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caroline: senator tina smith speaking earlier.the senate floor, senators still voting around the infrastructure deal. jack dorsey of twitter, a big proponent of it going in cryptocurrencies, he is tweeting out that the amendment is being killed to get more military spending. there seems to be an argument between certain senators over defense bill spending and whether we will be killing the f that. romaine: this is all the wrangling over that $550 billion bill. there are still multi trillion dollars package is on the table for the biden administration and the democrats to negotiate assuming they get this done. i want to bring in andy blocker. not only does he understand the government but he understands money and all of this -- and how all of this sort of intersects together. when you look at some of the wrangling going on right now ostensibly over a crypto measure but this is really about broader issues of how you pay for this. i wonder how much potential success there will be for a $3.5 trillion package. >> you hit the nail on th

i particularly want to thank our housing and transit subcommittee chair tina smith from minnesota and the subcommittee's ranking member senator rounds from south dakota. i've worked with both of them. i've been to their subcommittee. their efforts have been especially important to improve rural transit, including in india country. we're going to keep working to help rural transit agencies even more. we had hearings under the leadership of -- of chairman crapo three or four years ago where i heard stories from rural -- senators in smaller states, mostly republican, talking about the importance of rural transit where someone who lives out in the country, a bus, a paratransit bus picks her up, takes her to her dialysis treatment and takes her back. that's different from city, urban, big city bus transit but equally important to families. i thank our democratic members for their strong focus on transit. senator menendez from new jersey, senator reed from rhode island continue to be leaders in fighting for a fair share of funds for transit. senator tester from montana, senator warner from

. >> reporter: of course, that is senator tina smith, who is echoing that, kind of underscoring the factt for republican and democratic senators alike there is this idea that this is sort of a fait accompli. it is a question of when they get to the bill. yasmin. >> thank you for rolling with that, my friend. looks like i'm reading too many children's books these days. appreciate it. good to see you. >>> so as the senate is edging towards the next crucial infrastructure vote, president biden praising the bipartisan effort so far, calling it a potential historic investment during his address yesterday at the white house. mike memoli is following this for us in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend. mike, good to see you. crucial few days ahead, right? one of the cornerstones of this presidency. what is the biden administration focusing on behind the scenes to make sure this thing does not fall apart? >> reporter: well, yasmin, based on what ali just went through in terms of the process that's undergoing in the senate right now, it may not sound like it, but this

we just had tina smith, the junior senator from minneapolis and the reality for her, the democratic partyshe won 48.8% to 33.5% in the 2020 election. she is a moderate because she has to be. what are the moderates doing this morning? annmarie: good morning. what they are trying to get a hold of in the house is what we are seeing now is how do they get through the bipartisan infrastructure agreement, which they are saying to speaker pelosi, we want to move immediately. we don't want to wait for a budget resolution. how do they try to get that budget resolution a little bit lower so they can go back and say, i did not spend as much as the progressive left wanted me to. tom: what is the timeline on this? i am fascinated by this. there is a house equivalent to senator sanders. i will let you name the three names. how are they going to push back against moderate democrats and moderate republicans? annmarie: there are a few things that are going to be in this package that a lot of moderate democrats like, especially where you guys are sitting, the salt tax relief. that will be huge for a lot of

so for example, senator tina smith was on msnbc earlier. this is how she laid it out. >> i just don't think we're going to see any significant changes or any amendments that blow everything out of the water over the next many hours. and, you know, this is the way the senate rules work. i think it's actually a pretty good example of why the senate rules need to be reformed. that just a handful of senators can slow down progress for the american people. that's what's happening, but we're going to get through it and get this done. >> and when she says "a handful of senators" there, joshua, it's the senate. all it takes is one. and we're seeing that once again here. in this case, it's senator bill haggerty, who says this should go through regular order. that just means it's going to take longer. what senators right now are right to do is hammer out a way to truncate this process a little bit, pick the amendments that they would like to move forward on, things like moving covid funds that haven't been spent a little bit more flexible. there are

i particularly want to thank our housing and transit subcommittee chair tina smith from minnesota and the subcommittee's ranking member senator rounds from south dakota. i've worked with both of them. i've been to their subcommittee. their efforts have been especially important to improve rural transit, including in india country. we're going to keep working to help rural transit agencies even more. we had hearings under the leadership of -- of chairman crapo three or four years ago where i heard stories from rural -- senators in smaller states, mostly republican, talking about the importance of rural transit where someone who lives out in the country, a bus, a paratransit bus picks her up, takes her to her dialysis treatment and takes her back. that's different from city, urban, big city bus transit but equally important to families. i thank our democratic members for their strong focus on transit. senator menendez from new jersey, senator reed from rhode island continue to be leaders in fighting for a fair share of funds for transit. senator tester from montana, senator warner from

explosion spoke challenge sara about how it's left scars on the city and his life as smith i'm on today can get on tina. my name is lee missouri. i'm from the currently in a neighborhood. i've been living here in this area for the past 30 years. we had a lot of challenges in this neighborhood in the past, like wars and so many other things, but august, 4th was worse. it was a day of destruction with sadness and ruthlessness. and i could add the bed assassin, amidst still believe me, i always sit here and drink my coffee before heading out to work. and i put a shop out there on in their money model. so i came out here on the day of the blast and saw smoke coming out of the port and i thought there was a fire. how do you have a mind as to how to fit all done? then i came back into the room on as i was going inside, the blush happened now a stone to decide what a huge rock slammed into the ceiling here. and broke its way down to the 1st floor that i went through the pi flores. had my family been, i've been here, they would have been casualties. and yes, i was injured right here. what am i, i's, my arm by