that is substantive. therefore, you have to cloak it or couch it in a similar -- this week it's called an amendment, that is last week it was. is that going to serve you well in your life? >> -- parliamentarian as an immigration project inhibit your ability to produce an impartial judgment on immigrant relief proposals? >> i mean, the judgment about the parliamentarian is one for the senate, for the senate. i just don't agree with the original -- that the policy outweighed the budgetary aspects of the bill. but she's the parliamentarian. you have to talk to the senate about judg...

Substantive. therefore, you have to cloak it or pouch it in a similar amendment. last week was called an amendment as well. an amendment in the fach of substitute. >> reporter: are you concerned parliamentarian -- inhibits her ability to produce an impartial judgment on immigrant relief proposals? >> i mean, the judgment about the parliamentarian is one for the senate. for the senate. i just don't agree with the original -- that the policy outweighed the budgetary aspects of the bill. but she's the parliamentarian. you have to talk to the senate about judgments about their people. >> reporter:...

Virtually nothing to reduce transmissions." he speaks for mainstream progressives who are not happy with the infrastructure bill on its own. that is a disconnect. one interesting piece of news last night, stephanie, senator kerstin sinema, a centrist democrat, spoke to her home state paper, the arizona republic, and said she's particularly excited about the climate change provisions in reconciliation, that arizona has suffered the effects of the climate crisis, including droughts and wildfires and shrinking lakes, and she wants to address that. how this moves forward is unclear. that bill in t...