31st self-imposed deadline, does it seem realistic there is going to be a deal. reporter: it seems unrealistic because they are so far apart. not just on the price tag. joe manchin is still at $1.5 trillion even though he flirted earlier this week about going up to 1.9 to $2.2 trillion which is what joe biden s number. but the progressives want it closer to $3 trillion. and then all of the policy details, climate change and health care and the education and the eligible issues and how it works the tax rates, those are sim ply not resolved and october 1st highway money would expire to force members to cut a deal. but jake they could potentially have their backs against the wall kick the can down the road again and then run up into the fiscal deadlines. now december 3rd again to raise the debt ceiling after they pubtsed that for two months and
would be like homicide. but that underscores the actual disagreements between the two men and between the two wings of the party and the belief is if those two could get together perhaps the rest of the factions within the democratic caucus can for the moment they are still so far apart and i m told the president sounded exasperated in talking to democratic members about the lack of progress so far. and i m not sure who is committing the homicide between the other. went bernie and manchin. it is kind of an odd comment. kaitlan, the white house today is trying to use what is a very disappointing jobs report as proof that this massive spending bill for infrastructure and for the build back better act, they need to be passed and soon. reporter: it is not really a way to spin only adding 194,000 jobs to the economy which of course is what happened in that september jobs report. but that is what president biden trying to do today and in the remarks we should note he tried
moderate colleagues today. he said there are two democratic senators who are olding up the entire democratic agenda. he said these senators to be on the same team and get behind an agenda for the president for the whole party. of course it is a little bit more complicated than that. there are disagreements between joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. they are getting the most attention from the president. they are having one-on-one conversations in which bernie sanders himself has raised concerns that they are not divulging enough information about what they want to the rest of the caucus. and in talking to democratic senators, they don t have any clear idea what they want either. they are not talking to the caucus in these private meeting and frustration is bubbling up. behind the scenes i m told on a conference call this week the democrats in the house, one of them ro khanna asked joe biden to have manchin and bernie sanders sit down together hash out their disagreements and biden said