accusing a top chinese official after sexual assault. the head of the women's tennis association tonight demanding an investigation. he's my guest. let's go outfront. good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight the breaking news. president biden's team meeting with key moderate democrats tonight trying to lock in the votes for their progressive bill to pass the house of representatives tonight. tonight finally passing the house this evening. their build back better act, finally. any moment now the house is expected to hold a procedural vote which would advance the so-called build back better act. for months of course democrats have been at a standstill over this bill, months. moderates most recently demanded a budget analysis by the cbo, the congressional budget office. tonight they have it. that report just came out late today. it found that the build back better act would add $367 billion to the deficit. now, that assumes there's no benefit from spending more money on the irs that would be used for enforcement to collect taxes already due and not paid. the cbo believes the irs enforcement could help to the tune of $207 billion. if that happens, they said the cost to add to the deficit would go down to still $160 billion. but you know the truth about this whole thing is, this whole process is an exercise in smoke and mirrors. it's just reality. the cbo can only score and give these estimates based on the bill given to them. no one actually knows the price of the bill. for example, the child tax credit is only counted as existing and needing funding for one year, which obviously is not the intent in any way, shape or form by democrats. and then there's the senate, right? so assume this passes tonight. that's where it goes next. and there is no saying what will happen there, right? joe manchin and kyrsten sinema last we checked are still there. one thing we know, democratic senator manchin is so far refusing to even commit to a vote, allowing the senate to begin debate on the bill. >> have you made a decision on whether to vote for the bill to begin -- >> no. i'm still looking at everything, absolutely. >> kaitlin collins begins our coverage outfront live at the white house. manu raju also with me on capitol hill as this news is breaking. manu, let me start with you. this is crucial, right? months and months and finally we're here. a procedural vote and all of a sudden they're going to push it through tonight. moderates have said there couldn't be a deficit by the cbo and there is one projected by the cbo. do democrats have the chance to pass it tonight, and is there any chance of republican support? >> there's no chance of republican support but democratic leaders are confident they will have the votes when it can does come up tonight. the question is how many moderates will break ranks. a handful, about five or so, had demanded those numbers from the congressional budget office to show that this bill will be fully financed. according to the congressional budget office it comes short. they initially said $367 billion will fall short. now, they included the issue of increased tax enforcement by the irs. if there is increased tax enforcement they say the actual number would be $160 billion added to the deficit over the next ten years. behind the scenes, though, the white house has been trying to shore up support, saying those numbers don't align with what the white house's projection is. the white house says that actually added enforcement by the irs would raise enough to fully pay for the package and that is the argument that democrats have been making, the white house and democratic leaders have been making behind the scenes for weeks. in a closed-door meeting right now, broke up with two top white house officials, met with moderate democrats, showed the white house's projections and their argument that it's paid for. the question now, erin, is will there be more than three moderate democrats that might break ranks. if there are more than three, that is enough to scuttle the entire effort. the democratic leadership believes they can stave off those defections and push it through the house after months of intensive negotiations. that is just the first step, erin, because in the senate joe manchin has made clear to me and others for months that he wants significant changes. he's not on the same time frame and they'll have to pare back the bill significantly and push it back to the house to get it through here. this is the first step but not the last step in this arduous process. >> as manu is talking, he's on capitol hill, you see the vote. this is the vote tally you're seeing for the procedural vote. this is anticipated to pass. once it does, then they can move and they expect that they will tonight to a vote on the actual build back better plan tonight in the house. so i want to go to kaitlin collins because she's at the white house. that is where moderates had the meeting with white house officials who were trying to get them over the line. they can only afford to lose three. they're not going to get a republican to come in and save them in any way. so where is the white house on this right now? do they feel that they have it? >> they say they're feeling hopeful. i think part of that indication is a move that they just took here at the white house where they have yet to call a lid. once they do that, you're no likely going to see or hear from president biden for the rest of the day. they're holding off on that right now after me hit with the world leaders from mexico and canada because they're waiting to see what happened on capitol hill and how all this plays out. they are hopeful this will be successful in getting across the finish line and then go on to be in the hands of the senate. as manu said, this is far from the last step in this process. next they have to put it in the hands of the senate where big changes are expected to be made. right off the bat there are the concerns you're hearing from moderates like senator joe manchin who would not even say whether he would vote to proceed with the bill and get this process moving. that could hamper that timeline that you've seen from senate majority leader chuck schumer who said he would like to wrap all of this up by christmas. and there are some key parts of this bill that are also still a big concern for senate democrats. some of them have been voicing complaints about them, including today. including from senator bernie sanders who was talking about those current provisions as they stand now for the state and local tax deductions, which the white house and other democrats have argued could help taxpayers who live in those high-cost states like a new york or california, potentially a new jersey. but the concern that you've heard from senator bernie sanders is that it amounts to a big tax break for the wealthy and it almost exclusively benefits these high-earning families. that's been the big concern. the whole point of this bill, what you've heard from president biden time and time again on the road is that it's supposed to be a boost for the middle class. we pressed jen psaki on this today, whether or not president biden is comfortable with where this stands now and they believe it's a matter of compromise. there are some moderate democrats who say they will not vote for this bill unless those tax deductions are included in this. they feel like that's necessary to move forward. so you'll see a lot of that play out on capitol hill as they are trying to finalize this bill. once it does get through the house tonight, which is a very important step, of course. >> thank you very much. and president biden gives them a bit of a fig leaf, right? because they want to keep those voters. they did not do very well with them in virginia or new jersey in those recent elections. outfront now, the third ranking democrat in the house, majority whip james clyburn. i appreciate your time tonight, sir. so president biden's team meeting with the moderate holdouts at the white house moments ago. you heard kaitlin talking about that. these are the moderates that said they would not vote for a bill that would add to the estimate and the cbo says it does add to the deficit to the tune of possibly hundreds of billions of dollars. do you have the votes to pass the spending bill tonight? are you confident? >> thank you very much for having me, but i'm pretty confident that we'll get to where we need to be. the fact of the matter is not only are those numbers different from the white house, there's some other rating houses as well that seem to feel that those numbers are really, really on the conservative side. but i think that we will have all of these discussions. we'll see where people are comfortable. some people -- i am much more comfortable with the white house numbers. and maybe they are more comfortable with cbo. but as you said earlier, these are estimates. i have seen people say that if the irs is fully funded, they would save -- would earn another $1.2 trillion. i've seen that. and i think that's a pretty reputable group saying that. i have not seen that anywhere with cbo. you just mentioned the numbers that they say we would earn and it's far less than that. who's right? i don't know. all of them are creditable. >> and i guess that is the point i was making. as i said, in a sense it's smoke and mirrors. i didn't say it pejoratively it's just a lot based on estimates. >> right. >> so obviously you're not going to get any republican votes so you can only afford to lose three democratic votes. at this point, congressman, do you expect to lose any democratic votes? >> well, yes. that's my expectation. but i expected that several weeks ago and lost none. so let's hope that the same happens here. i can think of one or two people who are wedded to the cbo numbers and we may lose them. but they may accept some of these other numbers and we won't lose any. we'll just have to wait and see. >> so obviously it's going to be a nail-biter. let's say you get it through the house. obviously then it degoes to the senate and at least at this point it appears clear that it's either not going to pass or it's going to pass in a different form. are you confident that the senate won't make changes that are unacceptable to a large portion of your progressive members? >> well, i'm very comforted that they will make changes. we'll have to wait and see what those changes are and what impact these changes will have on the bottom line. and i'm interested in whether or not people get the health care they need, the children get the child care that they need, the seniors get the senior care that they need. i'm more interested in that. and i think it's sort of a fallacy for us to keep talking about people going back to work and we making no provisions for them to take care of their children. talking about people going to work with no health care. right now in my state and 11 others, we have not expanded medicaid. that means there are a lot of people who work in jobs without health care, don't have any health care. and we are fixing all of that in this legislation. i would hope it stays in. i'm not too sure the senate will keep it in. but if they don't keep it in, then i'm going to have a problem when it comes back. >> yeah. this is obviously, you know, although you may have a victory tonight, it's the beginning of a road. >> absolutely. >> not the end of the road. i want to ask you about one other topic tonight if i can, congressman. it's something you and i talked about during the presidential process, the vice presidential selection process. vice president harris, her communications director announced tonight that she's leaving. several people currently on the vice president's staff have been reaching out to contacts looking to leave according to sources who have gotten the calls. as you know, we have done a lot of reporting here, a lot of west wing aides are exasperated by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and a lack of focus from vice president harris and her staff. i know that you had a lot of private conversations with president biden, who you've known very well for decades about who he would pick as his running mate. you were involved in the process. are you at all concerned about what we're seeing now? >> i'm always concerned when i read headlines that are not complimentary, as some i've seen concern me, and that concerned me. but headlines are headlines. and a lot of times people say things that make headlines that they may not really mean. people leave jobs all the time. now, i've been a part of transitions myself at the state level. and i know that within the first several months ac, sometimes it takes a year, that people may find out this is not exactly for me. so these things tend to happen. i don't know how serious all of this is. i did hear about them several days ago. i didn't know it had been announced, but it has been now so we'll see what happens. these things are not all that serious in my opinion. >> all right. well, congressman clyburn, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. i know you've got a busy night ahead of you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> third ranking democrat in the house, majority whip there, congressman clyburn getting ready for that vote. next, minority leader kevin mccarthy saying he plans to reward his colleagues paul gosar and marjorie taylor greene if they win the house. >> they'll have committees. plus a juror in the kyle rittenhouse trial with a request to the judge after three days of deliberations. a very specific one involving this. and for three weeks a tennis star missing in china after accusing a top official of sexual assault. chinese state media claiming she's resting at home. she, nowhere to be heard, nowhere to be seen. the head of the women's tennis association who has been trying to reach her is my guest. ray loves vacations. but his diabetes never seemed to take one. everything felt like a 'no'. everything. but then ray went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now he knows his glucose levels when he needs to. and... when he wants to. so ray... can be ray. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free. visit freestylelibre.us do i need to pretreat my laundry? 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>> right. well, i represent a swing district in charleston, south carolina. i promised to follow the constitution. i promised to represent my district, my state an my country. and those three will always come first. i supported president trump in 2016 when there were 16 other republican candidates on the stage. i supported him in 2020. i support many of his policies today. but i promise to represent my district, which is different from many districts across the country, even from other districts in south carolina. i promised to represent my state and my nation. every vote that i take, every issue that i take up reflects that and my belief in my oath to the constitution. i'm proud of the votes i've taken. i work very hard. i work extremely hard for republicans and democrats in my district. i just unveiled a remarkable piece of legislation on monday called the states reform act which takes a bipartisan approach to cannabis reform across the country and is getting accolades from everyone from conservative and republican groups to center left normal has endorsed this bill. the divisiveness we see in our country with republicans and democrats alike, i'm trying to show leadership in very difficult times. i'm a single mom. i have to go back home to my kids every night and explain why we're doing what we're doing today. i have to do a better job, all of us have to, to set a better example for our kids and our country moving forward. if we're going to get through the crisis of covid and the divisiveness and the violence we've seen over the last two years. >> so i want to ask you about steve bannon. again, as you talk about your votes, you did vote to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt. you weren't alone in that among republicans. you did have some colleagues that did that with you. nine republicans. and you did so very clearly. bannon's attorneys have made it clear, the latest reporting here, is that they're going to try to slow down the criminal case as much as they can. they want to take out every second of time to identify documents and witnesses for the defense. obviously they could drag this out until the committee is disbanded. who knows exactly what happens. the justice department says this is a straightforward case, it's very simple. forget what you think about what he's trying to do. he's denying the will of congress. congress has asked him to provide this information, he has refused to do so. how do you see it? >> well, we do have a judicial branch and everyone deserves the right to due process, whether they're republican or democrat. and so that process will be respected and i assume in the court of law. and we'll see how it plays out. in some cases we see these things adjudicated very quickly because of the kinds of cases that they are. it will be up to the courts to decide whether or not how quickly this thing moves forward or not. but there are three different branches of government for a reason there, and again, when i took that vote and i thought i explained it pretty well to folks around the country, this was about protecting the power of congress and subpoena power. >> right. >> you don't get to just say no and thumb your nose at congress when we call you to testify. this has been done over and over again by republicans and democrats, as recently as benghazi is the biggest case that i can be reminded up. i want to make sure that we protect that power going forward and in the future no matter who's in the white house or no matter who's in the majority in either chamber of congress. >> congresswoman mace, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thank you. next, the jury in the kyle w rittenhouse trial deliberating for three days and still no verdict. does that tell us something important? 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>> i put myself in the place of these jurors. they have been there for almost 24 hours. and these are people who under normal circumstances wouldn't even speak to each other. so you have 12 strangers in a room trying to come up with a unanimous decision. i have to say after almost 24 hours, it's deal time. i think she asked for the jury instructions so they can reach a compromised verdict. >> that's really significant. as you point out, almost 24 hours of deliberating. that's three days of -- business days locked in a room. locked proverbially in a room together. today was the first day the jury didn't ask any other questions. no questions, not for more video, nothing, like we've seen in the past couple of days. only for this. so is that part of why you think they are trying to, i suppose, think through it overnight and come to a decision tomorrow? >> i think so. again, these are 12 people who are just like you and i, trying to prepare for thanksgiving. it's the weekend coming up. i think sometimes we forget that these are just regular people who decided to do the right thing and to show up for jury duty and be objective and to follow the rules. but they have lives. they want to get back to them. so i would not be surprised. that's why the defense raised the objection, because they know by this point in deliberations, it's compromise time. >> right. so this is very significant, right, because there's self-defense and there's murder and then there is compromise. but the thing about compromise is that lesser ch er charges we allowed to be considered. but i think it's important for everyone to understand, they're then given the lesser charges but they may be a compromise to them. they are not given the sentencing range for those charges. so a seemingly compromise or lesser charge could still be 30, 40 years behind bars, right? >> oh, absolutely. when i say compromise, i don't mean that it's a deal for rittenhouse, i mean it's a deal for the jurors who they want to do the right thing. when you pledge, when you swear in as a juror, people take it seriously. they want to do the right thing but they don't want to do it forever. >> right, right. you get to a point where you've got to make a choice. thank you very much. i appreciate it, mayor. >> my pleasure. next, calls for an investigation. tennis star now missing, totally missing after accusing a chinese leader of sexual assault, of rape. the ceo of the women's tennis association is next. you've seen the heartbreaking images, migrants starving and freezing. tonight in a cnn exclusive, our matthew chance confronts the foreign minister of belarus about whether they are using children as pawns in a deadly game of retaliation. 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you can't see cnn as we talk about this and obviously there are repercussions for you and for tennis as well, but you're speaking out. do you have any reason to believe that that email from peng shuai where she retracts her allegations and none of it is true and she's home and resting and everything is fine, do you have in ireason to believe that that is an email from her and that it's true? >> thanks, erin. thanks for having me. i actually agree. i'm struggling with the email and i still have very strong concerns about peng shuai. for a person to come forth with the type of allegations and the detail into those allegations that she set forth in her november 2nd post, those are significant. and for us to see an email that basically denied that that happened and said it didn't and that all is great, i'm just struggling to agree to that and don't believe that's the truth at all. >> yeah. i mean, you know, she knew what was at stake when she said what she said. she knows that. i know that you have been trying for weeks to make contact with her. how often have you tried to reach out to her? how -- i mean when people are trying to find her right now and she's just not responding, tell me how that is going down. >> yeah. we've had direct conversation with the chinese tennis association. they have assured us that she's fine and without any danger or harm in beijing. we have reached out to her on every phone number an email address and other forms of contact. there's so many digital approaches to contact people these days that we have. and to date we still have not been able to get a response. the email she sent me yesterday, which i did receive, i immediately responded to it and i still have not had a response back from that email to her. when i saw it come out on the -- obviously the chinese state media elements in europe, it became very clear to us that this was a staged statement of some type, whether she was coerced into writing it, someone wrote it for her, we don't know. but at this point i tdon't thin there's any validity in it and we won't be comfortable until we have a chance to speak with her directly and make sure that she knows that we're worried about her, that we have the ability to provide support to whatever level she wants, and that these allegations definitely need to be investigated fully, properly, and without any level of censorship. >> as i say, i just think it's really important here, she knew what was at stake by saying what she said. she knows that there are many people in china who have gone missing or she knew the risk she was taking. you have been demanding proof that she is okay, a probe into her sexual assault allegations as you've just said. but, steve, at the beginning when i said it takes courage for you to speak out, i meant it. there's a lot of people who do business with china who look the other way on a lot of things, okay? there's a lot of people. you have threatened to take your business elsewhere if china does not give you answers. that would mean pulling ten events out of china that you have scheduled for next year, including what you call your crown jewel, the wta finals which china is slated to host through 2028 as part of a ten-year deal. when you announced that deal, you called it a $1 billion commitment to the wta. so this is real in every way for you. how serious are you about this threat? >> well, if anyone wants to question our fortitude behind a statement like that, they can certainly try to. we're at a crossroads with our relationship, obviously, with china and operating our business over there, there's no question about it. it's something that's actually very sad, pabecause we have som amazing relationships over there and have developed some unbelievable programs. they're really introducing the sport to a lot of young chinese players that want to become the next peng shuai and all of those types of things so it's very exciting. we've had a lot of success over there. you know, i think that when you look at this, though, there's too many times in our world today when we get into issues like this that we let business, politics, money, dictate what's right and what's wrong. and as you reflected earlier, when we have a young person who has the fortitude to step up and make these allegations, knowing full well what the results of that are going to be, for us to not support that and demand justice as we go through it, you know, we have to start as a world making decisions that are based upon right and wrong, period. and we can't compromise that. we're definitely willing to pull our business and deal with all the complications that come with it, because this is certainly -- this is pbigger than the business. >> i applaud it. it's incredible that you say these things. one final question for you, steve. have you been able to speak to anyone? does she have family there? are they safe? have you been able to talk to anyone close to her? >> we haven't been able to talk to anybody and that's been the challenge and our concern. i'm sure she's very scared. obviously she's scared for her family, she's scared for her friends, and i'm sure she's going through a lot of emotions as to if she's getting word of what's going on. most of the time people that are in that situation become very, i want to say for lack of a better word, guilty that they're bringing on all these issues and that tennis could leave china. so i think she's probably fighting a lot of different emotions and that's part of the reason we're so concerned about her. >> i really appreciate you taking the time. thank you sfor speaking out. i hope you are heard loudly and clearly, as you will be tonight in china, even though they put this to black whole we spoke. thank you. >> well, thank you very much for having us. thanks for carrying the story. i think it's very important that the voices of women need to be respected and not censored and not dictated to. >> yes, indeed. thank you. and next, a cnn exclusive. our matthew chance confronts the foreign minister of belarus about the humanitarian crisis unfolding along his border. plus a woman in a coma with covid. her family told she would not make it. as they were planning her funeral, ordered the headstone, she did what doctors said was impossible. call the bfi. my butterfinger. ♪ ♪ no one lays a finger on your butterfinger. paul loves food. but his diabetes made food a mystery. everything felt like a "no". but then paul went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now he knows how food affects his glucose. and he knows when to make different choices. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free. visit freestylelibre.us quote, aggressive and exploitative campaign among migrants at the belarus border, but in an exclusive interview with cnn the belarusian foreign minister denied his country is orchestrating the crisis. matthew chance is out front. >> at the airport in minsk, the first repatriation flight sets to board, the kurds didn't make it to europe, but at least their ordeal in belarus is at an end. this is the nightmare they left behind. officials confirmed this forest camp on the polish border is now empty. the shocking images of desperate migrants languishing in the cold here have left their mark. now for the first time cnn is able to hold a senior belarusian official to account. >> and to see how they suffer, it's very difficult for a normal human being. we are not interested in having this situation here in belarus. >> you say you don't want to see these scene, but you're accused, belarus is accused of orchestrating this whole crisis, of encouraging these migrants to come here and of directing them towards that border. you created these scenes. >> yes. we have heard a lot of accusations that it was belarus. this is false assessment of the situation. >> also false according to the foreign minister, u.s. and european allegations that russia, which recently flew the strategic bomber flights in support is really behind the crisis, encouraging its ally to distract the west while preparing military plans elsewhere in ukraine. >> i got to this migrant crisis, i can definitely say russia has nothing to do with it. >> but it was president putin, he tells me who set up telephone calls between the german and belarusian leaders this week, helping to diffusie the crisis and it needed diffusing. this was the scene when angry migrants tried to force their way to europe past polish border guards. the refusal of belarus to intervene fueled rumors they encouraged these attacks. >> the european union says that belarus has created this crisis to punish them in revenge for the sanctions that the eu is imposed against belarus for its crackdown on the opposition. how do you answer that allegation? 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