Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. You have been listening to President Biden speaking in Howell, Michigan, pushing his two major economic priorities. Let's bring in CNN's Jeff Zellini traveling with the president in Michigan. Jeff, why is the president taking his message on the road?

Well, Jake simply to rise above the noise in Washington, the president clearly making the case for the substance of both of these bills.

First infrastructure, talking specifically about the need for the U.S. to stay competitive with the world needs to improve this country's infrastructure and then talking about his education programs, health care, climate change and the like.

But Jake, I can tell you it is similar to a speech we could have heard Joe Biden deliver a year ago here in Battleground, Michigan.

He delivered these speeches on the campaign trail. He announced these initiatives in the spring.

Summer has gone by and now we're into the fall. So simply the White House is trying to refocus the nation on his agenda items.

He said it's not left versus right, not progressive versus moderate, but in fact it is that. In fact, Democrats have very slim majorities as we know in the House and indeed the Senate.

So that is what this president, this White House, this administration needs to push through. But he's simply is trying to get out of the noise in Washington to rally support for why the ideas behind these bills are necessary.

But Jake left unspoken. We're actually what is going to be cut out of these ambitious ideas that he campaigned on a year ago because now the bottom line is what is the price tag, not $3.5 trillion.

It is likely to be $2 trillion if that. So that is something that the president of course has to fill in the blanks. But in short, he's back here in Michigan trying to make his case for these bills.

But his audience actually still Jake is Washington.

Jeff Selamy, thanks so much. CNN's Ryan Noble joins us now live on Capitol Hill and Ryan.

President Biden obviously hoping his message in Michigan will trickle up the provisions in his legislation.

Paul Well, but right now they have some, you know, holdouts in Washington. Do you think he can change any minds at this point?

Well, there's no doubt that there's been a refocusing of the White House in their outreach to Capitol Hill to try and get Democrats on the page on the same page and remind them that they have more in common than they have that divides them.

And you see the president making this plea to his Capitol Hill colleagues through a series of meetings. He had been yesterday with more progressive members and other one today with more moderate members to remind them of the specific provisions in his agenda that as Jeff mentioned, Paul very well that people by and large are supportive of.

And he wants them to get away from just referring to this top line number as an end all be all and instead prioritize these programs that they everyone can agree upon and then figure out for how long they're willing to pay for them and then present that to the American people through a deal that all sides can agree upon.

But Jake, there's no doubt that there is still a real impasse here between the moderate wing of the party and the more progressive wing of the party.

The moderates at this point just aren't comfortable with that hefty price tag of as much as three and a half trillion dollars which now have been progressives have said they're willing to come down upon but they're still a pretty monstrous chasm between where progressives are willing to come down to and what moderates are willing to go up to.

And the president is trying to find some common ground there floating somewhere in the range of two trillion.

That may be too much for someone like Joe Manchin and not enough for someone like Pramila Giapal.

So the goal here is show him out in America with the infrastructure behind him showing shovels in the ground with the positive progress that could come from passing this legislation as a reminder that they all have the same goals they just have to find a way to get there Jake.

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