democratic president s agenda. the $1.5 billion hard infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. all of a sudden, the tables get turned on us and we are now finding that people are saying, oh, no, just pass the infrastructure bill and you know what, we ll get to childcare later, we ll get to paid leave later. over half our caucus has said they will not just vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we have to vote on the reconciliation bill first. so that debate is the starting point for president biden s series of white house meetings this afternoon, all with high stakes for this administration because, as nbc s first read asks today, can biden afford to see the infrastructure bill go down to defeat? we have a team of reporters covering the developments from the white house to capitol hill, they ll join us in a minute. first, we ll go to democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey, cho care of the caucus of problem solvers and moderate
long oolg. hill leaders crunch the numbers on how many fellow democrats they could go without. a new move developing by republicans that s actually giving a boost to progressives. here one on one with us senator warren to talk about wit the biden agenda on the line, yet another setback, too, as talks on a police reform bill go down in flames. live on the hill with why the talks are over and live with shareeduh tate, the cousin of george floyd. good afternoon. good to be with us. ali vitale on capitol hill and joined by john breznahan. here s what we re watching. president biden s democratic diplomacy if you will happening all afternoon into tonight trying to work out the differences with democrats to save the key priorities. infrastructure and a huge social spending program and progressive democrats are dug in saying the spending bill be passed first before the vote on the more popular infrastructure bill and concerned if infrastructure goes first moderate democrats could b
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Pressure from the public especially after the murder of george floyd to get something done. later this hour we ll talk with the cousin of george floyd for the first reaction about this latest development. do that not miss that. i want to bring in somebody who is involved in some of these conversations, senator elizabeth warren, democrat from massachusetts. good afternoon. it s great to have you back on the show. good to see you, i m glad to be here. there s developing news coming in from a letter you and the colleagues just sent and before, quickly, the reaction to the police reform talks falling a part. this is a big prior for the president and democrats and people who are involved like the family of george floyd. this is a big priority for our nation and the fact that we couldn t move the republicans to try to come together partly it was around this issue of qualified immunity, about whether or not police officers