senator manchin has come to rhode island to take a look.een out on the ocean and on the coastline and seeing where houses are washed into the seas and he is in a position to go back and say to colleagues from fossil fuel states and say he's not making this stuff up. this is happening in his state. this is real people with real problems. there is a lot going on. we've got to work on this. and joe is not a denier. he understands there are real issues that we need to support the coal industry as it transitions but that makes him an important person as we move this conversation into a practical legislative level. >> no doubt. senator manchin, what you have seen in the northern portion of the united states, will that work in west virginia? can it work? >> well, ed, here's the thing, i'm not a denier and i don't think people in west virginia or other energy producing states are deniers. we know there is a climate problem. and 7 billion people on planet earth are responsible. but also in the united states of america we want to be energy secured. w

boo hoo, senator manchin, this is your party, love it or leave it. >> thanks to my panel and all of young. i'm bapaul gigot. hope to see you all here next week. >>> the fight to prevent the spread of ebola here in america. the director of the centers for disease control and prevention saying he has, quote, no doubt the u.s. will stop the virus. welcome to america's news headquarters. the head of the cdc, dr. tom frieden reassuring americans at a news conference today in atlanta amid fear that the government isn't doing enough to contain the deadly disease. >> there are clear things that we've got to do that it's hard, it's going to be a long, hard road, but that working together we can stop ebola. we can stop it here and we can control it in africa.

senator to support commonsense measures like the legislation proposed by jay rockefeller and senator manchin and by pushing to make sure that the health care coal protection benefit act is actually supported by kentucky senator was to all things that have not happened yet. i am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the thousands of they havel miners as endorsed me because they are ready for a senator that will have their back and will fight to make sure they get the benefits that are due and deserve. and not have to fight what they are doing to get the black lung benefits they deserve. the protection that helps to make it easier for miners, the widows, to get those benefits. senator mcconnell has told you he wants to repeal to make sure we realize we have to rein in the epa but we also have to work across at the il in a coalition -- across the aisle in a coalition, the effort to make sure that senator reid or whoever the majority leader is, listen to those here in kentucky to make sure that coal has a rifle place as an export. the voice of mitch mcconnell after 30 years is not being heard

. >> for more than 20 years joe manchin has gotten his hair cut by the same barber, his wife gail. >> i worked on a bridge crew. i drove trucks. i operated equipment. >> mcfadden is tough. >> let's get out there and hit somebody. >> when you get through, come on and give me a hand. >> i'm tom cotton. i approved this message. >> mark leeb o vich wrote this really interesting piece about how candidates are trying to outbumpkin each other in the midterm elections. arkansas tom cotton who went to harvard for law. and minnesota republican mike mcfadden a one-time investment banker whose law degree came from iowa. and bruce braley who is also a longtime lawyer. nobody wants to vote for a lawyer or harvard fancy man, so you get candidates that insist they're just down home folk. joining me former governor of vermont dr. howard dean also msnbc contributor. i'm fascinated by this genre of ad because talking with joe manchin who came from very successful business, made a lot of money, the hair cut ad, even mitt romney talking about shooting varmint. affectation. >> it's related to the tea party

if the republicans almost had a majority, a small one, maybe joe manchin would decide to change his partyother independence would flip, too. it could be very fluid. >> the jim jeffress of the next senate the late vermont senator who switched parties and changed the control. >> he was once here on center seat and i asked him why don't you go straight and become a republican. >> joe manchin you mean. >> yes. he kind of danced around it. he may not dance next january. >> well, if the chairmanship is on the board you never know. >> i'm sure it can be arranged. >> we'll be following all of this as you can imagine every step of the way. that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see one local an are core aapparently in need of a caffeine fix. ♪ want to change the world? create things that help people. design safer cars. faster computers. smarter grids and smarter phones. think up new ways to produce energy. ♪ be an engineer. solve problems the world needs solved. what are you waiting for? changing the world is part of the job description. [ male announcer ] join the scientists and engineers of exxo

. >> i'm giving a miss to joe manchin who said mary landrieu's defeat would be a disaster because heron the energy committee would be taken by democrat maria kantwell, all i can say boo hoo, this is your party, love it or leave it. >> all right, that's it for this week's show. thanks for my panel and all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> we are learning a united airlines flight just arrived at newark airport from brus sels is right now being held at the gate. this is just outside of new york city, newark liberty airport. there's a sick passenger on board. fears circulate about the possibility of ebola and the possible spread from international flights. meanwhile federal health officials say the key right now is following ebola victim thomas duncan's trail of contacts back in texas before anyone else there is infected. hazmat workers stripped the apartme't where he stayed the deadly disease.

senator joe manchin joins us now. minutes and being on the show this morning. i want to start by playing a clip. i am sure you have seen this by now. i want to play a clip of the president this week at northwestern university laying out his case for the stakes of the 2014 mid terms. this is what he said. >> i'm not on the ballot this fall. michelle is pretty happy about that. but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. every single one of them. >> so, senator, these policies, my policies are on the ballot this fall. republicans put ads out linking democratic candidates to that statement saying you want to vote against obama here is your chance. did the president hurt your party's cause in the red states by saying that? >> well, he makes it more challenging, let's put it that way. we have four of the incumbents who i am very good friends with talk about mark baggage in alaska. he is an absolutely excellent candidate. mark is a moderate centrist. it is a personal connection. i have been down with mary landrie

i am proud of senator joe manchin calling nick rahall a straight shooter. that's what these ads are all about. outsiders running their own hidden agenda. >> thank you. senator jenkins. >> i wonder if nick rahall, when andas with those widows first re-squanders, that tragic incident. explosion,er the ubb while they were still in search and recovery, nick rahall went and sold his corporate ownership in massey. after the you bb explosion, nick rahall, instead of consoling the widows, instead ,f helping the first responders it must have been his first call, to sell his ownership interest in massey. this is the gentleman that in changed cut, reduced, the criteria for black lung benefits. said theumw a official worst about, the worst bill in the history of coal miners. it looks to me like we will have a fun night. i lot of cute comments. a lot of funny gestures. that is not going to do a bit to help hard-working west virginia go back to work. people thatll the you sold your corporate ownership the day after the disaster. i bet not. he likes to talk about this mon

we want now to turn to west virginia democratic senator from west virginia, jo manchin, good morning, senator. >> good morning, how are you? >> rose: good to speak with you. the republicans according to the polls even trends may lose the step at of that? senate and implications. >> our democrats that we have running right now in the so-called red state. this is the strength of our moderate team. charlie, forever one to change washington you have to have moderates, whether it be in democrats or republicans. i'm hoping all the people in the states whether down in louisiana up to alaska, and all of our people that we have in arkansas. this is the strength of our moderates. in new hampshire, we have of course these are people that are willing to reach across the aisle, trying to find solutions for americans the citizens and constituents and voters of those states. >> rose: how different are these moderates in terms much positions from the president? >> i know what people are asking, can the president help them in those states. i don't think he can help in those states. these people have v

i think senator manchin would probably agree with that from his own experience.and i think we're different because we're generally, we're not measured so much based on whether we give a great speech or quality of our rhetoric. we're measured on pretty simple things like are we making economy better and improving schools and the like. that being said, i think what the congressman said about cynicism is right, in the sense not only are people frustrated that washington is not getting anything done, i think people feel more and more their voice doesn't really count. they're drowned out by big money and that the appeals of so many elected officials that candidates make to them have absolutely nothing to do with their own lives and have to do with this neavitt triol about the other person. degg neavitt triol. people are more interested in themselves than the candidates. what will candidates to make their lives better. they're not hearing anything compelling in that regard. >> you're on the trail. you must hear a lot about this speak to the point the fact is a lot of p

manchin, the governor, is a democrat. but because of culture wars, race is also a factor, west virginia is becoming more and more of a republican sta now, d driving force might be in that state, from democrat to republican? >> i think it has to do with a lot of the culture wars. race is certainly a component. west virginia was your archetype a new deal type of democrat type of state. with people who work in the coal mines, strong organized labor. organized labor's decline has had an impact there. you're seeing it go a little bit more to republicans. it's important to point out there are democrats who can win there. >> governor christ lost his cool yesterday. let's have a listen to what he said. >> you want to have the conversation later, i'm happy to have it, buddy. but until that time, sit down and shut up. >> what was he so upset about there? >> that was an event marking the two-year anniversary of hurricane sandy. a protester saying not enough money has been spent to help people who lost homes. this is quintessential c

let's start with black that was discovered in the plasticity and i enjoyed with congressman manchin to convince the president, president obama who was going to cut a the million dollars from the program. the president at my opponents supported was going to cut the program. i joined my colleagues to do that. >> moderator: we continue on the economic front, and let me get into regulations, leadership and impact. secretary tennant, the announcer said on the financial services committee, congresswoman capito says health singers get rich while west virginians were losing their jobs to wall street she gave her husband a wall street banker inside tips and they need more than $100,000. you said that capito personally benefited from her position in congress. what precisely did capito due to enrich herself and her husband and are you implying that congresswoman capito is correct? tennant: i'm sayirect? tennant: i'm saying that congresswoman capito broke the trust of west virginia because this is what it's about, it's about the trust that the people of west virginia deserve to have in their elect

the director of the defense intelligence agency told senator joe manchin that isis was a major problem. >> how serious is the threat from the affiliate to pose for the regional stability there? >> i think it's a increasingly concern that we'll have to pay very close attention to, not only inside of iraq but for the whole region as you're highlighting. >> so again, president obama had to know. a terror threat was brewing. yet the president did nothing. many believe the president does not want to engage in war on terror in general. he does not want the usa to launch major offenses against terror groups. therefore, the president looks away hoping that a situation like isis and syria will go away. and now, president obama is paying a price for his passive approach to jihad as the beheadings of two americans by the isis savages has awakened the public in america. the anti-terrorist situation overall is bleak. for decades pakistan has undermined afghanistan and america by harboring the taliban. we all know that. president obama even knows it. for decades iran has funded hezbollah and trained

. >> i attended the meeting a week ago that you and senator manchin conducted in nancy put together withe hearing about no labels and what it's up to and how many members of the house and senate both democrats and republicans who put together almost 100 now trade at the end of the day there were sort of one unanswered question which i'm going to ask you. it's a tough one of and abide a mask i know know some of the students will certainly ask. 95 to 100 members of the house and senate get together on some strategic agenda and some piece of legislation that they would like jointly in a nonpartisan way to see go through and yet there were 50 members of the house and something called the tea party that will probably block any kind of legislation. how does no labels deal in the long term, how do you deal with a group like the tea party that's basically has an ax against government. >> politicians are pretty dumped -- adept to the marketplace. i have hung out with politicians and they are good at town hall meetings in reading the polls and hanging out in the coffee shops. the job of a politici

. >> meantime in an interview with today's washington post west virginia's senator joe manchin is notp for re-election said there's nothing president obama can do to help at risk democrats. and joining me live now nbc news reporter kari dan. good to see you. >> i'm going great. we have to get as much rest as possible. early word is we'll be up all night long waiting for some of the races to come in. very tight races. interest wording from the president regarding voter turnout. that's right. we're getting mix messaged. the president is saying these are people who voted with me. they support my agenda. i'm not on the ballot but my policies are. you have candidates like mark udall in colorado and kentucky saying i'm something who stands up to the president and challenging him. didn't agree with him on a lot of policies. you're getting mixed messages. the president wants to be able when she's campaigning. it's states he performed well in 2008 and 2012. state he's won by a wide margin. there's a lot of states where there's democratic governors not senate candidates he's campaigning for. he

it's headed up by former first lady manchin.nd it is going to be something that will catch on in other counties as well, the private sector has come on board and they have an important role to play. you have not heard me advocating that the federal government is the cure-all. it's not. the federal government has to be a partner with us in so many areas. but it's not a cut and gut type of philosophy that is going to solve our education problems. and that's all we have seen from the so-called ryan budget in washington that would devastate our programs to elementary and secondary education and higher education. i have been proud what i have been able to do for marshall university. the federal grants because of my seniority, have come to marshal l's way. the earmark that established the rahall transportation institute, gave incentives to our young people to get involved in the engineering field, to work with the army corps of engineers that i fought so hard here in huntington. these are the type of efforts that our federal governmen

senator manchin didn't got go. senator mccaskill did not go. she has made efforts to deceive the people of kentucky about her own views and where she is likely to go where she to get there. with regard to my own record, there have been three major bipartisan agreements during the obama years between republicans and democrats. the vice president and i have negotiated every one of them. two-year2010, extension to the bush tax cuts. on newcal cliff deal year's eve of 2012. which made 99% of the bush tax cuts permanent and also got a $5 million per person estate tax exemption, which is really significant for family farms and small businesses in kentucky. 99% of them will not have to be sold in order to get them down to the next generation. so i am prepared to negotiate with the other side when we can find areas of agreement, but i do not share the president's agenda. it is an agenda that i think has been demonstrably bad for america and for kentucky. >> if the senate remains democratic majority, how would it be different? >> the three major deals i

but i do believe in comments is measures put forward by folks like senator manchin and bipartisan legislation that would put forward a universal thatround check to ensure criminals, terrorists, and those mentally unstable do not have access to guns. i jim nussle port any other form of legislation around guns right now. any othert support form a legislation around guns right now. >> the notion that you want to get rid of the department of education, do you? >> my mother gets a laugh out of stock she is a -- get a laugh out of it. she's a retired teacher. my first jobs was in a head start program. the problem is we have had is what was billions of dollars and the results have gotten much worse. one out of three kids are not getting out of high school and our 14 euros are in that 14 year olds are in the middle of math and science. our system is not serving our children. it is gaining in the way of our good teachers. for educationion made at the local level between andparent, the teacher, local administration. my mother has talked to me since i was six years old that the best -- >> get rid of the

i am proud of senator joe manchin calling nick rahall a straight shooter. that's what these ads are all about. outsiders running their own hidden agenda. >> thank you. senator jenkins. >> i wonder if nick rahall, when andas with those widows first re-squanders, that tragic incident. explosion,er the ubb while they were still in search and recovery, nick rahall went and sold his corporate ownership in massey. after the you bb explosion, nick rahall, instead of consoling the widows, instead ,f helping the first responders it must have been his first call, to sell his ownership interest in massey. this is the gentleman that in changed cut, reduced, the criteria for black lung benefits. said theumw a official worst about, the worst bill in the history of coal miners. it looks to me like we will have a fun night. i lot of cute comments. a lot of funny gestures. that is not going to do a bit to help hard-working west virginia go back to work. people thatll the you sold your corporate ownership the day after the disaster. i bet not. he likes to talk about this mon

that's why i support the bipartisan efforts of senators tom coburn, joe manchin, and others to demand that the pentagon provide what every other department and agency does, an audit of its books. originally the bureaucrats there were supposed to be ready for an audit this year. now they say they will be ready in 2017. if we are going to spend more taxpayer dollars on defense, we taxpayer dollars be spent wisely, that we know where the money goes and what it does, and we should know that now, not later. the defense of our country is too important to tolerate waste and irresponsible spending in this arena. but we should not think this waste means that overall cuts are justified. on the contrary, it means that we must spend what is needed based on the threats we face even as we fix our procurement process. to do any less would stretch us even more thin in the years to come. politicians like to talk about waste and fraud, but waste and fraud alone will not make up the funding gap which prevents us from having the modernized force we need. so because i am a fiscal conservative, i believe t

and i'm talking about that toomey/manchin bill in 2013.hat's because they're kmpbd about the next election. now, our job, and this is going to take a couple of election cycles and a little time is to make them not so concerned about their next election. >> i want to ask you about confronting the assailant, jared loughner, tell me about that. >> yeah, it was a surreal experience. gaby doesn't remember seeing him. she was the first person shot. he shot 18 people after her. i'd never seen him before. so it was really odd, something i've never experienced when he came into the room, but i've got to give her a lot of credit. to look him in the eye when i read her statement, you know, and the court. she's really tough. >> and how is she doing? >> she's doing well, you know, she continues to work really hard. i was listening to an audio recording, that's coming up on two years ago now. and just the improvements since then is remarkable. but she works hard at it. >> it's still the process of connecting the speech, the thought with what comes out.

i could not believe joe manchin, who i like, i think he is a great guy, he says these moderate democratsstates who have constantly gone against the president have found themselves in tough races. listen, they're not moderate democrats. there's no such thing. there's very few moderate republicans. right now you cannot run away from the track record of voting with the president. i actually think it's a character flaw within those senators. ;q michelle nunn finally did yesterday on radio. i agree with the president on some things and disagree on some things. but today -- yesterday she got it right. it took two weeks, and no one else got it right. >> but still the point is michelle is ahead and in it in georgia -- >> no, she's not ahead anymore. the latest poll has her down by three. >> that is a minor miracle given the drag -- given the state and the drag -- >> listen, you have two things happen. o in georgia. i live there. i think ultimately it goes red, you're right. closer than people would have anticipated. but you have jimmy carter's grandson and sam nunn's daughter. these are well es

[applause] >> manchin to as having a career in hiring education education, some of last question is whatr generation about the importance of marriage in the public square? we have to challenge these assumptions. one of the main arguments is don't be on the wrong set of history. take that for a moment they're not talking about history but what the what the future to be. but history is on our side. is not the cultural norm but the judeo-christian butted romans he did not close the leviticus passage. it is true it is their. this choice is a rejection of the creator of the created order and a natural order natural marriages genesis one. male and female we talk about thousands of years of judeo-christian arrogance. then those cultures to a chosen the path in the past have not been neglected. so we have to be clear and practical going forward. and above all things we do have to talk about it and talk about protecting marriage. >> i could not say it better myself. please give a hand to our panel. [applause] ♪ that was terrific. thanks so much as my honor to introduce to you one of the most cour

belgard: to manchin as part of the secondary education the importance of county colleges we have some great gems and as a county free-for-all all i can speak firsthand. it is said jump-start to other colleges university institutions and i think we will be part during as well but those who have a difficult time looking for a new career they can learn new skills and that is a good opportunity so we need to look at the federal government that invest in our county colleges. >>'' kind of program would you like to enact in congress? >> what has happened to our veterans is the tragedy the way they have been treated under the veterans administration is a national scandal. there is a good deal more attention of what needs to be done. ended deal specifically with veterans with my plan and one thing we can do congress shamefully allowed to allow the tax credits to expire in the wounded warriors tax credit to expire these incentives to hire veterans to get the skills sets would also to be a supporter of the hard hat programs and many of them or throw the country that these help those returning ve

united states senate lost someone very special and it was people like him and senator collins and joe manchin, they are good democrats and republicans in the middle of those moderate fiscal conservatives and on both sides of every issue we need to talk about being an american first and our country is in trouble. we have an energy policy that is problematic and we have border and immigration problems, our view in the world not being respected. we have to restore america. so the only way to do that is to send independent problem solver's back or support those types of people. not only in washington but in the city councils and the assemblies in the state houses as well. [applause] >> scott has described the problem really well. as the years went on i was so struck and disappointed about the fact that really the good people -- they want to serve the country. if they get here and they get divided into these strange and almost childish boring type of teams. our first president warned in his farewell address as the danger of what he called political factions, really political parties, he said that

like the legislation proposed by jay rockefeller and senator manchin, to push to make sure that the health care coal protection benefit act is supported by kentucky senators, all things that have not happened yet. i am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the united mine workers in kentucky and across this nation. they have endorsed me because they are ready for a center that will have their back and fight to make sure they will get the benefits they are due and deserve, not have to fight, as they are doing right now, the current senator, to get the black lung benefits that they deserve, the protection that helps make it easier for our minors, their retirees, the widows, and those families to get those benefits. senator mcconnell has told you here tonight he wants to repeal, root, and branch. we have to work across the aisle in a coalition effort to build, especially with other energy producing states, the effort to make sure that senator reid or whomever the majority leader is listens to those here in kentucky to make sure that coal has its rightful place as a prime american export. t

states senate lost somebody very, very special, and it's people like him and senator collins and joe manchinming along in a good way, there are good democrats and republicans in the middle, those moderates, fiscal conservatives, the good people on both sides of almost every issue, but they forget about being an american first, and our country is in trouble. it really is. we're in economic malaise. we have an energy policy that is being problematic. we have border immigration problems. our view in the world is not respected. we have to restorers in and the only way to do that is to send independent problem solvers back or support those teams of people, not only in washington but in your city councils, selectmen, your assemblies and state houses as well. >> scott is -- [applause] scott described the problem really well. i was so struck and disappointed by the fact that most people work so hard to come to congress, the good people, they want to serve the country, and yet they get there and they get divided into these strange, almost childish warring teams, and washington, our first president, w

two of the most unlikely allies, joe manchin of west virginia and patrick toomey of pennsylvania, after the terrible, horrible shooting in connecticut, came forward with bipartisan legislation toward universal background checks to keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals and people who are mentally unstable. that was bipartisan. we passed it. it went nowhere in the house of representatives. my opponent opposes universal back rent checks are in that's what he got the endorsement of the nra. but most people think they are a good idea. we have a bipartisan bill. >> how would you break the logjam? >> i would say i have been successful in springfield. i would take the example of ronald reagan and tip o'neill, who had very different political philosophies yet managed to work together as gentlemen. in springfield i worked with senator marty sandoval, who is quite distant from me in political philosophy. we became friends and we are known around springfield as the odd couple because we have been able to work together. i don't believe it has to be nasty. i don't believe we have to be tota

>> i said i oppose the manchin-toomey bill because west virginians should be making the choice of whatthey want to happen in west virginia. >> i oppose the bill. i've opposed it all the way through. i think the secretary has had a change of heart recently. >> let me move on. speed -- westats virginia lacks in internet speed . does the federal government have a role in expanding internet in west virginia? what would you do to secure funding to expand broadband? where would the funding come from? >> yes, internet is so important. especially for the rural parts of our state and for job creation as well. we had thisg that opportunity with the stimulus money. we need to continue to work on the lines that have been put ,hrough and continue to add let's finish the whole mile. when you talk about job creation, you are exactly right, when we are talking about small businesses especially, just last week, the wvu economist said our job creation is going to come through small businesses here in west virginia. i'm a small business owner, so i look through the eyes of a small business owner in makin

and he is the chair of the organization with the senator joe manchin.ke to call you ambassador the great things about these jobs is to get these titles like your excellency, your holiness. [laughter] i try tried to get my kids to call me that but they won't do it for whatever reason. anyway, tell us the difference between being a governor and an executive position and being involved where you're getting input. >> it is a pleasure to be with you and all that require the washington center. i can't begin to tell you how valuable this time is for you individually and i hope when you walk out of the senate and when the semester is done that you go out and change the vote and make it a better place because you have the tools and exposure to people that so rare in today's world don't let us down because as they say every generation the baton passes and then it's your turn to step up and begin finding solutions. you are about their. so take some of these issues seriously. the fact that i am called anything other than just a terrible failure is an amazing feat a

but i do believe in comments is measures put forward by folks like senator manchin and bipartisan legislation that would put forward a universal thatround check to ensure criminals, terrorists, and those mentally unstable do not have access to guns. i jim nussle port any other form of legislation around guns right now. any othert support form a legislation around guns right now. >> the notion that you want to get rid of the department of education, do you? >> my mother gets a laugh out of stock she is a -- get a laugh out of it. she's a retired teacher. my first jobs was in a head start program. the problem is we have had is what was billions of dollars and the results have gotten much worse. one out of three kids are not getting out of high school and our 14 euros are in that 14 year olds are in the middle of math and science. our system is not serving our children. it is gaining in the way of our good teachers. for educationion made at the local level between andparent, the teacher, local administration. my mother has talked to me since i was six years old that the best -- >> get rid of the

joe manchin is still in west virginia and you have a camp in north dakota. and a few republicans. that is a state that is democratic, she's a republican. and that is just a tiny fraction of the senate and those members of the senate where the most moderate. if you think about a member from a swing district, they are not necessarily much different than their average member of congress. but this is where you find a democrat representing and a republican representing. so we have some sort of trend at least in the senate that we have been seeing over the last 30 years, less party voting represented. so with that, i'm going to turn to our guest. when you think about the races and some of the work as well. >> thank you to the bipartisan policy center for putting this on and for inviting us. we have really enjoyed working together. some of the worker we have done is very interesting stuff and i encourage you to go on the website and take a look at that. and it's also important to share this. these two are truly voices of reason and the very best in their fields. and it's a privilege to b

but i do believe in common sense measures as put forward by folks like senator manchin and senator toomey, bipartisan legislation that would put forward universal background checks to ensure that criminals, terrorists, and the mentally unstable do not have access to guns. i do not support any other form of legislation around guns right now. , one attack has to do with the notion that you want to get rid of the department of education. do you? 86, and my mom and dad were schoolteachers. by -- my philosophy is this. one of my first jobs was teaching kids to read. the problem we have is we put billions of dollars in federal funding, and the results of gotten much worse. one out of three kids are not getting out of high school. 14-year-olds are in the middle of the pack in terms of math and science. by any measure, are federally controlled education system is not helping. it is getting in the way of good teachers with compliance requirements. i have said all along, the best decisions for education are made locally between parents, teachers, and local administrators. my mother taught me, the b

norman, angus king, joe manchin. because it wouldn't surprise me at all under these circumstances that you will see an alliance with three guys who basically say to the two parties "we can give you a majority or take away majority and we can do it more than once unless you do what we want to do." and what will be interesting there is if any portion of that-to-do list is immigration. my fondest dream is that angus king would go to mitch mcconnell and say "i'll make you majority leader if you do campaign finance reform." mitch mcconnell, will you give up your first born? [ laughter ] and just seeing mitch squirm would make my year. but that is the one caveat i would have here of a possibility of something happening in the senate along different line bus whatever happens in the senate other than than incredibly onerous security bill goes nowhere in the house so the only option for policy movement in the next two years comes on the executive front. wow. it really is very dire to look across the spectrum in that way. are

i am proud of suited her joe manchin standing beside me, calling nick reed hall -- nick rahal a straighthooter and same baloney to these ads -- with all due respect to baloney. i like the meat. but that is what these ads are all about. outsiders running their own hidden agenda. >> senator jenkins? >> i wonder if nick ray allin he was with those widows -- nick rahal when he was with those widows and first responders at ubb, that tragic incident, the ubb explosion, while they were still in search and recovery, nick rahal went and sold his corporate ownership in massey. ubb day after the explosion, it nick rahal, instead of consoling the widows, instead of helping the first responders, it must've been his first call, was to sell his ownership interest in massey. this is the gentleman that in cut, reduced, changed the criteria for black lung officialthat the umwa said the worst vote, the worst bill in the history of coal miners. it looks to me like we are going to have a fun night with a lot of cute comments and a lot of funny gestures. but that is not going to do a our hard-working west vir

by joehat was proposed manchin and pat toomey and that failed but we now see it in much done on the ballotif it wins on the ballot in washington state, what states could follow? ballotif it wins on the in washington, i think that is a huge message to our elected leaders that support for common sense gun laws is not waning, it's something that people want and it's something that is politically viable and is going to happen. we are going to get there. it is not a sprint, it's a marathon. we are looking to states like where thered oregon seem to be opportunities to try again with this legislation and to try to expand the background checks requirement. host: "the wall street journal" mentions arizona and nevada as well. republican caller is first. caller: i would like to say a couple of things. i am for gun control. there has been a misconception i that alltv republicans are very wealthy. i am a poor person and get less than $15,000 per year but i vote republican because of their morals. stamps, sometimes you need them and ids are required for everything. i have always had to show an id when i

two of the most unlikely allies joe manchin and patrick toomey after troubleshooting in connecticut came forward with bipartisan legislation for universal background checks so that we can keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals and people people that are mentally unstable. at that was a bipartisan bill. most people, 92% think universal background checks are a good idea. two conservative members in the house wouldn't even vote. >> [inaudible] >> i would say i've been very successful working with the other side i would take the example of ronald reagan and tip o'neill who had a very different political philosophies and managed to work together to help solve legislation. in springfield i worked with the senator who is quite distant from me in some political philosophies we become friends and we are known as the odd couple because we have been able to work together to solve legislative problems. i don't believe we have to be totally partisan as the senator has been on so many instances. i will look at the legislation and listen to the other side and try to incorporate that and come u

.: manchin to you do have on hand tree in liberia that the cdc does need to be involved with to try to this. but yes the president has the power to control our borders and to stop the influx of anyone from those countries. i believe that should be done but i never supported the paul ryan budget by the way. >> this question anger comes from a democrat reader and implementation of common core standards with a debate of the new system to help bridge the gap between students in american schools many are wondering what will the federal government have with education? what is the stance on education? should be if strict federal standards and what role should the government pay -- played to pay for it? >> i have heard a lot about the coming four with the testing that goes on and schools. but of course, he immediately goes to him but the problem we have in the schools today is there is far too much teaching to the test we're not teaching critical thinking skills we teach them to take a test. you can take that test and be good at that but that just proves they were good at taking a test does no