that s happening right now as we speak. we re expecting a decision, at least a counteroffer from the democrats, perhaps later tonight, maybe tomorrow. again, that s one. the other showdown right now doesn t really involve the republicans anymore. it is happening entirely within the democratic party. and this is over whether democrats are going to be able to pass their own agenda. president biden s agenda, the legislation with all the president s priorities in it, from childcare to community college to health care, to climate initiatives. the agenda that president biden campaigned on and one on, the agenda that democrats campaigned on and won on. and something like 96% of democrats in congress are on board with passing this. and they can do it without any republican votes. but they need all the democrats to vote for it. and there are these couple of democratic holdouts, democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia and kyrsten sinema of arizona. we have this evenly divided senate, 50
already been incurred, republicans nevertheless want them to name the number. that s all they want, a tv ad talking point for next year s elections. or the country gets it. or we ll put the country in a recession deliberately. right now, senate democrats are meeting to decide if they re going to accept this offer. they re going to give into this very weird little extortion plot? we re watching that unfold right now. that s sort of showdown one that s happening right now as we speak. we re expecting a decision at least a counteroffer from the democrats perhaps later tonight, maybe tomorrow. again, that s one. the other showdown right now doesn t really involve the republicans anymore. it is happening entirely within the democratic party. and this is over whether democrats are going to be able to pass their own agenda. president biden s agenda, the legislation with all the president s priorities in it, from childcare to community college to health care, to climate initiatives. the agenda
from the democrats. perhaps later tonight, maybe tomorrow. again that s one. the other showdown right now, it doesn t really involve the republicans anymore, it is happening entirely within the democratic party, and this is over whether democrats are going to be able to pass their own agenda. president biden s agenda, the legislation with all the presents priorities and, from childcare to community college, to health care, to climate initiatives. the agenda the president biden campaign, don and one on. they ve been agenda that democrats campaigned on in one. on something like 96% of democrats in congress are on board with passing this. they can do it without any republican votes, but they need all the democrats to vote for. and there are these couple of democratic holdouts. democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia, and kristen sinema of arizona. we have this evenly divided senate, 50 democrats 50 republicans, every single democrat has to be on board in order to pass the presiden
0 any other live interview i ve had with. i m really excited to talk to him,. thanks at-home for joining us this, our happy to be. back senator bernie sanders will be live tonight. he will be here in just a few minutes. i do want to address just a quick quick personal matter here before we go on to the news, if you will indulge me for just a second. a couple of months ago susan and i went to a minor league baseball game. i sat on the aisle. she sat to my left. our team won. it was a fantastic game. i bought like all the swag, i ate all the hot dogs, it was a great time. minor league baseball, i am convinced, is god s gift to american spectator sports. at our local minor league baseball park, box seats are six bucks. the parking is free. the players are really good, but nobody really cares who wins. sometimes after the game there is fireworks. it is literally a way to spend a summer night. at this particular minor league game i went to with susan, i m sitting on her right, she s sitting