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Stages here to get that done, and i m highly, highly confident that the budget reconciliation bill, the democrats much larger infrastructure package will get to everybody agrees on the need and urgency to act. there may be some tweaks here and there between now and a final passage of the budget reconciliation package but highly confident democrats will stand united and the door is open for republicans to join us and make that a bipartisan step, too. do you expect that infrastructure will pass this week? i believe the bipartisan infrastructure package will pass this week, as early as tomorrow, and we will immediately move on to the next part, a much bigger infrastructure package that will invest further in climate change, invest in health care and housing, education, child care and more. senator, before we let you go, you have been keeping pressure on here for federal voting reform, and we keep hearing that we re going to see something happen soon. do you know when and will it ....
Says. we have to turn to the other news of the day. when we look at what is coming up later this afternoon, are you concerned at all that this is going to backfire on senator schumer? i don t think so. time is of the essence. what senator schumer is saying is that we need to. move this process forward. i m glad the bipartisan group has made progress, but they do need to wrap it up. president biden has made the same point. this is a way of keeping pressure on the group. just a little while ago 11 senate republicans said they were going to wrap this all up by early next week. this is a way of keeping the pressure onto get to an agreement on the bipartisan bill. we also need to move forward on that budget resolution that contains the other parts of president biden s build back ....
Background, along with north korea, because the japanese have favored keeping pressure on the north koreans, and they do want the president, when he meets with kim jong-un, whenever that happens again, to bring up those japanese citizens who were abducted by north korea. those are big things that are going on. but right now, they say they re going to focus on essentially abe wanting to make sure that he maintains this close relationship with the president. can i ask, what is the significance of the president being invited to a sumo wrestling match? reporter: well they say it is a big one because sumo wrestling here is a pretty hallowed tradition. to have the president come in for the championship, where he comes in and sits in the front row, those are seats that sell out all the time, and the president is going to be there, and so they re saying it is a way for the president to show that he cares about the japanese culture, to really immerse itself in it which is interesting becaus ....
House, after a few months he came to the conclusion it was important to stay in syria, it wasn t costing us a lot, it was keeping pressure, it was giving us the opportunity to try to forge some kind of political settlement, and then suddenly with no explanation, with no telegraphing, as you say, all the allies are shocked, european allies are shocked, nobody seems to understand what s going on. one more piece of this which is interesting, it s a little complicated, but our closest allies in the fight against the assad regime are the kurds in syria. the turkish government doesn t like those guys. we just concluded a big armed sales to turkey. is it possible that part of what erdogan asked for in return, i ll buy these arms from you, but in return you have to get out of syria. it s possible. nobody knows. partly i think i m trying to find a reason. it s because it s been so impulsive, it s been so unpredictable and it doesn t ....
Is against sound military advice, and i intend to do our part as a congress and make sure that history records how this decision was made. we have betrayed our kurdish allies if this decision stands. if it s reversed, i ll be the first one to applaud the president because that s true leadership. a group of bipartisan senators sent a letter to the president urging him to change his mind, to not do this. i haven t seen this much pushback from members of the president s own party since jamal khashoggi. yeah, i think part of the problem is it s so sudden, it s so impulsive. it sends a weird signal ability the continuity. once trump got into the white house, after a few months he came to the conclusion it was important to stay in syria, it wasn t costing us a lot, it was keeping pressure, it was giving us the opportunity to try to forge some kind of political settlement, and then suddenly ....