make progress. reporter: president biden working behind closed doors to close the deal. the president is basing this approach on five decades of washington is a good guide for how to get things done. reporter: his domestic agenda hanging in the balance, biden launching into a week designed to break the logjam. politics of the art of the possible and president biden is someone who understands how to bring people together. reporter: monday calls with joe manchin, as well as democratic leaders. last night i continued my discussions with speaker pelosi and president biden as we worked to an agreement on legislation we can bring to the floor. reporter: today, separate morning oval office meetings with manchin and kyrsten sinema. two moderate holdouts. afternoon meetings split by ideological leanings. nine progressives who urged biden to go big on his signature economic and climate bill focused by moderates focused on
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The former president’s appearance at CPAC highlighted a mounting problem for his party.
March 2, 2021
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The 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference proved that it’s still Donald Trump’s Republican Party, but then you knew that. So did the organizers, the attendees, and the politicians who attended.
It’s why the conference moved from its traditional home outside Washington, D.C., to Florida. Oh, sure, COVID-19 restrictions played a part, but CPAC could have chosen any number of places to relocate, and it chose the former president’s home state, hoping he’d attend as he did. (Why bring the base to Washington when you can take Washington to the base?)
the new york times, joel abramson, said the obama administration was the at least transparent she ever covered. i m careful in being critical of trump for not giving access. the fact kelly o donnell got the statement from him on the night of the ruling of the ninth circuit was outstanding. the obama administration iced out conservative publications, the weekly standard, they weren t friendly or responsive to us. i both sides were open and transparent, no matter publications, ideological leanings. i hope the conservatives who get questions they don t embarrass themselves with sieyfofantic questions. they should ask hard-hitting questions whether from a conservative perspective or just the news of the day. and, of course, eliana, the president sometimes bypasses us all together, just goes to the people on twitter. he s unpredictable. he does sometimes go to twitter, sometimes he talks to reporters.