care, get universal preschool, have a pro-growth agenda that grows the economy. and i m confident there s a way forward. i m willing to sit down with him and the president to work to get to a passing a bill. the bottom line is, clearly the president in his statement that we know that he had a heavy hand in crafting and signing off on felt betrayed by manchin, saying he would not vote on build back better. that s a reality. so the question is, can you trust senator manchin moving forward if there are talks that are renewed about moving forward with something similar to what you have on the table now. pam, i trust president joe biden. he had a commitment at the $1.75 trillion framework from house democrats, from progressives and from 50 senators. now it s the goal posts have moved, here s the reality. we need senator manchin s vote. that s just the math of the situation. if the president says we need to
infrastructure talks, but you can be sure both talks came up with both senators at the same time. yeah. well, mike, how is the white house thinking about the intra-party democratic politics on this? i was talking with senator a me pennsylvania avenue, if they can t figure out how to say yes to the bipartisan deal and the reconciliation package that includes climate provisions at the same time, he wants a guarantee both of those things will pass he may not vote for it and says he speaks for potentially many other democrats as well, which could make this deal trickier, how is the white house thinking about that group? thinking about that group, and they re critical in a reconciliation bill because kyrsten sinema and joe manchin might be nervous passing a bill with bernie sanders s name on it.
home for an easter recess but they left washington with a lot of unfinished business including passing a bill to repeal and replace obamacare. . doozy joins us with the latest. reporter: congress is a way for two weeks, two week chunk out of 200 a plan to repeal and replace obamacare and reform the tax-cut neither of which seem close to happening. i have seen talk about keeping lawmakers around until the republican party could agree on an obamacare replacement but just because they doesn t doesn t mean they can t. this is one of those ideas that gets us closer to consensus. there are more ideas we are working on and we will keep working on days and weeks ahead to find the contention and get this bill done. democrat seemed delighted the republican majority is and using their numbers to muscle through the things they campaigned on and donald trump seems to think he can get them on board when he
this country on this fiance visa. what kind of vetting went through getting her here, she clearly lied about where she lived and it just went unnoticed. as we re finding out more about this, we put together a task force week ago in the house with some of our top committee chairs that are involved in all of the different aspects of homeland security, and we came up with a number of items that have to be addressed legislatively. we started by passing a bill, re interpartisan to require vetting. the fbi director said they don t even know who are coming in from syria, and we identified there s problems with the visa waiver program. there s about 38 countries in the world that participate. there s been some loopholes we want to close up and if you want
from bill clinton. republicans get blamed for=luit&c% government shutdowns. they just do. they deserve it in most of the cases, but they get the credit for being the guys who screwed it up because they don t like government. let sc turn for a moment to this issue of immigration. you have the president now saying don t look in this direction if you want to b out who s obstructing immigration. is there anything at this point it is a priority of this administration to ggt an immigration bill through. can it be done? i d like to believe that. you d like to believe it s a priority or that it can get done? that passing a bill is the priority. or is it just building up the hispanic vote for the democratic party? look, here s one thing. i know i m a super good government guy. if obama really wanted the bill and not the issue he d go to the republicans and say in a back room where nobody is listening, how can i help you sell the fact we re going to enforce this law? we re not going t