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Conference at the capitol. >> i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. >> i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. >> we d...

Clyburn who i served with in congress and he talked about compassion and i am really glad that there has been a deal made although i have not seen the results of it i think speaker mccarthy has done an excellent job in shepherding this for the republican majority in congress. particularly, on the work requirement issue and we will see where that lands but to me is compassionate if you have a work requirement for able-bodied well fared recipients particularly if you can utilize worker training as a way to get him to move up the economic ladder. able body training, work, responsibility, to me, t...

Group of hard right members, but certainly, this is not good for kevin mccarthy. but what we've seen is the leadership on both sides. so both kevin mccarthy and hakeem jeffries really spend the day trying to spin this in a positive light for each representative side. >> and there's some grumbling among democrats. >> there certainly is. that was the first text i got this morning, from a chief of staff of a prominent progressives, saying that there is a lot of anger and disappointment that the kegs made on the work requirement might undermine the american rescue plan. so i think the prevailing w...

The union" with jake tapper. >> why was it so important for republicans to have this work requirement with able-bodied recipients with dependents but not require corporations to pay some taxes if they make a profit. >> joe biden raised taxes on corporations by $700 billion last year. there was not, frankly, an appetite among republicans to allow democrats to do that again. what there is an appetite for is making sure we're helping people find that pathway out of poverty. i grew up in a family of modest means. i saw my family busting their butts every day. it's those efforts that helped us esca...

But let's see what the white house does in there. there's a 12% exemption for every state through the state uses to exempt people we loaded up to eight which of the eight and 49 to 54 so encompasses more people. what is to be exempt? veterans i think that's appropriate veterans get accepted. >> those are dollars you talk about benefits. at the end of the essays more money what is the work requirement do? but only at able-bodied people no dependents. cinnabar inc. money from china to pay somebody to sit on the couch we now give them a process to go get a job. every study has shown when you do t...