and podesta is warning centrists, you re either gecting both or neither. the prospect of neither is unconscionable. it s politically catastrophic if we don t move forward with these bills at this time. joining me is the democratic senator from new jersey, cory booker. senator booker, welcome back to meet the press. it s great to be back on. good to have you in person. we re getting there. john podesta earlier this week wrote a memo basically sending a memo to both sides of this argument, moderates and progressives, you re going to have to come together. to progressives you ll going to have to face the reality that $3.5 trillion has to be pared back. do you concur? first of all, i don t like how this has been compared, progressives versus moderates. this is joe biden s bill. as he said in the oval office, i ve never been a progressive. this is about seizing what is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, like those who built the canals and the railroads, like those who built t
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my angel. this sunday, the biden agenda at risk. progressive democrats holding firm on spending bills. we re not leaving one part of the agenda behind and giving up on the idea of child care, paid leave, community college, health care. moderate democrats hoping to trim the cost. i understand people are concerned about the top line dollar amount. republicans vowing to stand in the way. this is government-run socialism. everyone of us is opposed to it. will democrats reach an agreement or fail and risk sinking the president s agenda? my guest, democratic senator cory booker of new jersey.
number, too, and that is that people like senator joe manchin who have said they won t support $3.5 trillion also won t give a specific number, and so speaker pelosi is trying to negotiation legislation with the moderates, with the progressives, and with people like senator joe manchin in the senate who aren t specific on what they want. so it s a rubik s cube. it s a venn diagram and every sort of crazy mathematical thing they re trying to fit together. it s extremely complicated. my sources say they don t know how it s going to play out. is the paing that reyum theory in here at all? cory booker didn t say i don t trust, but he described a situation where he doesn t trust. i know we re not supposed to do this, but before we came on, we were chatting about this.
killed. we ve had tragedies in this country we ve all witnessed. we ve got to start getting things done. the wonderful thing about it is police leaders understand it as well. we ve got to get back to the table eventually and get things done. senator booker, thanks for coming in. appreciate it. thank you very much. on friday, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas announced all the haitian migrants who had gathered under a bridge in del rio had been cleared from the area. more than 12,000 allowed to request asylum. 8,000 returned to mexico voluntarily, and as of friday, 2,000 were expelled to haiti. the images of white border patrol agents drew sharp criticism. senator mayorkas, welcome back to meet the press. thanks for having me, chuck. let me start with the decision to send 2,000 haitian migrants back to haiti. in hindsight, was that a
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