republicans. democrats are simultaneously also right now, trying to definitely passages solution that has a big upside as for the concern. they are trying to pass legislation, that most of president biden s agenda for his first term. something they will soft to deal with that republicans. and something the democrats would have to agree to pull together on in order to get it done. so we have to deal with stopping the government shutdown. we have to deal with this debt ceiling thing, nobody knows how they re gonna do that. but there s also this positive legislative agenda that the democrats are trying to get done. and it is in fact biden s registration agenda, it is live now, it s either gonna happen now or to. in a handful of conservative democrats in the house, a couple of contrarian democrat in the senate have been getting all the attention from the press for weeks, from a. in terms of their threats to block president biden. to block every democratic
have to try to get through this murder-suicide plan from the republicans, democrats are simultaneously also right now trying to definitely pass legislation that has a big upside as far as they re concerned. they re trying to pass legislation that encompasses most of president biden s agenda for his first term. something they will also have to do without republicans and something the democrats will have to agree to pull together on in order to get it done. so we ve got to deal with stopping the government shutdown, we ve got to deal with this debt ceiling thing, and nobody knows how they re going to do that, but there s also this positive legislative agenda that biden will have to get done and it is an agenda for his whole term. it s going to happen now or it s not going to happen. a handful of conservative democrats in the house, a couple contrarian democrats in the
get done and it is an agenda for his whole term. it s lies now. it s going to happen now or it s not going to happen. a handful of conservative democrats in the house, a couple contrarian democrats in the senate have gotten attention for weeks, for months, in their attempt to block president biden, to block every democratic priority themselves if they don t get what they personally want as conservative democrats but look to the other side, too. this was the scene today look at this shot this was the scene today when the leader of the progressive caucus came out of a 90-minute meeting with house speaker nancy pelosi. you have to take my word for it that camilla jayapal is in there. you can t see her because she s trying to hear what reporters
for its own interest by backing democrats in the tough races. how much of this is based on, and this is a question many people are asking, ben, on the disclosed act, the democrats disclosure act? i think that was part of it. they discloeed the campaign finance bill that was moved by the house earlier this year. the nra cut a deal with democratic leaders on the bill to exempt tnra from disclosing information about the donors. that s a case where conservative democrats in the house helped the nra with their cause. now the nra is supporting them in return. the broader issue is the nra thinks it s useful. it s good business to have allies in both parties. that would seem logical for the democrats. how are the democrats explaining this? you know 14 of these races are very tight. will the nra or could the nra really make a difference? they might. a lot of the races are in conservative leaning republican districts. rural districts with a lot of gun owners with the nra s stamp
we could actually resolve thing. if we can t, i think we have to go ahead and make some decisions and then that s what liberatiel are for. six weeks time, that s your new deadline. we re looking at easter, end of the month of march. politically, let s be realistic here, march 18th is when it goes. you have easter after that. this thing drags any longer than that, you ll lose any momentum going to out of this, and who knows he got any we know the audience was the conservative democrats in the house. any momentum he has, he has to take advantage of it in days, not weeks. already the senate majority leader isn t into the six-week timeline. they want to get it done faster. there is a key difference between republicans and democrats. do you do health care in one big competen comprehensive bill or do it piece by piece? our country s too big, too