discuss the situation. reporter: white house officials are optimistic, cautiously optimistic that build back better plan can be revived, it is not really on the front burner right now. no clear pathway or timeline on it. the real focus is on funding the government before next month s deadline and on a china competitiveness bill the president was mentioning today. as to the future of build back better, one official told me earlier, tbd. tbd. phil mattingly, thanks. let s discuss with democratic congressman raja of the great state of illinois. a member of the house oversight and house intelligence committees. congressman, thanks for joining us. let s start with biden s agenda. senator joe manchin said when it comes to the build back better social safety net bill, democrats will start from scratch. but here s what speaker pelosi said. there are big chunks of the bill that have to be contained in the bill but, remember this, this is a reconciliation bill. so when people say let s d
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who is president that has happened over and over, is it one joe or the other? a lot of the things, issues that this administration is dealing with are things that are somewhat out of their control, right? congress has to do something, they can pressure congress. he has a meeting talking to joe manchin especially after what we ve seen recently but this is about congress getting together and figuring that out. he is going to have to push, president biden has to push his members of congress to do that. he s the leader of this party and working on that. they say he s constantly in contact. i think holidays as for all of success a time to reset and reassess and try to figure out the ways they can do that. what s happening, going to happen now, you have progressives rumbling whatever joe manchin agrees to at some point if he is to agree to something, build back better or called something else on the social safety net bill, they are going to have to take what he
a negotiation ploy, brit or is this really the end? that s what you are referring to on that hill piece people saying maybe it s the white house attitude and if that attitude shifts maybe joe manchin will reenter talks with joe biden as opposed to anything that happened with the staff. but i think what have you got to focus on here and i think, you know, i think from the chuck schumer point of view from the white house point of view. just last week joe manchin handed the white house a draft of an outline, if you will, of what was acceptable to him. you know, like a point of negotiation. he did the same thing back in july with the senate majority leader chuck schumer. so, i think that there are lots of people who do feel betrayed and feel like, wait, we were negotiating. we were open to the infrastructure bill was passed. separated from this social safety net bill. and the elements of the bill are