package that cleared the senate yesterday. it could now be heading straight to the house for approval. but speaker pelosi is holding on to it under demands from progressives that the bipartisan deal not passed without that social spending passing at the same time. now, republicans who voted to approve that bipartisan infrastructure deal see this as a part of their strategy. good for jobs. good for quality of life. good for the economy. as one of my colleagues said, what s not to like. good policy is good politics. and this is excellent policy. and so if pelosi wants to stand in the way for political reasons, that s going to be terrible politics for her. the white house and when does the white house start to pressure pelosi to take up this bipartisanship infrastructure bill as a stand alone bill in the house where it could get done now rather than waiting for months. the republicans by the way who voted to approve this bipartisanship deal part of their strategy is to strip out
powers and wall street. neil: you re not giving the president credit? there s correlation. neil: all right, washington is finally working together on healthcare but is this bipartisanship deal only going to bail out insurers on the back of taxpayers that can t be good, right?
mark short differing at the same time. i don t know where they really stand on this, although lamar alexander, again, not born yesterday. absolutely. i m sorry. i do not believe he announces a deal if he didn t think he had the white house sign off. exactly. i think the ends of the day the democrats because they have been considered the party of no. they are saying we have a bipartisan the democrats by just announcing this bipartisanship deal they are already winning and the republicans are going to have to come and figure out how they basically support the white house and still save their seats. the white house can support the bill technically but that leaves open the question of what trump s public pronouncements are going to look like. i think that s key here. will work for it? you could make an argument his lack of working for health care is he going to give a sustained pub push. he called the csr payments a gravy train, recently. it s not like he doesn t flip-f
his democratic base. he is strengthening chuck schumer with the people you see around him right now, the people that he works for in the united states senate and with nancy pelosi. so he is actually playing into chuck schumer s hand and making him stronger. the best way to hurt chuck schumer is to say, i like this guy, can get along with this guy. yeah, maybe he is saying some nasty things about me but i can make deals with him. i totally agree and i think on infrastructure and tax reform that is possible. on health care, i just think we talked earlier about the left pressure on schumer and the republicans policy vision of how to replace the affordable care act. i don t think the chances of a bipartisanship deal on health care are very deal compared to other issues where i do think he could do business with schumer. isn t this the same clown that donald trump told privately he liked more than paul ryan and mitch mcconnell? maybe he is trying to walk that back. harold ford, they a
says he is frustrated with this rhetoric from the president saying, quote, rather than create this class warfare dialogue, why key not just say that we are in a difficult economic environment and all of us, all of us have to do more. i m willing to do more. cooperman saying look, he is willing to may more taxes but he thinks that the president has been out of line with some of this rhetoric, shep. shepard: you know, we got word today of the possibility of a bipartisanship plan to extend these tax cuts. is there anything to that? every day we seem to get word of a new bipartisanship deal. there is still no final deal. today it was democrat claire mccaskill. republic susan collins coming forward with what they believe is a compromise plan. but it still has 2% surtax on millionaires. also republic leader in the senate saying democrats are dragging out out. they know this this is not going to pass. take a listen.