infrastructure? yes. and the president name dropped or jen psaki name dropped bill cassidy as one of the new republicans that the president is talking to as he looks for another way to get the size of the package that he wants. so they are not saying this is something that is done and that they are moving on from. but they are saying that when the president goes overseas tomorrow for his first trip to europe as president, he is going it be in touch with lawmakers back here in washington trying to figure out how much money he can get for this package. bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn, thank you. hear the white house side we would like to hear the bring in shelley moore capito. thank you for your time. what happened in your point of view? the president ended the talks today with me on a very cordle l call i m extremely disappoint dollars because we offered the president basically what he asked us to do the first time we met with him which was a trillion dollars over 8 yea
was our red line, not his. and the last offer that i got from the president had four tax increases in it. and it also was much closer in numbers what the white house is putting out right now. so i m disappointed with that. but, i just feel like we have missed a real opportunity here for at least 20 republicans to join with the other democrats to pass the most robust infrastructure package that we could have. and i m still very dedicated to it and will be working through my committee to see that we at least get the legislation to back this up. bret: let me drill down into the wields here a little bit. you mentioned $1 trillion over 8 years. the white house is claiming that president biden never agreed to that. the president said that to us himself. very clearly. bret: he did? very clearly in the first meeting, yes. 1 trillion over 8 years and include baseline spending. now, it was walked back by his staff shortly several days later
ago. we believe this counteroffer delivers on what president biden told us in the oval office that day. and that is to try to reach somewhere near a trillion dollars over an eight-year period of time that could include our baseline spending. we have achieved that goal with this counteroffer. but we ve also, i think, done something that has stayed true to what our beliefs are when we very first started this endeavor, and that is sticking to the core physical infrastructure. garrett haake is joining us now from the hill. garrett, we have these two pieces of legislation, these two important pieces of legislation that are in front of senators today. not for a vote, but as far as a discussion, if you will. you talked about january 6th and the prospect of that bill likely to go nowhere as lee ann caldwell explained. what about the infrastructure
the events that lindsey described there. jake, we need to leave it there. we re going to washington, d.c., where the republicans from west virginia shelly capito is explaining the republican counterproposal infrastructure package. let s list an in. to try to reach somewhere near the trillion dollars over an eight-year period of time that would include our baseline spending. we have achieved that goal with this counteroffer. but we also i think have done something that has stayed true to what our believes are when we very first started this endeavor and that is sticking to core, physical infrastructure. what is the definition of infrastructure? and we have stayed within the boundaries of our original plan. i think that s what the american people think of when they think of infrastructure and that s certainly what we do too. but there s a couple of bits of good news that i think happened
it s laughable in its face. the president is calling for more spending with his new stimulus. number two. point number two, the democrats have shown nothing by way of spending cuts. julian talks about there s $1.6 trillion. only in washington, d.c. can you say we re winding down the war but we re going to count that as savings. baseline spending doesn t make any sense. the president of the united states if we julian, hang on one second. the president of the united states should call the congressional leadership up to camp david, go up there and they should get in a room and they should sit there until they hammer out a deal. i agree with that. julian, go ahead. there are three big points the viewers need to understand and they need to take note that ron did not respond to. first, on the economists. the economists are almost entirely in obama s camp in this question. cbo did a study and republicans didn t like that study so they asked crs to do a study.