Conservative Democrats who have pushed back on what they saw as excessive spending in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better plan had
senate, where, we ll see. i think it is news and important to know that the chair of the congressional progressive caucus, pramila jayapal, told us confidently here on this show last night that this bill is going to pass the senate and that she has personally been speaking with the senators who will make the difference as to whether or not this passes, and you know who we re talking about. she told us that some things will probably come out of the bill, perhaps some other things will go into the bill. it will change in some small ways. but she told us last night confidently that the vast majority of this bill has been, in her words, preconferenced, which means pre-agreed-to by senators, including with conservative democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, the two who have been derailing this process all along and slowing it down for months. she says they ve already pre-agreed to almost everything in the bill and the things that will be added to it or will come out of it are small compa
chair the progressive caucus primala jayapal, police confidently last night that this bill is going to pass the senate, and she has personally been speaking with the senators who will make the difference as to whether or not this passes, and we know who we are talking about. she it will change in some small ways, but she told us last night, confidently, that the vast majority of this bill has been, in her words, pre conference. which means, pre-agreed to. by senators. including with conservative democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, the two have been railing this process all along, and so in this down all these months. she says they have already pre agreed to almost everything that is in the bill, and the things that will be added to it, or come out of it are small compared to what will stay. hearing that from primala jayapal, she has been trustworthy in her assessment of these things along the way has been true. we shall see. but the democrats celebrated
interesting, don. yes, he s put his thumb on an issue that is really hot not just in virginia but across the country and that s education broadly because of covid, because of school boards, all kinds of issues. the race theory is a dog whistle, the young king campaign. it s interesting, you heard him talk about it there. they have run zero ads that mention critical race theory and talk about parental control and lots of other things we don t mention critical race theory. that s directed at the base. the broader parental involvement isindependents, conservative democrats. they try to keep it below the radar but we had alex wagner, my co-host interviewed a woman very prom inninent in the critical r theory in virginia and interesting hey, mark, can e we play tha for you? oh, great. let s play that. i ve seen what the training
sometimes christians are the most judge mental and maybe we should think about that making these calls. i got to tell you, the president has a lot on his plate there and he s got a lot on his plate back home. when you get back, when do you come back? monday or so? we ll be covering the election. yeah. you ll be dealing with that. there is a lot going on. first real measure of the projection of democratic power. we have people on here, the democrats spinning this is a good thing going on and robust conversation. we re going to see in this virginia race if the masses are going to match the media spin. because terry mcauliffe has no business being locked up in a tied race with glenn youngkin. he s a popular former governor there. virginia is blue. biden won it by ten points. the democrats don t think this process hurt them. i think they may see a different lesson in tuesday s election. i don t disagree with you. if they have that message, this is the process and the way