Good evening.

When it comes to the 11th hour push by congressional Democrats in the White House to reach agreement

on two huge pieces of their domestic agenda, the answer they've come up with is why not

a 12-hour or a 12-day, perhaps even a 12-week.

With moderate and progressive wings of his party at odds over the time in contents and

price tag of major social welfare and green energy legislation, and with bipartisan infrastructure

bill caught in the impasse, President Biden went to the Capitol.

When he emerged after meeting with House Democrats, the message was, take your time.

I'm telling you, we're going to get this time.

It doesn't matter when.

It doesn't matter whether it's in six minutes, six days, or six weeks.

We're going to get it done.

Now standing with the President, as you saw there, House Speaker Pelosi, whose message

all week was pretty much the opposite, but that turned out to be wishful thinking on

her part, regardless of the timing, though, the bottom line remains the same, getting it

done for Democrats and the President means satisfying progressive lawmakers, who successfully

blocked a vote on the infrastructure bill without alienating to centrist senators, Joe

Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, who've been pushing against the kind of sweeping social legislation

that progressives and the President want.

Now, the President said, did not bridge that gap, at least publicly.

The question now will members of his party use the time he apparently bought for some bridge

building of their own?

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