including the pandemic, poverty, and the climate crisis. you know, the climate crisis is now at the heart of the biden economic agenda. it is actually where the biggest chunk of money in the $1.7 trillion plan is allocated. there s no question the president and white house are focused on get thing passed after a whirlwind and probably somewhat unfulfilling 24 hours of negotiations on that. it still hangs in the balance. and that might be where at least a big part of the president s mind is even as his motorcade heads to vatican city momentarily. so let s go there. you can see him, chris cuomo, waiting right by st. peter s square. chris. here we are. good to see you, john. good to see you, brianna. it s a very interesting dynamic here. on one level you just have obvious history in terms of president biden being only the second catholic united states president to meet with a sitting pope, right. obviously the first was president kennedy, 1963. controversy then, controversy
there. so the question of how it ultimately ends up when it comes to the size and scope of the plan but also how it is going to be paid for are things that have to be actually hammered out and progressives have made clear their feelings on that until it is actually hammered out and so that is really what we were seeing from the white house is the president making clear that he wanted to put some kind of momentum behind this because it was his last chance to do so before he left the u.s. for several days to come here to meet with world leaders so i think that was the driving force behind the president s remarks earlier. manu we had congresswoman cori bush one of the progressives from missouri on the show saying that the text is not enough. the framework is not enough. she still doesn t know that kyrsten sinema and joe manchin are committed to voting for the build back better act and there seems to be a real lack of trust there. do you think there is going to be a vote on the
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