That this one big win, and he desperately wanted it. part of why it also worked is because biden and his white house decided that they were going to do everything that they could to try to get to yes with republicans. and that was something that white house staffers told us, which was that along the way they couldn t give up, they had to constantly go back to the table to try to find. i think the reason why that s also the case is because they also realized that perhaps there s not going to be an opportunity to do anything more as big or even equally as robust. not just because republicans have done it and now they just probably don t have the appetite to do it again, but then going into the 22 midterm elections, who knows what the house is going to look like afterwards. so they did put all their eggs in one basket to make sure that this was the thing that everyone focused on. and let s be real, there were a lot of people who didn t even think we were going to get this far. so, to y
Across provincial capitals. we visited other cities, kandahar, which is the second largest city in the country. the front line position that we visited in a wedding hall, that is now completely under the control of the taliban, the entire city is surrounded. we saw a similar thing in gazni city entirely surrounded by the taliban. and afghan forces more and more are simply deserting or surrendering when they find themselves coming under taliban attack because, pamela, morale here is very low. and president biden has talked about this in the wake of the taliban rapidly gaining control, he said the u.s. has poured over a trillion dollars into afghanistan in two decades and that the u.s. is still supporting them with money and airstrikes. so, why isn t this enough for afghan forces? reporter: listen. when you talk to afghans and even afghan soldiers, they will
Proposal, republicans are unified in their opposition to the plan. what our colleagues are proposing and planning is absolutely jaw-dropping. reporter: and there s no margin for error due to the barest of congressional majorities, and already concerns from key moderates about the price tag. west virginia senator joe manchin says he has serious concerns about that $3.5 trillion top-line number, all as house speaker nancy pelosi has maintained the bipartisan bill will go nowhere in the house until that second measure is ready to move. whatever you can achieve in a bipartisan way, bravo. we salute it, we applaud it, we hope that it will pass soon. but, at the same time, we re not going forward with leaving people behind. reporter: for now, biden making clear today he fully intends to sign his entire agenda into law. we brought this economy back from a cold start. and there is going to be
[ applause ] that applause from senate democrats just minutes before 4:00 a.m. this morning, marking another win for the white house. this was one of the most significant legislative days we ve had in a long time here in the united states senate. reporter: all 50 senate democrats sticking together through a 15-hour process of dozens of votes, adopting the blueprint for biden s $3.5 trillion social safety net expansion, and on top of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure, two critical legislative wins in two days. but for democrats, the real work begins now. it s as if we caught a pass, a nice long pass at mid-field. but we still have 50 yards to go before we score a touchdown. reporter: negotiations over the critical details of that $3.5 trillion package launching in earnest in the weeks ahead. but unlike the infrastructure
Should last? i think it should last until we have our positivity rate locally below 5%, which is what it was back in july. our positivity rate is about 21% starting off the week. and so back in july everything was, people were feeling comfortable, people were hopeful that the numbers were going down, and so i think that that mandate should be in place until our local positivity rate goes down. and do you think that president biden should step in to prevent governor abbott from banning masks in schools? i think that our local government is doing everything that they can right now. that s a complicated situation when you start to talk about the federal and the state level. i think, again, the most compelling thing for me is that our families and our kids know what to do to stay safe, and they will continue to do that regardless of a mandate or not. our families know how to stay safe, and our educators know how to keep our kids safe. kristina martinez, thank you for joining the sh