did you mislead joe manchin? did he know? >> i didn't talk personally to joe manchin.oe manchin didn't say anything in there that will save coal miners' lives or make it safer or healthier for them. he's spewing the same thing, type of rhetoric they spew for a long time to camouflage the truth that the mine blew up because of natural gas. they can talk all they want to about the things he's speaking about there. the documentary didn't have a purpose in making senator manchin happy or have as a purpose to blast anyone. it basically had as a purpose to make miners safer. >> was there some kind of attempt to get joe manchin in, to make it look credible to have a senator in it? >> adroit films did it. i funded the documentary. i wasn't present when senator manchin was spoken to. >> don blankenship is going to stay with us. >>> coming up, we're going to be joined by someone who has a different view on coal mining. stay with us. it would be a scary process. when i was introduced to truecar, i didn't have to second guess myself. i felt more confident... in what i was doing. t

senator manchin mentioned this number. since january 1 of this year, 130 teachers have been arrested across america for sexual misconduct with children. that's more than one teacher every day. and these are the ones who have been caught. how many more are happening? the stories are just absolutely heartbreaking. a teacher's aide who undressed and sexually assaulted a mentally disabled abtpwaous in his care. a child whose abuse began at age 10 and at age 17 found herself pregnant with a teacher's child. a special education kindergarten girl forced to go shirtless in a class. these things are just, it's just unbelievable. but every day that we delay, we delay rooting out one of these predators. the other number i want to share with you, madam president, is the number 73. according to the g.a.o., the general accounting government accountability office, the average pedestrian fire molests -- pedophile molests 73 children over the course of a lifetime. these predators are very devious, clever and smart. what they do is they go

senator manchin. >> thank you, madam chair. and to ranking member murkowski, i think she'll be back, she is voting now, but as you know my colleague, senator portman, who just spoke and wrote the book last month last month urging having a hearing on the grade reliability and stability. and i want to know help is them you do this in such an experimental -- manner. there are two fuels to keep the lights off. dispute right now. they keep the lights on 24/7/365 and that's new and cool. gas will get to the position. they're not there yet but they will get there. these to baseload feels provide on the 60% of the power this country demands. and without these baseload fuels our great can function. we know that. you all have said that we cannot keep the lights on. i'm having a difficult situation, you can imagine in my side of the aisle with the administration's attitude towards what we're dealing with. i just want a facts to, and that's what i asked for this today. i want you all on the front line, people are relying, life is depending

are there scheduling conflicts i should know about, senator manchin with you? >> not now. >> okay, senator portman. >> thank you, madam chair. that u thank you for holding this hearing. i really appreciate it. this is focus of this panel on cybersecurity but we also talked about reliability real quick and i know the next panel will focus on that. i appreciate moving forward to this hearing so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. i like to ask reliability questions because we have great experts on this panel that will give us a preview what we'll hear next and compare and contrast what we'll hear from some. industry folks. first i guess, chairman lafleur i would like to hear from you a little bit what you think we ought to be doing in terms of reliability and price spikes. at a ferc technical conference last week you were quoting having said, i'm also very concerned about the price. both absolute magnitude of the price spikes an creases we saw this wouldn'ter and variability when. when you see the price spikes symptom protecting reliability is causing thi

we'll see. >> remember, manchin stuck his neck out after newtown, he tried that. and he got nothing back. >> well, like i said about president obama, you got to keep going. keep trying. and joe is trying. and i still think on background checks there's a deal to be had. but that deal will come from pro-gun people like joe manchin working with nra and not mike bloomberg. >> correct. correct. >> very interesting in jeremy piece talked about how he wants to be as aggressive on the other side with the nra meaning democratic candidates even if i agree with you on every other issue, if you're for guns, we're going to come after you. we're going to put money into your challenges. we're going to try to beat you where you live. >> well, that's actually where he'll have the bigger impact. >> yeah. >> it's not going to happen in the republican primary. it's just not. and look what happened in 2013, terri mccauliffe, the pro-gun control guy won in virginia. that's not the only issue throughout. even though he made it seem like it's the only issue in newtown for six months. boy

senator manchin, three things i'm going to make reference to senator manchin that you've raised appropriately. this last issue you raised, we've met with congressman thornebury as a matter of fact, and congressman mckeon. and there's a letter that has gone out signed by congressman -- the chairman mckeon, congressman smith, senator inhofe, myself, and representative thornebury on this exact subject you've raised. the reason that congressman thornebury signed it is he's the likely successor to chairman mckeon. we will make a copy of that letter in the record. >> since i'm not a likely successor of you. >> at some point -- >> i appreciate the diligence on this. i think it's important for them to do their job. >> it's a very important point you've raised. next another issue you've raised on the apache issue and the question of the blackhawk and apache and the funding that's involved in that and what we'll need for the record is the funding issues on that. the impact of that. senator manchin, we've been told this is part of an integrated aviation restructuring package which saved $12 billion. so

in the 2010 west virginia senate race democrat joe manchin took the attack ad to a different level toe bill. it resides above his fireplace. like any vaition -- visionary he has had his imitators. >> government health care we don't need it. we can't afford it. this is what i do to that law. pull. [laughter] >> jon: that is so primal. [ laughter ] what does he do to bills he likes? [laughter] really not sure what that was. [ laughter ] i think these gentleman may have a fundamental misunderstanding of how it works. if you destroy it the thing it represents is gone forever. that would be a hole in the system i spilled coffee on the 13th amendment. black people are slaves again. doesn't work that way. we're heading to the 2014 mid term campaign season. i wonder if we'll see bill shooting ads that out (bleep) the previous ones. >> we're here to talk with serious topics the second amendment and see how many damage we can do to this copy of obamacare. >> jon: a handgun. trying to kill obamacare or give the a flesh wound? [laughter] i didn't know you weren't done yet. ♪ [laughter] holy (blee

senate. >> the manchin/toomey amendment was defeated despite broad popular support. and a new study out of princeton and northwestern university could explain why. two political scientists looked at almost 2,000 policy cases over 20 years, trying to answer some basic questions. does public opinion translate into actual policy? and whose opinion matters? they found that average citizens' preferences have essentially zero estimated impact upon policy change. you heard that right! the average voters' opinion just doesn't matter. so what does? major business interest groups, like the gun lobby, and rich people. the researchers found that while the opinion of the average american has zero impact on policy, the opinions of economic elites have a very large, positive independent impact. this is certainly not the box we learned about in school. ♪ we're going to elect a president ♪ ♪ who's going to do what the people want ♪ >> in fact, it sounds like the textbook definition of oligarchy, government by the few. so if the will of the people is not enough to get something popula

. >> senator manchin? >> enqueue, madam chairman. ranking member michalski, i think she will be back. you know my colleague who just spoken about you both to have a hearing on this and i want you to answer this in such an expedited manner. which i really appreciate. there if you think the keep the lights off 24/7 and that is nuclear and coal. and these provide a 65% of the power this country demands. so without that we know we can't function and we cannot keep the lights on. so i'm having a difficult situation was what we were dealing with. and we have electricity and there is the air conditioning or heat or the ventilator or oxygen, whatever it may be. and so will we have come through it right now, it is still 30% of our power and 30 plus. so you think about this that nearly 20% is being retired. and they are performing a performance standard banning the construction of any new coal plants, so then you start looking at the reliability and how do we maintain the system and keep it running and that is all i am asking this administrati

democrat senator joe manchin explains why coming up.etallides. she joins us live from the trading floor next. the converss car loan didn't start here. it started with that overdue bill he never got. checking his experian credit report and score allowed him to identify and better address the issue. then drive off into the sunset. experian. (agent) i understand. (dad) we've never sold a house before. (agent) i'll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it? (agent) i have the numbers right here and based on the comps that i've found, the timing is perfect. ...there's a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (dad) that's good to know. (mom) i'm so excited. >>> we are back with a fox news alert. the labor department just releasing brand-new weekly jobless numbers. nicole petallides is live at the new york stock exchange with the breaking news. nicole, good morning. >> good morning. so the numbers coming in, you have 300,000 claims coming in here for the last week. that is slightly better than what the

joe manchin of west virginia. angus king, independent from maine and very strong conservative on budget issues. how does that play into the factor, due to the fact if republicans take control of the senate? >> they may potentially lose some red state democrats that would be inclined to vote with them. you could see a situation even if republicans do have the majority, where it could be a bit more partisan and divided than it is now because you have people like kay hagan and mary landrieu who occasionally will lean voting a little bit more with republicans not very often. you could see them losing people like joe manchin, those type of mentalities. red state democrats they can sometimes count on to be a vote in their favor. you may have less of those moving forward. >> fascinating. the tea party has been a huge influence. ellison barber, thank you very much. >> you bet. jenna: it is only fair and right we talk about the irs. the irs is preparing for a next step in obamacare. the agency is about to track and find pe

. >> joe manchin has been a success on statewide level. >> joe manchin, republicans, yes. and so, but, the thing that is going to help republicans is that that obama won that state, excuse me, obama lost that state, just got 36% of the vote. statewide it is not really friendly environment for democrats and it's an open seat. so i think that helps republicans. >> jamie, nina just mentioned the 30 6% that the -- 36% the president received. 46% convicted felon serving time in texas won during the democratic primary campaign. what does that say that could happen in this race. >> president obama is not popular in west virginia at all. he is not a friend of the coal industry, a major industry in west virginia. democrats have a real uphill battle in this race. this is almost the opposite of the oregon race this is first or second likely seat to fall to republicans. the or gone race is number 1 har tsunami. this looks good for republicans. >> republicans need six seats to take control of the senate. a few more months to go. but two interesting races in oregon and west virginia. ta

chris kofinis, senator joe manchin and larry o'connor join us.new york times" had an expansive report that said people are deciding to risk it kind of like they did before obamacare. they figured, i'm still pretty young, pretty healthy. why should i pay high premiums? what's going to happen to them now? are they going to have to pay the penalties? >> well at some point they're going to have to pay the penalty. i think you have to put some things in perspective. the good news is we have 8 million people who are insured. you have 4 million in medicaid. 3 million through their parents' plans. that's 15 million people. that's a significant number. are there going to be individuals for ideological reasons or economic reasons who chose, i don't want to get health care right now? they might. but i think what's going to end up happening in the long term -- and in the short term as people become more comfortable with the program and see the benefits, they're going to make that cost benefit calculation that it makes more sense and that we're not invincible

he was chief of staff for senator joe manchin. dana millbank, columnist for "the washington post." my favorite brain trust groups right here. good to get you guys all together. >> right back at you. >> dana, let me start with you. you were prolific this week, by the way. you wrote two articles this week. that's a lot. >> i wrote four, craig, but i'm glad two got to you. >> even i know that. >> but here's the thing. the nra out in full force in indianapolis. opponents there calling themselves the davids versus the goliaths. the nra, it seems, still winning the messaging war. how can these davids get their messages heard? >> well, we've been asking ourselves this for a long, long time now. and the fact of the matter is the people who want gun control are far more numerous than the people there at the nra convention. so it's not really a matter of public opinion. if it were a matter of public opinion, this would be resolved long ago. what it is, they have a strangle hold over the national legislature here in washington and in the state legislatures in various states. public opinion ac

. >> senator joe manchin. >>> obamacare is on life support according to this doctor.re are ways to patch this up, make it better, but you disagree? >> i do disagree, neil, and it's so great to be with you this afternoon. this is really a bureaucratic cancer. it's 2700 pages of new regulations, and the law spawned 20,000 pages of new regulations that insinuates itself, so even if we try to tweak it, there's so much left behind that we just need to scratch the whole thing, start over and do it right this time. >> as an ophthalmologist, what is the problem for you? >> i think it's a global problem for physicians. what it does, this law mandates an electronic medical records are necessary, which are not secure. medical records that allow the bureaucrat to insinuate themselves between the doctor and the patients. >> but you've been dealing with insurance companies and playing essentially the same role with those bozos, right? so you would switch bozos or maybe expand bozos? >> you are absolutely right. we've been under the thumb of insurance and third party payers for a lo

miller is executive director of america rising and former rnc communications director and staff of joe manchinwest virginia. thank you for talking to me today. this event draws 70,000 ardent supporters of the second amendment, the right to bear arms. so it's a voter-rich event for possible contenders for the 2016 gop presidential run. among them, of course, let's name them. governor bobby jindal, senator marco rubio, rick santorum. what do they have to do to be considered serious contenders? tim? >> well, kelly, look, i think that obviously this is going to be an important issue in the 2016 primaries for all these guys. and that's why you have seen them head out to indianapolis this weekend. but even more pressing right now is looking at mitch mcconnell, and this issue is going to be a great wedge issue in the 2014 elections, where you've got michael bloomberg on one side and the nra on the other side. and the nra is much more popular in the states where these elections are being held, like arkansas, kentucky, where the majority leader or the minority leader, rather, is up for a tough re-elect

senator manchin and senator franken have been particularly focused on this issue. the adequacy of power generation differs a great deal from region to region. rather than tackling the entire issue at once, at the request of senator manchin who is here today, we'll look at impact of coal-fired generation requirements on the pm system and reliability on during the polar vortex earlier this year. i appreciate all the senators concerns regarding the threat to reliability from coal-fired plant retirements, caused by new environmental standards as well as competition from the gas market. the question of coal retirement is multifaceted. there are different perspectives that will be shared today and i look forward a lively discussion on this question with the second panel. so in closing we have a pan negatively expert witnesses here today to discuss these issues. senator murkowski, i thank you for your help in planning this hearing today and for your cooperation from you and your staff. and i want to thank all of you who traveled a great distance to be with, to us today an

for example, i have a bipartisan bill with senator donnelly and senator manchin and members on my side of the aisle that would fix the definition of full-time work under obamacare so that it would be 40 hours a week and not 30 hours a week. we would go back to the standard definition of 40 hours a week. there are tax incentives having to do with bonus depreciation and small business expensing that would encourage small businesses to make the investments so that they can hire more employees. madam president, we ought to have a full debate on all of these options, not just stop with one vote on whether or not to proceed to one bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 with no amendments allowed, with no alternative proposals being permitted. madam president, i so believe that if we could get back to the normal way of doing business that we would so much better serve the people of this country, including low-income workers who are struggling to get by, and i believe we could come up with a compromise that would enjoy bipartisan support. i'm not saying it would be easy, but we ought to at l

manchin: that will be a minute and 45 seconds,, madam president. as a proud husband of a brilliant, brilliant, talented woman, my wife gale and as the father of two daughters and a grandfather of six granddaughters, all of whom are different gifted and make great contributions to our country it's past time that women earn the same men in the workplace. we need to correct this unfairness to make sure women are paid what they deserve. as we join together today to celebrate equal pay day in the year 2014, it justifies competitiveness -- defies common sense that working women in west virginia make 70 cents to every dollar a man makes. too many families are working hard to make ends meet and smeationly in families where women are the breadwinners. in west virginia there are more than 81,000 family households headed by women. and about 30% of those families or nearly 29,200 households have incomes that fall below the poverty level. eliminating the wage gap would provide much-needed income to women whose wages put food on the table, pay the bills and main

i want to thank my cosponsor, senator joe manchin and senator mitch mcconnell. i tell you, the inspiration for this bill begins with the story of a boy named jeremy bell. the story begins in delaware county, pennsylvania. one of the schoolteachers in this school that jeremy bell attended -- one of the schoolteachers in the school in delaware county was found to have molested several boys and raped one of them. prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to bring a case. the school knew about what was happening and decided to dismiss the teacher for this appalling behavior, but what was so amazing and disturbing about it is the school also helped this predator land a job at another school in west virginia, even passing along a letter of recommendation so that they could move their problem somewhere else. the story ended in 1997 when that teacher, by then a school principal, raped and murdered 12-year-old jeremy bell in west virginia. justice finally caught world cup that teacher. he is now serving in jail a life sentence for that murder, but for jeremy bell

democrats from oil states, marylandu, senator from louisiana, mark beg itch of alos angelesa and joe manchin a coal state, people want to push not just green energy but more traditional formgs of energy who are -- forms of energy who are behind the keystone pipeline. it is not a energy issue, it is a jobs issue. people think this could produce up to thousands of jobs and could boost the economy at a time when the economy that's been sluggish. so for democrats, it is a tough issue for that reason. >> and then why, on the other hand, are the republicans chamming the keystone pipeline? >> well this is a great issue for them plaolitically right no. they will come on top on the debut because they can use this as a political weapon. they believe this is an emerging resource to produce jobs making us less dependent on foreign oil, even with the case in ukraine. they believe the more oil we produce, somehow we can take the pressure off of ukraine so they are not so dependent on putin for oil. this is all wound in together. >> and on that note, do you think that would or should cause the administrati

on top of that, i say the joe manchin should not be underestimated. thank you very much.ost: thank you. ramon joins us from front royal, virginia. good morning, republican line. are you with us? caller: i am. very interesting program. the comment that the person made about ben carson being vice president, i am disappointed that coburn is dropping out. he is such a good, good man. bernie sanders? my goodness, no. jeb bush? i like jeb bush. i am sorry about his mother's comment. i think he is very good. so much big political working against him. i don't know. but we have got to get a good republican in there. host: thank you for the call. you're the second person to make a reference to the comments made by former first lady, barbara bush, who sat down with us last year as part of our first lady series. you can check out that interview in our video library. also this morning from "the new york times close vote one of the books you might be reading this week might be "thrive," by arianna huffington. also michael lewis, with an interview in "the new york times." the newsmakers

. >> host: manchin how it works on a 555 matrix. >> guest: two is teethirty it is the 25 letter alpha gripping and you would be surprised. 30 or 40 words per minute with a lot of abbreviations. those that who are adept they would recognize the error. we did not have the abbreviations that are used two-day like lol. >> c were just testing me to see. >> absolutely. >> what is your experience when you were shot down? >> no rescue possible got out of the jet with adverse circumstances hit on a hill and rolled down hundreds of miles per hour with a broken back and sprained everything was crushed ribs and could not walk there were all around me passed out and they've moved up the hill to save my life and to break all the rules to zero hijack get truck guy did i had as six done in my pocket and was in the middle of highway one and with quasi moto got there to stare down of truck my thought was i would have this guy take me to the coast and i would steal a boat and go south. >> host: there was one problem. >> guest: apparently you have done your homework as your reputation precedes you you do

differs from region to region as a rather tackle the entire issue with one at the request of senator manchin but look at coal-fired generation route requirements during the polar for attacks earlier this year and i appreciate all senators' concerns regarding the threat to reliability from coal-fired plants with new environmental standards as well as competition from the gas market. called retirement is multifaceted different perspectives will be shared today in a look forward to a lively discussion with the second panel. in closing we have a panel of expert witnesses to discuss these issues and i thank you for your help to plan this hearing today and for your cooperation and i will thank all of you who traveled a great distance to be with us today. i will now turn it over to the senator for opening statements. >> i appreciate the opportunity the critical issue that is timely. are we doing enough to ensure the reliability and security of the u.s. grade is the central question posed today but everybody in this room knows the answer to this question. we can always do more. the next important qu

manchin: that will be a minute and 45 seconds,, madam president. as a proud husband of a brilliant, brilliant, talented woman, my wife gale and as the father of two daughters and a grandfather of six granddaughters, all of whom are different gifted and make great contributions to our country it's past time that women earn the same men in the workplace. we need to correct this unfairness to make sure women are paid what they deserve. as we join together today to celebrate equal pay day in the year 2014, it justifies competitiveness -- defies common sense that working women in west virginia make 70 cents to every dollar a man makes. too many families are working hard to make ends meet and smeationly in families where women are the breadwinners. in west virginia there are more than 81,000 family households headed by women. and about 30% of those families or nearly 29,200 households have incomes that fall below the poverty level. eliminating the wage gap would provide much-needed income to women whose wages put food on the table, pay the bills and main

. >> thank you, that was senator joe manchin paying tribute to his mother and grandmother on equal paydaytor, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me, mika. tell joe, happy birthday. >> i will. he's talking to a bear. i really don't understand it. anyway, senator, equal pay for women. it's 2014, right, minicole? >> it is. >> it will pass, right? >> i sure hope it does. as we've seen so many times in washington, the bottom line is it's far past that we pass this. you would thing it's common sense. n west virginia, mika, over 80,000 households are led by women in west virginia. 29,000 are at or below the poverty guidelines, the poverty levels. my goodness, what it would do to increase the quality of life in my state of west virginia would be tremendous. and i just don't believe there's any room for discrimination in any way shape or form in the workplace. and equal pay is the easiest way to really bring that to equality. >> i guess the arguments is that transparency and other things being called for in executive actions southwest in the paycheck fairness act maybe might provide a burde

. >> have you talked to senator manchin about it and asked him why he wants the government to ban it?n my letter to him, he expressed concerns about crime. if you want to do something about crime, ban dollars, because guess what, 99% of all crime involves dollars, briefcases full of $100 bills. just get rid of dollar bills and you'll make life for criminals a whole lot of harder. >> although, you know, you can understand how some people take some comfort in a currency that's backed by essential backer, right? >> well, some people take less comfort in it, because it's backed by a central banker, too. it depends on what one's opinion on the fed is on any given day. currencies like bitcoin is the quantity of the bitcoin is established by a transparent algorithm, so you know how many there will be. it's not was side of the bed janet yellen wakes up on on a given day. it's transparent and predictable. >> do you mine yourself? >> no, i do not. no, i don't. >> that would be news. i have to tell you, if congressman polis spent his off hours mining for bitcoin, we'd have to come down to your o

and chris cofinni, the former chief of staff to west virginia senator joe manchin.of you. >> good morning. >> all right, joe, i'll start with you, when you hear something like this and you also know that polling recently suggests that the fact that hillary clinton is a woman in politics and her being first lady is one of her biggest credentials, what do you think her biggest achievement was? chris, you can go ahead and take that. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear that question, i'm sorry. >> what do you think her biggest achievement was? would she simply be another candidate that would be a hollywood celebrity-type candidate like barack obama? >> yeah, i mean, i really don't think that's a concern either amongst democrats or most people watching if she decides to run. listen, i think you can look at it in terms of two ways of her tenure as secretary of state. in terms of the bigger accomplishments to transition the united states out of iraq and afghanistan, both significant things. she was an integral part of going after bin laden, also a significant thing. she helped mov