for victims of police violence, to take them to civil court, no to sue individual officers. still, even when they get a deal, they ve got to sell it to both sides. it s got to be approved by both chambers of congress. republican senators in particular that i ve talked to, are concerned about changes to the qualified immunity standard. progress in getting a deal. then they have to sell it and get it passed. still a process here. positive signs for the negotiators are trying to get a deal here in the days ahead, guys. manu raju, we will watch that closely. that will be a significant bipartisan agreement. joining us to talk about so much, david gergen, former presidential advisers just to nixon, ford, clin toond reagan. good to have you here. great to be here. infrastructure doesn t look grade. i eel take another shot at it. other issues on the biden agenda in danger beyond infrastructure. voting rights, even some of his own caucus against that.
senator capito? reporter: i can tell you the prospects are very steep here in order to get a deal. the democrats are very concerned. a number of them i talked to don t like the direction this is going. others wonder whether or not any deal that may be reached among this deal of mostly moderate and right-leaning republican senators, can come to an agreement that can pass muster in the democratic led senate and house. just moments ago, a key sign here that s going to cause some concern about democrats is that they re saying tax increases to pay for this package are off the table. that is coming from two key senators who i just spoke to who are part of these negotiations. that s senator mitt romney and senator rob portman. both made clear that there will be no tax increases in any bipartisan deal to pay for an infrastructure package. i can t predict what my colleagues will do.
we re more reliable than the last four years suggest. we have a strong team pushing on this, and we re getting to make some headway as the agreement on minimum taxation for corporations global, a global agreement. that agreement was basically hammered out by janet yellen, the u.s. secretary of treasury. he s just gotten a deal through the congress, or at least through the senate, to curb china some. europeans are worried that he may get too aggressive. he may be too hard lined with iran and china and may get into another cold war. i do think he s sending a clear message, the united states wants to be back sitting in the seated of leadership. before i see putin, i m going to rally this is the biden deal. before i see putin, i want to rally our friends and our long-term allies so putin knows he s not just facing the united states, but a more united group of nations than he s seen in the last four years. okay. so there s messaging, and that s important. very low bar for biden just not
trip as president. as you know, he circled the international stage for so many years and now he s finally president of the united states. arlette, thanks for the reporting from falmouth, england. back here at home, a setback for the biden administration on infrastructure after negotiations that went on for weeks between president biden and senate gop group led by senator shelley moore capito, those negotiations, they came to an end. now the white house is setting its hopes on another bipartisan senate group. we ll see if that one makes a difference. this comes as the house problem solvers caucus proposes its own deal that includes $761 billion in new spending, still questions on how that would be exactly paid for. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. is there a reason to be more hopeful of this group and the work now being done between biden and senator cassidy than there was between biden and
democrats the white house raised concerns about whether that could impact people that make less than $400,000 a year. it s very clear even though the talks are on going and the white house is encouraging these talks, getting a deal that can pass congress is a completely different question. the other issue attempt bipartisan negotiations, you say a source tells you progress on police reform? we take that with an ounce of salt given past breakdowns. are things moving based on your reporting in a positive direction? they are. according to multiple sources, they believe they can reach a deal as soon as next week. this will be a significant achievement if they were able to get a deal here. now, still, they re not there yet. they have results on key issues. the one big issue is whether or not police officers can be sued in civil court. democrats pushed for the change in the so-called qualified immunity standard. what they re talking about here is instead of having police departments, c