bill. >> i have consistently said that we need a vote in the senate. >> moderates push back on the price tag. >> i'm not asking them to change. i'm willing to come from zero to 1.5. >> even as they agree both bills must pass. >> we all have one common vision. failure is not an option. >> my guests this morning, senator bernie sanders of vermont and senior white house adviser cedric richmond. >>> plus, facebook under fire. >> facebook knows that its services are actively harming young children. >> -- for reportedly hiding research showing its instagram platform is harmful to teenagers. i'll talk to tech journalist and co-host of the podcast sway, kara swisher and one of the leading reporters on the "wall street journal" series "the facebook files" jeff horowitz. >>> also, afghanistan fallout. >> top military leaders say president biden rejected advice to leave some forces in afghanistan. >> did these officers' input get to the president? >> their input was received by the president. >> force

infrastructure bill. they've got a win on this other one. it is just a question of how many points in the win, how big is the win, is a big? >> let it also be noted that even on his own terms, speaking within his own joe manchin verse, he has never said that his one and a half trillion dollar idea about what this should be, is meaningfully mapped to the things that he says he wants in it. he just likes the sound of that number. even though a lot of the things he says he wants, in the media and says his priority for him, that's up to a number that is larger than 1.5 trillion. he has also said that that is his bottom line. that is his idea. that is is displaced from which he starts negotiating. so if he starts at 1.5, and the rest of the democrats are 3.5 one might guess that that one man versus everyone in the party, might negotiate and they will end up sort of to what everybody else wants. if in fact he is negotiating in good faith, and not just enjoying the suntans that he is getting from the tv. lights

bill. pass the president's budget first. hold the line. don't give in. also, there was this one we showed you our lives are not a game. pass 3.5 trillion. that is for the $3.5 trillion build back better plan. the reconciliation bill. president biden's budget bill. there is also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery. at the very top of the screen there it said, democrats don't f this up. all of those messages aimed at democrats last night ahead of the pivotal vote or votes there scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one we are waiting for them to take this hour. house speaker nancy pelosi has said she is holding a vote today on the small, bipartisan roads and bridges bill that has already passed the senate. this is a little slice of president biden's agenda that was hived off of the main vote because they wanted pass something. this was the only piece republicans would support. progressives in the house say they're only going to vote for that little bill if the centris

>> well, i believe that -- i do believe both bills are going to pass and i think that both bills -- a big reason both bills are going to pass is because the american people supported an enormous caucus of 95 house progressives to defend these kinds of investments. now, what i will say is that passing the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill alone could and potentially will have net negative effects on climate and on top of everything else, on top of the potential risk of not securing these generational and once in a lifetime investments, that the risk of doing harm to our climate right now is something that we cannot afford. >> yes. very well put. congresswoman, i've been quite clear about the fact we in the media failed to accurately report on the bill as a $3.5 trillion package over ten years. your party failed on the messaging, too, hasn't it? why don't democrats refer to this as a 350 billion-dollar a year spending bill as they refer to the bloated defense budget as $700 billion a year and not $7 trillion over ten years? >> i wish we did. i wish we did. i think there is two fa

bill, too. i want roads and bridges but we need to get them together and i promise we'll get this done and get them to the president's desk and have not only roads, joy, but we will have families who can actually use those roads as they have child care and all of these other things we're fighting for. >> congresswoman, thank you for scrambling quickly to get on the show. appreciate you being here tonight. thank you so much. i want to bring back in senator harry reid. you heard senator jayapal, can this process work if they get an agreement that isn't an actual vote on a bill, right? if it's just an agreement in the united states senate that says we will craft a bill with x, y and z in it that sinema and mansion say they're okay with and agree and shake hands and say that's fine. in your mind, is that binding enough to make it possible for progressives in the house to vote for the bipartisan bill? >> in my opinion, i think they better be careful. the senate is a place to get things done. the sena

we're kind of using the word bill here loosely. a framework is not a bill. you can't vote on a framework. you need legislative text. you talk about negotiations still going on here. my last guest talked about negotiations still being on on his issue he cares about. i wonder if you feel like the issue of paid family leave is settled and whether that is acceptable to you? >> i don't think it is settled. in fact, i asked speaker pelosi last night directly is this out or not? and she said we are still futuring for it. so we do not give up until the bill is being voted on. and i am hopeful that we can get something in there pertaining to it. this is bill is trance formational in so many ways. i think it's going to really help american families. the i just hope some day we can get this paid family leave done because it's not right for us to be the only developed country in the world that does not have a national family leave program. >> if it's out of this bill, is that a deal breaker for you? or are the benefits of the bill outweigh the frustration of not being a

by the way there's not enough money in the bill to get that in the bipartisan bill. so we got to have those discussions. but failure is not an option. if any of us this whole caucus not deliver this once in a lifetime bill pass, not fix our roads and bridges which are already comparable to any third-world country in the world, we've got to make it work. so probably a good thing this weekend people are taking a good breath recharging, and we've got to go right back at this and get it done. >> can i ask you finally and quickly -- don't the american public have a right to know what their senators and the positions they take are? >> absolutely. >> we don't know much about what senator sinema is opposing in the $3.5 trillion. i'm not saying she needs to negotiate in public, but do you as a member of these negotiations, do you trust if the bipartisan infrastructure bill goes forward senator manchin's and senator sinema's words on what they support will actually stand? i feel like senator don't trust their word and that's why they want to see this move before they vote on t

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then the bill i want to pass? yes. are we gonna get to some resolution? i believe so. but, it may take a little bit of time. it may look opaque on the outside. and, it may be frustrating because, you know, i don't think everybody's gonna get everything they want. and i think that is true. that is the reality. but, can we do something that is truly transformative, for the country that really does provide universal child care, pre-k, home and community based care, a real investment climate? all the big housing, all of the things we've been talking about. i do think that we will deliver something very transformative, for the country. i really do. >> you just sat there that, nobody is going to get everything they want, to end the bill that you want the pale to pass is not the same bill that senator manchin wants to pass. i have to ask you, and i mean this quite literally, does senator manchin think that he is going to get everything he wants? does he actually think that he gets to decide the full scope of the bill and

and also in the other bipartisan bill, the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we haven't seen that type of investment, i think that is time for us now what i want when i'm looking forward to, is getting these bills pass, getting the investment to the department of labor, there's job training when. here and getting it out in the street, so we can get americans working, getting american skilled up and good paying jobs. the intention behind these bills, the president, i said from the beginning, and i feel and believe in my heart as well, it's about rebuilding the middle class. along opportunities to get to the middle class. we have child tax credit in these bills. that's gonna allow families for another year to get additional revenue for their families, to get kids out of poverty, i think it's over 20 million young people, families out of poverty, that's really what we have to do. we have to now -- building the infrastructure of this country. and when i say the building of the country, i'm not talking about buildings and roads, i'm talking about. the speaker stressed

taking the infrastructure bill there's a lot in that infrastructure bill that west virginia needs beyond bridges and roads. there are climate provisions in the infrastructure bill like capping some of mines that haven't been capped. reclaiming the coal mines left empty and taking care of the mountaintops that have been blown off so that reconciliation bill is something that senator manchin can influence the president on and heard president biden say he is tweaking the climate provisions. that's key here in what's going on. the infrastructure bill a huge hit here in west virginia. we'll see on the reconciliation bill. >> doesn't matter how people in new york city feel about joe manchin but people in west virginia that keep him in office. thank you. >>> coming up, after a nearly six-week manhunt officials confirm brian loun dri is dead. where does that leave the investigation? >>> on the ground in haiti. as the gang leader there threatened to kill the americans held hostage. we'll take you inside the island nation this morning. ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but wit

reconciliation bill. one of the things, jon, we're continuing to lose, is both sides are overstating the value of this package. the $3.5 trillion package is over ten years. you almost never hear from that. so if you wanted to bring down the dollar total, one of the ways to do it is bring down the timeline on some of these measures. and on that trillion-dollar infrastructure package, only $550 billion is new money. they're playing funny math the way they're calculating it. we'll see. the question is can they get sinema and manchin to a number on reconciliation that will allow the progressives to sort of release this infrastructure bill they're more orr less holding hostage. >> josh, good point about the actual price tag of these bills. that's a key thing you hit there, this idea we're not going to have a reconciliation vote. some think it could be weeks or months before that thing is finished, but what would need to get done? a top line number perhaps, but does there also need to be guarantees about what w

house bill one. senate bill one. the for the people act. voting rights act. it was not the for the people act. the for the people act died this summer at the hands of joe manchin. that voting rights bill for anyone that didn't have any republican support. since senator manchin is against changing the filibuster rules in any way, even for protecting the democracy, his stance on this meant that a voting rights bill would have to get ten republican votes which he insisted was possible. senator manchin said he had a plan. the problem, according to senator manchin, is not that republicans were obstructing this for the sake of obstructionism, no the that they were wholesale against any protections for voting rights, he said it was simply that this for the people act was the wrong bill. the democrats who had written it had written it wrong. it was too broad, too partisan. it was written in such a way that it wasn't appealing to republicans but that was fixable. all the other democrats that approached this the wrong way, they written the bill wrong. if you wrote the

the reconciliation bill, president biden's budget bill. there's also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery, at the very top of the screen, democrats don't at this up. all those messages, aimed at democrats last night, ahead of the pivotal vote, or votes, that are scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one of which were waiting for them to take this hour. now house speaker nancy pelosi said that she is holding a vote today on the small bipartisan roads in bridges bill, that has already passed the senate. this is a little slice of president biden's agenda, that was hived off from the main budget by a couple of conservative democratic senators. because they wanted to pass some piece of something with some republican votes. and this was the only little piece of this that any republicans would consent to support. progressives in the house say that they're only going to vote for that little bill, if the centrist vote for the big bill to. they said listen, we don't necessarily like the little bill. in fact we think that if i

bill. senator joe manchin said this. >> i think it's in the hands of the house right now and i've been dealing in good faith and i'm telling everybody they can count on me to continue to deal in good faith. >> unfortunately for joe manchin not enough democrats in the house accept his professions of good faith and senator kyrsten sinema who is trusted by exactly no democrats in the house or senate said something that sounded positive but was much too vague for the 30 or so house progressives who needed to hear a specific promise to vote for the bill. instead, senator sinema said, in writing, we have made significant progress on the proposed budget reconciliation package. i look forward to getting this done. as of 2:00 p.m. this afternoon speaker pelosi was still hoping to get a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate. >> a once in a century chance to rebuild the infrastructure that has been -- passed the senate a while back. roads, privileges, water systems crumblin

remember what this bill is. it's the small piece of president biden's legislative agenda, the roads and bridges part, the stuff you used to call infrastructure. the vast, vast majority of democrats on capitol hill want to pass all of biden's agenda which means also passing the much larger build back better legislation that contains the democrats' initiatives on health care and education and climate. now because democrats' majorities in the house and senate are so slim, if democrats want to do anything they've all got to be in it together. but a handful of democrats want the house to pass the smaller infrastructure package right now, and leave the rest for later. the overwhelming majority of democrats want to pass it all together because leaving the rest for later may mean leaving it for never. you know how that goes. and the democrats who want to wait until conclude all be passed together, led by the congressional progressive caucus, well they're holding the line, they're saying that if the smaller bill is broug

bill done. progressives say we won't do the infrastructure bill unless we get a commitment on the human welfare. both sides are playing against each other. what's really dangerous here for the president is not that, you know, look, ultimately if this gets done, nobody is going to remember the messy process that got them there. if they get to a compromise, pass both of these bills, all people are going remember for the most part is what they did, either like it or don't like it. if they don't get it done and they're taking a chance because they're on the edge here, that's a huge risk for this president, and they say there's no time to worry, it's six days or six weeks, maybe, but when you have a 50-vote majority in the senate, every day that's on the line, especially if you look -- this is not a young group of people in the senate. we're in the middle of a pandemic. you could alienate a senator who decides to leave the party, that's what happened in george w. bush in his first year when he lost t

, or two bills. the bills together address everything from climate, change the health care, to prescription drugs, to childcare, to education, all these different priorities, all extremely important but they are basically wrapped together in one bill because of senate procedure. there is a very narrow democratic majority, which is what makes this bill, and the messaging around it so difficult. there is no single overarching priority, it's the full agenda. and if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. that has been thrown into sharp relief as joe manchin and kyrsten sinema for all kinds of reasons push to reduce the size of the bill, forcing among the 48 other democratic senators very difficult painful choices about what's stays, and what goes. senator sharon brown is a -- senator i want to start with you on the child tax credit, that is something you have been advocating for a very long time. tens of millions if i'm not mistaken households with children have been getting monthly paymen

her belief that there will be a bill. there has to be a bill. and then the very important thing, and this is when you know that there is a professional shape of compromise taking place, when you hear someone say, and we can come back and go for more. after we passed this bill we can come back and go for more. that is a person who knows that they aren't going to get everything that they want. and that they are already formulating their speech. to the people who wanted those things, to how we are going to come back and go for those things, next year, or another piece of legislation. >> right, and the people who are trying to make the bill smaller, they are trying to make stuff cut out of the, build people like senator manchin, he's not saying that i want these things that aren't in the bill. he is just trying to cut stuff out of it. just trying to take step out of it. he does not have that option. he cannot come back and say that we will do more nothing later. >> that's right >> the thing about progressives here is that the actual policy. they wan

health care bill, this is an education bill, they do that sort of but it's not the lead item. and the build back better, i don't know, what does that mean. called the health education will fill bill, and then really sell, i don't think there's much pressure as a result, there's no pressure on the republicans, and how much pressure on manchin and sinema to come around faster than they have. >> so, professor, over to you, this joe manchin who has now been mentioned it's 23 after the hour, we've mentioned his name five times. his direct tractors say that's fine with him, this is a spiders ox exterior, but one such joe manchin of west virginia, has virtually cleaned out all the green energy provisions, there were so important to biden, and so important to democrats on the left. does this make him, because we in the medium need labels, the most powerful man in washington? >> it's pretty darn close, brian, i mean just the way our institutions are set up, right. folks may not like it, but at the end of the day, congress puts the check on the executive branch, and the fact that the pr

put together, this is now his bill, the freedom to vote bill, that bill will not get ten republicans so as soon as we get through the build back better act we have to deal with the filibuster if we can't find ten republicans to even allow us to move forward the compromise bill that senator manchin put forward on voting rights. >> good morning. it's jonathan lemire. a concern for you is climate change and in the negotiations recently the clean energy provisions seems to have fallen out of the bill. can i get your take on that? but also, what replacements will go in there and will they be adequate enough? >> jonathan, i think this issue is critical and we will make significant progress on climate in this bill. i have spocken to senator manchin now several times this week and i think we will have clean energy tax credits which we were supportive of and hoped to have is a clean electricity performance plan. we are going to have to replace that because senator manchin has a different view on that but we are trying to find some alternatives that will still allow us to bring down carbon emi

we have to talk about what is in the bill, and why it's in the bill. why do democrats want to extend the child tax credit, for example. this is a single provision that is lifting almost half of all the kids in this country out of poverty. and it's going to expire, because it's a temporary provision. democrats are saying why would we want to allow this thing to expire, when it is doing so much good for so many families in this country. let's extend it. there is a discussion about whether to extend it for a period of years, or whether to make it permanent, but that is meaningful. let's talk about what it means to aspire to go to college, and not be able to do that. let's talk about the struggles that families have, finding affordable health care, finding a pre-k program to put their kids in, so that family can deal with childcare issues, and people can return to the workforce, if they're dealing with caring for an elderly parent, caring for a sick child, paid family medical leave. these are life-changing programs, policies that democrats are talking abou

in this past session, we've passed at least ten anti-abortion bills, so this texas-style abortion bill is not really needed here in arkansas. >> emily, there is this argument to be made that i've heard quite often from legal scholars about the fact that abortion clinics should continue to offer abortion services, even in states that seek to restrict abortions. for instance, in texas. because it seems as if folks that are anti-abortion rights are not willing to go the in actually prosecuting anybody, because they know if the constitutionality of sb-8 is challenged, it will fail. >> you will see there is really restricted access in texas right now, because of the threat of these lawsuits, the vigilante justice approach is very concerning to providers. and i think the anti-choice, people who are behind the law, who worked with anti-choice legislatures have been somewhat disciplined in not just bringing a flurry of suits, but we know that that could happen at any time. and at the end of the day, the chilling effect of a law like texas is, whether care remains safe and legal in the state. t

he and kyrsten sinema of arizona want to shrink the president's bill t build back better bill. they want to strip out some of the provisions. they don't care if it's smaller or if they should cut different things. it depends how good the mood is on. >> it looks like it would match up to the president's agenda at all. "the new york times" reporting on friday that the core climate provisions in the bill were likely to be stripped out of it because of joe manchin's singular opposition to those. on sunday, yesterday, axios reported that senator manchin had come out with a whole new list of ways that he wanted to cut down the very popular child tax credit that democrats passed in the covid relief bill and now want to make permanent. at the same time, everybody's frustration with joe manchin seemed to reach a bit of a tipping point. saturday night, senator sanders, head of the budget committee, head of the senate, wrote an op-ed for the charleston paper about the build back better program. the senator said all of those things will post another delivering article, publishing that in s

and the build back better bill, a bill that doesn't yet exist by the end of next week. so, the house trying to move fast, trying to capitalize on this perceived mo

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he doesn't think the two bills, the infrastructure bill and the smaller roads and bridges bill and the larger reconciliation bill which contains many more of the biden priorities. he doesn't see any reason why it should be done simultaneously and part of what folks are talking about. how do you bring moderate democrats and progressive democrats together. he said we need two more votes and he is, of course, referring to joe manchin and krysten sinema, the senators from west virginia and arizona respectively. i'll be talking to jamie raskin, one of the impeachment of donald trump and i will ask him about this when he joins us. i want to talk about covid, a somber milestone is leading this week's covid news as the country grapples with the delta variant, more than 700,000 people have now died from covid in the united states, and that's according to the tally by nbc news. september was one of the deadliest months on record of the pandemic, particularly for younger age groups and the overwhelming majority of recent deaths were of unvaccinated americans and even as vaccines have become readi

so president biden has to make the case that this is a good bill, a transformative bill, that as far as progressives are concerned this is as close as they can get to another new deal style agenda. president biden has an enormously difficult task because he is trying to pass a new deal style agenda without new deal style majorities. he has no votes to lose in the senate, only three votes to spare in the house of representatives and there are so many demands, so many conflicting demands, the issue of paid leave was dropped yesterday, the latest casualty of the bill. there are a number of democrats who are angry and disappointed about that. i have not heard anyone threaten to tank the bill because of that. because you probably like universal pre-k, the child tax credit, you don't want to see the bill crash and go to zero over that. this is down to president biden to resolve the differences that senator chuck schumer has struggled to do and nancy pelosi has struggled to do. a big test coming up for president biden here. >> do you think dropping paid family leave could end up tanking thi

thi bill to thei>> absolutely. but when he made very clear -- what the president make clear is what i ask from you from this bill, it's not the, numbers it's the policies, what policies do you appreciate? and that's where we need to get. we log -- it encouraged me to hear him say, i'm talking about what programs you want in. there would do we need? >> congresswoman dingell, i'm wondering why we're having this conversation now about why aren't we talking about what is in it's what people want as opposed to the price tag. has it been a mistake among democrats to have this fight over 3.5 as opposed to specifically with the 3.5 would pay for? >> you know, jonathan, i would actually argue with you that the media has made this 3.5 figure a big discussion deal. but we've been talking inside of our caucus for the last year, first -- all the programs that we know that we need to come up with. climate has been one of the bigger issues. [inaudible] 3 million women have left the workforce because of unpaid childcare, and i am

the traditional bipartisan infrastructure bill and the broader social spending bill moving at the same time. is that going to happen tonight or tomorrow morning? >> well, hallie, i don't know. i doubt it because we have to get all the text written. the speaker has said that 90% of the build back better act is done and we're just waiting on the final agreement from the two senators, you know, who haven't agreed on everything yet and we need them. we're waiting on them and hopefully we can get that done fast and then hopefully we can get the 10% of the legislative language done fast. but i don't think that can happen in a day. that said, i want to just say that, you know, i think that the president has done an important job of trying to bring everyone together with very slim margins. what we are emerging with, even with all the details not set yet, is going to be transformational. we're going to have an over half a trillion dollar investment into the care economy that is universal child care and pre-k and home and community-based care and we're still working on paid leave. that one looks

it's good bill. but we've got to defeat it now, sit down with everybody and pass two good pieces of legislation. >> joining our discussion now congressman collin allred of texas. thank you very much for joining us tonight. what's your reaction to what you just heard senator sanders say? >> i wish senators would stop talking about the house and maybe we could stop talking about the senate. we have our own business to do here, and i think it's critical we do. i've told my caucus not only is this policy and these incredibly important policies on the table, but really american democracy is on the table and that, you know, it shouldn't be we're the only party that is interested in protecting our democracy, but that's the situation we're in. and americans in the last election came out in record numbers in the middle of a pandemic to vote for a democratic majority that has to deliver baza thoritarians love it when democracy fail. they love it when democracies are stuck in gridlock. and we're dealing with an

here is what is in the bills. there is a poll out that only 10% know a lot of the specifics in the bill. i kind of feel like manchin and sinema have taken advantage of that. everyone knows what infrastructure. it's trains, roads, stuff like that, bridges. but the other bill has been allowed to be sort of pushed aside. but it's the bill that helps the most people. so do you think that at this point now that now that the white house understands that he is going to get on that plane, biden, they ain't giving him the bill. and they t-bill won't happen until they get build back better. do you think that puts democrats in a stronger position to pass the substantive legislation? >> i do. and i think one thing that we have to remember, and i've been trying to stress this point, every single dollar that democrats approve and joe biden signs into law is one more dollar the republicans want to spend on anything. the republicans want to gut education. they want to gut health care in america. democrats are fighting to make it

you have the bipartisan bill and then the reconciliation bill. and the bills together address everything from climate change to health care to prescription drugs, childcare, to education, all these different priorities. all extremely important. but they're basically wrapped together in one bill because of senate procedures and the fact there is a very narrow democrat ic majority which makes that bill and the messaging around it so difficult. there is no single overarching priority. it's the full agenda and if everything is priority, well then nothing is no priority. for all kinds of reason, they push to reduce the size of the bill, forcing among the 48 other democratic senators difficult choices about what stays and what goes. the chair of the banking housing and urban affairs committee joins me now. senator, i want to start with the child tax credit. that is something you've been advocating for a very long time. it was included in first piece of legislation, the american rescue plan. tens of millions if i'm not mistaken are getting monthly payme

the infrastructure bill, it's a good bill. that we need. joe manchin, gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams, starts now. >> good evening once again, day 270, nine of the biden administration. the president once again making it clear, that he will not help his predecessor, assert a claim of executive privilege. to keep additional material hidden from the house committee, investigating january 6th. president biden's white house counsel sent that message, in a letter, today over the national archives, trump's filed a lawsuit of course to keep documents related to one six, out of that committee's hands. this week that house committee could learn more about the organization, the planning of the rallies that took place in the weeks before the riot.

bill. the one that includes big climate provisions, to get utilities to conferred to clean energy and time to avoid climate disaster. karen elder care, expanded medicare, and boma care. the house is supposed to vote, on that bipartisan infrastructure bill, tonight this was all set up this, week this deadline had been agreed to. and there was a run-up, and nancy pelosi is gonna vote. and people said but we don't have the votes. if we win today not knowing what would happen, leadership now says there won't be any votes, until nine eastern at the earliest, and top policy aides are apparently huddle up with white house advisers tonight. trying to figure it all. now, it's easy to get lost in the process, lord knows i have at times. the fundamental dynamics here of not change, the overwhelming majority of democrats, in congress, in both houses, support the 3.5 trillion dollar build back better bill. 95% of the democratic caucus, across all kinds of areas, both moderate and progressive, people in

the bill. there are a lot of things that ought to be amended out. we said early on that what the three issues are, voter protection of the infrastructure of our democracy, the infrastructure of wages and health care, which is our daily lives, and the infrastructure of our bridges and technology. instead of separating these things out. secondly, you know, first of all, the bill's name is freedom to vote. we don't have a freedom to vote. we have a right to vote. that should be amended. secondly, this is the first time in history we would have codified voter id as necessary for election integrity. that is straight trumpian, republican language. it's not true. signature is what has worked and should be there. also, what we see is he is slowly putting different things in that come straight out of the republican lingo. guess what? he said that he supported the for the peoples act. he was a signature when john lewis was alive. when john lewis died and the senate changed, all of a sudden he changed. he

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but not a climate bill. we didn't get 60 votes in the senate, that's when president obama was president, and we moved on, at the same time we were dealing with the health issue. but it was then so important, now drastic and urgent, a short fuse on the wellbeing of our planet. so in this bill, i mean, imagine, a half a trillion dollars in this framework that the president discussed, a half a trillion dollars, both in tax credits and outlays of what we need to do to protect the planet for the children. all three of these, health, planet, childcare, et cetera, are all about the children. they're also about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. how people access them, jobs that are created by the new green technologies. jobs that are part of the national security of our country, necessitated by our protection of the environment. so it is an initiative that gives big tax cut to the middle class, creates jobs, good-paying jobs, lowers costs for families, and while making the wealthiest and big corporations pay their fair share.

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we want the infrastructure bill passed. we want the build back better bill passed. americans deserve it. it's an economic agenda. it's not social. when you look at childcare, women want to get back into the workforce. many are black and brown women. they don't have the money to pay for childcare. we need to provide the childcare provision so they can get back to work. this is all about economic growth, economic benefits. it's paid for. >> yeah. let me highlight something that stood out in senator sinema's statement which reads, i have never and would never agree to any bargain that would hold one piece of legislation hostage to another. she's been talking to the white house, talking to the president. is there any way she could not have known that the bills were linked? >> well, we're not holding bills hostage. we're saying we are fighting for the american people, for the biden agenda. president biden campaigned on these provisions of these bills in terms of investments, in the green economy, good paying union jobs, the child tax credit, in childcare and priorities f

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clearly, the bipartisan infrastructure bill will pass once we have agreement on the reconciliation bill. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. she is the senior democratic whip. congresswoman dingell, great to see you again. you were in that meeting with the president. how was it. >> i think it was great for everybody to hear from the president, understand what he wants from us as a caucus, what his priorities are. you know, i have said for a week, as you know, we are unified at the caucus that failure isn't an option. we have got to get this done, we have got to get both bills done. build back better they has so many critical components in it. now we are rolling up our sleeves and going to get both bills done. >> what was the mood inside the room? was there a sense that moderates and progressive also come together on this? >> i think -- i think people want to tear the caucus apart. and the caucus knows we have got to get this done. i say the d in democrats for deliver. we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do things like get le

i they makes it easier to fight for it in the next bill. this is not the last piece of legislation we pass in this congress. so we're going to keep fighting for that. >> let's talk about voting rights. democrats in your home state, texas, looking to you folks in congress to do something about the restrictive voting laws that have been passed in texas. you tweeted on thursday about the need to pass the john lewis voting rights act. right now as you know, not enough votes to get that through the senate as well. where do you and your colleagues take this particular fight and this current climate? >> yeah. well, we knew that we weren't going to have enough votes to pass the voting rights bill they brought up in the senate over the super majority requirement that the filibuster has imposed. i've said before i don't think a senate rule is more important than our democracy. and so we end up in this alley where our democracy is held hostage by the filibuster. and so i've argued and along with my colleagues, that we should have a carveout for voting

we're going to get a bill together. it's going to be a really good bill for the american people. >> some of the things that you mentioned, though, once they get through the house, there is always the problem of the senate and senators manchin and cinema have shown opposition to key parts of the bill. do you think the bill might stall in the senate after its passed on tuesday? >> i do not. we have made it very, very clear to the speaker and to leadership that we don't want to vote on a bill that isn't going to make it through the senate. house leadership is working very closely with the senate to make sure that whatever we vote on has essentially gotten the stamp of approval from the senate, all of the senators that we need in order to pass the bill, and i'm quite confident that the speaker and others in leadership will make sure that happens. >> and you mentioned getting provisions to lower prescription drug prices back in the bill. something i know a lot of american families are very concerned about. if this doesn't ha

to be a done deal. >> 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 n 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. >> it comes as president biden desperately needs a win. new polling out today from nbc news shows his approval rating is at its lowest point so far, down seven points since august, with 71% of americans saying the country is moving in the wrong direction. let's go right to nbc's mike memory joining us from rome. what do we expect to hear from the press as we await for his news conference slated a half hour from now. >> the president gets ready to wrap up his time in rome, we've seen the ways in which he's trying to patch up relations with some of our allies. look at the new nbc news poll, showing 70% of americans think the country is on the wrong track, including almost half of democrats, he needs to do some reassuring to americans back home. as we get ready for

he said no, i will write a new bill. i will write a correct bill. i will write the kind of bill, voting rights bill, that i know all republicans will vote for. and the bill that senator manchin came up with was definitely not everything the democrats wanted. but if this was the bill that would not only get so man senator joe manchin's vote, but -- he said could get republicans on board lock, to vote for it, so it could pass. then democrats put set put aside their objections, they decided they were on board. -- signed on to joe manchin's compromise bill, and senator manchin set out on his quest to find ten republican senators who would have heard it. the toll reports -- i've been working across the aisle with all the republicans trying to get people to understand that that's the bedrock of our democracy and accessible, fair, and basically secure voting. just earlier this month he told reporters quote, we're negotiating with republicans in good faith. we'll see what happens. law well today, in the senate, it was his bell. it was joe manchin's wrote vo

again, we will and must pass both bills soon. we have the responsibility and the opportunity to do so, but the white house may not be on board with the new end date. in an interview yesterday in an interview, it was said there was no set time frame to pass the bills. meanwhile negotiations continue over the size and scope of the reconciliation bill. progressives are shooting down senator joe manchin's $1.5 trillion price tag. >> so if we're not looking at numbers, what about 1.5, like what senator manchin -- >> well, that's not going to happen. >> why won't it add up to that number? >> because that's too small to get our priorities in. it's going to be somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5, and i think the white house is working on that right now. remember, we want to work on child care, paid leave -- >> this is not a wish list. this is what the working families of this country want and what the economy needs. the real question is -- the republicans, of course, are owned by the pharmaceutical industry and the fossil fuel industry. we don

we will pass both bills. and i am really proud of the progressive caucus this last week, because we got the two bills back on track. the bipartisan infrastructure bill was done, it was ready. but by saying that we're not going to leave behind women and families that need real change, we're not leaving behind housing that's desperately needed across the country and not leaving behind immigrants, we were able to say, let's get them both done together. 85% of the president's agenda is in the middle back better act. and five months ago, jonathan, he came from the white house to the capitol, laid the case out to us and we can't wait to get both bills to his desk. >> you laid out climate, immigrants, child care, housing. there's one more that i missed noting. how will you be able to do all of that within the confines of what now appears to be the range in terms of the number. before it was $3.5 trillion. now it appears to be between -- to be somewhere between $1.9 and $3.2 trillion. >> at $3.5 trillion, it was stil

education bill. they do that sort of but it's not the lead item. and the building back better, i don't know, what does that mean? call it the health, education and welfare bill or something and then really sell the parts of it. so, i don't think there's that much pressure as the result. there's not that much pressure on republicans and not much pressure on manchin and sinema to come around faster than they have. >> professor over to you. this joe manchin who has been mentioned -- it's 23 after the hours. we mentioned his name five times. that's fine with him despite his ah shucks exterior. but he has virtually cleaned out a lot of the green energy provisions that were so important to biden and so important to democrats on the left. does this make him -- since we in the media need labels -- the most powerful man in washington. >> it's pretty darn close, brian. i mean, just the way our institutions are set up, folks may not like it but at the end of the day, congress is a check on the executive branch.