republican party. neil, your thoughts on what is now attention over how much they want to relive history or as graham naively hopes get donald trump thinking of something other than his public and well known loss. i m sure that the people, the kind of realists in the republican party understand that just relitigating the past and big lie when 63 courts ruled against the president, it is probably, president trump is not probably a winning strategy. and i think, ari, the news you referenced at the top of the show about trump s own accounting for dropping him, i think that s financially significant, politically significant, legally significant. it is really hard to get your accounting firm to drop you, even harder to drop you for being unreliable and here his accountants said statements for the last ten years are about as reliable as, i don t know,
than republican tax cuts do. nbc news reports on a call with members of the congressional progressive caucus, president biden says he believes he can negotiate senators manchin and sinema up to the range of 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. the progressive caucus members reportedly pushed back. they made clear they think they need more than that to cover the priorities that are in the actual legislation. but ultimately according to a source, they told the president they would support whatever topline number he could get to. this is how greg sergeant summed it up in the washington post today, quote, manchin and sinema are still not detailing how much spending they can accept or what they want sacrificed from the reconciliation bill. meanwhile, progressives are signaling willingness to make sacrifices and talking about how to accomplish this without knowing what that will take. tell me who the real realists and pragmatists are in this scenario again. sargent continues, quote, it s unclear which pr
negotiate senators manchin and sinema up to the range of 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. the progressive caucus members reportedly pushed back. they made clear they think they need more than that to cover the priorities that are in the actual legislation. but ultimately according to a source, they told the president they would support whatever topline number he could get to. this is how greg sergeant summed it up in the washington post today, quote, manchin and sinema are still not detailing how much spending they can accept or what they want sacrificed from the bill. meanwhile progressives are signaling willingness to make sacrifices and talking about how to accomplish this without knowing what that will take. tell me who the real realists and pragmatists are in this scenario again. sergeant continues, quote, it s unclear which priorities slowing the planet s warming, tax reforms to rebalance out out of whack political economy,
who s up? who s down? sinema and manchin versus biden and pelosi. but it is important to realize, that s not really what matters in the end. because the main story here that should bother all of us is that the american people are suffering for no good reason. they ve been gas lighted. why is it that the u.s. is the only industrialized country that cannot guarantee health care or child care or family leave for its citizens? now you have even top democrats in congress supposedly centrist, moderates, realists, saying sorry, america. you can t have what everyone else has. i m sorry but they re lying to you. we can afford $3.5 trillion over ten years. we can afford to tax the super rich. we can afford to guarantee basic rights and living standards to the people of this country. 11 senators including bernie sanders released a statement earlier this week demanding the passage of not just part but all of the biden agenda reading in
gottheimer versus jayapal. but it is important to realize, that s not really what matters in the end. because the main story here that should bother all of us is that the american people are suffering for no good reason. they ve been gas lighted. why is it that the u.s. is the only industrialized country that cannot guarantee health care or child care or family leave for its citizens? now you have even top democrats in congress supposedly centrist, moderates, realists, saying sorry, america. you can t have what everyone else has. i m sorry but they re lying to you. we can afford $3.5 trillion over ten years. we can afford to tax the super rich. we can afford to guarantee basic rights and living standards to the people of this country. 11 senators including bernie sanders and mazie hirono released a statement this week demanding not just part but all of the biden agenda.