what is a series of like checks in people s hand kind of legislation that you can pass in order to win a couple of seats in 2022 and come back with a 52-seat majority where manchin is not the deciding vote on everything. which brings us to infrastructure, where there is this new round of negotiations involving a bipartisan group, but there have to be at least ten republicans in that group who stay in that group all the way and are willing to vote on the senate floor for this, and john thune, the number two in mitch mcconnell s leadership team said he don t believe you will get ten on the leadership bill. probably not. here i think it is a different set of situations. i think joe biden, the democrats want to be caught trying. joe manchin cares about the aesthetic about bipartisanship. i think he cares about that more than any actual policy position on anything. so to be seen trying and then at the end of the day republicans don t bite or they don t bite on the compromise bill and i
and i hope that leadership understands their role and understands what our role is. what is she trying to say there, that we want to be disruptive, we want to be insurgencies and it s nancy pelosi s to count votes and we ll do what we think is right? i think that the squad is struggling to figure out what kind of group do they want to be. do they want to be another freedom caucus where they try to whip votes against the leadership bill and tank a democratic bill to show muscle and actually influence change? it seems like they are really hesitating on that. they haven t even tried. and so her saying we re not trying to convince members to vote a certain way, i think that just speaks to how much, you know, inside the capitol pelosi really is still queen here. she doesn t have a group who s trying to do that, at least not these four. at the same time, i will say all these policy issues you just laid out, whether defense authorization, immigration, there are progressives who are irritati
final question, what do you say to freedom caucus colleagues that are hoping that the leadership bill does worse than goodlatte bill that failed this week? it s really unbelievable. i have friends over in the freedom club for them to want to just fail, i think they have a long-term play on speaker of the house or something like that, we all have to be united, there are some things in the last bill that i didn t like but i voted for it with the team. there are some moments we have to come to with the team and i would desperately ask friends from team to come over and join us. thanks for your time, see you back on the hill. thank you. laura. all right, mike, president trump s executive order to keep migrant families together is causing own set of problems as federal agencies try to reunite children with their parents. let s bring in john, society editor, a lot to get to.
and these children as a way to gain political leverage so the president could get the funding for the wall. and they thought that this would give them leverage. instead of getting leverage, they got these pictures coming out, and this travesty that people were watching, and people were outraged about, including members of the republican party who were upset about this and rightly so. so the president even failed in his own, you know, political calculation here. and if he knows anything, he knows bad press when he sees it. and he was watching television along with everybody else. but is this a real fix? absolutely not. mike, if the president can t get his own party, which is the majority party, on the same page, how can he blame democrats, to your point, for congress not taking action? yeah, i mean, this has been going on in washington for quite a while. this is what the real fights are. let s say the house leadership
members of the republican party who were upset about this and rightly so. so the president even failed in his own, you know, political calculation here. and if he knows anything, he knows bad press when he sees it. and he was watching television along with everybody else. but is this a real fix? absolutely not. mike, if the president can t get his own party, which is the majority party, on the same page, how can he blame democrats, to your point, for ss not taking action? yeah, i mean, this has been going on in washington for quite a while. this is what the real fights are. let s say the house leadership bill fails by ten votes tomorrow and 197 democrats voted against it, of course democrats will say republicans are in charge of everything, they could have passed their bill. but there is going to be an argument to be made, if you re going to be intellectually honest, when democrats are on television crying about children and crying about daca and they couldn t get ten of their memb