make the best decision for themselves to get it. what terry mcauliffe wants to do is have companies fire people who don t get the vaccine. here we are, coming out of a pandemic. virginia is ranked 44th in the nation when it comes to job recovery. terry mcauliffe wants companies to fire their employees if they don t get the vaccine. this is what dictarorial leadership is all about. if he doesn t like what the sheriff says, he yells at him. if he doesn t like what parents have to say about schools, he tells you he doesn t want you involved in their education. in this case, when you want to make a decision about whether you want the vaccine or not, if you don t make the right decision for terry mcauliffe, he wants your employer to fire you.
looks like a tub of caulk. nelson and rose. king majesty on social media. very stout. that is it for us. special report is up next. hello there, bret. bret: i don t know what i would do if i saw that coming down the aisle. thank you. good evening. welcome to washington. breaking tonight, does she have the votes tonight or not? a question frequently heard on capitol hill in the past few hours all about house speaker nancy pelosi and a potential vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, $1.2 trillion without a massive reconciliation spending bill at $3.5 trillion. frantic phone calls, meetings at the white house and on capitol hill, progressives versus moderates. democratic senator joe manchin from west virginia put his foot
fix is because they have a gigantic agenda and miniscule majority. they failed to win the seats they thought they were going to win in 2020. as joe manchin said today, i have never been a liberal. he s representing a state that trump won by, what, 29 points? like that song in hamilton, they don t have the votes and they re gonna have to compromise. that s just the way it is. reporter: trey, you ve seen this play before. speaker pelosi has pulled rabbits out of hats legislatively before. we don t know what s gonna happen tonight. do you think she could cobble this together? it depend. it depends on how many republican senators continue to call republican members of the house and ask them to vote for the infrastructure bill. kevin mccarthy has a job to do here, too, which is skaoep the republicans coalesced. i love aoc s political strategy
i will say this. jen psaki used the word democracy. let s lay aside the fact that they tried to ram it through with a parliamentarian and give it all in one bill. you and i won the same number of counties in west virginia that joe biden did. arizona was less than one half of a percentage point. so don t be lecturing joe manchin about democracy. reporter: jen psaki was asked about the white house losing all control of this. this is how democracy works. i know it feels foreign because there wassen much that happened over the last couple of years. but how it works is the american people elect their elected officials, the president of the united states, puts forward a bold and ambitious proposal and everybody negotiates about it. they have different points of view. that s how democracy should work. we re in the midst of it. we re not trying to paint over how messy it looks from the outside. we know that. bret: ben?
really beginning to gel in the house. yes i ve been calling it what we ve been seeing for the last week or so the storm before the calm it s always crazy. the red lines and everything and i m listening to the red lines being drawn, but the tone is much softer now than it was, say, in the spring and early summer when the progressives and the moderates were at each other s throats. what i also find interesting is that when they talk about the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, we don t know what s in it we don t know what s going to go in it. and that s why i love the question that you asked congresswoman lee about the price tag, because i think the conversation now is going to be less on the price tag and more on what exactly is in the bill that is of benefit to the american people, what david was just talking about and if you can get the child income tax credit made