inbetween. we watched republicans tank senator manchin s, his federal voting rights bill in the senate. obviously putting new attention on the filibuster. you ve called on president biden to create a carveout filibuster on voting rights. this is what the president said about it at the town hall on thursday night. if, in fact, i get myself into at this moment the debate on the filibuster, i lose at least three votes right now to get what i have to get done on the economic side of the equation. i also think we re going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally ator the filibuster. when it comes to voting rights, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue? is that correct? and maybe more. again, the president cautious not to say anything to upset the
curtain, giving an inside look at the negotiations over his party s spending bill. you can sense the urgency with the president holding a breakfast meeting this morning with speaker pelosi and majority leader schumer. right now democrats seem to be all over the map about what should be in the bill? will we get a deal? what will the deal look like? in a few moments i ll talk to jim clyburn, the third ranking doctors in the house about where talks stand at this hour. and that is where we are going to start on this friday morning. some new details on the president s build back better plan. and it s all coming straight from president biden himself. i probably spent well, well over 100 hours. are you close to a deal? i think so. i was a senator for 307 years, and i was never i was relatively good at putting together bills. the clean electricity
night. kelly and ali. kelly, let s start with you. we heard a lot. that s the tip of the iceberg for what president biden addressed at the town hall. what are the major signals he s sending right now about his agenda and the white house s priorities themselves? in some ways it was the tone of the president. humor, optimism coming through. some reality about the limitations of what his own influence and power can do to shape this when you have just 50 democrats who are in the senate. so that reality is there. we expect that there will be difficulty with the issue that he had said would be a part of the plan, and that is raising taxes on corporations and wealthier americans. he made clear that the arizona senator kyrsten sinema is opposed to raising the rates on corporations and high earning individuals. that presents a challenge to the
performance program has been dropped from the spending bill. but the concession has been agreed to for senator manchin. is that true? nothing has been formally agreed to. the question was on community colleges which was a big campaign promise that you made. you talked about that a lot. and i m going to get it done. and if i don t, i ll be sleeping alone for a long time. joe manchin wants a work requirement with your enhanced tax credit for kids. is that something you would support? no. here s the deal. all these people are working anyway. i m willing to make sure we pay for things with people making less than $400,000 not paying a single cent. president biden, lots of jokes agts the town hall last
with the president. leader schumer joined via zoom. now that we can all zoom in, dial in face time in from other places, so they could have an update on where things stand. so there are some key developments, and i think one of the most interesting things about the town hall is that when we ve been talking to white house advisers about this, no one wanting to negotiate in public. okay. sure, we understand that. but the president did give us more detail than we had really had before. and from a more comprehensive point of view. and that was helpful to know where things stand today. all right. let s talk about where things stand with lawmakers, kelly o. ali you ve been chasing down lawmakers for any nugget on spending bill negotiations. president biden just spilled a good amount of beans himself. what is the state of play on the hill right now? yeah. we get our steps in here on capitol hill, craig. and we re probably still going to be doing that.