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be together, work on things together, buck our leadership at times. we ve been very fortunate, our leadership, chuck schumer, he understands what we re trying to do. he said, if you can get something done, do it. i ve talked to mitch. mitch is supportive of things we re doing now. basically they understand. i think they all want us to work together. like i say, it should not be miserable. i m not going to be in a miserable situation when i have good friends i can work with. now you re under fire not the same thing, obviously, you re under fire for not changing the filibuster rules. bernie sanders says he supports a primary challenge to you and senator sinema. schumer hasn t said he s endorsing you. we ve talked about that and everything. chuck and i were talking the other day. i said, chuck, the best thing to say, i would think, in a situation like that they re going to support. in no way, shape or form will mitch mcconnell or chuck schumer not support their caucus. it just doe
to be miserable, okay? it s almost turned into a miserable situation because common sense and civility, cleerjality, all the things you think should go with it and you ve heard about, we re working like the kick ens. we have to, would harder now to be together, work on things together, buck our leadership at times. we ve been vsh fortunate, our lead shim, schumer, he understands what we re trying to do. he said, if you can get something done, do it. i ve talked to mitch. mitch is supportive of things we re doing now. they understand. i think they all want us to work together. like i say, it should not be miserable. i m not going to be in a miserable situation when i have good friends i can work with. now you re under fire not the same thing obviously, you re under fire for not changing the filibuster rules. bernie sanders says he supports a primary challenge to you and senator sinema. schumer hasn t said he s
is a complete red line because their priority still is getting it done even if it does end up potentially becoming a bit of a smaller package. well, look, the only person that says the price is not coming down is bernie sanders. it is interesting that nobody will draw pelosi didn t draw that line in the sand, schumer hasn t drawn it and biden has not drawn it. monica, garrett, thank you very much. joining me now is abigail spanberger, she sits at the nexus of many of these political fights we talk about. congresswoman, let me start with this issue of substance versus price tag. it s hard to be against any of the ideas, i think, as a conventional democrat that is in this bill. when you re looking at it, how much of it do you look at it as far as scope and size? how much do you look at it as the price tag?