policy pieces is going to push this later into the week. but i think what s striking to me from that readout we got of the progressives yesterday is the fact that they say they re prepared to pass both bills this week. they ve been prepared to pass both bills. they want to make sure they re doing both bills together. that has been the long game strategy here for progressives. so far they ve managed to hold that line. we have no reason to believe it s going to fall apart now. when you saw the whip notices, making sure the strategy of keeping both bills together was sticking, when you see the whip notices, they re trying to get a handle on the caucus. everybody feels ready to move on this. they want to make sure they re moving on it with the good faith they needed the whole time, which is the senate side. yesterday as the president was walking offstaid in rome, our colleague peter alexander asked whether he thought he had senators joe manchin and kyrsten
anything that would be a red line for you that would make you and perhaps others say we simply cannot get behind this bipartisan infrastructure deal? well, as you know, there are a lot of good things that we ve heard but we don t know any details, and at the end of the day the big problem is what about the policy pieces that go with the money so if we re going to take on climate change and reach the emissions targets that the president has laid out at his vision and his goal that he s committed to, then we have to take on carpon emissions within the transportation sector. that means funding transit, so one of the things we are waiting to see is what is the funding for transit and what is the policy that goes with the numbers, so there s a lot of details. the house passed the invest act and that does have a lot of what we believe we need to do when it comes to infrastructure, roads and bridges and parts of infrastructure. let s see where this goes. i m happy that the 20 senators seem
well, you just mentioned environmentalism, housing insecurity, discrimination against people who have been incarcerated, and out and out homelessness, which are all such important issues in the country. it s interesting to hear some of the other work that is going on in congress. this is our opportunity really to create a vision of what our 21st century century housing should look like, and there is so much excitement in my home state and across the country for this bill. and it s one of the most substantial policy pieces of the green new deal. so we re really excited to have had the opportunity for nine months to work with grassroots champions on housing to get this bill out there. yeah, very interesting, important issue, and i m glad to get you on the beat. i hope you come back. we can talk about this and other policies. congresswoman omar, thank you so much for making time. thank you so much for having me. appreciate it. up ahead, we turn to a story we have not yet hit t
the question is does it change the equation? so it s an opportunity for the candidates tonight to see if they can challenge the equation. democrats have yet to really put forward a clear clarifying position on this debate. i mean, isn t that where you started and that s where the moderators start tonight with this? the policy pieces i think matter less than the people, the human part of it. i think where you are now is the american people accept that we should have children being treated this way, period? and i think for those of us who understand the policy and nuance of refugee asylum or whatever, this is not right. and i think whoever can just say that as cleary as possible is going to get a big response from that crowd and the american people. i think we re going to hear the story of this father and daughter, and oats going to put a human story behind what has been a policy debate. van, i think you re right.
worried? so it s really fascinating in covering this democratic primary how much fundraising has become something of a test. if you could put forward a huge multi-million dollars number at the end of a quarter it was a good sign of your viability as a candidate. now the real metrics are not that top line number but how many donors you have. how much many donations did you receiver and can you go back to keep raising more money. there s no doubt that he has deep connections with a lot of top democratic donors could raise large sums in a hurry. the real challenge is how to be creative and how to grow their small dollar fundraising pool and use their small e-mail list to grow that e-mail list and then be able to use that to raise money in the kind of eye popping numbers that we have seen already. okay. so let s talk about my favorite thing to talk about which are some of the policy pieces.