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we heard him say six minutes, six hour, six weeks, so he might be okay with this october 31 deadline, but he has work to do, right? >> and to quote president biden, he said he's going to work like hell to try to get both of these measures passed even as both remain at a stand off over exactly how to proceed with the president's top priorities. the president has acknowledged there's frustration on all sides as these negotiations have played out over the course of the past few weeks and moderates and progressives still appear to be add odds over the proposal then the larger $3.5 trillion proposal which they are expecting will likely be trimmed down a bit in order to win over some moderates. the president is spending the weekend at his home in wilmington, delaware. he is planning to stay engaged on the issue. talking to lawmakers while he is there. he also will be hosting lawmakers here at the white house next week as well as traveling the country to try to sell these proposals to the american people. but the president really has said even if he himself is not putting a timeline, a deadline to get these measures passed, he has said that he is optimistic that they will get done. he does think that there is support for both of these measures. it's just a matter of getting the votes in order for them to pass. he has been urging his democrats up on capitol hill to try to compromise and remember their shared unity of their priorities. now in addition to these measures, the president also today discussed and addressed another pressing issue for congress and that is raising the debt limit with an october 18th deadline quickly approaching and just before the president left the white house this morning, i asked him whether he thinks democrats will have to do it alone. raising that debt ceiling as republicans have said that they would be opposed to it. now the president did not comment on the democratic efforts, but did say that republicans need to come on board. take a listen. >> well, i hope that the public will be solely responsible as we choose to raise the debt limit and to filibuster the debt limit. that would be totally unconscionable. never been done before. so i hope that won't happen. >> so the debt limit, that bipartisan infrastructure proposal, the larger social safety net bill, that is all things that this congress is currently has on their plate. they have a heavy lift ahead in the coming weeks. fred. >> all right, thanks to both of you. so what happens now, joining us now, reuben, a member of the congressional caucus and chairman of the hispanic caucus bold pack. good to see you, congressman. so wis this a divided party? >> no, look, i think the party is united in one thing. we want infrastructure. we want both physical as well as human infrastructure. we want people to have the opportunity infrastructure highway that people have missed for the last decade and want, you know, to just build roads and bridges. the one thing we need to do though is have some trust and understanding and as some member of the caucus, we've been very clear what we want to do. what we haven't seen and heard from the senate is exactly what they want. so money aside zplsh and you're t talking specifically manchin and sinema. i heard -- it's unclear. we know neither one of them have been on board with the price tag, but specifically what about how the money is allocated. so how do you get to the bottom of that? >> well, the way you get to the bottom of that is the way we're getting to the bottom is we're going to build our priorities and our policy first then go back and look at how much it would cost. then once we get to a certain amount, we'll put it all together and hopefully go talk to our senate colleagues. senate colleagues will try to tell us what their priorities are. once we look at both areas, we come to a compromise. what does that number look like? i don't know. what matters the most is do we have the policies that make a difference in people's lives. that's what it really is all that matters at the end. >> could the president have seen this coming? while he put out this is what i want, this is what my agenda is, but might he have anticipated that it would be progressives and moderates who would be holding things up within the democratic party, not necessarily placing the blame on republicans? >> well, look. at the beginning, there was an agreement between all sides. it was going to be a two track system. that's why a lot of this started moving. suddenly, there was a shift from the senate and some other mem members of the democratic caucus and conservative members that all of a sudden, they went from two track system, you must now vote for this. the infrastructure bill first before we consider the human infrastructure side of it. the build back better. the problem with that is that was a change of the agreement and then the numbers changed. then the amount that they were going to spend kept on changing. so when you start breaking trust over and over again then you start forcing these arbitrary deadlines, you're going to create a situation like this. and eventually what happened, there was not just one or two members of the democratic caucus. it was close to 60 members of the caucus that said trust is off. we need to see, you know, we need to have an agreement. we need to have some level of trust before we keep moving forward. so was it hard to see, yes. i don't think anybody anticipated that some of our colleagues would go back on our word. we're where we're at right now. it's time to work together and let's get this done for the american people. >> senator manchin said he was more comfortable with a $1.5 trillion price tag for the build back better plan. that's a far cry from what was proposed. although president biden had come down quite a bit from his initial number down to 3.5. trillion. so do, how will you get the votes in the senate in order to get this passed? >> well, i think senator manchin needs to tell me what does 1.5 trillion mean. does that mean we're going to get child tax credit extended for every person making less than $150,000? $300 per kid? subsidized childcare, pre-k? expand medicare so it covers dental and hearing? 1.5 trillion over a ten-year span is $150 billion in a $22.3 trillion economy that we have by the way. so you know, the number he's throwing out is small compared to our yearly -- >> why do you feel like he's not being more specific. >> what does that number come up to. >> right. and why do you think he's not being more specific about how do you get to those numbers as opposed to saying that number is too high. i want it at 1.5 trillion. >> i don't know. but that's not the right way in my opinion to do policymaking. if he really has an issue on the number then he should go back and say you need to cut out these policies. instead, all we're hearing is this arbitrary number, much like arbitrary deadlines. i hope we can work with senator manchin in the future. or what are the other aspects of how we can get to an amount. i think that makes both sides happen. >> another key player in the senate in these negotiations is from your state. senator kristen sinema, who feels differently from what is in the bills. are you getting specificity from her, too? >> no and again, this is not just a manchin sinema thing. i think collectively are the two senators and some of my colleagues on the house side, we don't get specifics. numbers and budgets are a reflection of human investment. so what are you trying to say? what are you trying to cut out? do you not want a childcare sub c sy di? are you trying to take away universal pre-k? when you say i don't want -- you're saying you're going to cut out a portion of america. >> so your name has been floated as a possible primary challenger to senator sinema. is that something you're thinking about pursuing? >> no. not at this point. this is the year of 2021. we have to pass infrastructure. we have to pass the transportation bill and election in 2022 as a member of congress. any speculation is wrong and it's not fair to my constituents. they deserve my full-time, you know, focus on this as well as my family does. >> all right. glad you could be was. thank you so much. >> coming up, a possible breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus pandemic. a new pill for covid-19 patients that doctors say cuts in half the risk of death or hospitalization. plus, new details in the investigation of gabby petito. brand-new body camera footage revealing more of the domestic dispute between she and her fiance, brian laundrie. flu symptoms. orst cold so when you need to show your cold who's boss, grab mucinex all-in-one... and get back to your rhythm. feel the power. beat the symptoms fast. 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now i understand it's administered if they were to receive the emergency use authorization, fda approval, then it's administered after you've tested positive for covid, right? and you take that pill and it would either shorten, reduce, or eliminate your hospitalization all together? >> well, i will say that the merck pill is a game changer because number one, it's in pill form. meaning it's easy to take and distribute. however, there are still some limitations and that treatment is not going to be what gets us out of this pandemic. we want to prevent people from getting ill. not just figuring out how to get them once they are. if you look at the merck data, they're saying that their pill reduces hospitalizations and deaths by about 50%, but when you compare that to the antibody treatment, that's more effective. further more, merck only studied their drug in less than 1500 people in those who were older and had underlying medical conditions. so when approval comes out, we don't know if it's going to be approved in all patients or only in those who the drug was studied in. >> right. and again, you know, with merck, this antiviral drug, it's not a replacement for vaccines. only 65% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated and the average number of people becoming fully vaccinated every day has been dipping to its lowest level. so how concerned are you that there seems to be a lagging interest in getting vaccinated? 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>> yes. he is. and i think when the creators of twitter launched this social media service 15 so years ago, they wouldn't have imagined they would be caught in this kind of debate. this kind of argument over whether an ex u.s. president who was kicked off after inciting a riot, the lawyers are battling this new filing. it says the defendant, degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate. that's what trump's lawyers are saying, arguing that twitter needs to be held accountable. twitter is claiming a violation of the first amendment and also calling on a florida law claiming unfair trade practices. this is part of an ongoing legal campaign. so trump's lawyers taking this very seriously. even though in some ways, this is almost a parody. it's a guy standing outside the store after being kicked out banging on the glass trying to get back in. any private company, private enterprise, store, can set its own rules and that's what twitter says it is doing, but this creates a lot of interest among conservatives, claims of censorship, and trump is planning to push this in court and that's what this new filing is about and i think this is clear. donald trump jr. is on another platform this weekend, instagram, posting trump 2024 signs and saying it's time to take america back. clearly donald trump is running for president again and he believes he needs twitter in order to do so. >> yeah, and censorship is usually associated with government sanctioned practice. not necessarily a private enterprise. okay, let's talk about something else. viewers got to see the newly renovated fox news room and studio in d.c. despite what some of their personalities have to say on the air about wearing masks and vaccines and all that, you saw quite the opposite. what's going on? >> yes, and that's why this is telling. that's why this video is worth highlighting. you see in the fox news d.c. offices some of the biggest stars of the network, some of the top executives. even loughlin murdoch on hand. what is significant is all of the mask wearing. i think it's worth highlighting because fox's on-air rhetoric has not matched its off air practices. whether that's with regards to people getting vaccinated or with regards to mask wearing, so it's worth seeing that there at fox news at the headquarters, you have to have your mask on just like you do when you walk to other establishments, but fox's narrative has been quite different, right? so it's significant to see this as yet another contrast or in some cases, a contradiction tto the on-air rhetoric. by the way, snl is back tonight. i think they could have a lot of fun commenting on that behavior. >> seeing is believing. interesting. all right. brian stelter, appreciate it. >> thanks. straight ahead, much different tone. police are still searching for brian laundrie after the death of his fiancee, gabby petito. brand-new body campaign video reveals more of their domestic dispute days before she went missing. na! - hi jen! hi. so you're the scientist here. i just have to ask. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? 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>> there's two witnesses then what you said and what he said and guess what, it all matches nicely that you were the primary aggressor. >> and that discretion the officer was talking about is what's now under review and a formal, independent investigation to see if the officers who responded behaved correctly. if they should have arrested someone in that case and if they saw the entire issue in the correct way. of course, hindsight is 20/20 and a police spokesperson has said that, but they're sticking by their officers in how they handled everything. here in florida, you may be able to hear, there's a group of people that have gathered today. they've been out for a couple of hours now in front of the laundrie parents home and they've been screaming questions at the family. demanding answers. it really just speaks to how many people are so emotionally invested in what's happening with gabby petito. what happened to her in utah, wyoming, here in florida where she used to live in this house with laundrie and what happened to her in utah, wyoming, here in florida where she used to live in this house with laundrie and his parents. and that domestic dispute we saw, that was august 12th. a month later, september 11th, is when her family reported her missing. on that same day, i want you to take a look at a police report, a 911 call was made to the north port police department. we know gabby petito's family was calling because they couldn't get in contact with her. you can see in the police report everything has been redacted and that lets us know that there's so much about this investigation, about this case that we just don't know, because the investigation, fredricka, is ongoing. but the people behind me and so many people around the country are still wanting answers. brian laundrie still missing. it will be three weeks on tuesday, fred. >> yeah. so many questions still unanswered for a very long time. na nadia, thank you so much. snail mail is about to get more snaily. from here on out, the post office is delaying long distance mail, close to a third of what they carry. cnn's kristen holmes explains. >> reporter: after more than a year of complaints nationwide about the snail-like pace of mail delivery. >> they should figure out a way to get it there on time. >> reporter: it's about to get worse. >> we already wait so much. >> reporter: the cause, trump-era louis dejoy's plan started friday and it promises to increase the delivery time for first class mail from three days to five. experts say this will mostly affect mail traveling long distances. the postal service relying more on ground transportation than planes. according to a "washington post" analysis, western states will experience the brunt of these changes. 70% of first class mail sent in nevada will be delayed. 58% delayed to washington state and 57% to montana. florida will also see massive delays, with 60% of deliveries. dejoy says the plan will save money. >> it is a path to financial sustainability and service excellent. >> reporter: lawmakers pushing back. >> medical shipments have gone missing, many small businesses cannot get their products to customers. >> i've gotten complaints from families who didn't get birthday cards from grandma to their grandchild or notices about things that they needed to get on time. >> reporter: as well as members of the postal service board of governors. >> intentionally slowing first class mail and package delivery by changing service standards is strategically ill-conceived, creates dangerous risks that are not justified by the relatively low financial return, and doesn't meet our responsibility as an essential part of america's critical infrastructure. >> reporter: dejoy remains mired in controversy, a staple of his tenure. the trump holdover came under fire during the 2020 election, as democrats accused him of intentionally sabotaging the postal service and slowing down delivery amid unprecedented mail-in voting. earlier this year the department of justice opened an investigation into dejoy's political fundraising and contributions when he was in the private sector. dejoy denies all accusations. democrats have called for president biden to get rid of dejoy, while biden doesn't have the power to fire him, he can replace the board that does. but the president has shown no interest in doing that. earlier this year, he nominated three people to vacant seats on the postal service board of governors, but the majority installed on the board under former president trump standing behind dejoy. the postmaster general telling lawmakers he's not going anywhere. >> well, how much longer are you planning to stay? 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