Bipartisan group of 10 senators agree on infrastructure plan
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two big stories breaking tonight, John Berman here in Foranderson. |
| 0:05.6 | One is on the question of kids in COVID vaccines, namely whether to grant emergency use authorization |
| 0:11.1 | for children under 12 just yet. |
| 0:13.6 | That's what an FDA panel is discussing and today the talk was contentious. |
| 0:17.7 | At least 314 children have died of COVID, but one panel member is counseling caution. |
| 0:23.8 | He joins us tonight, shortly, along with our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. |
| 0:28.0 | The other breaking story is a deal on infrastructure and just what to make of it. |
| 0:32.5 | In a nutshell, $578 billion in new money over present spending in no tax hikes to pay for |
| 0:39.1 | it. |
| 0:40.1 | It's the product of a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators and precisely because of |
| 0:43.7 | how fragile bipartisan anything can be in Washington, there's reason to be skeptical |
| 0:49.1 | about what happens next. |
| 0:50.5 | So joining us now, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, host of CNN State of the Union |
| 0:55.4 | and Dana, you've been working the phones and I understand you have some brand new details |
| 0:59.3 | on the group of senators involved. |
| 1:01.6 | What kind of compromise they reach to how big it is? |
| 1:05.8 | Well, you know, we don't have the actual paper, so to speak, of the details of this deal. |
| 1:14.3 | But the fact that we do have that statement, John, from five Democrats and five Republicans |
| 1:20.4 | saying full stop, they have a deal, I know the bar is pretty low these days here in Washington, |
| 1:26.6 | but that is a big deal. |
| 1:29.4 | And why that is a big deal is following. |
| 1:31.8 | First of all, because we don't see and hear a lot of bipartisanship, you know, these |
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