he said he's going to get this bill through. listen to him, and ultimately this will get passed because of the work he's done with those two moderates. is that enough to convince the progressives? i heard going into today there are about 55 house progressives who are threatening to vote against the bill because that larger package is not moving at the same time. emerging from this caucus meeting, pramila jayapal, the leader of the progressive caucus, she said she would vote against this if it were to come for a vote today, the infrastructure bill, and she said no minds have really changed in that room. nevertheless, pelosi said in that room, kate, the vote is going to happen today. a number of members stood up and cheered and said, "vote, vote, quote," but some members sat down and didn't vote. there's little margin for error for the president to get this done, and given we don't expect many republicans to vote for this infrastructure bill, they can't afford to lose that many to get the narrower package through. a lot of questio

on the reconciliation bill. we're eager to pass both of those bills. they represent the president's agenda. that's what he campaigned on. that's what people elected him, and that's what people expect from him. we campaigned in the same things, looking for both family and hard infrastructure. we campaigned, people elected us, and that's what they expect to see. so what you have seen as a result of there being no votes tonight is that there's been no agreement but that there is a desire to move the path forward. >> yeah. so, listen, i want to talk to you about -- you were with the house speaker tonight. let me just ask you this because the new thing is we just got the statement in from the white house. tell me if you think this is true. the white house says, while democrat dozen have some differ differences, we share common goals of creating good join jobs, building clean energy, and so on and so forth, making it seem the inference is that you're not that far off. you want the same things. a representative who was

is that going to be in the bill? >> that's what we're fighting for. >> senator sinema has said she will not support raising the corporate tax rate, raising the tax on high-wage earners, and president biden has acknowledged that might mean you can't pay for the rest of the bill using those sources of revenue. do you have an alternate way? >> we do. we were ready to pay for $3.5, so we certainly can pay for half of that. >> what is that alternate way? is it a billionaires' tax? >> the billionaires' tax has an appeal, but it doesn't produce that much money. because the bill is not written yet, and we hope it to be written today and introduced tomorrow, only then can the joint tax committee evaluate what it brings in. we ants pay $250 billion, but we need closer to $2 trillion. so we have other things? >> such as? >> we have enforcement. that's several hundred billion, the over seas harmonization of taxes, that's a few hundred billion. we have an array -- we have an array. i'm not going to say what they are. >> corporate

progressive democrats demanding votes on that bill and spending bill at the same time. a draft of biden's economic a ag agenda, nearly 2,500 pages, it was unveiled to day after the president delayed his overseas trip by several hours to personally plead with democrats to fall in line with what he calls an historic deal on the social safety net programs he's been talking about since the campaign trail. >> i'm pleased to announce that after months of tough and thoughtful negotiations i think we have -- i know we have an historic framework. >> biden wanted an agreement and vote on this bill before arriving overseas. he's not going to get it. if this deal on the sweeping spending bill comes together, it will be a huge victory for the president, for this administration. this deal touches virtually every american at many points in their life. it includes extending the child tax credit, billions of dollars for home care, two years of free pre k, $5 billion in clean emergency. it is not done yet. despite pelosi warning her caucus not to embarrass their president, some progressi

that means if you vote for the bipartisan bill, you're helping bring that bigger bill along. some republican senators are trying to say that's not the case. but now, that pelosi is saying these two bills are so linked, that really gives republicans who are thinking about helping pass that bipartisan bill some pause. anderson? >> appreciate it. joining us now, one of the recipients of the dear colleague letter, ro khanna. thankman, thanks for being with us. you heard the suggestions, that they're going to negotiate a lauer dollar figure of the $3.5 trillion safety net. do your agree with that? and how tough do you expect the negotiations to be? >> i do. the president always said we will negotiate. the president was inspiring today. i rap as a moderate democrat. we need a consensus on the b bigger bill to pass infrastructure. the other thing he said that was so important, is tell me what you are for. we're for child care for everyone. we're for making sure people get to go to community college. we're for seniors getting dental and vision. those opposed, tell us what policy you'

what dot democratic leaders do, punl punt the infrastructure bill because there's not going to be a bill to pass the house by tomorrow, certainly not by the end of the week. they're still negotiating on the larger package with joe manchin, and kyrsten sinema and manchin has pushed back on expanding medicare, a no go. bernie sanders on the left, liberals want that. paid leave for workers. joe manchin says no, liberals want that as well. you mentioned the billionaires tax, how to finance the overall package, manchin is resisting that as well. so as you can see a lot of difficulties for the party ahead, even as the white house and the democratic leaders are trying to get something together. when that will happen is anybody's guess, guys. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thank you: let's bring in cnn political analyst, and vp of digital content, natasha halford, welcome back. let's start with the president's spending package. first the question was what goes in it. now it's how do you pay for it. they blew through the end of september deadline, now you've got 40 democrats who were saying, the p

the $1.2 trillion bill. he's going to land here without those votes and without a clear path forward. >> i know we have an historic economic framework. >> tonight, president biden rolling the dice on his entire presidency. >> no one got everything they wanted including me. but that's what compromise is. >> with no sign yet it's a bet that will pay off. >> there are too many members for the bill to pass. too many no votes to pass today. >> in a push to jump-start his agenda, biden traveling to capitol hill this morning to lay out the key elements of a $1.75 trillion economic and climate package. not hedging on his view of the stakes of the moment as he prepared to travel to europe for two summits with world leaders. biden according to sources in the room telling democrats it's not quote, hyperbole to say that the house and senate majorities and my presence will be determined by what happens in the next week. speaker nancy pelosi telling democrats she planned to hold a a vote on biden's infrastructure package

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they want, this bipartisan infrastructure bill, and this economic bill. fred. >> daniela, thank you so much on capitol hill. jasmine, before departmenting t -- departing the white house, president biden had a few words that he extended. what did he say? >> reporter: the president said that these negotiations are ongoing. even as he spends the weekend here at his home in wilmington, delaware. moments after he's touched down, the white house released a statement saying that both he and officials will continue close engagement with members on the hill and even this weekend and next week that they will even be inviting them back to the white house all to try to get a deal both at $3.5 trillion spending package of the president's, that expansive social safety net so they can ultimately vote on both that, and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and now, president biden, when he was leaving the white house, he was pretty candid with reporters, including our own arlette saenz telling her, yes, there has been frustration on both sides with the moderates and progre

infrastructure bill. where things stand right now and the new deadline for getting it passed. >> all this curriculum highlights is meant white people and how she's victimized and speaks to nothing of the good. >> angry parents in parts of tennessee taking on a school district over how they teach lessons about race. the pushback from teachers coming up. >> stunning pictures out of spain. that's lava snaking down a mountainside. the warning for people who are living near this still erupting volcano. >> sunday, october 3rd. we are so grateful to spend some time with you this morning. as you take a look at the seven-day average of coronavirus deaths there. >> yeah. a lot to report on coronavirus as the federal government tries to fight these trends. federal employees now have a november 8th deadline to receive their final vaccine shot. that's according to a memo from the u.s. office of personnel management, detailing the process of enforcing president biden's vaccine and testing mandate. >> cases are decreasi

no vote in washington on the infrastructure bill -- or bills in the house and senate. i want to bring in now brian fallon and kaitlan collins back with me. kaitlan, now what? now what for the president? >> reporter: that's a good question. we do know that officials are saying these talks will continue tomorrow. we'll see if they get any closer to getting to a framework because this is a chief complaint that you heard from someone like senator bernie sanders tonight, saying that they were negotiating this late into the night. he was worried about what this was going to look like, calling it absurd at times. he was pretty frustrated with the idea that they were going to try to settle on something tonight so they could get that agreement to get to that infrastructure vote. and so whether or not they try to vote tomorrow, it really remains to be seen, don, because i don't think this morning aides thought they would be going this late into the night to try to get to a vote and then not ultimately get to one. they kind of thought speaker pelosi would delay the vote earlier i

he is bringing the bill that's stalled in the house, the larger language safety net bill. governor, thank you for being with us. there is a different tone that we're seeing now, some of the progressives backing in theory, in principle, the framework. but is the celebration premature? we haven't heard from senator manchin that he backs did or that senator sinema backs it, either. >> i'm apprehensive we'll reach a deal, that the framework will be there. it provides high-quality daycare and pre-k for three and four-year-olds for millions of americans. bigger and better access to health care, home health care for seniors and for americans with disabilities. i've been serving here in the senate for just over a decade. i've never seen a moment as encouraging as this when we are on the very verge of delivering significant expansions in support for the things that key families unite. if we get this we'll get the h health, the education for their families. >> you've been there a long time now? >> this is to back climate change, and as our country goes to 26, this is a decision to m

let's take a look at the bill. one part reads it would prohibit teaching students quote that an individual by virtue of an individual's race or sex bears responsibility for committing acts by other individuals in the past. does that sound like a dog whistle of critical race theory? >> the language of the bill is essentially a trojan horse. the bill is written in a way that probably is not objectionable in and of itself. as you referred to just a minute ago, there's a laundry list of words the author has identified as being violations of this new law. and it includes things like equity and social justice and a number of the other terms you mentioned. what this really would be doing is putting an enormous burden on our teachers, and this bill doesn't trust our teachers to do their jobs. >> these are conservatives, right, who are doing this? >> that's right. i believe this was passed on a party line vote. >> so, i thought conservatives didn't believe in censorship or banning things or cancelling things? >> this is can

why not advance the raskin-lieu bill to enable congress' contempt authority. >> what bill? >> the raskin-lieu bill, a resolution to -- >> well, we have the protect our democracy legislation which we will be advancing and is being led by adam schiff and jamie, that captures many of those concerns. but we don't take it to court. we subpoena people. they take it to court. but the fact is that that's why we're going to criminal contempt here because this goes beyond. >> that still relies on the discretion of the justice department. >> that does. it's a system of checks and balances. again, you will be seeing in november -- i don't have a date that we will be ready to come forward with our protect our democracy legislation, and that captures many of the ideas that members have put forth in that regard. i don't know if the republicans want to protect our democracy. so far we haven't seen a lot of evidence of that. but just in the prospect of maybe one day they think they'll have a republican president or we have a democratic president now and they want to protect our democracy fr

stop talking about what got cut from the bill and start talking about what is in the bill. >> gloria, to your point though isn't that what the president did this morning? >> he did. >> didn't he go to the hill to say precisely that and look at how it's played out. to your point, i'm not sure what is next. it's interesting that jayapal is saying they will draft a letter of support for the framework. what does that get you? kicking the can down the road again? >> we'll see what that gets us. let's see what happens in a couple of hours. that is story that's moving right now. i'm not quite sure what that means. i think bernie sanders is saying to the progressives, you know, just don't buy anything. we need to see what is in this before you're going to vote, which is, you know, it's a legitimate point of view obviously. >> sure. >> obviously. >> but they don't trust each oh, an -- and that's what is so remarkable. after the president has gone to capitol hill tries and today he -- today he leeves for europe, and he says, look, my presidency is on the line and yet there's still this problem

they might not pass the infrastructure bill today either. in the longer term, the white house and democrats interest getting closer to president biden's goals. that is, yesterday the gears really started engaging on negotiations between the white house, the house and senate leadership, kirsten sinema and joe manchin, the hold-out senators. they thought they could -- had a possibility of getting a comprehensive deal last night that would permit the passionage of the infrastructure bill. they depth. b -- didn't. but they are closer to getting that than they were before. in terms of a vote today, the most urgent thing, if they don't get the infrastructure bill, is to temporarily extend the federal highway program which expires at the end of the fiscal year, and the end of the fiscal year was last night. so you may see another punt, another short-term passage, kind of like the continuing resolution that kept the government from shutting down. they'll keep the highway program from shutting down, and they'll continue negotiations which may stretch

for that bipartisan infrastructure bill. they don't care. they're done with it. they'd rather have nothing. well today, democratic leaders in the white house floating yet another top line number, $2.1 trillion. look, the numbers are all over the map and one administration official seems to suggest that's all fuzzy math, anyway. telling john harwood and i quote, you may wind up with a bill that one person describes as 1.5 trillion and another describes as 2.5 trillion. there are many ways to skim the top line debate. what's a trillion here or there? look. the dirty secret that this official seemed to say out loud is that every single person in washington knows that these numbers fall way short of reality. way short of the ultimate tab for american taxpayers. because popular items like childcare, healthcare, child-tax credit, they're not just going to poof last for a couple years and then be gone the way all these top-line numbers assume. no. they're going to become permanent even though they're pretending right now that they

we are not going to vote for the infrastructure bill, unless we know what's in that social-spending bill. was that a mistake? >> it was not a mistake. in fact, we've seen moderates, in many instances, join progressives in september of this year in calling for the passage of both of those bills. which of course, was the original strategy. articulated by the president, himself, the speaker of the house, and the marjority leader. the problem is that senator manchin and senator sinema were not talking about the reconciliation bill at all. they weren't even trying to help pass this president's economic agenda which is why progressives said, no, we have to stand with the original strategy of passing both of these bills, together. that is what is going to deliver for the american people, and help us keep the majority going into november of 2022. by the way, those stakes that you just mentioned are blue states. okay. there is no reason why the two democratic nominees for governor in both of those states should have any trouble winning an election, and i believe that they will. and they will have

so, if you vote for the bipartisan bill, you're helping bringing the bigger bill along. now that pelosi is saying these two bills are so linked, that really gives republicans, who were thinking about helping pass that bipartisan bill, some pause. >> joining us one of the recipients of speaker pelosi's dear letter. you heard congresswoman suggest progresse progressives are going to look at priorities and maybe willing to negotiate a smaller figure. do you agree with that? and how tough do you expect negotiations to be? >> i do. the progressives have always said we will negotiate. the president was inspiring today. he said look i'm a moderate democrat, i ran as a moderate democrat but i believe we need have a consensus on the bigger bill to pass infrastructure and that has been the progressesival position. the other thing he said that's so important is he said tell me what you're for. we're for child care for everyone. we are for making sure people get to go to community college without debt, for seniors getting dental and vision. we're for bold policies under the climate

again, when one basket washington climate, which is a jobs bill, a bill for the children, for the future, is the healthcare piece of it, strengthening affordable care act, expanding medicaid, and expanding medicare. >> let's get into it, because they're important. >> then the third basket is we're getting into it -- just so we have the third bucket -- is the care. >> elder care, child care. >> child care and universal pre-k go together. when we say home health care, that's for elder or children, or siblings who are disabled, something like that. >> so is family leave going to make it into the final bill? family level? >> that's what we're fighting for senator sinema has said she will not support raising the corporate tax rate, raising the tax on high-wage earners, and president biden has acknowledged that might mean you can't pay for the rest of the bill using those sources of revenue. do you have an alternate way? >> we do. we were ready to pay for $3.5, so we certainly can pay for half of that. >> what is it a billionaires tax? >> that has an appeal, but doesn't produce that much money

let's defeat the bill. that's a real challenge for pelosi, as she's pushing forward for this vote to happen in the house tonight. >> i have two questions, brother. it's interesting, because everybody is trying to put the stink on manchin, and it's bernie saying don't even vote for that bill tonight. was manchin and/or sinema in the meeting you're talking about right now between cinema and the white house. >> they were not in the meeting, but they did meet for about 45 minutes together. we know they've also been asking discussions with various white house officials through the course of the last several days, including today. so there have been communication back and forth, but they were not at that meeting. this was a meeting between chuck schumer's staff and white house staff, including susan rice. she also is on the house side of the capitol, trying to sort out an agreement. the house was supposed to back into session this hour. they've delayed it for the next hour. so they're still scrambling to get a de

we need both of these bills. it is that simple. we need both bills. and so many of my colleagues and i don't care where they are in the spectrum want to know they're going to deliver on getting both of the bills. >> you said people are talking. some of the talk i wonder if you think is helpful, aoc said that joe manchin is fundamentally unserious. >> you know, look, joe manchin, i've known for a very long time. he was a very close friend of my husband. he represents the people that sent him to washington. so i don't think name calling -- i'm someone that had a long history of saying we should treat each other civilly, be working together bipartisanly and name calling is not a useful thing. i'm not going to call out anybody, you know, specifically. i just hope we can all really work hard to listen to each other, to respect each other, and to figure out how we're going to get this done together. >> it is hard to see how there would be a vote today. what do you think? >> nancy pelosi, i would never underestimate. we'll see what's going to happen. i think

>> oh, yeah, both bills. we're going to get both bills passed very soon. and we will do our part in the house and then, obviously, the two senators have to stick to what they need to do to deliver. and just remember, jake, 96% of the democratic party was on board with a much bigger bill, but we understand that we have only 50 votes in the senate. it's a very thin margin. only three votes to spare in the house. and we all have to work together. so i think we've pushed and pushed and pushed. we got to the best possible place we could get to and now we're ready to pass both bills through the house. >> i hear on the 96%. it's that 4% that makes you the majority. pramila jayapal, thank you. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jake. >>> prescription drug reforms are out of the biden agenda for now leaving so many americans continuing to struggle to cobble together enough money for life-saving medicine. we'll bring you that story. >>> plus, the fda now clearing pfizer's vax for kids as young as 5. we'll talk to an expert next. ♪ there are beautiful ideas that rem

was it bill clinton himself or -- >> bill clinton himself, and he has, you know, a couple of people. but, yeah, this is president clinton saying, i need to get in there. and i'm sure hillary clinton's with him in southern california right now, and she's an incredible caretaker of him as he's had to go through these ups and downs with his health in the past decade. >> thank you, douglas. thank you, dr. reiner. i appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> i want to turn now to cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein and senior legal analyst elie honig. good evening, gentlemen. so here we go. the drama continues, and it's -- anyways, elie, the january 6th select committee officially saying they are moving to hold trump ally steve bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena, but this is an uphill battle. how long could i t how can he no? i mean when you look at the facts here, steve bannon has zero legitimate basis. he's saying executive privilege. he's saying attorney-client privilege. those things have no application to someone who is not an attorney and was n

and we still do not have a bipartisan infrastructure bill passed into law. and that became clear after the president joe biden came here to capitol hill and met with his house democratic caucus. biden came up with a compromise between moderates and progressives that at this point everybody seems to be on board with as they move ahead to the next step. he asked the group to just take a hold, let's not vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package yet and let's continue to negotiate the much broader $3.5 trillion social safety net package with the caveat that the price tag on that social safety net package needs to come down. and it seems democrats are in a place where they agree. the other thing that the president told this group was to not be in a rush to get this done. take a listen. >> you're asking a thousand different questions and they are all legit. i'm telling you, we'll get this done. it doesn't matter when. doesn't matter six minutes, six days or six weeks. >> reporter: so biden essentially freeing democrats to not abide by the self-imposed deadline

i think sometimes what is in the bills and what's not in these bills does get lost at times. i wonder, you know, what you say, especially this time where i think we see the effects of climate change all around us, how do you think history will judge climate skeptics in american society right now? >> you know, i can't even speculate about how it will judge. but i will say that i am in the moment, we are are living in the moment and it is in this moment that we must act. on a personal level, i just want to say to people, imagine yourself in a mature forest, surrounded by wild nature, it can't speak for itself. it doesn't have a huge lobby the way the timber industry does. we have to fight for the forests so that our -- it is already -- our children, grandchildren, the history, so it will be there for people to stand in and appreciate and take in and be part of. so that is my plea to people, really see the -- on the microlevel what it means to you and your family, plus, taking these provisions out will free up money, even if we don't totally reduce all the costs. we take these p

we have put the bills basket together as was the original agreement and will deliver both bill just the infrastructure bill which is important and the build back better act. >> i'm sure you have seen congressman got timer and senator sinema releasing statements. got timer accused you of freedom caucus tactics. senator sinema called the move a stunt. saying that the delay erodes trust and that she does not trade her vote for political favors. pretty harsh words, fellow democrats. >> yeah. it was unfortunate because we believe that it was a bad move to put an arbitrary date on this infrastructure bill and to delink the two to start with. we have been clear for three and a half months and said to news media they're two senators. listen. we have got a very slim majority in the house as well and we should be clear that this was a majority of our caucus so it's not just a few people. we had over 60 votes and that number increasing of people who were desperately committed to the idea that we are not leaving anybody behind. >> right. but at least senator sinema is opposed to some of the substan

there's no alternative for a larger bill. the only alternative is that there's no bill at all. and that's why you're seeing president biden speak so candidly as he did last night during that town hall about realistically what's going to be in this bill and what's going to be cut from it, including one of his biggest priorities that he touted time and time again on the campaign trail which was two free years of community college. the president openly saying it's because senator manchin and senator sinema are opposed to it that it's not going to make it into this bill. it's not just that. of course also the paid family leave being slashed from 12 weeks to four weeks. the idea of not raising corporate taxes which is polling as one of the most popular aspects of this proposal. now seems unlikely to be the way the white house is going to pay for it as democrats are trying to figure out a new way to do so. the final hours are ticking on. the white house saying there's not a deadline even though democrats have the self-imposed deadline of today to make an announcement about a agreemen

back better bill ready. the senate can pass it. then we can pass it in the house, and we'll be able to pass both bills at the same time. and we will not be delayed so much so that the american people will be at a disadvantage. i think that should be very clear. we're getting our job done, but we're doing it the right way. >> thank you so much. as they say, don't be a stranger. it's good to see you. >> thank you for having me. have a wonderful weekend. >> you as well. >> we're working hard. >> i want to bring in now presidential historian jon meacham. he is the writer and narrator of the podcast "it was said." jon meacham, good to see you, sir. doing okay? >> i'm in one piece. how are you? >> what a week politically. i'm doing very well. thank you very much. president biden is vowing to get these deals done and says that the timeline isn't important, you know, as important as the folks in the media are making it out to be. when it comes to his legacy, will anyone remember all this wrangling if these bills ult

he said he wants both bills to pass. he asked for votes on both bills. he went in to some detail on the framework. i would say nothing different than what i knew before. and i thought he was, you know, really impressive with his knowledge of all the pieces of the bills. he did not ask for a vote on the bill today. the speaker did. he did not. he said he wants votes on both bills and said what we do on these two bills is going to be determinative for how the world sees us, which i -- >> progressives then -- >> we're going to meet, but i can tell you that, you know, we have had a position of needing to see the legislative text and voting on both bills and we'll see where people are. but i think a lot of people are still in that place. >> you don't think your caucus is ready to vote on it this week? >> let me have our caucus meeting first and then i'll let you know. >> cnn political director david shallian joining me. the speaker would like a vote today. based on that reading, what we just heard from the congresswoman, we heard from senator dick durbin a sh

bill. nancy pelosi telling her colleagues more time is needed. and we have heard from people who say they have seen gabby petito. will your mail be delayed? i want to bring in political commentator david axel rod. good evening to you. for a friday night we got hasn't to talk about. >> yeah. >> president biden bound to get his agenda through. >> we're going to get this through. it doesn't matter when. it doesn't matter whether it's in six minutes, six days or six weeks, we're going to get it done. >> so democrats got this far because they had a deadline. now they don't have one. so what happens if this drags on? >> they don't have an immediate deadline. time is pressing in on them. i think they have to understand they have to come to an grammy. he's not wrong. we tend to judge things in the moment. if he gets a deal, people aren't going to grade him on style point or speed. they're going to grade him on the deal itself and the fact he got one. he's not wrong about that. this is kind of like

the two bills are going to pass. it is a question of sequence and timing and what it really means is the incredible investment in america. that is to me because as the secretary of energy i am very focused on building out a clean energy future and making sure we address climate change. the provisions in these two bills, bipartisan infrastructure deal and the framework so fantastic for addressing climate change. the fact everybody is in favor of both bills and it is just a question of a few days or the sequence to me is fantastic. >> i haven't been able to get anybody in the biden administration to say, point blank, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will vote for the bill back better act. will they? >> who are's what i can tell you. i haven't talked to senator sinema but i talked a lot to senator manchin and the white house obviously has talked a lot to both of them. the stuff in the framework are things that have been discussed over and over and i know the white house would not have put it out there without feeling very

, the build back better bill, over the infrastructure bill. so there is a dissonance between what's happening in west virginia with the coal miners and in georgia with black citizens inside atlanta. >> i want to touch on something jackie said because it's significant. nancy pelosi used to refer to them as the majoritymakers which were the moderate democrats from swing districts that made her the house speaker. jason alt meyer from pennsylvania. joe manchin does not get replaced by a more liberal democrat, right? >> no. >> who knows about arizona. i find it hard to imagine that the same happens with sinema, but especially with joe manchin. if joe manchin were not there, then the democrats would not be in control of the senate. none of this debate would be happening. >> that's right. but they still hate him. >> raphael warnock, too. if he's not there in two years they don't get the majority. >> there's a fundamental question over whether the $3.5 trillion is existential which way? as you're pointing nout georgia, it may work out well for you. in

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a bill introdue bill introduced that shield when internet companies knowingly or recklessly used personalized ail gore algorithms. i should note there are note republican co-sponsors on that bill just yet. the other idea being kicked around is to create more competition in the marketplace. the house judiciary committee passed a package of antitrust bills earlier this summer. there were a couple of republicans who supported those measures, but those bills have not received a vote in the house floor yet. so, look, even though there is bipartisan anger as you mentioned, it is unclear whether that is going to actually translate into action. and part of the problem is that democrats and republicans while they agree about the need to rein in silicon valley, they have disagreements over how best to do that and what that should look like. the other big issue is money. big tech is one of the biggest political spenders in washington. they have been some of the most powerful and untouchable industries on capitol hill. this is what david cicilline, a member of the house judiciary committee told me. he sa

there are a lot more than these five in the bill. we are prioritizing these five and we've said, this is what we need to see and we will take a shorter number of years, for exactly the reason that probably 70% of democrats feel that way, as well. because how do you pit child care against paid leave? how do you pit pre-k against housing? how do you pit climate change against any of those things? that's why we think it makes sense, if you look at our five priorities, we would be willing to cut down the years a little bit, but we need to have all of those priorities in the bill. >> okay. so in other words, you do not agree with speaker pelosi, who had said her conclusion was that you'll have to do fewer things well. you don't want to do fewer things well. you want to do the same amount of things for a shorter amount of time. >> well, it was a little confusing, what the speaker said, but she did clarify the next day and walked that back and said, actually, there are some things that we will cut out, but when you look at these five priori

there's times when we received bill text 30 minutes before voting on the bill. that's unacceptable. especially when we're making the biggest social investment since the new deal. i want to see bill texts the way joe manchin gets an opportunity to go through it line-by-line. my associates and i need to go through it line-by-line, as well. we are finally on the precipice of investing in public housing, for example, in the way where we haven't done in decades. investing in -- extending the child texas credit. investing in universal prek. universal child care. taking care of our seniors. balance reduction. we have to get this right. and unfortunately, the deadlines have sped up the consciousness of the country, wanting us to do it a big quitter. we quicker. >> you talked about the mentality. do you think some of the folks -- i guess specifically joe manchin, that they have this idea, maybe, of a mentality when we're living in a -- do you understand what i'm saying? he is talking about coal. everyone would love everyone in coal country to have a job. that's not where the world is anymore

spending bill. if all of their priorities are included, would you support that? if not, what would you support? >> well, i don't want to give a nu number. we're in a good place now. we passed the extension to the road transportation bill and for 30 days highway extension so we have a good chunk of time to work at that table where we all have a seat. so let's see what happens when we put our priorities in and when we look at maybe cutting the time in half and see what numbers we come up with. i couldn't even guess at this point. >> speaker pelosi says she wants to see infrastructure passed by october 31st. progressives want the two bills tied together but there is still a lot of work to be done on that larger spending bill. do you think that date, that deadline is realistic? >> well, i think it's kind of realistic because that's when the service runs out for the bill we passed friday night. when that ends we have to pass something to continue it and everything is in that transportation bill. it depen

she would vote no tonight on the bill because she wants these two bills to move in tandem. other progressive democrats told me they want at least some public sign of support from manchin and sinema that they would back the larger bill even if it does not have a vote in the house at the same time. moments ago i caught up with joe manchin and asked him why not support this bill? the liberals say they want your support publicly. he said, if they can't take the word of the president of the united states and the speaker we are in trouble. he said we are going to work in good faith but notably would not say if he backs this bill he did indicate to me he is open to that, potentially supportive of the $1.75 trillion price tag higher than he wanted but still no sign of support. >> president biden came into office touting america is back on the world stage and has his first meetings in italy tomorrow where you are. then the climate conference in scotland next week. how does he explain having a democratic house, senate, whoit house, and yet can't close this deal? >> that is going to b

bill stands? >> erin, it's not going to come for a vote. the president has said, the speaker has said that they have to come together. let me just briefly explain why. when that bipartisan deal was negotiated, it was with 19 senators. there wasn't a single house member involved, not even the house transportation chair. we wanted to amend it. we wanted to add electric vehicle provisions, we wanted to add clean energy standards. the president and speaker said, no, do it in a separate bill. so both bills have to move because we are not allowed to amend what the senators came up with. >> right. but part of the reason they did that ostensibly with some of the things you mentioned is it wouldn't have passed the senate. it would have been an un-passable piece of legislation. somebody like joe manchin wouldn't get onboard. i am just wondering if ultimately you have to choose between getting that bipartisan bill or nothing at all, do you choose nothing or do you choose the bill? >> i don't think that will

and the other bill, $3.5 trillion bill. progressives want this bill because it would expand the nation's social safety net tackling climate change, child tax credit, paid family leave. this is something president biden promised americans he would pass. moderates and progressives have different goals here. moderates want to pass a this. progressives don't want to vote it until details are ironed out. that is what president biden and democratic leaders faced this week. he made it clear they needed to work together to get those votes passed. the congresswoman head of the congressional cause cuss said she was optimistic. take a listen to what she said. >> six minutes, six days, six weeks, we'll get this done. we need a little time to negotiate. there was a lot of time to negotiate. i was wrong. i'm happy to be wrong about that. now we need a little time to negotiate on this build back better act. i believe we'll be able do that. >> bottom line here, leaders will work with those. moderates will want the infrastructure bill that

, the infrastructure bill, the economic climate bill, the vote is not really expected to happen on tuesday. it is likely to happen after tuesday. is that your understanding of how things stand right now? do we think that's going to happen after tuesday, and are we going to see a vote this week? >> well, i hope we'll see a vote on the infrastructure bill as soon as possible. this bill passed the senate with 69 votes back in august. we should have voted in august. we should have voted in september. we should have voted in october. but ideally we'll vote as soon as we possibly can in november. as for the build back better act, final text is supposed to come out tomorrow. i think it's wholly appropriate for legislators who will be voting on it to ensure that we have time to read through the final version. so i can't predict whether or not that bill will get a vote this coming week. i hope that -- i expect we'll have enough time to do due diligence. already just reading through the drafts that came out, my team and i found some just basic typos, right? if we are going to be legislating to this

that is out of the bill. they, despite the push by the white house to potentially move that down to four weeks, joe manchin is simply not there. and on the senate floor tonight, this was intense lobbying effort to get him to change his mind. one democratic senator told me that they -- that democrats are, quote, pissed at joe manchin and trying to get him to change course. but manchin is indicating he is not. he is also opposed to the expansion of medicare to include dental, vision, and hearing. bernie sanders is still pushing for that, as are many liberals. there are a number of key policy issues. and then, there is a strategy, kate, the infrastructure bill. separate bill hanging in the balance because progressives are warning that they will sink that bill in the house if it comes up for a vote tomorrow which is possible that it could. unless manchin and sinema agree to a larger plan and some liberals even going further. they want that larger plan to pass the house, first, before agreeing to support the infra

the bill, here's what it would do. you even talked about it with joe manchin, right, his bill, some good things in there. i think i have discussed that with you. but the bill would make it easier to register to vote, make election day a holiday, ensure states have voting for federal elections and allow all voters to request mail-in ballots s that so wrong? >> sounds pretty normal. >> no, i think most of those provisions are reasonable. i mean, i support early voting, no excuse absentee voting, election day, should it be a holiday? okay. the question comes down to should the federal government be mandating this? i served in the state legislature for 14 years. i thought that was the purview of the states. you know, i get it. we have a voting rights act, some states abused african americans years ago and we had to correct that at a national level. some of those provisions i think, frankly, ought to be enacted at the state level and many states have done so. >> thank you, both. i appreciate it. i have to move on. see you s

but we want to move both bills in tandem, and the second bill, the bill that deals with the needs of the working class of this country in terms of child care, in terms of pre-k that deals with the existential threat of climate, that bill is still being worked on literally today, it will be worked on tomorrow, i believe we're making some progress in making it stronger than it is. >> if you don't succeed in that progress, will you support the framework as it currently stands, what the white house released at the end of the week? >> well, all i will tell you is we have a very, very strong bill, and it deals with the fact that we are going to start paying attention to the needs of working parents, continue that $300, we're going to build affordable housing, we're going to make sure that elderly people and people with disabilities can stay at home rather than be forced into a nursing home, et cetera. we have to demand the wealthiest people in this country pay their fair share of taxes. >> sounds like a yes. >> it's a very good bill, nope, but i am right now i can tell you, i worked yester

, excuse me, on both of these bills on the same day. bull there are still so many sticking points that need to be resolved on this separate economic bill that you were just talking about, christine, especially the price tag for this bill. it was originally $3.5 trillion. again, senator joe manchin is bringing that price tag down, and how it will be paid for. it's really unclear right now how democrats are going to pay for the plan, and whether a proposed tax on billionaires is going to be included. again, after senator joe manchin said he objected to including that as a pay-for for this package. manchin expressed concern over the expansion ever medicare to cover hearing, dental and will vision benefits which was another key priority for progressives. but this really shows how president joe biden needs all democrats united behind these bills because they want to pass this using a process called budget reconciliation. so every single democrat needs to get behind this. so that's the bottom line here for why president joe biden is visiting

bill? >> can i say one thing. something manu was just reporting on, playing the sound from pramila jayapal, who is the chair of the progressive caucus. while they're saying, hold on, madame speaker, we don't want to vote until we see the legislative text, until we can vote on these two bills together, that is true. but one thing she said was really striking. she said, we enthusiastically endorse this framework. they support the framework, in theory. reluctantly so, as she said, because it doesn't have a lot of what they wanted in it, but that is a big deal. that is a big deal. that's a giant hill the progressives seemed to have swallowed. it's a pill in theory but still something they are agreeing on. it seems as though if you listen to her, it's, not necessarily a matter of if or when, assuming everything that was presented to them by the president, by the speaker, comes to pass. >> again, we're waiting for speaker pelosi to walk into the room. in the meantime, let's bring in kon congressi

this is the bill that the american people voted for, is an economic bill. it creates good paying jobs. it addresses the climate crisis, puts people back to work. it has gender and racial equity embedded throughout the entire bill. what we're doing and very well i think even though it's a heavy lift when you have a couple of senators who just haven't quite frankly at least negotiated the final deal, but our speaker, president biden, senator schumer, everyone's working really hard on this. i've been in three meetings with the president, and i have to just tell you he's very forthright, very honest about this. and he is working on both bills since we have to both in order for the first one to be a bill that will work with the participation of everyone in our country. so build back better, infrastructure bill, both of them are what the president campaigned on, and we've got to pass them both. and we're heading in that direction. >> i want to ask you about -- switching gears a little bit -- january 6th. a federal judge said yesterday that the defiant rioters who

he is urging the president to lean on them to let the bill pass. warner believes it will help former virginia governor mcauliffe capture his old job next month. that may be easier said than done. cnn's daniela diaz has the latest. good morning. the democratic leader is promising a big week ahead. what's he got in store? >> reporter: laura, in a dear colleague letter, he said next week will be a pivotal moment for biden's agenda. it's crunch time. there are still a lot of details to iron out with the massive economic bill that is stalled because of two moderate democratic senators being able to agree on what the details would be. all the names we mention all learned that -- progressives who are withholding their vote until this economic bill is finalized. we also learned that her and manchin do not agree with a $2.1 tril $2.1 trillion price tag being floelted for what this economic bill will cost. perhaps one of the biggest sticking points on this is that manchin does not agree with the climate provisions that were originally included in this legisl