. >> you and joe manchin don't agree on everything exactly? >> yeah. i think you could safely say that. but i think at the end of the day every member of the democratic caucus understands the unprecedented health care and economic and educational crisis that we're facing today, understands that we have to work with the president of the united states to make sure that he is successful. and at the end of the day i am confident that every member of the democratic caucus is going to support this bill and the vice president will give us the deciding vote. >> you know, on the minimum wage, which is part of this and we will find out about the parliament tear. the minimum wage raising to $15 is very popular like the covid relief package more broadly. it cost 60% in the state of florida that donald trump won, beat joe biden in. we have seen this happen time and time again. it almost seems like republicans are cutting ads for democrats when they come out against it. i do wonder if it wasn't in this package, like, do you think you could win a floor vote on it? if

joe manchin is our guy. joe manchin almost always votes with a democrat.ow that in the end, senator manchin will be with them. i know that they hope for a bipartisan deal, but when he gets off the fence i believe it will be to support the democrats. >> juan: all right, jessie, do you agree with dana? is it a blessing in disguise for joe manchin? you can say to voters, look, those far left people are coming after me. >> jesse: dana is spot on. the republicans overly romanticized joe manchin. the republicans hooked up with joe manchin a few times, they think they are in a relationship. no. he's going to go home with the democrats. that's how it's always going to be. and you know what, it's smart. if he goes with the democrats, it's a bigger package, a bigger bailout for west virginia and fatter checks for west virginia. >> dana: and that's what they want. >> jesse: yeah, they want more money! what are you going to run against less money for people? no, that ship has sailed. -- and republicans don't have any so what they are doing is trying to say joe, keep y

i was a little bit disappointed in senator manchin today, like many people, because senator manchin is the same person who supported jeff sessions and many other donald trump appointees, but tweets of neera tanden, although she's brilliant, don't make her palatable. when you talk about things like the minimum wage, you have a state like west virginia where the governor of west virginia, who is a republican on some days, a democrat on others, but a republican governor wants to go further and bigger in terms of providing for the citizens of this country than joe manchin. i don't have any problems with joe manchin, i think we are a big tent party, the democratic party, but i hope that joe manchin starts to put the american people first instead of trying to play this role where he can choose which politics he wants to play on any given day. we need a $15 minimum wage. of course like i said the other night to you, wolf, i would want it today, but i understand there are concerns about small businesses, i understand there are concerns about low and small market cap businesses. so yes, adjust

joe manchin is the most powerful person in washington right now. and to ignore that and say, oh, my god, he's not a democrat, he is not really a good use of your time if you're a democrat because that's not going to change his view. i think that xavier becerra and deb haaland both face uphill battles at this point. xavier becerra because he has basically no experience in the area in which he's being nominated for, and deb haaland because a lot of republicans and conservative democrats don't like her views on some energy policy and natural resources policy. so, i would just say that both of them face uphill battles. and yes, joe manchin is the reason on both of them. >> yeah, no. i mean, it's a remarkable situation. i'm sure he's thrilled to be in that position -- >> he must not like it at all, kasie. he must hate this. >> i know, right? and he clearly feels the need to flex his muscle, though. so, of course, there's some republicans as well, mitt romney, lisa murkowski, susan collins. but if democrats lose that one, they can't do anything united. p

i guess if this was bipartisan, that was okay by old joe manchin. what is up with you, manchin? >> laura: of course, people like joy reid are some of the most illiberal people on the planet. and meanwhile, over at cnn, today, daytime host was bemoaning the simple math of the u.s. senate. >> it's unfortunate that he comes from the state which is not particularly representative of most of the country. it's a largely rural state, and a mineral producing state, and so much of the gdp of the country comes elsewhere -- from elsewhere. but it is what it is. >> laura: you know what else is what it is? that you, sir, are an odious snob who regard to west and manchin the same way, you know, they regard president trump, as. now what terrifies today's democrats i think the most is the prospect that come november 2022, they and their job killing policies are going to be exposed. that millions of voters will decide they want their freedom back. and that all the radical nonsense biden's team pushed failed spectacularly, which of course, it will. democrats have the slimmest of margins in the se

your take from the manchin interview?going to be a party line vote maybe? >> well, joe manchin is going to vote for at least the process to let reconciliation go forward. he said pretty clearly he wants it to be bipartisan. does that mean he has to have ten republican senators make it bipartisan or just a couple for reconciliation? because, it's very hard for me to imagine the package that would keep all those ten republicans on board and bernie sanders and joe manchin. it, th gap is so big. >> bret: jonathan, he also said he was against raising the minimum wage, which is part of the biden plan. >> right. so he's trying to draw at least a few red lines. as mara said, the fact that he wants to move forward, he's going to ultimately support something that will be basically a partisan vote. there's a lot of posturing going on right now. if you're reading the tea leaves, it does seem like it will be a democrat bill overwhelmingly, if not entirely and exclusively supported by democrats. >> bret: bill mcgurn? >> i agree. i woul

if you think about it joe manchin, and kyrsten sinema, they both said that's the problem. i cannot deal with the doubling the minimum wage. it is not fair to my businesses which are flat on their back. a lot to do with the pandemic. so if you move this out, then all of a sudden joe manchin probably can vote for it even though he thought the 1.9 trillion was a little bit much, but at least he can say i did not vote for the minimum wage.

joe manchin has made the trade himself. give him more space to support that covid-19 relief plan. i think the white house is waiting to see whether it's possible that lisa murkowski could support this nominee, just as joe manchin changed the onus for republican senators. before joe manchin declared, the white house believed neera tanden had one or more republican votes. it becomes more difficult for a republican to vote for her if that's going to be the decisive vote. by the same token, if the nominee can get a republican vote, murkowski, it becomes more difficult for someone like kirsten sen ma or bernie sanders to be the decisive vote. everyone is waiting to feel it out and see if it's possible to get murkowski. if not, obviously the nomination is doomed. we're not quite at that point yet. >> john, that's a great point. you've got two or cabinet nominees, but you've got javier becerra in terms of the hhs pick and deb haaland for interior. i wonder if you have a sense for how the white house is feeling on this front given

manchin getting a lot of attention for many different ways.nd by to see what happens in the next few hours with that nomination because things could be changing. really appreciate it. and thank you all so much for joining us this hour. i'm kate bolduan. the news continues, and john king picks up our coverage right now. ♪ >> hello, everybody and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing what is a very busy news day with us. big news in the coronavirus fight. the fda now says johnson & johnson single-shot coronavirus vaccine clears its bar for emergency use. final authorization from the fda should come a bit later this week. a green light there would add millions more doses to the critical vaccine push. priority one now for a biden covid team that just moments ago gave a pandemic update. >> one of the most impactful things we can do is wear a mask. and this is so important during this critical period where cases are declining but variants that spread more easily are

i take senator manchin at his word.is a senator that believes we need to have more civility, cooperation between the parties. that's his objection to neera tanden. i obviously disagree. i think she would do a good job, notwithstanding the tweets, her history of her work shows that. but look, senator manchin, he doesn't answer to us at the white house, he answers to people of west virginia. he believes this is the right vote for him. we obviously disagree, but we have been fortunate to have his support on other nominations, obviously. we are working hard to get support for the american rescue plan. i respect joe manchin's right to cast the votes, he is an independent minded senator. that's what he is going to do. we at the white house will make our case to him and all of the other democrats and republicans in the senate on these key votes. that's our job. it is our job to make the case, their job to decide and vote. >> are you confident you'll hold kristin cinema and other conservative democrats? >> on the tanden nominat

manchin voted to confirm him.ons then targeted immigrant children for wide scale human rights abuses for family separation and yet the first native woman to be cabinet secretary is where manchin finds unnese. with me now is political commentator s.e. cupp and kear stir powers, senior analyst and columnist for "usa today." i have been waiting for this segment, you guys. i'm so curious what you have to say about this. look, both of these nominees are women of color. . yesterday -- yesterday we actually played for our viewers some of the tweets that were told to neera tanden that were said during her confirmation hearing. they were not pretty. some of the things she said, one that stuck out to me, is calling mitch mcconnell voldemort and moscow mitch. and she had many, many tweets. but when you look at who manchin has confirmed, it's odd this is the standard for him, i think. and i just really wonder what you guys think about sort of what is appropriate for confirming someone or dismissing them on this, and if there

the first, mighty joe manchin. that's the focus of tonight's angle. democrats want americans tos think that they represent the vanguard against all extremism. they only go to political wart when needed needed that fleet allege radicals like donald trump. the truth is the democratic party itselfru has become a haven for far left fanatics. like all fanatics, they demand complete and total conformity of thought on all of their pet issues, the minimum wage, amnesty, things like transgender rights. get in line or risk gettingd smeared. much has been the experience of west virginia senator joe manchin. now that he's decided to make the obvious choice to oppose president biden's omb pick neera tanden. wasn't arbitrary, it was sensible. tanden like so many picks for interior, hobby or becerra , rachel levine at hhs, it's and and polarizing choice. a venomous hack, tanden has sprayed conservatives with the gratuitous attacks. also a conspiracy theorist and rush a hoax or super spreader. she has also displayed terriblen judgment. according to buzzfeed, as the p

the white house stayed in close touch with senator manchin, biden and manchin have had multiple conversationsnd they are staying in touch with kyrsten sinema of arizona, who doesn't speak publicly very often, but they are talking to her office. the one thing i'm being told is they are still trying to navigate this idea two moderate senators hold so much power. obviously had a misstep with kamala harris do television interviews in west virginia and manchin made clear he did not appreciate that. trying to get a better sense of kyrsten sinema. given the fact she's a relatively new senator, she has not served in congress while there's been a democratic president in the white house, they're still trying to get a feel for her, what she wants, what she needs and where she's going to end up. and that inact to read where those two senators are, at least at this point in time, may have imperilled one of president biden's nominees, john. >> phil mattingly, thank you so much, my friend. perspective now from our chief political correspondent and anchor of cnn's "state of the union," dana bash. i get that

but of course, they did win, and now joe manchin is flexing his muscle here.t. do we think it's possible they could actually find a republican? i mean, in my own reporting, i've been struggling to find someone that might get on board here. >> no, i think you're right, and it's a reminder that the tweets, your tweets could always come back to bite you, which is what's happening with her here. you know, it is going to be difficult for her to find a republican vote. like you said, she's attacked republicans over the years. but it seems like the biden administration, and you heard chuck schumer there, feel confident. they're not full-throated in their confidence, but they're feeling kind of confident that they can find at least a couple of those republican votes. eyes on people like mitt romney, eyes on people like susan collins, to see what they're going to do here. mitt romney, for example, voted yes on alejandro mayorkas for dhs, the place where they got the least bipartisan support for one of the confirmations of a cabinet secretary for president biden. and ho

the manchin situation is easily cured by just giving manchin a heads-up.o be objecting to the message, just that he wasn't told. that was the distinction i think that got lost. manchin's complaint, and it was was significant that he went to the media and complained, but he wanted a heads-up. that seems like something that's curable. >> so how does that play overall, hans, to how they are trying to sell this package? the pressure is on chuck schumer in the senate are the opposite. >> yeah. look, i think it would be foolish for me to predict where they're going to go on selling the package and what the total number will look. is it going to be under reconciliation. they will be legislative battles. the broader picture, they want action. they want it quickly. they know every day they wait, the problem is going to compound and it's exponential. if that's your starting point, it seems they will move as quickly as possible with whatever the market will bear. and by that i mean how many senate votes will there be. >> hans nichols, thank you very much for being he

joe manchin came out as a "no" vote on friday.do you think should happen with this nomination now? >> i think that leader schumer and president biden have made it very clear that they are going to keep moving forward and basically look for votes here. neera tanden has vast experience. she is someone that would do a very good job as the director of office management and budget. i don't think people were particularly surprised by senator collins' vote. i know she had been talking to people about it ahead of time. but there are other votes, as well. hugh hewitt, the conservative columnist, just came out with a column asking republicans to vote for neera tanden. they've made it very clear, the president has made it very clear he's standing with neera tanden. >> joe manchin is also a "no" on an increase in the minimum wage, as part of the $1.9 trillion relief plan. joe manchin is wielding a lot of power right now. i know you are someone who is seen oftentimes in more of the center of the democratic party in the senate. but how comforta

senator manchin?ator manchin and his team as we have been for some time. he's an important partner as we look to move forward on this package and all of the president's agenda. >> i have a question about the meeting with republican senators. the proposal that they put forward would take the over 300 billion in aid to states and local governments that biden has put forward and zero this out. there would be no aid in the proposal to state and local governments. is that a non-starter for president biden. can he move forward with a proposal like that? >> there was a reason that funding was in the initial proposal. the definition of calling it state and local means people don't know what it means. i'm not suggesting you're doing that. we probably shorthanded it too. that's funding for firefighters, for local communities, for enabling them to help get through this period of time. i'm not going to outline for you what the red lines are from the podium when there's discussions ongoing. the reason each compone

it is just joe manchin. just him presumably, hopefully, thinking hard about his own ethical standards, and why this particular nominee felt so over the line for him when he's been very happy to vote for multiple trump guys who are so far over the line. it didn't even register as a line at that time. i think senator joe manchin not only knows his power but i think he is an introspective guy who thinks about his ethical role in the world and i find it hard to believe that he is not reconsidering his position on this given the stark double standard he's applying without any effort to defend it. the white house is not withdrawing her name and why should they? senator manchin hasn't even tried to explain himself yet. i don't know where this one ends but neera tanden will get voted out of committee tomorrow. watch this space. >>> one of the repeated lines today from the senate hearing on the capitol attack was that the deadly events of january 6th were the results of an intelligence failure. officials testified wh

manchin slammed harris. it may not work the way democrats are opening, at least not the far left. >> what an enforced error by vice president harris. once again, very dubious political instincts have struck this is an early tests were as vice president and it didn't turn out very well because she shut up in his backyard to try to strong-arm, giving interviews in his state, no heads up, no advanced warning she was going to do that, no conversation and he was clearly ticked off about it. he was on special report with bret baer and you could see him for some of the, it was a big mistake they did that and if you want to get your agenda passed in your the biden administration and 50/50 senate with one or 200 a crucial swing votes alienating one of them needlessly in week 2 seems like a really dumb early move but that is what the vice president did and they are in damage control mode with senator manchin. >> final comment, jason. >> i'm curious what senator manchin is going to do. the most powerful person right no

. >> i want to talk out joe manchin. senator, wasn't happy about vice president harris speaking to west virginia media. it looked like a move to apply pressure on manchin. was that a mistake? >> well, don, i'm going to point you to what white house press secretary jen psaki said today. you know, i absolutely agree with her. look, we believe, like senator manchin has said, that the white house and congress have to work together with our allies to pass this package, this relief that the american people so urgently need. again, we're talking about vaccination in arms, money to reopen schools and keep schools open and operating, ppe, testing, on down the line. so, you know, we're speaking. the administration, our legislative affairs teams absolutely have been in close contact with senator manchin and his team and other allies on the hill. and that's going to continue, don, because this is going to take bold, urgent action to pass this package. it's an all hands on deck activity, and we're grateful to have senator manchin in

so -- so, let me ask you, david, joe manchin has become sort of a power player.e we all saw it coming, a democrat who could be conservative and you don't know where he will go all of the time. he's made it clear this time he does support the first steps of reconciliation, but there are parts of this package that he's not thrilled about and he certainly was not thrilled when the vice president did an interview in his home state and he didn't know about it and does this make him the ultimate power player in all of this? >> well, he is certainly going to be a critical vote. any time that joe biden and his white house are going to go to the hill and try to get something through the senate on just democratic votes, that means they're going to have to make sure that it's something that elizabeth warren, bernie sanders and joe manchin can all agree on and i will say i think this is part of what the success was in that meeting with the republicans last night. joe manchin came out today and called it a very encouraging thing to see that biden's first meeting was with his

chairman manchin, ranking member barrasso. it's both my pleasure and my honor to introduce my colleague from new mexico, my representative in the house of representatives and president biden's nominee for secretary of interior congresswoman deb haaland. she's a member of the pueblo laguna, what we like to call a 35th generation new mexican and as many noted if confirmed she will be make history as the first ever native american cabinet secretary, something frankly that should have happened a long, long time ago. >> she grew up in a military family. her father was a decorated marine combat veteran and her mother a navy veteran and she grew up like many kids with parents in the military moving frequently and 13 different public schools over the course of her childhood. before being elected to congress, she owned her own business and served as the tribal administrator. and congresswoman haaland knows firsthand how the decisions we make in washington affect communities across the country, especially in rural western states. as rep

manchin. >> it's important for the president to have the heads of the executive departments who are members of his cabinet confirmed. the senate has a responsibility to advise and consent to the presidents nomination and our committee plays an important role in the process for the principal officers. department of interior and the federal energy regulatory commission. it's an important responsibility not only as admired the dispatch with which senator murkowski scheduled action all the nominations referred. i intend to carry on in that tradition and i'm pleased that the first nomination in committee will consider this congress is jennifer granholm's nomination to be secretary ofenergy . as i've said i believe she's well qualified to lead the department of energy and i support her nomination. i've known jennifer since we were governors decades ago and i saw how she handled difficult challenges during the greatrecession when the bottom dropped out of the auto industry . she helped save the domes

joe manchin and krysten sinema.have new reports on the senators and how the biden white house may have miss calculated their power? >> reporter: that is exactly right, kate. these two senators have revealed themselves to be crucial to passing anything through the u.s. senate. and we should note, any one democratic senator could have outsized power given the narrow majority that chuck schumer holds right now in the u.s. senate. but specifically, these two senators have endangers perhaps neera tanden, the office of management and budget as well as potentially the covid relief bill. and i want to talk about neera tanden first. manchin came out against her nomination on friday. we haven't heard how krysten sinema would vote on him. the early national security nommies, they moved quickly and easily. this is a different story. we also are going to be keeping an eye on the two members because of what they are arguing on the the $15 minimum wage. krysten sinema doesn't believe that a minimum wage belongs in the covid bill.

joe manchin is trying to prove himself to be the most powerful person in washington.nk is what he's trying to do here. we just mentioned neera tanden, right? it was his opposition as the one democrat that's come out opposed to neera tanden that sent her nomination as omb director into a tail spin because the biden administration got scrambling to find republican votes. when you have a 50/50 divided senate and you're trying to do things on democratic-only votes like the biden administration is trying to pass this covid relief bill, alisyn, then any single democrat becomes sort of king maker in many ways. and so, with this minimum wage battle, which we don't know yet if it's going to be, according to the rules to include the $15 minimum wage in the covid relief bill. we're waiting to find that out from the senate parliamentarian. but manchin made clear, even if it's allowed in the bill, he's not going to vote for it. when you're doing something you need all 50 democratic votes, joe manchin makes a really big difference. so you hear what is an opening for a potential com

also, joe manchin is going to be on "special report" tonight.you're next. >> if knowing what you don't know is wisdom, then i'm a genius. i'm turning into dana perino and it's scaring the heck out of me. i'm showing pictures of my dog frolicking in the show. what's happening to me? i have been on the show for too long. i'm running out of ideas. >> we love it. we ran out of time. everybody watch greg's show on saturday. "special report" is up next. hey, bret. >> bret: is that a doberman? thank you, dana. i'm bret baier. we are covering three big stories. battle lines are being drawn for next week's impeachment trial. democrats will say president trump aimed a mob of supporters like a loaded cannon at the capitol. the republicans will argue they have no law to try them. president biden announcing a review of the immigration system as he seeks to reverse trump border policies one day after hosting republicans for covid relief talks as the sides remain more than $1 trillion

>> joe manchin. he was surrounded by 15 or 20 reporters. joe manchin is in there. he's not the only one. manchin has mccloud under the senate rules and you mentioned earlier could you override the parliamentarian which would be what we would a mini nuclear option of getting rid of filibuster. you have to have manchin's vote to do that and he's said no way. >> i think he agrees with you, there's a bipartisan way to do this. may not be 15 but you might get 12 and be able to claim some big bipartisan. >> the history is bipartisan. >>> there's a lot of hearings going on this week. he believes one country poses the biggest challenge for america. >> as president biden has underscored, out competing china will be key to our national security in the decades ahead. there are, however, a growing number of areas in which she's it's a formidable add ver sar. expand its global reach and build influence in american society. >> still ahead, the intel factor. new insight on the january 6th riots cast new blame on feds and accusations of missed intelligence. >>> new rays of optimis

joe manchin won't be censured because of this. party, and i think that's a good thing politically. >> susan, is it a healthier divide among the democrats than what we're seeing on the right? >> yes, i think so. i think, actually, i think what's been remarkable about democrats so far is the way they've hung together, you know. the house is poised to pass with just democratic votes, if necessary, that first big piece of legislation, the covid relief bill. the senate's expected to do the same, only to hold not only joe manchin, but also bernie sanders, they need to hold every democrat they've got. the big test, i think, will come later in this year with the second big legislative vehicle, the recovery act, because that will be a battle over what to do about climate change and immigration and taxes, and that will be maybe the last big train out of town for the first phase of the biden presidency. i think that's where we'll see real pushes and pulls among democrats. >> hey, pat mccrory, is there a penalty for a republican who wants to

joe manchin is the only standing living democrat left in west virginia. party. >> we can organize all of the working class west virginians who need this bill. >> good, you can organize them. in the meantime, mitch mcconnell will be the majority leader again. because if you bully joe manchin around on this, it's hard to be a democrat in west virginia right now, especially statewide. i've known him for 12 years. i take him at his word. he thinks this is bad for the senate and he's not going to do it, so this is what i love -- >> if joe manchin wants to be a republican let him be a republican. >> that's not -- >> if we can't get this done, we can't get anything done. the caucus needs to stick together on this. >> the caucus is together on this. i think, this is an opportunity rather than a burden. i think it we're approaching it wrong. you got actual relief for covid and get the economy moving. that's what the trajectory shows. number two, the minimum wage has to be done. i think nancy did a smart thing putting it in there, with all due respect knowing it's

but senator manchin is a critical vote in all of this and the minimum wage being at the heart of thisid relief bill raising it to $15 an hour is something that joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema of arizona have said, look, it's a nonstarter. so that is going to be the fight this week when the house is likely to have passed this bill sending it over to the senate. there simply is not the support for that in the senate. all eyes are going to be on bernie sanders, the chairman of the senate budget committee and the senate parliamentarian who will decide if this is even a germane discussion, if it is even be part of this bill. no question at all senator manchin's surprise decision to say, look, i'm not supporting your nominee for omb to lead the budget office was a clear sign to the white house that this is going to be much more difficult than they think. they simply cannot get a rubber stamp out of this senate. >> laura, you have some interesting reporting about what's going on with senator sinema in her state and the pressure from the liberal base and the democratic party. >> yeah,

joe manchin didn't like it. >> we need to work together. that's not the way of working together, what was done. if ra person is making $250,000 i don't think they're in as much need as a person making 40 or 50. >> if you need to keep all 50 democrats, there he is at the end on the policy trying to negotiate the president office position, some of which president biden said, i'm flexible, i'm willing to talk about that, and he's essentially saying, hello, senator manchin. >> the white house thinking they could pressure a key democratic vote by going on television and saying one thing. joe manchin is not going to be persuaded by that, and i'm told there was a conversation that came from the white house calling joe manchin from that interview, clearly trying to mend fences. we'll see if he decides to hold a grudge going forward. policywise, he does believe those checks in particular need to be scaled down. the white house, it's not clear they're going to do what he's asking for, but they may have to, and we'll see what the left decides if they

>> harris: pick anybody. >> brian: joe manchin. i think joe manchin republican state under no pressure to go along with democrats, zero pressure. he's very ticked off right now because kamala harris the vice president in there to try to swayed public opinion in west virginia where he has to sway public opinion's to get him to vote for them on the first place. the other thing is if you want to diffuse attention in the country make the next dinner party you have the consistent republican democrats to not end up in a fight, start cutting deals. people will gradually collectively start coming down. they will start debating the deal rather than who wins the next election. >> harris: and then you would have to come to the table with this notion, a singular motion don't like notion. everybody's voice counts, everybody. and a great idea can come from anybody. all right, the biden administration hit pause on a controversial plan that would have given back to guantanamo bay detainees including those suspected of being the 9/11 attacks on ame

but manchin and cinema are going to have to come around. now, the idea is that they are sort of -- by defending the filibuster, they are standing in the way of big left wing priorities like medicare for all, green new deal. but once we get through reconciliation and we see how narrow it is and how many things can't pass through reconciliation, you're going to be faced with the hard reality, before too long, i mean, march, april, sometime like that, where most of biden's agenda is going to get blocked. and so manchin and cinema aren't going to be standing in the way of medicare for all, they're going to be standing in the way of biden's agenda and the basic success or failure of the biden administration, along with the success or failure of their fellow democrats who are on the ballot in 2022, who is mark kelly, who is up for re-election again in 2022. so, i don't think at the end of the day manchin and cinema are going to tell biden and their fellow democrats who are up in 2022, to get lost, essentially, and to give up on passing things bec

joe manchin moderate democrat says he will not vote to confirm her. on that end. spectrum manchin. end, bernie sanders, with whom she has a long history of bad blood. sanders, the campaign back in 2020 called her actions malignment, belittlement. he is non-committal. the white house says they are standing by her. how long do you expect they will stand by her if she doesn't have enough democrats to even get through? >> i think neera tanden has been around long enough to not be a distraction and won't have to be told when to drop out if it's clear she does not have the votes. the only question i really have is why the biden white house nominated her to begin with. it's a big country, lots of people, and this is -- she is a polarizing figure. she had a history, a paper trail of polarizing tweets and the animas between bernie sanders and some of the things that -- the non-profit she heads has done is well known, famous and documented. the joe manchin thing was a little bit of a surprise, but then again the biden white house surprised manchin when vice president harris gave an interview

senator joe manchin has already said that he doesn't necessarily favor it.ned on to a $15 minimum wage bill. so i think it is very, very unlikely that we are going to see $15 minimum wage in this bill. never say never, but i would be shocked. >> alex, you beat me when you got to senator manchin because he also says he's going to oppose neera tanden to lead the office of management and budget, he quoted her statements on twitter. we'll get to the politics that have in a minute. first, what are the ramifications of this delay and multiple others on slowing down biden's agenda? >> this is a sign of just how powerful senator manchin is, how just one vote in a 50/50 senate can basically sway everything, can kill a nomination. now, right now the biden administration is searching fervently, trying to find one republican at least that will take the jump and still support neera tanden. but the immediate effect is, she's in big trouble. it looks like this nomination might just now be dead on arrival and that means that you're already seeing some behind the scenes jock

manchin instead proposed an increase to just $11 an hour. consumer advocacy group public citizen is calling on the u.s. to agree to a temporary waiver on intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines. the u.s. is blocking an international move to waive wto rules, which require countries guarantee drug companies' monopoly control -- monopoly control and contributes to vaccine nationalism. as of last week, 130 countries had not yet received a single vaccine dose. in lebanon, scandal has erupted and the world bank threatened to suspend financing for the country's vaccination program after a group of lawmakers received shots inside the parliament building, ahead of people who were registered on priority lists. over 200 members of the rabbinical human rights organization truah are calling on the israeli government to distribute coronavirus vaccines to palestinians, citing the moral and legal imperative to vaccinate all residents of the occupied territories. a warning to our audience, the next three headlines contain descriptions of v

manchin and sinema oppose.ancellation of student debt. we heard president biden ask that canceling at a level of $50,000. the biden plan was $10,000. asked if he was going to revice elizabeth warren. chuck schumer signed on with it. at the end of the day, this is joe biden being squeezed on one hand by joe manchin and the other hand with elizabeth warren. >> not a bad things. you are supposed to be competing interests here. look, democrats may have different ways of getting to those goals. that's where the fighting is. but there is no disagreement on the overall goals. look at where the democrats are divided on student loans. we all want to get to a better place on student loans. even on health care. there is no fighting about the overall goal as democrats want to get to more universal coverage. that fighting talks about how you get there. >> the dra makt difference, no one is organizing an effort to block joe manchin from being in leadership. he won't be censured because of this. it is a big party and i think

, and who is joe manchin's probably closest friend in the senate?an collins. so they're going to be together on a lot of these issues. whether or not they appeal to mitt romney or susan collins, they need to appeal to joe manchin. i can tell you joe manchin won't be willing to stand up and say the republicans are willing to let people die. >> republican strategist matt gorman and democratic strategist joel payne. gentlemen, appreciate you helping us start off tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, boston's mayor is named secretary. it could remake that city's politics. one of the mayoral candidates will join us just ahead. >>> also this week marks four weeks since the insurrection at the capitol. prosecutors are charging an array of suspects. but do we need new lawes to fight domestic terrorism? >>> and we know you have more questions about covid-19 including the new strains and the new vaccines. dr. lippy roy will be here to answer them. do keep the questions coming. you can email us theweek@msnbc.com. that's all ahead as "the week" continues on msnb

joe manchin, west virginia senator, said he won't vote for tanden to lead the omb.w where she stands on this issue. kyrsten sinema of arizona. she has been very quiet. the white house needs her vote. this points to a larger issue in the white house. their issue isn't even trying to get republicans to sign on to their proposal. their own democrats, they need every single democrat to support what they want to push through congress. cnn has learned that the white house is in constant communication with sinema on where she lands and has regular phone calls with manchin. they have a relationship with the white house on these issues but biden has said he still plans to stand behind tanden. the white house has no plans to choose someone else for this role. we'll be keeping an eye out how the white house plans to stand when they don't have the votes to confirm her to leave the office of management and budget. >> thank you so much. >>> bright and early this morning, you're one of our "early start"s, early birds. >>> the deadly capitol insurrection, the former chief said he d

clearly, they need joe manchin and kristen sinema of arizona as well. presumably that's why the vice president was giving interviews to those local stations. it was a little awkward to put it mildly. >>> our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us now. you're getting new, important information from your sources about next week's scheduled impeachment trial against the former president. >> reporter: yeah. we'll see the arguments actually begin to come out starting tomorrow when democrats and the former president's defense team offer their first filings in this trial. the arguments happening next week. democrats will make the case that trump intentionally tried to subvert the will of voters, rile up his supporters that led to the deadly capitol riot. the former president shaping up his legal team, adding two attorneys to his case but there's a dispute over whether they would focus on trump's lie that the election was stolen. and i just asked a top republican senator what he would do if the former president's team focused on that lie, tha

bill, to the -- to the banal topic, senator manchin not going to vote for neera tanden. insider guessing tonight is this is his way of saying, to west virginians, look, i'm not all in on everything this guy wants. and what he may do is be onboard for the $1.9 trillion. on the other hand, every one of biden's seven-confirmed cabinet secretaries has had republican votes walk across the aisle. so, isn't that remedy one for biden? and, isn't remedy two an acting -- appointing her as acting and the job sure worked well for the last guy? >> yeah but i think remedy one is the important one. and as someone who would like a strong omb director to, you know, make sure that when they -- when government spends money, it spends it effectively. and -- and intelligently, which is kind of what omb does. weed out the programs that aren't working. put money into the programs that are working and that kind of thing. neera tanden is kind of a tough cookie, and should be good at that job from a sort of moderate-republican point of view. honestly, if you care about policy, if you like biparti

>> yes, joe biden has to call senator manchin, president biden, i should say, has to call senator manchinve to do some work within the democrats and might have to do work with house democrats. i think we're talking about this backwards. is joe biden willing to go down and meet republicans? the question is are they willing to come up to make it worth to continue the bipartisan negotiations because to your point, president biden won the election saying he wanted a big covid relief package. after the election when republicans were warning don't give joe biden and the democrats blanket control of washington, both of those democrats in georgia won by saying let's give people checks and have a big package. so democrats believe they have the momentum and the american people. joe biden truly believes in process and in talking to republicans. so he wants to give it a chance. the question is, will they move to him? not will he move to them. >> is that what this meeting was about, optics or was -- i mean, it's not really the setting for a serious negotiation, or was it? >> i don't think so. it did g

manchin green light orange julius caesar's grenell as basically a twitter troll.own tweets targeting newt gingrich's weight, his wife's looks and michelle obama exercising. since that was bipartisan, that was okay by old joe manchin. plus haaland's nomination. he said he had a nice conversation with tanden and his opposition isn't personal. there's a time for bipartisanship to begin. we'll see what happens on the other side. "new york times" editorial board, republican strategist. i'm just going to go right to you. neera tanden thing bothers me. she's a friend. i like her a lot. she's a smart, brilliant person who would do a good job in the role. hate speech on twitter from the former president. all of a sudden people are up in arms on mean tweets. what are your thoughts? i'm just going to let you talk. >> sure. the hard-earned lesson of merrick garland, you just have to ignore this as nonsense are red meat that these republican are choosing to throw to their base and move forward, build a coalition and do the work. getting caught up in these activities is really

do you have a joe manchin problem, senator? >> listen, we have a 50-50 problem.n the united states senate, any senator can stop the train on either side of the aisle. i respect every senator making principle decisions on their own. hopefully, we can come together and do something constructive for american people. that's why we are sent here. >> joe manchin says he is going to vote no on neera tanden, how do you get the 50 votes to get her confirmed? >> it's simple math. being with is not a calculus. we need a majority. if we lost one, we are down 41-49. we need to pick up support on the other side. >> do you have any republican votes as you sit here this morning? >> i haven't worked to get. >> you says it requires a calculus. you don't know whether you have a republican vote. >> that's exactly right. i couldn't put a gun to my head i couldn't answer the question because i don't have the information. >> in terms of the minimum wage, which naw now senator manchin and senator sinma, how do you intend to deal with na? >> i support the minimum wage and think president

sit waiting to see if they can pick off one republican to replace joe manchin or let her withdraw andr her that's not a confirmable post? >> not to have a hearing is the right decision. the white house will try to take this back and do exactly what lanhee was talking about. neera tanden is the most qualified person to be omb secretary. they'll try to take it to a broader level and discuss the fact she's qualified and try to get some of the politics back and forth. i thought that clip you showed of senator corbett was the most hypocritical thing i've soon all day. here's a guy saying she was mean to both parties. you just supported donald trump, who's said the most violent and worst things i've seen in politics every day and you advocated for his elections and now you have a problem with neera tanden's tweets? the three people the republicans have chosen to fight over, tanden, bacerra, and holland, for a republican party that has serious minority problems, taking these three fights is an interesting issue and decision to a party that's now out of power and needs some minority votes to