nancy pelosi kept it there. when i interviewed newt gingrich, he told me about an old movie which involved pirates. it's hard to explain this a little bit. he said when he saw nancy pelosi, he saw a fellow pirate. by that meaning, not that they were ideologically close, but that they were both very skilled in the business of politics. he said that with some admiration. host: you referenced earlier the three year battle with steny hoyer for the leadership position. when did that come to a culmination? guest: she won the election in the fall of 2001. she was installed as a weapon in -- as a whip in february 2002. she's been leadership ever since. that's pretty unusual. not since sam rayburn. that stint as head of the house democrats is pretty long. no one since sam rayburn has held the leadership position for that long. she held it when they were in the minority and the majority and the minority and back in the majority again. that's a sign of her hold on this caucus. she has managed to keep a hold of it for that

nancy pelosi kept it there. when i interviewed newt gingrich, he told me about an old movie which involved pirates. it's hard to explain this a little bit. he said when he saw nancy pelosi, he saw a fellow pirate. by that meaning, not that they were ideologically close, but that they were both very skilled in the business of politics. he said that with some admiration. host: you referenced earlier the three year battle with steny hoyer for the leadership position. when did that come to a culmination? guest: she won the election in the fall of 2001. she was installed as a whip in february 2002. she's been leadership ever since. that's pretty unusual. not since sam rayburn. that stint as head of the house democrats is pretty long. no one since sam rayburn has held the leadership position for that long. she held it when they were in the minority and the majority and the minority and back in the majority again. that's a sign of her hold on this caucus. she has managed to keep a hold of it for that period of time and

but nancy pelosi can count. and she does not bring bills to the floor that do not have the votes to pass. and it is worth understanding the dynamics of play here, both because they're going to determine how the rest of this interesting week is going to play out, but also because they're going to potentially determine how the biden presidency turns out, whether or not he's i got to get done what he wants to do as president. it's really worth watching because the dynamics at play on capitol hill are new and different than they have been before. if you are a -- if you are someone who has been a long time watcher of democratic party politics in washington, then you are accustomed to things working themselves out or not working themselves out. things falling apart in certain predictable ways. this is not that. this is a departure from that well trod path. this is a new and different situation. as i said, this small bipartisan roads and bridges bill is a bit of a political science experiment. it came from a weird plac

nancy pelosi, isn't concerned. >> we're on a path to win the vote. i don't want to consider any options. maybe we'll have republican votes but i hope as it was bipartisan in the senate. reporter: moderate democrats could revolt on the social spending bill if the house defeats infrastructure today. at least 10 republicans will vote yes. the social spending package is far from complete. west virginia senator joe manchin calls $3.5 trillion fiscal insanity. >> our economy or basically our society moving towards an entitlement mentality, that you're entitled, okay? i'm more after rewarding because i can help those that really need help if those that help themselves do so. reporter: democrats say a bolstered health care plan in the bill helps them make the case to joe manchin. >> citizens of west virginia start getting dental care they will realize, eyeglasses hearing aids, many are dog that without, once that is in place i think there will be strong support and in in west virginia. reporter: pelosi rarely goes to the board and loses. she assured her memb

. >> nancy pelosi is rolling the democrat with an iron fist. if you step out of line she punishes you. remember just voting on the resolution to bring the spending spree to the floor nancy pelosi and other democrat leaders are on the phone with the white house threatening to fire the spouses of members who work at the white house. you democrat state leaders threatening to redistrict people out in the next redistricting if they voted against it. the fact that her underlings of the democrat party or say nancy pelosi deserve $200 million, that is not surprising because their jobs are on the line pre-would hear democrats complain they may make a lot of noise, what is their voting record i guarantee is probably 9293% in line with nancy pelosi. elizabeth: go ahead. >> i was just going to say the other thing to consider the so-called moderates maybe making noise from this resolution coming forward and they want info on the transportation infrastructure package first they totally got rode over and they will get rolled over again. it i don't want to say

nancy pelosi met with jenny yellen last week. i understand what the caller is saying, but i think it is important to look at -- you see middle-class families making $65,000 joint income per household and they are paying often times more in taxes when it comes to an overall percentage of their annual income than someone making $1 million a year. that is something the entire democratic caucus want to make more fair and equitable. you are not going to hurt the middle class families who have been constantly punished time and time again when it comes to taxes. there taxes will be lower. corporations will make up the bulk of the spending for this bill. host: joseph is in the empire state, democrat, good morning. do me a favor, joseph, turned on your tv. caller: my question is regarding tax the rich. my question is to the progressives and the bernie sanders supporters, whatever happened to the proposal several years ago when they proposed a robin hood tax to pay for these programs? host: adrienne elrod? guest: is he talking about a prop

whether you are aligned with her politically, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn't matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she's doing she's very technically skilled at the job she holds and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints as speaker because it was the first midterm elections of the barack obama presidency. the 2010 midterms when the democrats took what president obama called a shellacking, republicans won big everywhere in 2010, so in january of 2011 she had to hand over the comically guy nor mouse speakers gavel to the republicans, and in so doing, the country was soon treated to a live high stakes somewhat scientific demonstration of what it's like to try to run the house of representatives in this day and age if you don't have nancy pelosi's knack for it. here's a sample lead from beltway reporting around that time just minutes from a roll call vote pushed by house speaker john boehner, republicans stu

. >> nancy pelosi is rolling the democrat with an iron fist. if you step out of line she punishes you. remember just voting on the resolution to bring the spending spree to the floor nancy pelosi and other democrat leaders are on the phone with the white house threatening to fire the spouses of members who work at the white house. you democrat state leaders threatening to redistrict people out in the next redistricting if they voted against it. the fact that her underlings of the democrat party or say nancy pelosi deserve $200 million, that is not surprising because their jobs are on the line pre-would hear democra complain they may make a lot of noise, what is their voting record i guaraee is probably 9293% in line with nancy pelosi. elizabeth: go ahead. >> i was just going to say the other thing to consider the so-called moderates maybe making noise from this resolution coming forward and they want info on the transportation infrastructure package first they totally got rode over and they will get rolled over again. it i don't want to say pre

join us right now, nancy pelosi, senator tom cotton. welcome, tonight at 9:00, the house is going to vote on something on the bipartisan bill, we think. even though some of our reports say they won't, on a bipartisan bill. do you think it will happen? >> i don't know, brian. i can confirm that i was not on the other side of that phone call with nancy pelosi last night. i think the house is going to have to vote so late because nancy pelosi and her radical democratic left are out looking for the tree around the capitol on which all of this free money grows, brian. joe manchin put it well today. they want to transform this country with a socialist agenda. between the $2 trillion bill they passed in march, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill they want now. and even if you go with joe's $1.5 trillion welfare bill, it would be $4.5 trillion in spending, brian. that's taxes on every family in america. it's spending for illegal aliens and deadbeats that won't look for work, much less work. democrats are realizing how unpopular the agenda is. t

now nancy pelosi faces her hardest test. a house divided, a senate balking, and a lot on the line. >> we are bringing it up to do so in a way that can win and so far so good for today. it is goingings in a positive direction. it is positive to persuade people to vote without the reassurances of the reconciliation bill. i can't stay too long because i have to deal with step by step with this but i'm envisioning taking it up and winning it. let me tell you about negotiating at the end, that is when you really have to weigh in, you cannot tire, you cannot concede. it is this is the fun part. >> this is the fun part, she says. the speaker and no one knows this better. she is taking these negotiations one hour at a time and leaning in to get some extra innings with the president at the annual congressional baseball game last night. three democratic lawmakers will be joining us here on capitol hill to talk about how to break the current stealmate. and we're going to talk about cuba's response to protests and the pandemic. let's st

-- fund for nancy pelosi is. this goes to a park which claims on a web site that they don't take taxpayer money. $200 million is a fifth of a billion dollars, and it's just more pork that nancy pelosi's putting in the budget. the democrats, i hope they don't keep going along and blindly following her off a cliff, because that's what they're doing. elizabeth: why does the park need $200 million? >> that's a great question. that's something that we should have already debated, but the democrats don't want to debate this bill. we've had mark-ups in the oversight committee, we're going to have a mark-up in the education committee next week, each committee has a little bit of jurisdiction on this budget reconciliation bill, but they won't let any republicans file amendments. we'll have amendments filed to strip the $200 million, and the democrats will rule it out of order or they will just vote against the amendments. we had an amendment to save millions and billions of dollars, but the democrat, they just want to kee

that's speaker nancy pelosi. she is fierce. she is a woman of courage and she still makes time to not only deliver for the people of san francisco, but also to show up for the people of san francisco. to show up for her community. and you know why because she's a woman and we know how to multi-task. we'll cook you dinner, do the laundry, save the country all at the same time. she had like five kids while she was running for office, a baby on her hip while she was asking for your vote. that's our speaker and that's women in general. it's what we do. it's why women make such great leaders and as we celebrated the fight that madam speaker talked about to ensure that women have a seat at the table, that we are able to vote and make our own decisions, today is a chance to recommit ourselves to what has happened in the past. today, we show up with our ballots so that our voices are heard so that regardless of who is in office, they know that they are accountable to women and what we care about. we know that there continues to be work

that's speaker nancy pelosi. she is fierce. she is a woman of courage and she still makes time to not only deliver for the people of san francisco, but also to show up for the people of san francisco. to show up for her community. and you know why because she's a woman and we know how to multi-task. we'll cook you dinner, do the laundry, save the country all at the same time. she had like five kids while she was running for office, a baby on her hip while she was asking for your vote. that's our speaker and that's women in general. it's what we do. it's why women make such great leaders and as we celebrated the fight that madam speaker talked about to ensure that women have a seat at the table, that we are able to vote and make our own decisions, today is a chance to recommit ourselves to what has happened in the past. today, we show up with our ballots so that our voices are heard so that regardless of who is in office, they know that they are accountable to women and what we care about. we know that there continues to be work

but as nancy pelosi -- kennedy: it's not free, i'll tell you that right to now. >> nancy pelosi said she's not going to wring a bill to the floor that won't win. but we're supposed to be talking out. we're supposed to be hashing out what is necessary, how much it's going to cost, each thing. and unfortunately, as you've noted, it's just become kind of a democratic civil war thing, and we don't really know who's going to -- we're told it's going to be paid for and not cost anything at the same time. kennedy: yeah, right. [laughter] like everything ever that think politician has promised in washington. that is a total falsehood, and we need to get back to learning some basic economics. panel's going to stick around, much more with them including game night a little bit later. so we know these bills are already super expensive, but nancy pelosi say, don't worry, guys, it's all about values! >> it's not about a dollar amount. the dollar amount, as the president said is, is zero. this bill will be paid for. it's about what are the values that we share and how we prioritize them. kennedy:

>> well, i wish nancy pelosi well. she has defied a lot of common belief and come through in the past when she's faced these challenges. and i'm not going to gainsay her situation now. i trust her and believe she's going do the right thing. but i sincerely hope that we can pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill with a clear promise that the reconciliation bill is going to be passed as quickly as possible. >> because that bipartisan legislation, it passed overwhelmingly in the senate. 19 republicans, all 50 democrats voted for it. now it's up to the house of representatives. you get that or you might wind up getting nothing down the road. it's a real dilemma for you guys. the clock is also, if that were not enough, senator, the clock is also ticking to avert a government shutdown. does the senate have the votes to keep the government funded, which would mean kicking the can down the road on the debt ceiling as well? >> well, fingers crossed, we think we have an agreement for a vote tomorrow that's going to avert a gove

he just got out of a meeting with nancy pelosi. yesterday he claimed he'd be drinking champagne sometime today celebrating the passage of this bill. is your champagne still on ice? >> you know, i'm always an optimist and after this meeting with nancy pelosi and i agree with senator mccaskill, never second guess speaker pelosi and chuck schumer and president biden when they're going to work helping to get these votes. i believe we're going to get there and it's going to be a long day and night. we'll get there. but this is critically important, chuck. i think everyone recognizes what's on the line here so important to the president and the country. you are talking about a bill as we've talked about that had 69 votes in the senate. and that the country wants. this is an historic once in a century bill. we can get it done and we can get it done tonight and send it to the president's desk. >> you got out of the meeting so it sound like the plan is still to have the vote today. you heard this, what claire mccaskill is hearing about a sk

pelosi's wilbur king nancy pelosi in any way conspired with general milley to some help prevent president from upholding his constitutional duty and authority that is clearly stated. there's no ambiguity ambiguity. what would that mean for her? >> 20 i think nancy pelosi should be help to the same standards that she applied to president trump and it would have been appropriate to have a phone call and take a phone call with the chairman of the joint chiefs. but if there was planning and plotting along the way reported by the washington post, they would both have culpability and liability under the law. >> sean: all right, director radcliffe, thank you for being with us. when we come back, to the border to this crisis, biden continues to direct failure after failure. ask yourself, is there one thing you can think of joe biden has done that has been successful, and how could things go wrong so quickly? newt gingrich weighs into next. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's supe

house speaker nancy pelosi said they'll vote on the bill thursday. when the house is back in session find live coverage here on c-span. reset the scene would congresses facing and where the house has been, last week the house was in session and they passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded pass to the end of the fiscal year. it's a short-term measure. it passed in the house and now it has to make its way in the u.s. senate. it would fund the government through december 3 of this year. a nine week stretch and it would also suspend the debt limit until summer 16th of 2022. in that package in addition to keeping the federal government open and the other agencies open, they've added nearly $29 million for natural disaster relief, hurricane ida and wildfires. $6.3 billion for the resettlement of afghan refugees. that is just one of a number of items on the plate for the house and senate this week. our live coverage of the house all week on c-span and of the senate over on c-span two. this is from the new york times. for schumer

nancy pelosi is trying to take that away. and she doesn't give a rip what the constitution says about it. todd: if you don't take lara's word for what the democrats are saying here is what aoc tweeted out. democrats are either abolish the filibuster or expand the court or do nothing as millions of people's bodies, rice and lives are sacrificed for far right minority rule. this should not be a difficult decision. lara, should republicans be more worried about these threats to pack the court now that this abortion decision really does seem to be galvanizing liberals? >> well, i think it's something that we always have to pay attention to. it is something that we as americans need to be paying very close attention to. and keeping in mind, as we approach 2022, that midterm election is going to be absolutely vital to the future of our country because what we have very clearly seen as s. that there is nothing that the democrats won't do to try and sand power their very power very southern border. they are very happy with the hundre

and nancy pelosi demanding that the nuclear football be taken away from president trump. general miller according to this book submitted. senior officers and informed them that he must be involved in any decision to launch nuclear weapons. cuoco looking each ndi, milley asked the officers to affirm that they had understood the author's right and what is considered an oath. was he colluding with nancy pelosi second in line after vice president pence, was he colluding with pelosi to usurp the constitutional power and authority of the president of the united states or as he now, states, was he just performing routine procedural training regarding a nuclear strike? if millie wase? colluding -- milley was colluding with pelosi and taking away the president's ability to do his job as commander-in-chief, one of those jobs would be perhaps to launch a nuclear weapon. he would then be guilty of the very definition of insurrection. that is the democrat's favorite word. and again, the president is the commander-in-chief. our constitution is clear. it authorizesti the president ad th

nancy pelosi has a key role in this. a telephone conversation between nancy pelosi and general milley in which she who is absolutely nuts accuses the president at the time trump of being crazy, talks about nuclear weapons, and general milley agrees with her completely. he goes back to the pentagon. he callsth in his subordinates. they talk about the process. trump never hinted ever about using nucleare weapons, no basis for this whatsoever and i added in the footnote i don't know who's more lonesome, general milley who is loathsome or woodward and costa. if they're all standing by this and big-time news and it is, they sat on it for months and months when the american people should have known when congress should have known, and of course the people in the military should have known that we have a rogue general. they are s standing by it, it's appalling what "the washington post" has done with the country. just as bad as general milley. now, this over the horizon stuff, they think it's "the wizard of oz" over the rainbow

by the way, we need to know if nancy pelosi's role in all of this. tonight, even more revelations from the upcoming book of woodward and costa, and i need to know what they say they are standing by every word of their reporting involving general milley and every other issue that has come out. now according to this book, a very general milley actually played down the violent protests that were going on in 2020, and he called them because penny packet protests." whatever that means. it even pushed back against president trump's statement that the u.s. was suffering under the violent nationwide riots that were burning america down. according to woodward and costa, general milley stated "mr. president, they are not burning it down." really? okay, general, will show you the video and remind you. what would you call all of this? >> [bleep]! >> sean: excuse me, general, but law and order broke down completely in city after city after city. police precincts were burned to the ground. hundreds of businesses were lit on fire. looting was rampant. entire city b

nancy pelosi met with jenny yellen last week. i understand what the caller is saying, but i think it is important to look at -- you see middle-class families making $65,000 joint income per household and they are paying often times more in taxes when it comes to an overall percentage of their annual income than someone making $1 million a year. that is something the entire democratic caucus want to make more fair and equitable. you are not going to hurt the middle class families who have been constantly punished time and time again when it comes to taxes. there taxes will be lower. corporations will make up the bulk of the spending for this bill. host: joseph is in the empire state, democrat, good morning. do me a favor, joseph, turned on your tv. caller: my question is regarding tax the rich. my question is to the progressives and the bernie sanders supporters, whatever happened to the proposal several years ago when they proposed a robin hood tax to pay for these programs? host: adrienne elrod? guest: is he talking about a prop

mark elias, nancy pelosi, the democrats in the house lost again. when all of a sudden, marinette's opponent withdrew her contested election request and marinette miller meeks was safe. now, i've got to be honest with you, the former political op operative, somebody who used to yell about fogarty's bills in a different position i was in, i was looking forward as i, as a former operative, the super bowl of elections, who raise it on the house of the representatives. i would have felt like tom freakin' brady. [laughter] unless i lost. but you know what? i'd much rather give up that opportunity to do that, to not have to go through it and know what the end result would have been. it would have been the voters, the will of the voters in iowa's congressional district that elected marinette, that will would have been thrown out. we would have fought hard, we would have fought valiantly and matter of fact i think we would have had enough moderate democrats who would worry this may happen to them. fear is an amazing thing in politics. and that's our message

house speaker nancy pelosi is trying to buy the president some time and space. quote, don't be mad at the president, be mad at me. so we wait as key players get more white house attention and as the clock now ticks on a thursday house vote for what should be a slam-dunk, an infrastructure plan that would fix roads, bridges and create thousands of jobs. liberals say they will vote no and they will tank it if the president fails to get the bigger deal done. let's go to manu raju on capitol hill. manu, this is a huge day of consequence for the president and his party. >> reporter: yeah, and the question is what happens from here and up till tomorrow, and we just don't have clearances as of yet. there is still a major dilemma facing speaker nancy pelosi as well as joe biden on how exactly to assuage progressives who are threatening to sink that infrastructure tomorrow. if they don't have assurances or see the larger bill to expand the social safety net moving along in the legislative process. there are still negotiations ongoing, including at this moment, negotiatio

if nancy pelosi would ask for our input, we would be happy to provide it. she, with a three seat majority, has decided she has a mandate essentially to pursue the largest spending bill in the history of this country. with a tied senate and the tiebreaker being the vice president, somehow they should be able to force through all of these new, expensive, socialist federal programs. that is just not what the american people want. i am a member of the problem solver caucus, which is a caucus in the house that has an equal number of democrats and republicans. we try to come together around issues where there is common agreement. we are not all of one mind because there are conservatives like me in the problem solvers caucus and liberals as well. we try to find areas of agreement. core infrastructure was in agreement we had a while and back. -- a while back. can we agree on bridges, roads, airports and rail stations, yes. that began the conversation on infrastructure. if we had stuck to that, we would have a good bill that would be supported by almost everybody.

nancy pelosi is worried. she is second in line to become president, and she made it powerfully clear, she is worried. she knows about the concentration of power in the president to do this. she wants safeguards. milley executed thos safeguards. >> bob costa, was there anything, apart from perhaps the fa that general milley hasn't had a chance to read your book yet, that did surprise you in what the general said yesterday, either about your conversations --he conversatis about nancy pelosi or about the conversations with the chinese? was there anything new that you hadn't heard before or that was perhaps at odds with se of your reporting? >> no. what's most important that hasn got eugh attention, in my beliefs a report,s when he said that heid not believe esiden trump wanted war. we detail tt position of milley in the book. he does not believe the president is an interventionist. at the time, presidenttrump. he does not believe trump wants to have war. but as our book shows and our reporting shows, even though

i don't know finance the thread or what is hanging over nancy pelosi. she often pulls these things out with a vote or two but she often has a larger margin than this. but, if i could just say, you know, a lot of nerve hutzpah here the part of the democratic party to be pushing these kind of bills when we are looking at surrender in afghanistan and what that means, invasion at the southern border. all sorts of other problems internationally. and they want to go and spend money we don't have to increase inflation it's just crazy. >> bret: byron, just moments ago, speaker pelosi said it's still the plan to go forward with the bipartisan vote tomorrow. we'll see. we'll see. that's still the plan right now. does the president want to go forward with it? you will have to ask the president. i mean there is a lot of iffy wording here about how this process go s. going to go. progressives over this. they tonight have the votes. the very fact that speaker pelosi wants to vote on this traditional infrastructure bill the bipartisan infrastructure bill in week is a

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maria: so nancy pelosi has pushed out a vote in the next couple of weeks. i know that she wants to get infrastructure voted on by the end of september, but you've had some pushback among democrats throughout the last 13 committees, walk us through some of the things in this bill that strike you most and where the pushback was from democrats? congressman: well, what it is, is the american public, maria, are starting to figure out what's in this bill and they are calling their members of congress, their senators and that's why you're seeing democrat members starting to fill -- fill the pain of what they're hearing back home. think about this. this bill is all about giveaways to the wealthy. you know, the democrat party has always said that they are the party of the working class and the low income, but let me tell you, if you look at this past election where wall street spent millions of dollars to elect joe biden and when the ten most wealthy congressional districts in the nation are occupied by some of the most liberal democrat members in congress, it tells

the speaker herself or tell you don't bet against nancy pelosi. "i don't consider anything uphill battle she told the washington times. she has mastered an extensive repertoire negotiating tactics to force affiant members inner caucus back in line. she dangles carrots, twist arms and pulls political levers to exert pressure on lawmakers in washington in their districts that those with first-hand experience of her strong-arming. some comments on social media. this one from katie on facebook who says simply term limits peered robert says defense in southern border law -- southern border wall with armed guards. border security and build the wall from raymond. yvette says stop spending. hear from charlene in california. go ahead. democrats line. caller: what i want to do is comment about senator manchin. west virginia is one of the poorest, dirtiest, contaminated sickest states in the united states. their ancestors worked in the coal mines and died in those coal mines and couldn't provide any -- and leave anything for their offspring and the majority

mark elias, nancy pelosi, the democrats in the house lost again. when all of a sudden, marinette's opponent withdrew her contested election request and marinette miller meeks was safe. now, i've got to be honest with you, the former political op operative, somebody who used to yell about fogarty's bills in a different position i was in, i was looking forward as i, as a former operative, the super bowl of elections, who raise it on the house of the representatives. i would have felt like tom freakin' brady. [laughter] >> unless i lost. but you know what i'd much rather give up that opportunity to do that, to not have to go through it and know what the end result would have been. it would have been the voters, the will of the voters in iowa's congressional district that elected marinette, that will would have been thrown out. we would have fought hard, we would have fought valiantly and matter of fact i think we would have had enough moderate democrats who would worry this may happen to them. here is an amazing thing in politics. and that's our messa

pelosi and also nancy pelosi who believes media that trump was going to attack china, allhi of this al-qaeda and litte as the yearsha time could attack inside afghanistan, the u.s. intelligence warning this is a conservative estimate we also have north and south korea shooting off missiles joining me retired lieutenant keith kellogg, monica crowley from the council of foreign relations, former congressman jason chaffetz, house budget ranking member jason smith, rnc official harmeet dhillon and major general mick mcguire we have new numbers coming in from defense officials showing afghanistan evacuees red flag for terror ties higher than what's been reported, we have the numbers in the fight over covid booster shots and vaccine mandates. the fda decided to not take a stand on pfizer's booster shot. the white house limiting restricting anti-antibody drug shipments to states that desperately need them notably in the south, fears of shortages we have that story and the controversy over china getting the nih databases, data that could have shown how the pandemic began including a lab lea

nancy pelosi taking calls from the stands. joining us now, lauren fox and cnn correspondent jeremy diamond. lauren, where are things right now? what's going on? >> reporter: well, john, this is an absolutely huge day on capitol hill for the future of the president's agenda, for the future of speaker pelosi's power over her house democratic caucus. she is someone known to get the votes if the votes are going to be there. the huge question of course whether or not this bill, this $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that already passed the senate is going to actually come to the floor of the house of representatives. house speaker nancy pelosi saying last night that was still the plan. but, look, the whipping operation to actually ensure the votes are there might be under way. but there's no evidence that the votes are actually going to be present on the floor if she were to bring it to vote this evening. one of the key question marks, of course, are progressives going to get in here? jayapal saying if it comes to the fl

this is not nancy pelosi or chuck schumer. this is the most conservative bedrock republican senator saying zero on this claim that the election was stolen. >> and robert, in the book's opening pages, you two write that joint chiefs chairman general mark milley believed january 6th was a planned, coordinated, synchronized attack on the very heart of american democracy, designed to overthrow the government to prevent the constitutional certification of a legitimate election won by joe biden. it was indeed a coup attempt and nothing less than treason, unquote. that's what milley believed. i mvean, was he wrong? >> our book carefully documents based on our reporting what chairman milley believes, but it also documents how close the united states came to having a presidential election thrown to the house of representatives. it comes back to this memo and other efforts behind the scenes. one of the key scenes is january 4th john eastman this conservative lawyer confronts vice president pence in the oval office in front of president

nancy pelosi said we have to read the bill to find out what is in it. when we read it, there were kickbacks and special provisions. we have that again. we're supposed to vote on this bill this week and it's not even yet written and also 2,500 pages. it's going to be 3, 4, 5,000 pages before it's done and we're going to find out it's stuffed with crazy stuff. take for example your reporter colleague mentioned the billions for purchase of electric vehicles. well, if you're an individual, you can buy an electric vehicle and get paid 8,500 -- up to $8,000. you can be making hundreds of thousands a year up to $800,000 and still get that refundable tax credit. if you buy it from a union company, you get an extra $4,500. that stuff is going to stink. we have substance problems over here. remember when the president said you can keep your doctor? president obama said you can keep your plan. vice president biden said the same thing. when he said the 3.5 when is actually 5.5 trillion plan is not going to cost any money, that that is the same equivalent of them mi