Pelosi scrambles for votes on infrastructure bill

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Chris chats with CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju and Representative Ro Khanna about the fate of President Biden's massive infrastructure spending bill and whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the votes to pass it. Later on Bobby Chacon, a retired FBI agent, chats with Chris about new body cam video related to the Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie case and how the search for Laundrie is currently unfolding. Finally, Chris is joined by an army veteran that was caught on video capturing an alligator inside a trash can and eventually set it free.

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0:00.0	I am Chris Cuomo, welcome to Primetime.
0:02.3	Are we going to see history?
0:04.4	Will President Biden get the biggest infrastructure spending bill done ever?
0:10.3	Certainly since the new deal.
0:12.2	Does he get that?
0:13.4	And the largest spending bill ever on a raft of rescue money for working families
0:20.2	that is popular everywhere, all places or faces.
0:24.2	Or does he get nothing at least tonight?
0:28.7	The progressives are now in charge of that party, often dismissed as the fringe, radical,
0:34.0	socialist wing, they're in control.
0:36.6	They are the stewards of President Biden's agenda.
0:40.6	The speaker has three hours left to unify her party around this $1.2 trillion infrastructure
0:47.4	bill.
0:48.4	And she is still signaling there will be a vote tonight.
0:51.8	In fact, she's been optimistic all day.
0:54.6	We're on a path to win the vote.
1:01.2	Think positively.
1:02.2	How strong is the power of positive thinking?
1:04.7	Because Pelosi said she'd only bring the vote to the floor if she had the votes to pass
1:10.0	it.
1:11.0	And the progressives are being pretty clear about how any vote would go tonight.
1:19.0	You're not worried some of your ranking file members of the Progressive Caucus will break
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