for the 1% of our gdp for infrastructure. so we need to have a we have to a lot of these are going to be union contracts, middle class wages, no share benefits, and just a, say what s a soldier for working people, and not just union people, but working people. because the unions have helped raise wages for everybody. so i think this is an opportunity for us to outcompete shine. a week we play a lot of sports, this is about a competition. and we need to do it here if we are going to outcompete shine in the future. the infrastructure package is a combination. it is these two bills. what does assuming the bipartisan bill passes the senate by say monday or tuesday, something like, that what is that do for the momentum of this legislation
america has never seen, the american public likes the investment. it s not wasted money. it s in two very important issues all across our country. the bipartisan infrastructure bill is building up our physical infrastructure. the other bill is about our caring infrastructure. so i think we would love to see them move quickly. i know that there is going to be many conversations around negotiations. and all the cabinet is going to be involved in this process as well as we move forward here. quickly, before you go, i want to ask you, from your perspective, as former mayor of boston, i think you are 54th, the 54th mayor of boston, all of them white men. there is now a mayor s race in boston where there is no white man among the front runners. one of the black women front runners for a mayor will join us later in this hour, andrea campbell. what is your reaction to this historic change in boston politics that has produced this extraordinary field of candidates, including two black
infrastructure. no. we had a very long conversation about that and looking at the needs in our country. we have a good bipartisan bill, we re working on. i have to keep going. we have a bipartisan bill that we re working on together. so he understands that and he likes to the movement that is going on there and he encourages a very good process that we re going to have on the do you need more assurances that it is your compromise thank you all. the crowd has to go down the hallway. reporter: i m not if you caught that, kate. go ahead. reporter: okay. but joe manchin made it clear he did not make a final decision on how to vote on the legislation today. he said they ll staill making changes among the democrats and things that he likes that they have proposed that they have gotten some positive reception from barack obama and stacey
cohosts, star if you ask us of the circus on showtime. gentlemen, good evening and welcome to you both. don, it should never be lost that biden did sign not only bipartisan legislation today, but important legislation today. and the event was emotional and lovely at the white house. does this bipartisan legislation have any convertibility into any other bipartisan legislation? it absolutely does. we should not diminish the importance of recognizing june teenth as a federal holiday. it is important. yes, i will acknowledge that the critics as they say it s largely symbolic but republicans attempt to whitewash no pun intended the legacy of slavery and through
strategies, a lobbying for him in d.c. and mark mckinnon form advisor to both george w. bush and john mccain. he is of course among the coast, the star of if you ask us, the circus on showtime. gentlemen, good evening. welcome to you both. don, it should never be lost that biden did sign not only bipartisan legislation today, but important legislation today, and the event was emotional and lovely at the white house. does this bipartisan legislation have any convertibility into any other bipartisan legislation? it absolutely does. first of all, we should not diminish the importance of recognizing juneteenth as a federal holiday. it is important. yes, i will acknowledge the critics as they will say it s largely symbolic, but it is important particularly as republicans across the state legislators of this country