you have new york magazine s jonathan chait writing the reason so many republicans, including mcconnell, tolerated the bill is that they believed it would reduce the odds of congress passing a second bill, the larger human infrastructure plan we keep talking about. walk me through that supposed calculus. yeah, i mean, a little confusing when you hear republicans say that because that was never anything that wasn t borne out by any of the reporting that we looked at from democrats and what they were saying because they always wanted to get the care infrastructure, as a part of some kind of bill, whether that was through reconciliation or trying to get it in a bipartisan way. it became clear they weren t going to be able to do it in that bipartisan way. the calculus was, okay, we ll give them a little bit, we ll come to the table, and hopefully they ll forget about this care infrastructure. we won t have to deal with this human infrastructure aspect of what president biden wants done
we know that states are opening up, but there s still a need for essentially a second stimulus here. this is an investment into human capital, americans people. that s what democrats essentially want to play here. essentially, that we saw, senator joe manchin mentioned that republicans have been a part of the second track. they have been very well aware of the negotiations happening here on the secondary side of this negotiation. and this two-track bill. so it behooved democrats to lean forward and say this is what republicans are attempting to dial back on. this is where we re seeing republicans aren t coming to the table with us and maintaining the spirit of bipartisanship. that s what joe biden ran on and he wants to maintain that messaging. and it only behooves democrats to lean forward with that. it is my suspicion we ll be talking about this all summer. eugene, kenya, nick, i hope you ll come back to talk with us. next, we take you to surfside, florida, where we expect an upd
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florida, on theirsearch and recovery efforts to find more than 150 people missing following that condo collapse. that search in day four, the death toll stands at nine. when that press briefing begins, we re going to bring it to you live. first up for us, infrastructures back from the brink. several key republican senators making the rounds today to reaffirm their support after a comment from president biden nearly tanked their bipartisan deal. it was a surprise, to say the least, that those two got linked. i m glad they have now been delinked and it s clear that we can move forward with a bipartisan bill that s broadly popular. mitch mcconnell wants infrastructure as much as anyone else. he wants jobs that this will create. i think leader mcconnell will be for it if it continues to come together as it is. those are the republicans, but a number of progressive democrats now worry about the prospects of the second part of the deal, the so-called human infrastructure package. it
that this bill and that this deal could potentially come with democratic losses and recognizing that although it s a look of bipartisanship, it wasn t a look representative of those who were the main part of the electorate democratess are relying on to win as well as in upcoming midterms. we re seeing an effort to control the messaging around bipartisanship but maintain that democrats are moving forward. nick, i think kenya nailed it there. you heard the sound from alexandria ocasio-cortez saying you have majorities, use them earlier. she had been one of the foremost critics of the fact this group, while it was bipartisan, did not represent the diversity of this country. what does the president have to do next to get and maintain the support of progressives? yeah, well, you know, first, i would like to remind democrats generally that good policy is always good politics. and there s nothing better than being able to come back into communities from washington and tell your constituen