made. there s been a lot of discussion, and we are a democratic party. we are not a rubber stamp or a lockstep party. we have our discussions and i m very proud of the values that all the members have brought to the table, the knowledge of the issues that they re advancing, that they bring, and the realization that even at 3.5, you have to make decisions. so, again, we have to make tighter decisions. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us live, so what about those tough choices? what are they going to chop out of some of these bills? reporter: yeah, i think that s the big question right now, alisyn and victor. democrats right now are wrestling between a path forward here, and they ve got really two options to try and shrink the size of this package that you ll recall at one point was as big as $3.5 trillion. they can either try and pack all of these issues and programs and policies that they had hoped to put into the package and do it in a smaller or less long of a
these talks could extend past halloween. it s even possible they could go all the way into thanksgiving. this is really being looked at now as more of a long-term process, not a short-term process, because democrats want to get it right. alisyn and victor? ryan nobles, thank you. democrats are doing president biden no favors with their intraparty drama but beyond that, let s look at the slew of crises the president is facing right now. wow. among them, rising gas prices and inflation. a supply chain backlog ahead of the holiday shopping season. sluggish job growth. staffing shortages. turmoil in afghanistan. and a pandemic. that he, of course, was elected with people hoping that he would end, and then there s the politicization of the vaccine, mask mandates, you know, all that stuff. the graphic can only be so big. cnn political director david chalian is here. david, welcome to you. white house press secretary jen psaki admitted that they thought this would be done with several
him. reporter: besides saying he wants to keep this stuff private, is kyrie saying anything about vaccines in general or if there s a potential that he will disclose his vaccine status? oh, yeah, it s interesting. just last month, victor, irving, as you mentioned, refused to reveal his vaccination status. he also, though, at the media day, he said that he was looking forward to playing in front of fans again. though, he does say he s going to keep his vaccination status private, look, the nets are odds-on favorite to win the title and kyrie irving is a bona fide star. he s scheduled to make $34 million this year, and initially, it didn t appear that money was an issue, though not playing in away games, he would be docked his salary, about $360,000 per game. that would total about $17 million for the year. it didn t appear to be an issue at the time. what could motivate him to play
west, just posted over the weekend, as governor of texas, i will vehemently crush anyone forcing vaccine mandates in the lone star state. guys? nick, thank you very much. okay, now let s talk about that move by the brooklyn nets to bench their star player, kyrie irving. irving has not shared his vaccination status and therefore was already barred by local new york city guidelines from playing any home games. cnn sports anchor coy wire joins us now. so, coy, tell us how the nets came to this decision. reporter: hi, alisyn and victor. yeah, look, the season is just one week away and there are two cities where players who are not vaccinated would not be permitted to play in their home venues, new york and san francisco. this affects three teams as the mandate doesn t apply to players on visiting teams. the golden state warriors, the new york knicks and the brooklyn nets. all players on the knicks are already fully vaccinated and now after just last week, the warriors are as well. an
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