so they would be pleased to get that and as gloria said, terry mcauliffe in virginia would have been thrilled if that piece of legislation would have been passed a few weeks ago. it would have helped him dramatically going into the election there tomorrow. so, this is all very, very complex. but right now i m sure there is deep, deep disappointment among white house officials that manchin has come out and said what he said. yeah, we have congressman pramila jayapal to talk about how she feels about what manchin just said. does this suggest that president biden misread manchin. he s had so many meetings with manchin and sinema and it sounds like he thought everybody was on the same page. at this point, it is kind of hard to know. i think what i m hearing from manchin and, manu could speak to this better than anyone, is that he thought there was a framework and then he saw democrats trying to add stuff back in like there was some talk of the adding in more medicare stuff that bernie
there is no evidence that the covid-19 vaccine effects puberty. white house press secretary jen psaki has revealed she tested positive for covid. she s not traveling with the president. she was last with president biden last tuesday at the time she was outside and wearing a mask, physician as agree there is a very low likelihood that she could have transmitted the virus. the president is triple protected and did test negative just yesterday. thank you. breaking news on capitol hill. senator manchin just said that he will not support the president s spending bill. says he has a long way to go there. we ll talk to the chair of the progressive caucus, pramila jayapal next.
representatives a bill with $550 billion in investing and taking on climate change, bringing down carbon emissions significantly so we can get to the reductions, goalso of emissions that the president is talking about. pass both bills in the house, and rely on the president to get the 51 votes he committed to when he came to speak to us, and i trust the president. do you have any indication that senator manchin supports that 550 billion for climate? i just can t speak for him. i m sorry, victor, i know you want me to. i can t speak for him. i don t know. have you had conversations with him about that. i have had conversations, again, my understanding is he has been negotiating with the white house this entire time. he has generated, you know, in a place where we have 96% of democrats in the house, senate, and white house agreeing on a
in addition to that, he was pushing back on some of the things that people are at the last minute trying to negotiate into the framework. remember they announced a framework late last week. and then over the weekend there was a big push to try to get prescription drug provisions inserted become in the bill. so, the tone was bad for sure and it if what joe manchin meant to do was say you can t pressure me and vent about the bipartisan infrastructure bill, what he, in fact, is doing, may be undercutting the confidence that the progressives needed to move ahead with both bill this is week which might have taken care of his issue with the infrastructure bill. i want to talk about timing. because your traveling with the president in scotland. just a few hours ago president biden reaffirmed america s commitment to fighting the climate crisis. he wanted to good through with the passage of this massive climate spending. he did not get that.
thank you for joining me. the news continues next with allison and victor. this is cnn breaking news. hello, welcome to newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. and i m victor blackwell. any moment now joe manchin acrucial player in the negotiations over president biden s agenda will hold a press conference to provide what he calls clarity on where he stands on the framework for the massive spending bill. this is a pivotal moment. this could makar break the pieces of legislation. here is the podium. so you know it is real. it is going to happen. progressives now signaling they will support both of the bipartisan infrastructure bill