ruining the whole program with one off day nume will help you get back on track start building better habits for healthier long-term results sign up for your trial at URL_TOKEN crooked that's URL_TOKEN crooked sign up for your trial at URL_TOKEN crooked by the end of this week the house is expected to vote on joe biden's buildback better plan and send the bill over to the senate where god knows what will happen though the hope is to send this thing to the president's desk by christmas joining us to talk about how democrats intend to finally land this plane and bring down costs for struggling families one of the very best senators we have and a great friend of the pod elizabeth warren senator welcome back oh thank you it's always good to be with the pod good it's good to talk to you um so i know you don't want to negotiate in public but here's my question do you trust joe manchin and kirsten cinema to help get a bill passed that will make a real difference in people's lives i can i just slightly reframe that sure because i really i actually do want to be accurate here i believe that if we get a bill passed it truly will affect people's lives in a good and i mean in a very good and positive way will it be as many things as i would like to get stacked in this bill no uh we already know that from what's coming over from the house so i'm you know look i worry and i push and i shove and i pull and i do everything i can possibly do uh to get us uh over the finish line to get the plane landed whatever metaphor we're using here but i think if we get something landed the pieces that are in there that i know are locked in there universal child care uh universal pre-k home and community-based care prescription drug negotiation not everything but but but right off the top insulin yeah uh we're gonna bring down the cost of insulin do you know how many million americans that will affect i i used to do town halls where i would say hold up your hand if you use insulin if you don't mind and a bunch of people you see it scattered around and i'd say hold up your hand if you love someone who uses insulin and then we were like at NUMBER_TOKEN percent i said just hold up your head if you have a friend someone you know who uses and then we were at NUMBER_TOKEN so i i mentioned that one and those are huge and those touch families right where they live there are others that'll arc in over it's going to take a little more time like housing john depending on who you want to talk to we're someplace between NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN million housing units short in america you want to understand why the price of housing is high i get it you know the folks living in san francisco say oh i can tell you why you know what's going but the truth is it's happening all around the country it's happening in urban areas in rural areas that prices are just through the roof and it exacerbates racial inequality in our country if you don't have a family that can help you with the down payment on a house it's enormous uh
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN ruining the whole program with one off day nume will help you get back on track start building better habits for healthier long-term results sign up for your trial at URL_TOKEN crooked that's URL_TOKEN crooked sign up for your trial at URL_TOKEN crooked by END_SPONSOR_TOKEN