quote, defig a president from his own party face to face is the strongest indication yet manchin is serious about cutting specific programs and limiting the price tag of any potential bill to $1.5 trillion. his insistence could blow up the deal for progressives and others. and i have to think manchin is perfectly fine with the position he s in. there was no expectation the president was going to change the senator s mind with one meeting. he comes to the position he is at with a lot of years of policy positions and politics and his own personal views behind that. senator manchin has been a running theme since really the very early days of this
serious about cutting specific programs, limiting the price tag of any potential bill to 1.5 trillion, his insistence could blow up the deal for progressives and others shannon, i have to believe manchin is perfectly fine with the position he is in. yes, i will say, i talk to the administration official about this meeting they said there was not an expectation that the president was gonna change senator manchin s mind with one meeting. he comes to the position he is at with a lot of years of policy positions, and politics and his own personal views behind them, senator manchin has been a running theme since the very early days of his presidency, and trying to navigate how to get him on board with various pieces of legislation, there is no shortage of phone calls and
tight time frame to get this done before the september 27th date to pass the infrastructure bill. by the way, preconferencing is the next washington vocabulary word, housework is run by the senate before they finish to make sure everyone is on the same page rather than after the fact. president biden met yesterday with manchin and sinema, didn t get much readout from the senators involved. do you know anything more about how it went and how is the white house looking at those two holdouts, is this a target for the president to lean on, are they taking this off to reproach? give us a sense how they re viewing this. reporter: there s been no shortage of calls between the president and senator manchin and sinema. it is a running theme that s ongoing in the white house. you ask administration officials about it, they essentially chuckle and say yes, the
massive transcendent events, we have exclusive data from news web, what s drawing engagement online, and we re finding that simone biles and her olympics trials have gotten more attention for mental health than either the harry and meghan interview with oprah or than tennis star naomi osaka s struggles. but all three of those have converged and what do they have in common, they re all stars from whom a lot is expected. they talk about the tyranny of those expectations, and it s three women of color who drew backlash for being honest about their feelings. is there an expectation in the polling that things could change? we re seeing people are increasingly willing to talk about it. it was a topic that, like, rarely talked about or off to the side, now it s central issue. there s nothing bigger in the world than the olympics, and this has been a running theme.
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