deadline, a little over a month ago. nancy pelosi, joe biden pushed hard and then had to back down in the face of this dynamic. progressives not happy because of manchin and sinema. but they were not seeing at the. time now we are our here again, a month later, with a more significant deadline i would say in the sense that joe biden really wanted the white house to be able to go to the g20, to scott, low to glasgow with a genuine climate commitment in his hand. to be able to walk in with that kind of credibility. and they re also looking at the off year elections on tuesday. on tuesday for virginia new jersey. because every time this deadline gets pushed out later. more events happen in the political environment that could make it more complicated to pass this bill. so they really wanted to get this done today, and again it happened, so we are hearing a lot from camilla jayapal that suggests that some progress is
things that they fight for. but this framework includes historic investment in our nation and in our people. and any single home in this framework would fundamentally be viewed as a fundamental change in america. taken together, they re truly consequential. the president then boarded air force one for a trip to rome to attend the g20 summit meeting, and to meet with the pope. president biden was hoping to get a phone call on air force one from house speaker nancy pelosi, telling him that half of his legislative package passed the house today. that call never came, instead, speaker pelosi was forced to retreat from her plan for the house to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate in august, president biden went to the house representative for thing this morning at 9 am for a closed-door session with all of the house democrats in which he hoped to rally them, to pass that infrastructure bill today,
meetings, health care is dominant. now, this was intended to be about health care. what are you hearing from people, though? reporter: yeah, chris, the entire focus of this meeting here was health care. and what we re hearing is why tim kaine could never in a million years vote for this bill. he s coming out here and talking to some moms mostly and their children who have just heartbreaking stories about their experience on medicaid or taking advantage of some of the provisions in the affordable care act and why it has been so important to them and their families. some of these moms are crying. senator kaine was tearing up just hearing about this. i spoke to one of the moms before this event started about her experience with her son who benefited greatly from provisions in the affordable care act capping coverage for how long you can be on care, and also the importance of medicaid and essentially saving her son s life. take a listen. when he was 15 months old, he hit his lifetime m
go to the g20, meet with president putin of russia, and sort of, you know he and his surrogates are saying, look, we put this right on the table. we pressed the russian president on this and we re trying to move forward. that was their attempt to clean this up and get past that. this makes it all the much worse. and, paul, i mean, there s one thing about what looks bad politically. there is another question about what this might mean legally. as you hear the changing stories and you hear even the affirmation about what happened, what does it say to you legally? well, you know, prosecutors are suspicious when people lie, when they try to cover up. so we heard first from trump jr. that this meeting was about adoptions. now we know it wasn t about adoptions. it was actually about trying to get dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. that s collusion. now, collusion itself is not a crime. but if we learn that they knew that the russians were hacking and they supported that, then w
critics. and there was plenty of them. it was a benign moment when his daughter sat in his seat when they were discussing the world back women s entrepreneurship initiative. he did play to his base, how normal is it for someone for ivanka trump s stature to sit in on a meeting like that. i only say that because she does not have a vast portfolio in international affairs. it s not normal. in this situation, you really should have secretary of state rex tillerson set in. it sends a message of who is in