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Website, pelosi promised a vote in infrastructure, progressives threatened to sink it unless was coupled with the 3.5 trillion social spending beal. joe biden told the democrats to compromise and drop it down to $2 trillion. moderate democrats from new jersey lashed out at progressives, this is far left willing to put the president s agenda at risk and civility and bipartisan governing at risk. president joe biden remains optimistic. it doesn t matter when. it doesn t matter whether it s in six minutes, six days or six weeks. we re going to get it done. the senate meets later today to fund highway programs which ran out of gas excuse me, i mean cash friday morning and the legislation had been part of the infrastructure bill, neil. neil: and lucas, the president, we re told, is working with legislators on this over the ....
Among republicans. 19 republican senators voted for it in that body. how many of your colleagues, republican colleagues, do you think would have supported this? it might still come for a vote, we don t know when. it s not anytime soon, clearly. but how many do you think would vote for this? would you vote for it? well, i was inclined to vote for it. and, again, i always say inclined because you never what form is actually going to come to the form. and if they try to add something else to it. i would say you probably had somewhere between a dozen or two dozen republican votes in hand, and i think that was part of president biden s failure here to not reach out to the republicans to confirm how each of us was going to vote to see if they had the votes to make up for the progressives holding back. you can t call it a bipartisan infrastructure bill if it doesn t get bipartisan votes. so i think that was a real mistake on behalf of the president. but it shows once again that he wasn t ho ....
Afford to see the infrastructure bill go down to defeat? we have a team of reporters covering the developments from the white house to capitol hill, they ll join us in a minute. first, we ll go to democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey, cho care of the caucus of problem solvers and moderates. last month you led a group of nine house moderates who warned the house speaker you all wouldn t vote for the $3.5 trillion bill unless the house passed the physical infrastructure bill first, and that s how we arrived as monday the 27th as the date for the vote. is it your expectation that this vote still moves forward on monday? has the house speaker committee that to you? it is, we ll be voting monday, we ll start debating this bill. every single democrat in august came down and voted to make sure we sent this bill to the floor on monday, this monday, the 27th. it passed the senate, you ve ....
The tornado hit. if it wasn t for the national weather service sending out that alert, which an 8-month pregnant woman, her husband and two children heard that, ran to the basement and literally it tore their house apart. we all come together. we re one america. however, it seems like it only runs one way. when sandy hit, the amount of republicans that wouldn t vote for disaster aid for new jersey was unbelievable. and then when it hit their state, they want us to help them. we ve got to come together. this is just insane. people are dying. i m looking at these flooding pictures. it s reality. go out and look. and we have a great plan to build back better reconciliation and the infrastructure. a grid. you turn off the power, that s a big problem. the mutual aid. when those utility workers came ....
The state like the picture in the attic. is that dorian gray? greg: there is a picture in the attic. what s wrong with you, janet? they are grasping at straws now. greg: there is no more straws. how about he s just a terrible governor? i think they need a meteorologist in california. greg: when i was going to ask you, i don t know if curtis lee has a chance for a mayor, but you know, you ve been a meteorologist for a long time. isn t it time you enter the political realm and run for mayor? come on. would you vote for me? greg: who wouldn t vote for you? hello, andrew cuomo would vote for yo. i don t take about that. i will say, i heard that bill de blasio was taking about running for governor today. we are in trouble. in trouble here in new york city but i ll let you know. ....