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There s breaking news out of washington right now after an evening flurry of activity including the release of a summary of that all-important score from the congressional budget office. the house is about to vote on president biden s so-called build back better legislation and because house speaker pelosi doesn t bring anything to the floor without enough support to succeed, the odds are it will pass. for a president far less popular in the polls and some of the items in the bill, this couldn t come at a moment too soon. jessica dean is at the capitol and phil mattingly is at the white house, and our chief political analyst gloria borger joins us as well. where is the latest where this stands? right now, anderson, right over my shoulder, that way they are debating this bill and then they ll move into the final vote on the build back better act and just to remind everyone it will leave the house and it will head over to the senate where it is very likely that it will be taken apart a ....
Phone calls trying to get different factions on board. the progressives are angry at the moderates. moderates angry at the progressives. hoping she is able to put together something. madam speaker i think it s too expensive. she got out the data and big charts and essentially said? it s all paid for. we have heard that we also heard it doesn t cost anything. ainsley: right $3.5 trillion it s free. steve: just magic money. ainsley: nancy pelosi was also asked about what happened on tuesday with this red wave in virginia and in other cities or other states across our country. and she admits it was not a good night. listen. i haven t seen the data. perhaps you have. i think there are other issues at work in that election. and remains not for me to make an observation unsubstantiated by data and science and facts. i m very scientific about elections. district by district, within the ....
Away from when the house is expected to vote on joe biden s social spending and infrastructure bill. we re talking about two different bills. brian: yup, all right. the question remains, does speaker pelosi have the votes to do either or both? griff jenkins joins us now as the democrats scramble to pull off a much needed legislative victory. vote at 8:00 in the morning, griff? griff: that s right. guys, i m under the dome where are where we are standing just feet off of the house floor behind me is speaker pelosi s office about 100 yards behind me. i didn t see anybody in there. the lights are off. and the lights in the house chamber are off. no one is here but me and my cameraman here in the will rogers statue as speaker pelosi says she thinks she can accomplish what she failed to do at the end of last week and that is to pass votes on both the infrastructure bill and this massive social spending bill, which is 2,000 plus pages. but if last night was any indication it s clear that pel ....
Or energize the photographic base and frankly we weren t really invited to contribute on that race. steve: to her point, she is right. the super progressive young people did not show up in traditional numbers. and that didn t help terry mcauliffe. brian: as what they don t understand and the leadership, the veteran leadership on the left don t have not done a good job explaining is that the queen s representative doesn t represent the country. most of the country would not vote for aoc. she might have a great personality and be great on social media. but my grandparents are from queens. i m not anti-queens, but i m 99% sure they don t speak for montana virginia, the rural sections of new jersey. that is a section but it seems like they have such a loud voice the squad and now the progressives that are 93 in the house. the republicans probably ....
Hill. what can you tell us? the pool is still holding in vans. he s not on the move yet. that meeting with the president and the democratic caucus is expected really any moment after he gets out of here. it s being viewed by democrats in congress as a positive indicator that potentially the votes are coming together for this bipartisan infrastructure bill. congressman dean philips told me that it s illuminating because the president doesn t come to a caucus meeting to make a pitch. they come to seal the deal. it feels close. speaker pelosi has been privately trying to gauge how many votes she has for this bipartisan bill to determine if she wants to bring it to the floor. pelosi doesn t like to bring a vote if it s going to fail. progressives have been vowing that they would vote it down unless the reconciliation package came with it. they were not happy with just an agreement. not just a frame work. they were saying that they ....