social safety net expansion. accommodating manchin s demands could deliver a fatal blow to democratic leaders hopes of getting this bill passed in the senate before christmas. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington with more on this. many jasmine, good morning. what is manchin s goal here? what s driving this? reporter: well, look, he is deeply, deeply concerned about a couple different things, including the size and the scope of this bill. president biden in a highly anticipated call yesterday, he spoke to manchin. productive and constructive, those were the two words manchin spokesperson and biden spokesperson told reporters afterwards really describing the call. i don t know, laura, if that sounds to you like two men on the precipice of making a deal, but still this call came at an essential time. remember, we are days away from that deadline you just mentioned from senate majority leader chuck schumer wanting to passion the $1.9 trillion expansion package by christmas. with