We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
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will go to pennsylvania to stump for his economic agenda. the real debate is going to happen in washington, d.c. where congress is still working both on infrastructure and other white house priorities. last week we saw the congress block everything efforts to move debate forward on an infrastructure bill. this week looks to be a different story with lawmakers from both parties saying a they re making progress on the moving the proposal forward, possibly within the next few hours. we re down to the last couple of items. i think you re going to see a bill monday afternoon. we re about 90% of the way there. i m here this weekend, working on legislative language with colleagues and staff. i feel good about getting it done. reporter: well, the senate may be close on infrastructure. how quickly is a bill going to reach president biden s deck? that is the trillion dollar question at this point. house speaker nancy pelosi says she won t pass infrastructure in her chamber until after the
have to and says i want my wall, this is how we re going to get it? this is a big missed opportunity by this white house and by this president. the only way to get the border security he promised his base is to make it part of a grand bargain, to include permanent protections for dreamers, permanent protections for the tps population because the white house didn t put that proposal forward, which if they had, would have put pressure on democrats, now they re stuck with the solution, which is to show the base that they re trying to do something and increasingly and regrettably i think that s what we see more and more of in politicians in these days, not people trying to advance their solutions, but people trying to demonstrate they re fighting for something. and then when it doesn t happen, use that to make them angry and get them to vote in the next election. this is a big missed opportunity. the president has put himself in a box. i think this is the only option he has left and i do
president trump taking a bite at the infrastructure apple today. can he woo enough democrats while placating his own base? i m joined by anthony fox who served as transportation secretary under president obama, currently managing partner at related infrastructure. secretary fox, thank you for being here. you know this topic well. we re grateful for your time. the administration, the trump administration, says this is not a take it or leave it proposal. is this in your eyes a reasonable launching point for a possible deal on infrastructure, $200 billion? does that get anybody to blink an eye? well, peter, i think the most important thing here is if this were a tennis match the white house has now served and now the ball is in the court of congress. this is an issue long enjoyed bipartisan support in general. the specifics of the proposal, i think, are actually less important than the fact that the white house has expressed an interest in jumping into this fray, putting a proposal forw