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campaign new it. the truth about the election lies when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. the president of the united states met with democratic legislators today to pull off the most incredible act of sorcery since lyndon jonsson. he did those with large majorities joe biden doesn t have. joe biden is trying to do that holding a series of meetings in the oval office with democratic lawmakers trying to work through the deep divisions within his party, trying to push through not only the $1 trillion physical infrastructure bill that passed with bipartisan majority, but also the $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate package. we have no idea if be can do it. here is how i have come to think about where democrats are right now. if you are confused about where they are, you are not alone. i follow this for a living. i am lost. honestly, i am trying very hard to understand. here is the big picture. twice in my life, democrats have come in with a n ....
in a fight with france. okay? i don t want anyone over there getting any ideas about me, you know, next time i show up. which who knows when that will be. well, france s ambassador to lawrence was never recalled. that s right. that is correct. things, you know, you can talk about how rough things got or how smooth things remained. absolutely no conflict. the 10:00 p.m. msnbc had no conflict. france and i were never on speaking terms to begin with so for us no relationship to lose. i m glad to hear you re fine. thank you, rachel. well, today president joe biden took over the negotiations among democrats on how to pass the two track biden infrastructure legislation in congress and the president began a series of meetings today with democratic members of the house and senate beginning at the top with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer. as usual, there are no real reports of what was said in that private meeting but i can guarantee ....
getting in the ideas about me when i next time i show up. which who knows when that will be. well france s ambassador was never recalled. that s correct. . you can talk about how smooth things remain, there was absolutely no cloth flicked, no conflict with france whatsoever. yes francis i have never been on speaking terms in the first place, so for us there was no relationship, but i m glad to hear that you re fine. i thank you rachel. well today president joe biden took over the negotiation among democrats on help to pass the two track biden infrastructure legislation in congress. the president began a series of meetings today with democratic members of the house and senate beginning at the top with house speaker nancy pelosi and senator majority leader chuck schumer. as usual there are no real reports of what was said in that private meeting, but i can guarantee that having been in such oval office meetings, when i was working in the senate. that chuck sc ....
business people, you were all saying that would have been such an easy deal to make to cut him in somehow. it just did not happen. yeah, when the prime minister breaks out his and take two shots at the french who were generally upset of this deal the way they were handled as close ally. president biden pivoted a bit talking to president macron. they made assurance. privately joe, some people at the white house are admitting behind the scenes this was mishandled. there is some finger pointing going on that as you say would have been an easy thing to say. we understand you have this deal with austria. we ll do a deal but we ll take care of you on the other end and here is how we are going to do it. it s happening and it sounds like they get something patched up yesterday. they did. here at the white house a lot is going on. president biden met with lawmakers in an attempt to get the caucus to look past divisions and support his agenda. that will includes the $3.5 ....
is one they themselves created. speaker pelosi made a deal with moderates she would hold a vote on the president s infrastructure bill by this coming monday. the hope was that the bigger $3.5 trillion bill would be done at the same time, something progressives say has to happen so that they can both vote for both bills at the same time. but it doesn t look like that s going to happen. so that leaves democratic leaders with basically three ways to go here, they can try to pass the infrastructure bill on monday and risk angry progressives blocking it, they can delay the vote and break their promise to the moderates or they can grit their teeth and work like hell to get that reconciliation bill or something close enough to a deal to please progressives done by monday. i want to bring in monica alba at the white house, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from ....