the end of the day for the american people to know exactly who was involved in planning this, exactly who was involved in perpetuating the big lie, and exactly who was involved in ensuring that these, you know, steals across the country were continuing. so i do think we will find that out. i just think we re in the investigative stage right now. one month ago you said that you had full confidence in joe manchin coming around and build back better getting passed. how do you feel tonight? i still feel that way. look, michael, most build back better was pre-negotiated, pre-conferenced with senator manchin and with the president. and i believe the president when he said that he had a commitment and that he had confidence that he would get the 50 votes needed in the senate. and i ve spoken to the white
look, michael, most build back better was pre-negotiated, pre-conferenced with senator manchin, and with the president. and i believe the president when he said that he had a commitment and that he had confidence that he would get the 50 votes needed in the senate. and i ve spoken to the white house again recently. i believe that still to be true, but obviously there are a lot of things that were added in the house, and we do have a little bit of negotiation that still needs to be done on top of the fact that the parliamentarian still has to review the provisions, but i feel really good we re going to pass build back better, that we re going to lower costs for americans, that we are going to help elders afford their prescription drugs, that we are going to ensure that every 3 and 4-year-old has pre-k, and that we are going to bring down health care costs by providing hearing aids for our seniors. so this is significant what we re doing in this bill, and
also, we re setting aside 40% of the funds for climate or disproportionately there s so much in this bill, and most of it, reverend al, is pre-negotiated, pre-conferenced with the senate and with the white house and with the white house. so i am very confident that this is going to go to the senate. there are a couple of things that have not been agreed to yet. i hope the senators stay strong and manage to find a way to get 50 democratic senators on the bill that we passed in the house. but this is going to get done and it is going to be transformative. people are going to wake up and feel differently about their livelihoods and their opportunities. now, while democrats were trying to pass the build back better act to help struggling americans, minority leader kevin mccarthy focused on performing a political stunt, launching into