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you re because you don t have your brother bill texting you the score like i do right here. telling me exactly when the grand slams come in. i ll do my part. i know how this works. it s all right. rachael, i was fascinated by your interview with congresswoman because especially because she actually did say the words, in her first response, well, i can t say what was actually said in the meeting. whereupon in the audience you kind of go, all right, do we go to the commercial now? like what s left to talk about? but it was very revealing and very, very helpful. for me, studying every little wrinkle of this. the for me the most single important fact that we know about the meeting is that it was two hours long. that is not a meeting about nothing. that is not a, so, tell me about life in west virginia. that s not what two hours is in those rooms. they got into a very serious discussion. it s hugely important. joe manchin talking to the woman who is leading the largest ....
response, well i can t say what was actually said in the meeting. where upon, in the audience to kind of go, all right do we go to the commercial now? what is left to talk about. but it was very revealing, and very helpful. for me, studying every little wrinkle of this, the single most important fact that we know about the meeting is that it was two hours long. that is not a meeting about nothing. that is not a so tell me about life in west virginia. that is not what two hours is in that room. they got into a very serious discussion about it. that s what two hours is about. and it is a hugely important discussion that joe manchin, representing the small group of moderate democrats who haven t gotten on board with this yet. talking to the woman who is leading the largest group of support for this legislation. that is a very important meeting. i thought it was also, i m not going to tell you what s going to happen in the meeting, but does joe manchin want there to be ....
as president biden prepares to promote his build back better agenda with a road strip tomorrow. jillian: lauren blanchard joins us live as fractured democrats remain confident they ll agree on a price tag for the massive spending proposal. reporter: good morning, todd, jillian. today the president is headed back to the white house after a weekend home in delaware. his focus is raising the dent ceilings but tom debt ceiling but tomorrow he ll push towards pressuring lawmakers to pass trillions in spending. this piece of legislation costs zero. we ll pay for it all by raising taxes on the very wealthy and big corporations. i believe we re on track with both tracts to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as the reconciliation build back better bill and our goal is to get it done in the next month. reporter: last week the vote was delayed, delayed and delayed again. democrats can t aagree on the final size of the $3.5 trillion ild back better bill. ....
requires every single democratic vote plus vice president kamala harris. manchin released a statement earlier in the week, and he said this. i can t support $3.5 trillion more in spending when we have already spent $5.4 trillion since last march. at some point, all of us, regardless of party, must ask the simple question, how much is enough? what i have made clear to the president and democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can t even pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity. sinema held her cards closer to the vest. tweeting that in august, she had shared her detailed concerns and priorities, including dollar figures, with president biden and senate majority leader chuck schumer. here s an indication of her importance. this week, biden and his aides met with sinema four times in one day. for their attempts to grapple with the actual numbers an ....
unprecedted. they have flirted with, threatened and bringing america to the brinkf defaulting on national debt repeatedly prox mitt ly approximately every two yearsince 2011 and our government actually shut down for a month because president obama refused to play charlie brown to mitch mcconnell s lucid with the football act. republicans represent lots of billionaires and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and his wife are really rich. defaulting would hurt them, too. what s the point? so republicans can perform a fake kind of fiscal probe by demanding cuts to government services and spending in exchange for raising the debt limit and paying the nation s lls of course, that theater ma miraculously disappears and mitch has the gavel, which is why during the trump administration, spend away. because none of it matters. republicans do not care about the debt. they never have. what they do care about is not letting democratic administrations succeed even if that means ....