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Working behind the scenes to get a 50 vote from his party. i don t think it will be problematic, look the infrastructure component needs to be tucked in. they knew in advance they were going to have to take the two votes. if they have to do it in one vote, i m assuming it will be fine. does the size of the package get too big where the moderates say this is too much money, and secondarily, this has been getting little attention but my colleagues at politico have a good piece about it this morning, house democrats say we have little input on the policy and the process to this point. we only have a four-vote majority here. you re going to need all of our votes. do things get complicated when this thing goes back to the house? so sam, politico morning polls are taking a look at biden s approval ratings. how is the president doing, and ....
reporter: as a possibility grows that president biden may have to change course, something interesting happened in the senate. they released a transportation package that sought to increase funding for railroads, bridges, roads. but, of course, that falls far short and falls short of the infrastructure component that president biden has put in the bill. a couple of questions going forward are, one, do republicans come back? if they do, how do the two parties that are now so, so, so far apart find comprise? find a middle? thank you so much. a former fbi analyst has been charged with illegally taking highly classified documents, including materials related to bin laden and al qaeda and keeping them in her home for over a decade. ....
We do have a historic precedent for which is the railroads in the 19th and early 20th century railroads were notorious for starting fires sort of up ending landscapes by allowing logging a land clearing and then casting sparks with abandon i mean they were huge infrastructure component of the country they were an armistice. economically powerfully politically and we wrestled that down i mean we had mega fires an order of magnitude larger in scale and we thought what we re seeing now so it is possible but it does take a collective response and ultimately it takes a political response. even what would you like to see done immediately i mean if you could get it you know everything possible what would you say has to be done as soon as these fires are contained and controlled. well the primary concern of course is people being killed and houses being destroyed and we have ....
Again by senator jeff merkley from oregon. senator, one of the issues here that we were talking about in the last segment is we still have a jobs crisis in the country. we still don t have much growth and we have tens of millions of people out of work. obama was talking about originally having an infrastructure component in any deal. some spending on infrastructure. some more stimulus for the economy. is that a part of these negotiations right now do you think? and does that does it have to be in in for you and the democrats to go awrong with any deal? . [ no response ] we have an audio issue with the senator. maya, jamele was talking about the relatively low impact in terms of the budget picture of the bush tax cuts and letting go for the wealthy. i think you wanted to make a ....
Good afternoon to you. first is the jobs bill as it is now constructed is it officially dead in. even the white house will acknowledge it is going nowhere that the death nail was put in it last night when the senate had most democrats but all and couldn t get tot the next phase. there is a plan b. the way the president laid it out with many parts to it, a total price tag in the $450 billion range. now the democrats in the senate will try to break out certain pieces one policy at a time. and republicans will get bind that as well by breaking it down and debating specific parts there can be areas like the payroll tax and perhaps changes in regulation or taxes or there would be common ground in changing taxes not raising them but changing the formula. now it is many plans not just one. what about the infrastructure ....