senator joe manchen — democratic party - - gop? senator joe manchen has _ democratic party - - gop? to understand the contact, there is a _ important to understand the contact, there is a tonne of pressure on senators _ there is a tonne of pressure on senators. you can imagine some words flying _ senators. you can imagine some words flying that _ senators. you can imagine some words flying that might not have been aligned. — flying that might not have been aligned, but there will be a lot of eyes _ aligned, but there will be a lot of eyes wandering what he means. i�*m eyes wandering what he means. i'm not sure eyes wandering what he means. not sure how eyes wandering what he means. i“n not sure how many friends he has in the republican party. last night, he had sponsored and he said he can pull over ten republicans, and he didn't get any of them. right on cue, we get a vote in texas this week in which the texas legislator signed off... it's a thing we sometimes gloss over when we talk about american politics, but you're quite keen on this. it happens in both states, but you always s

important to their constituents and that's because they have two moderates, kyrsten sinema and joe manchen who both argued they want to preserve that. would they see this exception as potentially so important to the country's economic future and the potential calamity that would happen if the debt ceiling wasn't increased, would they change their minds on this specific carveout? that's what we're trying to understand right now. yesterday, joe manchin did not answer our questions, specifically about it, saying that he thought that schumer and mcconnell should get in a room and come to some kind of consensus. we're also going to be watching out for kyrsten sinema and whether or not she would be open to that kind of rules change. one of the arguments those moderates have been making on the filibuster in the past is that you don't want to change the senate rules on legislation because you would have wild swings in what the country was going through from administration to administration. however, the debt ceiling increase isn't going to be this massive policy shift, it simply is increasing the

joe manchen who we should point out represents a coal state has come out against a key part of the bill, so now negotiators are scrambling to come up with an alternative, a carbon tax or watering down the clean energy provisions. but the risk there is then you could lose lawmakers on the left. and several democratic lawmakers have said they cannot support a bill that does not have a robust climate change agenda in there. however, they are leaving it open to what that looks like. all of this is just one of several tension point in the democratic party now. things have been heated between joe manchin and bernie sanders who want negotiations to speed up. he placed an op-ed in a west virginia publication last week which manchin did not take kindly to. >> what we have done and we continue to do for the country and that's the -- >> he says you're holding up the biden agenda. >> no, there is 52 senators that don't agree. and two that want to work something out if possible in most rational and reasonable way. that's all. >> joe biden and democratic leaders are clearly in deal-making mode now. t