biden making the push for his trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. he s expected to hold a new round of talks with the republican negotiating the package tomorrow. kenneth moton reports from the white house. reporter: president biden tonight still hoping for a bipartisan deal to make sweeping investments, primarily in the nation s bridges and roads, but still far apart from republicans. the white house rejecting the gop s latest infrastructure counter-offer. lead republican negotiator senator shelley moore capito, talking with biden friday, another meeting planned for monday. the sides inching closer. my goodness, the president has gone from $2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. reporter: but the parties still disagreeing on how to pay for it. biden dropping his calls for a corporate tax hike, instead proposing to fund his trillion dollars in new spending through increased irs enforcement, and by having companies pay
includes biden dropping his bill in half. republicans have been giving biden the middle finger since he s in inaugurated. j j jamal boden, congressman from new york. i appreciate your time. do you think he should go back to those terms trying to push the price tag up? so biden ran on an infrastructure bill that was north of $2 trillion. progressives organize across the country to make sure biden won the election. to go from $2 trillion to
i think it s probably too early to reconsider adjusting an entire strategy on the vice president. when you look at the poll elizabeth warren s increase makes sense because it s steady. the thing about the biden dropping is hard to believe because there really hasn t been a major event that caused that to happen. i think we have to remember this is national poll of a state by state race. i think what will be most important is in subsequent polling in iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, does it show the same thing this poll showed. it s possible they identified the beginning of a trend but we re not going to know it s a trend until we get polling the next couple of days and next couple of weeks. we ve got a deadline coming up. under 30,000 but also hitting 2% in polls, and right now you ve
detroit. so that houston debate will be really critical to see who, like jonathan mentioned, elizabeth warren, is she going to have another performance where she knocks it out of the park. jonathan clearly elizabeth warren picked up ground to some biden support has eroded. anyone else a clear winner from that biden fade, and do you think he can bounce back? i m not sure anybody else is a clear winner from biden dropping, but i think all of the rest of the field is a winner from biden dropping back a little bit, that means as much as the front-runner isn t way out in front of the rest of the pack, everybody else has an opportunity and, as hanna said, that next debate will be huge for a lot of folks. lots of gun control talk. we saw the president abandon his line on background checks this week. will that issue fade, do you think, once again as we have to wait out this congressional summer recess? well, i think it s clear that the congress is not coming back in session, so that s
headlines, so it s yet to be determined. i think this race will shape up to be a battle of who we are as democrats and the idea of whether we re going to be this progressive party or maintain or center of left status. antwon, what do you think is the dynamic with biden dropping and warren inching up? what s behind that dynamic? well, i don t know if there s one particular thing. what i do know is there are many people who are taking shots at joe biden because he is the front runner and we also know that elizabeth warren has yet to be defined in this race, so when you are just running offense and no one is trying to define your defense, that makes a difference, but the fact that biden has still, in spite of all the attacks, in spite of the negative energy coming from the left and right, that he still remains in front runner status says a lot about his candidacy, and what people think he can do in a general election. president trump, he seemingly took notice of warren s rise during