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schumer s address on the senate floor slammed the gop as playing a dangerous and risky game and garnered frustration from moderate democrats as well as like senator joe manchin who shook his head and put his head in his hands as you see there, behind schumer. back with me to discuss, david jolly. also joining us, amanda, former national political director for hillary for america and ceo of code for america. that was quite a moment. when you saw joe manchin, who has been talked about literally almost every day on cable news, put his head in his hands and say, my god, i can t believe this is actually happening. and then you get this letter from mitch mcconnell, right, to the president, saying, i m not going to help come december 3rd. but i think we already knew that from mcconnell, whether schumer s speech came across or not. yeah, yasmin, these look, these are very dangerous games that politicians play, unfortunately. they rattle markets. they rattle financial stability.