you so often do, the difference between the emotion around the politics in washington and the actual process, jay, where there is a kind of political transient property. the democrats need joe manchin. and joe manchin, whether you agree with him or not, seems to think he needs either republicans or the appearance of really trying to get republicans so you re in this thing where you need economic votes, you can doit on 50, people understand that, but then he needs the wider public kabookey theater saying look how hard we ve tried. the cameras caught up with this today. take a look. well, i appreciate the frustration, but i think if we can get a bipartisan agreement, it would be very important for the country. they ve been able to do that from the beginning of this. i think eventually that s where they re going to end up. elections have consequences and the democrats have a very small majority and as a result they can take action on their
and of three presidential campaigns, cady, charlie brown doesn t always make the top story on the newscast but progressives are saying something that seems pretty logical based on recent precedent. kudos for getting charlie brown in at the top of the show. that s good. of course there is growing frustration amongst progressives about the gridlock in washington and about the amount of time that the white house is spending talking to republicans to try and get bipartisanship on something, whether it s infrastructure, whether it s police reform and there is a feeling amongst progressives like aoc that it s time to pull the rug from those discussions. i spoke to brendan boyd who s a member of the progressive caucus. that s about half of the democratic members of the house. it s a very big caucus. within that caucus there are many views.
for viewers, is this all internal washington stuff? no, we re talking about as the stimulus, the stimi is a big deal. it affects whether you can make rent, whether you can go out and in the next round of job funding to the tune of a trillion or two is a big deal. i m going to fit in a break because we have a special report. i want to thank both of you. coming up as promised, we re going to dig into our legal special report. the man who could know all of trump s secrets. what they never found out and what they kept secret about donald trump s alleged obstruction. the democrats did get a break through. and later what government can and should do about the billionaires. coming up next, our special report. stay with us.
of this trump org criminal probe. we know from the evidence we ve gathered it s accelerating. i m discussing donald trump s cfo and accountant, allen weisselberg. why he has cooperated with prosecutors in the past in a case you may or may not recall and why he is so key to the future of the entire trump organization and potentially to donald trump s freedom himself. we ve been working on that. you know when we do the special reports we put everything we can in it. that s coming up on tonight s program. we begin with the top story coming out of washington but also around the world. president biden taking his first foreign trip. biden in the u.k. for the g7 summit leaving washington hours after dramatically and distinctly breaking off the direct talks with top republicans on the jobs plan. biden shifting the focus to the remaining possibility the group of bipartisan senators which