judge them by their actions. but this was getting in the room and sitting across from the table and figuring out what in fact is the point of common ground and can can we meet it. judging by their action buzz you say the one phrase that comes up again and again in your conversations with the president is the quote, getting in the deal. is that his core motto? yeah, it really is. it s been one of his basic principles going back to when he first ran for office in 1972, running for the senate. he represented the state of delaware, as we all know, which is as he described it to me, it s very much a place that is both of the south and of the north. it was very much split politically. he had to figure out a way to sit down at the table. it s how he sometimes found himself sitting down and making deals with people who he disagreed with on everything else. but his view was that if we allow those things to get in the way we can never make a deal on anything so i asked before, is this me
force one can have on elected representatives. how is his time period shortening when he does come back? left behind a number of officials and aides to negotiate on his behalf while he s over there. question whether they can get anywhere to where you need a presidential phone call, where it would make a difference or not. they re still far apart, on numbers and concept of what infrastructure constitutes and how you pay for it. pay for it is the big deal. had a negotiation of just i m for x dollars and you re y dollars, meet in the middle, that s one thing. but republicans eager not to support tax increases that president biden is talking about. tax increases focused on the wealthy. but republicans believe it s in their political interest and philosophical point of view not to support that. how they square those
negotiator, and we have seen them convey publicly they feel the vibes are good and they re continuing to make progress. reporter: the unanswered question is what happens with this infrastructure push. one official told me this week that the ball is now in republicans court after president biden and the white house officials delivered republicans that counter offer that reduced from $2.25 trillion to 1$1.7 trillion. republicans did not perceive that very well. they said it was well above what they believed they could get bipartisan support for. republicans offered something around the $800 billion range. 1 1.7 is double that. how can these two parties that are so far apart find compromise and meet in the middle, boris, christi. the big question is how do you define infrastructure. not a lot of agreement there. reporting from the white house,
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