so if he didn t doesn t get something done, it is an epic failure of unprecedented proportions. but also what s really interesting here we ll see what the details are. we ll see how much it is, we ll see whether the progressives are in line and whether it actually happens but think about how far they have fallen from their agenda what they set out to do on that inauguration day. bernie sanders wanted $6 trillion this bill. biden proposed 3.5. they will be less than $2 trillion when this comes out. we ll have to find out which of their priorities from that bill are on the cutting room floor. think about all the other things they wanted to do. federalize elections, add the district of columbia as a state so they could add two state democratic seats and pack the supreme court. they wanted to pass radical immigration reform, partisan immigration reform measures. none of that is happening. it is because quite frankly joe
to be changing by the hour. team fox coverage this morning. marc thiessen joins us with his reaction and chad pergram is running down this story beneath the capitol. hi, chad. good morning. the president should be arriving at the capitol in a couple moments. you might see members of the democratic party filing into the room where they ll meet with him. president biden came to capitol hill about a month ago trying to get a deal then and we thought they were a little bit closer on a framework but they weren t. here we are in late october and still trying to get this together. we do not have legislative text and that is key because the senate approved the bipartisan infrastructure bill, a separate piece of legislation in early august. progressives have been withholding their votes until they get something in concrete, in stone, on what the provisions are in the social spending plan. there seems to be a little softening in their position
it s not taught in virginia. the state bureaucracy recommending these controversial teaching tools to all education stakeholders. bill: we ll follow it. mike emanuel in d.c. things are happening on capitol hill today that s for sure. waiting to hear from speaker pelosi and she is supposed to come out at 10:45. a few minutes late now but has to come out there with something and say either we ll have a vote on this infrastructure bill or we ve got an agreement that because we have a framework we ll go forward with infrastructure or not. who knows what s happening behind the scenes. tense to be sure and we will bring you there live as soon as it gets underway.
beginnings of trying to bail out from the pandemic and i looked at a poll the other day, robert, one of the fox polls that said that about 59% of americans believe that build back better will either hurt the economy in the end because of inflation, or that it won t help it. so if you are in the white house and looking at that number are you thinking wow, we put ourselves on the line for something that maybe americans don t want more of? well, listen, martha. i think most americans don t know what s in it. bernie sanders was 6 half trillion. that will be 1.75 trillion. paid for a is coming from taxing wealthy people making north of $10 million. martha: they have already pulled out the corporate tax increase, beefed up i.r.s. to go after people with tax audits
if terry mccauliffe wins he has done a good job and see if he has done a good job on the early and mail inballoting that he could run up a total that could avoid the youngkin surge. i don t know if he has been able to do that or not. what i do know if republicans win this race. new jersey is going to be closer than it should as well. that could be a harbinger for mid-term elections like we saw in 2010. what we saw in that case was democrats hit the panic button immediately. if terry mccauliffe loses democrats won t just hit the panic button they will have something happen in their pants as well. martha: thank you, you guys, old friends brad and doug. bill: doug has been holding that line. fast growing migrant caravan marching north toward the u.s. border. an exclusive ride along with officials out of texas to try