does joe manchin want all of these are many of these companies go out of business? we will have an unemployment rate to which you know what it is for every seen before. these are companies that weren't in trouble three weeks ago and now they are in trouble because of what happened. these are great companies. in some cases, aaa companies. and we can also go to another which has never had a history of a problem in their company and then a year ago, the problem they had and it was. >> bill: how much money would you give boeing? >> they're going to come up with a request and it's going to be really small compared to the numbers we are talking about, going to be a small amount of money but we are not letting boeing go out of business. >> bill: so many others will line up. >> you have to help them temporarily, it is not going to be long-term, temporarily. and they're going to pay interest and probably give stock in their company to the people of our country, to the taxpayers of our country, to the citizens of our country and it is going to be great. we have to keep them i

thank you very much, senator joe manchin of west virginia.the senator was speaking, we are getting some more reminders of how widespread these cases are getting to be globally. the u.s. now represents 13.5% of confirmed coronavirus cases. both numbers are climbing exponentially. we will have more after this. i use rakuten to get cash back in-store and online. or anything i want to buy is going to be on rakuten. rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and it's in over 3,000 stores. i buy a lot of makeup. shampoo, conditioner. books, food. travel. shoes. stuff for my backyard. anything from clothes to electronics. workout gear. i even recently got cash back on domain hosting. you can buy tires. to me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. rack it up with rakuten, sign up today to get cash back on everything you buy. no, because on a sandwich,t no they ask you if you want cheese. but on a papadia, cheese is what's holding the whole operation together. get one now for just six bucks. better ingredients. better pizza. better

joining us now is senator joe manchin. you were one of the folks who got hot in the senate chamber yesterday. you and senator mcconnell got into the details of it. our viewers are waking up saying due guys finally have a deal? the markets are up today on that optimism. will there be a deal today? >> they should be optimistic. we're all optimistic. as late as midnight last night things have been worked out. there might be a few things finishing up today. hopefully they'll get past that and drafting the bill as we speak. we'll have the bill in front of us before we vote. working on that. it should be sometime today. we're hopeful. here is the thing. we'll suspend the rules. we don't have to wait 30 hours or two or three days the way it was played out yesterday on the floor. that's not accurateal at all. democrats won't hold anything up. no filibuster. we'll use unanimous consent everything. once we have an agreement, ed. i'm hopeful we have a good bill. >> ed: can you understand why some of our viewers and people around the

that input. >> narrar: it didn't take long for news of the meeting to leak. >> ...that idea, now joe manchinng with the nra... >> the fact that the nra was even talking with manchine suggested at least som for negotiation for the group. >> two small groups, the gun owners of america and the national association of gun rights, gan to circulate letters saying, "we hear that the nra is compromising with manchin." "there"-- and they used that word, the dreaded c word, that "there's a compromise bill."ar >> narrator: pratt represented one of those groups, of the most fervent gun-rightse activists. >> the manchinill was not aiming at loopholes, it was aiming at nailing down some remaining freedom that american people hav gun control simply kills people. and for senator manchin to wave the bloody shi those children from newtown is despicable. >> narrator: pratt quicklyer issued an to his members, warning them about the nra's talks withanchin. >> we put out an alert saying,as "p if you belong to the nra, call this guy at this number and ask him to urge the powershat-be to oppose the bill." >> narrat

senator joe manchin, thank you very much for your time.e'll be watching very closely what happens this morning. >> thanks, alisyn. appreciate it. >> sure. thank you very much, john. >>> we want to take a moment to tell you about a few of the lives lost in this pandemic. 91-year-old bill pike's family thought he had pneumonia, but his condition worsened and he was placed on a ventilator. his family said their good-byes to him over the phone while he was in quarantine. >>> patricia friesen thought it was her asthma acting up. she became the first victim of coronavirus in illinois. patricia was a retired nurse, her brother says she felt the need to help people because of her faith. she was 61 years old. >>> dr. steven swartz was a pathologist at university of washington, the 78-year-old was renowned for his research in vascular biology. his colleagues say he leaves behind a lasting imprint on the university and the scientific community. >>> an sunday rutter was a fight, single mother of six, survived stage four breast cancer. she was the kind

>> narrator: just like he had done to al gore, he singled out senator manchin. >> that was joe manchin'sw manchin is workih president obama and new york mayor michael bloomberg. concerned? you ould be. >> senator manchin was vilified by the nra.li it was almos a personal vendetta. so they, you know, they chewed up one of their own. >> narrator: as lapierre waitedo the votes, republicans and some conservative democrats backed away from the bill. >> mr. isakson. mr. lautenberg. mr. leahy. mr. lee. mr. wyden. (gavel raps) >> the amendment is not agreed to.l >> narrator: the bll five votes short. the nra had won. >> "how could they vote that way? don't they understand what happened? how can they do that how can this be?" i mean, it was disbelief and a sense of betrayal. that w the mood. ♪ >> narrator: obama invited the newtown families to the white hoe after the vote. >> daniel was a first-grader at sandy hook elementary school. i know that he felt,e felt a sense of responsibility to us anand, and to the nation, d to that 90% of the country that, that wanted this. you know, i think he felt a

but first i want to bring in senator joe manchin from west virginia. i noticed your state joy that list, what can you do on capitol hill to ease the pain that so many are feeling at the moment? >> the pain we are feeling is anxiety, we don't know. in west virginia we weren't doing the testing because we didn't have the capability to do the testing. and there was a hundred and 20 total when i last checked. so unless we can get these tests, we were so far behind the curve, being prepared to test people and having the supplies, now we have to play catch up so now we don't know where this virus will be ready to have an outbreak. my state is the most challenged state of all. we have more people basically are older and have illnesses, basically hardworking good people who worked harder and it could be catastrophic if it hits. so i talked to the vice president last night and he was very kind and said we will get you everything we can. they just didn't have us on a high-priority because showing that we didn't have any cases and i said well, that's because we h

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joe manchin the senator from west virginia was on the floor arguing with mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, he said we don't have mass congressional deletmasks,ventild be here rather than on wall street. >> we don't want a bailout again, it is not the fault of these industries that they didn't cause this recession. you are just kind of giving them liquidity so they can keep employees instead of firing them or give them access to capital in terms of loans for small businesses to stay afloat. >> this is not just wall street, this is far from it. these are the company is not all americans work for. this is a large swath of the u.s. economy that has basically been put out of business overnight. they are suffering, no fault of their own. just like individuals, just like the people who have been laid off, the millions who have been laid off and to correct one, the $425 billion goes to the treasury and as a backstop for lending at the federal reserve, which would total about $4 trillion. that is how you can leverage that amount of money, that is why this is critical. while congres

west virginia senator joe manchin says that the state's population is vulnerable and, "when it hits my state, it's going to be absolutely catastrophic." so, whether we like it or not, the coronavirus pandemic is now a fixture in our lives. as this changes our day-to-day routines, there are many questions about what is safe to go about doing. i want to bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to answer some of those questions. and elizabeth, the president just spoke a short time ago here. he was pressed by our kaitlan collins about the ventilator shortage across the country and why it's taken so long to deal with this. what did you think about the president's answer? >> i think that he put it out there. he said we're ordering thousands and thousands of them, and that's a good thing. it's good that they're moving in that direction. there are some in the stockpile, but we need more. he said something that i found a little curious. he kept saying that a ventilator was a complex piece of equipment. look, i suppose any medical equipment you can call it complex, but i feel like h

joining me now is senator joe manchin of west virginia.ator, thank you so much for being with us. i'm so glad to see you, because for so many days, people were pointing out that west virginia, the one state in the country that had not yet seen a confirmed case of coronavirus and they were pointing to that as some kind of a model of a good thing, but all along, you were looking at it concerned. why? >> first of all, john, we have the most vulnerable population at risk. i knew that from my days of being governor and also nothing has changed demographically. and we have over 720 or 30 more thousand people who are elderly. we have over 230,000 people who are under 60 with chronic illnesses because of the hard work they have done. a lot of respiratory diseases, diabetes, we have a lot of problems we know we're facing. i just knew that if we weren't prepared, if people got lulled into a false sense of security, we were going to be harmed very, very devastating and i thought it was just carnage waiting to happen, i wanted to make sure that people

very committed and dedicated chairman of that committee, lisa murkowski and the ranking member, joe manchin, for their work in bringing this comprehensive energy package to the senate floor. under that leadership, the committee has worked very hard to craft a bipartisan package that seeks to lower energy costs for consumers, diversify our energy portfolio, and facilitate and encourage the use of cleaner energy sources. mr. president, the american energy innovation act includes several bills that i authored or cosponsored, including the better energy storage technology act, known as the best act, that supports energy storage, research and development. the weatherization enhancement and local energy efficiency investment and accountability act that reauthorizes the weatherization assistance programs. the wind energy research and development act that supports targeted investments in wind energy. and the energy savings and industrial competitiveness act as well as the streamlining energy efficiency for schools act that both promote energy efficiency. mr. president, i'm particularly pleased that

you had senator joe machine -- manchin of west virginia, widely regarded democrat, denouncing corporations and wall street. corporations will be okay, wall street is okay. we have to take care of the common man. lamar alexander republican from tennessee, what do we think corporations are? corporations employ millions of average americans. that is what a corporation does. melissa: right. >> but nonetheless the democrats seem insist extent a corporation is basically 50 guys in top hats and tuxes running america. i think the average person watching this can see this is simply not what is at stake right now. melissa: all right. just a pox on all your houses, i guess that is a bad analogy right now, republicans and democrats seem like they're not helping. >> i think they will start making some political distinctions after watching this fiasco in congress this week, melissa. not a good look for democrats. melissa: dan henninger, thank you so much. no. thank you. connell: let's go to some numbers we're putting together, trying on a daily basis. more than 372,000 cases worldwide coronavirus. 41,00

i appreciate secretary esper, in and your response to senator joe manchin way.uld appropriations b way would be tough appropriations bail, and spend the money appropriated for d.o.d. within d.o.d.. accounts. i think that makes perfect sense. it's per hard for you to look un the eye and say this is focusedv on the nds when i can't find cat mention of the border wall or the border at the nds. earlier witnesses have tests -- testified, though it's not a military emergency, it is an emergency. another .issue, you are using the 3.8 figure. you do that transfer within the d.o.d.in t and to that counter g fund and then use that for the wall. isco unthat transfer subject toe transfer authority that we give au you? y thwhere there is a general transfer authority in the in the appropriations act that you canr transfer up to four billion dollars a year within d.o.t. accounts with no -- no notice to congress withoutappro, approval. is that 3.8 transfer within that four billion dollar transferhin authority? >> ik think so senator but i want to come back to you. belief is that it is to. so you have

joining us now, joe manchin of west virginia. there he is. >> hey, joe, good to see you. willie, you were talking about that train station meeting in south korea. and this same day that south korea had its first person diagnosed, the united states had it's first person diagnosed. they had the emergency meeting while we were still denying that this was anything big. and within one week according to this roi this reuters article, within a week they had a lab that created a test within a month, they were having drive-thru testing. the numbers are astounding. they have already given out about 300,000 tests. their cases are falling off. ours are going to deep exploding for some time because we still aren't even close to that number. and one great quote inside there from the cleveland clinic expert, you cannot fight quh wh what you cannot see. >> and that was great reporting from reuters on this story. yeah, this was in late january at the time they only had four cases, four positives in south korea. but they recognized that this could become a problem, that was the first step

i don't think he has behaved like say joe manchin of west virginia has behaved. >> who on top of the ticket could endanger senate democrats in battleground states? that could put senate democrats up for reelection this year like minnesota's tina smith and gary peters of michigan at risk. president trump narrowly lost minnesota last time and carried michigan. >> democrats are moving way far to the left embracing a socialist agenda. there is no moderate lane which will put so many democrats and competitive senate seats in a very vulnerable position. speak of the top of the ticket impacts republicans as well. republican south carolina senator lindsey graham says if president trump wins reelection then republicans will retain the senate. graham says if mr. trump loses, "who knows." >> bret: thanks, chad. we are now just 15 minutes away from the first poll closings of the night and we could have some race calls for you at the top. bernie sanders speaking earlier today saying the democratic establishment is afraid of him. >> it is no surprise, they do not want me to become president. becau

bipartisan energy legislation put forward by energy committee chairman lisa murkowski and ranking member joe manchin p. the bill they put together contains measures from over 60 senators, particularly clean energy inshowvation, workplace security and security of our energy grid. the act invests in a wide range of clean energy technologies. it also focuses on improving energy storage. many modern, clean energy technologies lack the reliability of traditional electric sources. the amount of energy produced from wind, for example, is depend -- is dependent on the amount of wind on any give inday -- given day. the american energy innovation act also focuses on improving research into carbon capture. the bill also invests in advanced nuclear energy research so we can regain our edge in the use of this technology. i plan to introduce amendments to the legislation to review where we can boost hydropower in the upper missouri river basin and to develop base to recycle the windmill blades used in wind energy generation. nearly half, madam president -- nearly half of the electricity generated in south dakota