you don t often see moments like that so candid with world leaders. these are often very carefully scripted. they usually make short remarks. you saw earlier the president only answered a few questions in some of those get-together with the italian heads of state but there was the french president. he was pretty blunt. there s no doubt, kate, that so much of what has been over the past few years on france s wish police about to be realized as a result of this u.s. blunder in miscommune capital gains tax or not communicating at all with america s ally about the nuclear-powered submarine deal. the way the question was asked, is the relationship repaired and biden s full answer was to use an english phrase, what we did was clumsy, not done with a lot of grace. that s getting to exactly what you were talking about, kaitlan, and how candid it really was. it was interesting as macron also said, this is the beginning of the process of trust of confidence which we re building
: s manu raju is live on capitol hill with the latest reporting. manu, what is the latest you re hearing about the infrastructure bill and broadly speaking where they are in terms of the framework that president biden laid out yesterday? reporter: now it s almost certain that progressives in the house will get what they want, the infrastructure bill, that $1.2 trillion plan that the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, had been pushing hard to get a vote on yesterday, that that will move in conjunction with that larger economic bill that joe biden laid out, $1.75 trillion. the progressives have threatened to block that infrastructure plan unless they had an agreement to move that bill along the larger proposal, and also they are pushing to get all 57 democrats to support, say they will back the biden economic framework. right now to this point, there have not been 50 democrats who said they will be yes votes. the two holdout senators who have been that way for votes, joe manchin, kyrs
at all. that s my personal opinion. it s a direct relationship between armorer and actor. and the actor has to trust the armorer. that s the way it works. richard, thank you so much for your perspective on this. i really appreciate it. i want to get back over let s go back overseas, back to rome. phil madingly joins me from outside the french embassy. we re awaiting the arrival tell me where we are in this. i believe we re stating the arrival of president biden to meet with french president emmanuel macron. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, kate. that s correct. we re here at the french embassy to the holy see, the president having meetings with the italian prime minister and the president, and the next one is the most consequential of the day related to the french and american relationship. you and wolf and kaitlan and susan were talking about the details here. there s a couple interesting things talking about the u.s.
strategic decision to make a new and to the chinese very challenging alliance with the australians in the region. so those are two things i think have gotten lost a little bit in the sort of how mad is france right now as a discussion. kate, you mentioned it a little bit, but i wanted to dig deeper into it. moving on, maybe, but forgetting about it completely might be a different thing. the biden team has been working overtime it appears to try and i don t know if repair this relationship is kind of the best way i m thinking about it right now. but what do they say about it? reporter: they say they believe this is something that they ve kind of moved on from in the sense that it s not going to be a big point of contention in this meeting between the french president and president biden today. it s not to clear that that is going to be the case. it remains to be seen how the french president decides to proceed with this. it is unlikely we ll see the
same level of camaraderie we did four or five months ago at the g-7 summit. i was there and you saw the two of them not just in that moment you shared with macron s arm around president biden s back, but there was another where the two of them were sitting there laughing, talking, and macron was saying, yes, he did think america was back, and making a pretty clear dig at the former president of the united states during that meeting in cornwall in england. so it s unlikely that is going to be the same kind of relationship that you see at least publicly between the two of them when they do neat here at the french embassy in rome in a few moments. i think when it comes to broader relationship between the united states and france, it s not like that relationship will change in a major way. the question of whether or not it undermines the trust between if two of them when that is what president biden came to office saying he was seeking to restore after the way former president donald trump