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president biden met with a bipartisan
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group of lawmakers at the white house
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monday to discuss his 2.3 trillion
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dollar infrastructure plan
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the meeting comes as congress returns to
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washington and as the president signals
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his openness
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to working with capitol hill to pass his
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proposal
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republicans are currently opposing the
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white house's plan
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to raise corporate taxes in order to pay
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for the american jobs plan
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they're also debating over which
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improvements count as
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infrastructure president biden said he's
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willing to negotiate on all of that and
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expressed confidence
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in being able to reach an agreement
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i'm prepared to negotiate as to
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how the extent of the minor
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infrastructure project
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as well as how we pay for it a lot of
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folks saying that
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the fact that we have uh millions of
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people
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not able to drink water because there's
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lead and
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they're it's coming through lead pipes i
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think that's infrastructure
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i think broadband is infrastructure it's
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not just roads bridges highways etc
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that's we're going to talk about and i'm
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confident
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everything's going to work out perfectly
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for more i want to bring in cbs news
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senior white house correspondent rija
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zhang
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hi there rija so what are the next steps
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for the president's infrastructure plan
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well president biden has to sell sell
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sell that's exactly what he was doing
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today
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with this initial meeting and he has
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several cabinet members
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doing the exact same thing trying to
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convince especially republican lawmakers
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that this is the right path forward for
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the country but as you heard him say
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he knows that he has to come to a
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compromise and he is willing to
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negotiate
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what we don't know though is how far he
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is willing to go because he has made
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very clear he thinks
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this package is essential to get people
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back to work
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and to stimulate the economy but also to
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rebuild the country
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and so you're seeing some of his goals
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right here
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um and that's exactly why too that he's
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running into trouble because
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some of these things are are things that
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members of the gop do not believe are
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part of
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what they consider to be traditional
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infrastructure
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elaine it's it's interesting luigi house
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and senate leadership were not at the
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meeting
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what does the group president biden met
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with tell us about where this proposal
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is headed in congress well i think it
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signals that
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the president and the white house wants
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to focus first on the substance of the
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bill
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and get it to a point where they think
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they are ready to negotiate
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even more because these are lawmakers
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who have experience
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crafting uh packages in the past with
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regard to infrastructure they know what
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works they know what members of their
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party wants
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and they know what messages to relay to
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the president with regard to
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the substance of this package and so i
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think that's why
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he's starting there rather than the deal
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making right away
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that said you know the white house
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issued a response quickly after this
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meeting to say this is
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you know just the beginning and there
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will be several meetings with key
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stakeholders
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in the future the president did say he
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is willing to negotiate with republicans
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and said he's confident
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that things would work out does the
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white house actually have a plan to gain
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bipartisan support
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well the plan is to go directly to the
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people and that's what we saw
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during the process to approve the
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coveted relief package as well
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and there was overwhelming support
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from americans for that bill and that's
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what the white house pointed to even
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though there wasn't
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republican support on capitol hill they
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were able to say we went
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and met with met with americans who
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who believe this is the right way to go
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uh for the country and to give them more
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stability as everything tries to reopen
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and so we are expecting more
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announcements from the white house
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for the president to travel to different
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areas in the country
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along with other members of the
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administration to try
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to make the case to people that they
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should call their lawmakers
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and say you know we support this bill
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well president biden was also asked
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about the recent police involved
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shooting in brooklyn center minnesota
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as well as the trial of derrick chauvin
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what did he have to say
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he said that he has spoken to the
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governor along with other officials in
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the state though he hasn't called
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mr wright's family just yet and he
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really wanted to stress
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which he did many times that the
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investigation is still
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just unfolding and so he didn't want to
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speculate about any of the facts in the
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case
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he did mention that the the video that
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you know we have all seen at this point
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was
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fairly graphic and that he agreed
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um with uh wright's mother who called
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for peace at this time
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and the president took that opportunity
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to urge people to remain calm
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and not uh to go looting and protesting
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in a violent manner because of course
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this
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falls with the backdrop of the derrick
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chauvin trial
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in the killing of george floyd so
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tensions are extremely
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high in that area of the country right
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now
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and i think everyone's just waiting and
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hoping that there is not
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more unrest which is what the president
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urged today when he talked about this
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all right vijay zhang at the white house
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we just thank you
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thank you
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