along with jessica tarlov, charlie hurt, and jimmy failla, it s 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is the five. give us your poor, your tired, and your federal money. at the leaders of three sanctuary cities are begging president biden to shower them with some cold hard tax paying funded cash as they wind their hearts out over the big texas governor busting illegals to their doorsteps. you cannot continue to do the federal governments job. they must take the lead and lead on the humanitarian crisis instead of leaving it for the states. we need the federal government to lean in and provide more federal assistance. all of the cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or merely out of room. we need more federal support to manage this amount of inflow that will cross city budgets around the country as we know looking at about $160 million in potential costs going into next year s budget. almost 10% of our entire city budget. you know what the de
kept nearly 4 million children from poverty. that just to put in perspective is sort of unprecedented levels of child poverty levels we see in the u.s. in general. reporter: unless there s an extension, the new year will bring new challenges for families like connie s. i think we ll have to figure out a way to cut back in other aspects. let s bring in leanne caldwell on capitol hill and nbc news senior national politics reporter jonathan allen. what do we know about this meeting last night? are democrats any closer to getting manchin on board? we often say, yes, he s a democrat, but he represents the reddest of the red states, but it s a very poor red state that needs a lot of this social support. and that s why democrats are confident that they re going to be able to get him on board, but i m not so sure, steph. we know that this call last night lasted an hour and 35 minutes. we know that senator manchin spoke near the top of the call