Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. We are officially beginning

the end of sorts, the end game that is for the Democrats and their plan to pass an

infrastructure bill and a large spending bill as those negotiations are finally starting

to heat up. So basically we're finally at the end game. Why do we say that? Because all

the key players are actually going to start showing up in the same house at least, the

white house that is. With Biden's agenda on the line and the jockeying over government

funding in the debt limit, dominating Washington. You know, as always, we have the sort of

domic-lease hanging over the head from the Senator and West Virginia. So what is he want?

What will Bernie accept? Anyway, you get the picture. So helping us decipher the theater

that is Congress right now is most of our NBC News Capitol Hill team, not all of them because

some of them have to actually stay on their beat while talking to us right now. We've

got our newly minted senior Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, Garrett Hake. You might also recognize

him when you tune into me press daily on Mondays. And we also have NBC News Congressional

correspondingly and called well and the newest member of the Capitol Hill team, Ali Vitale.

So congratulations to all three of you. You know, it's not like in some ways the stories

aren't changing, but your responsibilities are so kudos everybody.

Thank you.

Thanks, Greg.

All right, Garrett. Let's try to bring folks up to speed even though it's possible by

the time they listen to this. So let's keep this in mind between the hour to hour that

we're in and then the sort of maybe look at this from a week to week. This is the beginning

of the end game, but this end game could last weeks. Why is the White House finally engaging

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