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the top story anne-marie as you say it's
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really important because we are
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closer to advancing president biden's
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ambitious legislative agenda democrats
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are saying that they are closer
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because of this major budget plan so
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here here are the numbers
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three and a half trillion dollars that
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would expand medicare
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address climate change and focus on
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other progress
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progressive priorities the top democrats
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touted the blueprints saying they're
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prepared to pass the bill without
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any republican support listen every
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major program that president biden has
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asked us for
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is funded in a robust way and in
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addition we are making some
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additions to that uh
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most important something that senator
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sanders has led
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and convinced america is so important
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which is a robust expansion of medicare
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for a very long time the american people
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have seen the very rich
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getting richer and government developing
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policies
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which allow them to pay in some cases
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not
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a nickel in federal income taxes they've
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seen corporations make huge profits
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in some cases they're not paying a
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nickel in taxes and what this
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legislation says among many many other
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things
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that those days are gone now this all
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comes as president biden continues his
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administration's focus on protecting
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voting rights
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he slammed gop led states for
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introducing restrictions and changes to
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election laws across the country
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during a major speech yesterday and
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o'keefe takes a closer look
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21st century jim crow assault is real
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it's unrelenting and we're going to
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challenge it vigorously
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speaking from philadelphia the
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birthplace of american democracy
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president biden forcefully attacked
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voting restrictions being enacted in
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more than a dozen gop-controlled states
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stand up for god's sake and help prevent
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this concerted effort to undermine our
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election
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and the sacred right to vote have you no
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shame
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the white house hopes the president's
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speech will jump start a push for new
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federal voting rights legislation
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but the bills he wants passed can't
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clear the closely divided senate
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unless it abolishes the filibuster the
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president also directly addressed
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unfounded accusations embraced by former
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president trump
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that democrats stole last year's
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presidential election the big lie is
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just that
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a big lie the speech came as more than
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50 democratic state lawmakers left texas
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in order to stop debate on gop elections
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law changes
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the motion fails for lack of quorum they
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spent their first full day in washington
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pushing the senate to pass voting rights
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legislation
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we're just hoping to move the needle a
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little bit more we're hoping that
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congress will understand the urgency
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this is about americans
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the group met with vice president harris
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and supportive senate democrats
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what's happening in texas by the
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gop legislators and governor is just
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outrageous
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but republicans continue to dismiss
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their d.c trip
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as a political stunt it's disingenuous
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and a down right and downright false to
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claim that
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any effort to prevent fraud is a veiled
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attempt
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at voter suppression and while texas's
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governor
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threatened to arrest the democrats they
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said they're not concerned
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we would not go to jail
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so ed o'keefe is joining us now from the
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white house
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and let's start with president biden's
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push to address voting rights we saw
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in your piece that you know there's not
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a lot the federal government can do
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unless congress eliminates the
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filibuster so then the question is where
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do things stand on that right now the
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elimination or modification of the
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filibuster
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well and actually we should point out
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there is one thing the federal
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government could do
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if there were enough members of the
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right party in place to pass that bill
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it could get through the senate so it's
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a reminder that elections have
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consequences but when it comes to the
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current situation where we've got 50
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members of both caucuses
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and no agreement on this issue there is
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of course continued pressure as there
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has been since he took office
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on the president to support carving out
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or
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completely eliminating the filibuster so
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that democrats could pass
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federal voting rights legislation be it
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the for the people act or the john lewis
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act
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two different bills that would
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essentially address a lot of these
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concerns so
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you know uh for now there are said to be
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bipartisan talks that continue on this
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issue as there are on many other issues
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to see if at some point there could be a
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breakthrough at least on something
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modest to address
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concerns with elections laws across the
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country but as long as you've got
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republicans opposed and probably as many
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as five moderate democrats concerned
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about that legislation right now or
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aspects of it
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it's going to be very difficult to get
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it through it's not just joe manchin and
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kirsten cinema of west virginia and
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arizona
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you dive deeper into this and you
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probably have concerns
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from john tester of montana angus king
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the independent from maine
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possibly jackie rosen of nevada and
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maybe even maggie hassan in new
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hampshire and the concern would be
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the fact that this bill would
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essentially mandate
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blanket procedures and programs across
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the country
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that critics say gets a little too into
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state control of elections
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which is explicitly called out in the
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constitution
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so and as we also mentioned let's talk
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about the democrats
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and their unveiling of their new budget
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bill that addresses much of what
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president biden called
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human infrastructure priorities so break
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down for our viewers what exactly is in
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this proposal
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so it's a 3.5 trillion dollar proposal
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and we should keep calling it that until
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it becomes law
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if it becomes law it includes more
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funding for
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child care programs it would expand
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medicare it would aggressively address
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in the eyes of democrats
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the concerns about climate change it is
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also they say
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paid for and not with new taxes that is
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designed
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to bring along those moderates again who
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may be concerned about the size and
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scope of legislation and in this case
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the price
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it is far less however than the proposed
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six trillion dollar plan
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from vermont senator bernie sanders who
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is the chair of the budget committee
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but who stood alongside senate majority
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leader chuck schumer last night
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when they unveiled this democrats want
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to have what they call a unity budget
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plan
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that will get all 50 of them plus vice
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president harris on board
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so they can use that another procedural
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tactic known as reconciliation
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which allows senators to pass a budget
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bill with a simple majority vote
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given that this 3.5 trillion plan is
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unlikely to get any
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republican support they've got to have
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all 51 of those democrats in the senate
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on board the president is going to lunch
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today with them up at the capitol
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returning to his old stomping grounds to
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begin what i'm calling the arm-twisting
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stage of his presidency he's got to go
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in there now and sell this alongside
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democratic leaders and say
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joe manchin kirsten cinema any you
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others who may have concerns with this
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you gotta get on board this is a
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partisan priority of ours
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we promise this in the elections i want
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to see get it done
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then of course and i know your questions
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about this there's that bipartisan
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budget plan
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yeah yeah so then what is going on with
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that
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uh talks on that continue as well and
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the hope
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is to have some kind of a blueprint
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either later this week
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or next week remember this is the deal
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that was cut by five democrats in the
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senate five republicans in the senate
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they came over here to the white house
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they stood right out here on the
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driveway with the president said we have
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a deal
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the problem is they got to find at least
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five more republicans and once again
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make sure that all democrats are on
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board you got to do the math and
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thankfully it's split 50 50. so it's
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pretty easy
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to do it these days this one of course
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579 billion dollars in new spending and
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this is the more traditional
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infrastructure spending
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roads bridges rails tunnels ports would
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re-program or repurpose some of the
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money that's been
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already authorized through covert 19
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relief bills in the past year or so
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and as it says there would not raise
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taxes on either wealthy americans
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or corporations which was a democratic
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priority
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but given the split nature of the senate
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isn't something that can be done so
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talks continue and we've said this
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before we'll say it again
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as long as they're talking things are
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moving in the right direction
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this is the president who likes to give
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them the time and space to do that
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there's no deadline on these things so
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this could go on for a few more weeks
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maybe a few more months
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but in the view of this white house as
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long as the talking continues
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that's progress so ed how will this
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um we talked about this bipartisan
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infrastructure deal that's being
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negotiated in the senate now
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but if democrats use reconciliation to
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push the budget through
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um how will this i mean we already know
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how republicans will react to this
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can you give us a maybe this is um maybe
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getting in the weeds but how should our
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viewers think about reconciliation and
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how it's been used in the past let's
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think about let's talk about that
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we're getting in the weeds this is what
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we do this is why we have scenes i love
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it it's okay
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i don't like throwing curves but i'm
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just intrigued by this by this
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reconciliation process
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yeah so again this isn't the catholic
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sacrament this is a senate procedural
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tool
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and it's uh it's it's designed to allow
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the party in charge
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to pass a budget plan a spending bill
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with a simple majority because normally
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as everyone who follows the filibuster
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fight at least knows you got to get 60
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votes at least
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to get legislation through it's been
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used
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by republicans it's been used by
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democrats at different times
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to get their priorities and what's going
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on right now here in town you hear a lot
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of talk about the dual track
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strategy that you've got this partisan
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bill
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which is far more expensive and includes
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all those priorities that the president
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and many democrats are pushing for
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but then you've got that bipartisan more
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traditional infrastructure spending plan
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which addresses all those big ticket
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items that members of both parties have
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been saying for about a decade
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need to be paid for so that airports and
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bridges and roads and water
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systems and electrical grids can get
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rebuilt or revitalized
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and in the view of democrats can be
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electrified or
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greened to address climate change and
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they do that
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with federal spending and so you're kind
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of in the midst of a
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legislative staring contest because
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you've got the democratic
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plan by the end of this week the white
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house and democratic leaders would like
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to know that all 50 members are on board
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and so they'll be able to go okay that
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one's ready to go where are we on the
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bipartisan one
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well that's going to be trickier because
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republicans are going to read through
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what's in this 3.5 trillion dollar plan
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and they know that that can pass with
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just democrats alone
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so they don't want to necessarily be
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part of some arrangement
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where yeah all this critical spending on
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infrastructure is being done
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but it's part of an uh essentially a
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strategy
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to get democrats a big win and one of
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their big priorities off the to-do list
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so there's a very difficult balancing
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act that has to go on
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that i would argue is actually trickier
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right now among fellow democrats
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because of the sensitivities that some
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of them have to how republicans will
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react
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when at the end of the day spending
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money on traditional infrastructure
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plans is something that both parties
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agree on and that voters back home are
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going to be happy about once they see
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the local highway or the airport getting
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rebuilt whether you're a republican or a
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democrat because remember we've talked
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about this too
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that rescue plan was passed earlier this
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year they had billions of dollars in
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relief for cities and states
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there have been republicans who voted
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against it going home and talking about
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how great it is that the federal
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government is spending all this money on
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them
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so eventually you know they're still
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convinced here at the white house these
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bills will get through
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but it's going to be messy and that's
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the traditional legislative process
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that we haven't seen much of here in
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washington in recent years and uh
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it continues we'll see how it goes well
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we'll see you know with regards to how
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messy it gets uh president biden
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um in his speeches to the american
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people before he was elected talked
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about
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his experience in these sort of messy
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battles so we'll see
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uh we'll finally get that put to the
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test uh in the days and weeks ahead uh
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ed o'keefe
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for us at the white house my friend as
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always thank you happy to dive into the
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weeds anytime
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all right and make sure we do that we
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maybe show you you're you're a walking
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weed whacker
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ed there you go i was gonna say that
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that's because we're like this yeah i
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was thinking like what's another word
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for that but you beat me to it that's
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great
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they should just have you on the white
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house lawn ed every time
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some of those contraptions we're always
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hearing in our live shots
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thank you my friend
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