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I just cant. ive tried everything humanly possible. i cant get there. >> youre done? this is a no? >> this is a no. on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. >> sources say president biden, who learned of manchins plan just minutes before that appearance, was furious. white house press secretary jen psaki fired off a scathing statement saying manchin promised to continue speaking with the white house, adding, if his comments on fox and written statement indicate an end to that e...

Things. it would allow them to go into the midterm with something to show for all their effort. theyll pay a huge price because theyre in charge and not yet running the show. i think they took a huge gamble in the white house to do this. to have that now go south for him, you know, has hurt him badly his public presentation, hes no franklin roosevelt that weve now learned but he can be joe biden and he can be joe biden doing important things for the country he can talk about and other democrats ...

President himself. quote, we will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word. well see what the white house has to say today when press secretary jen psaki holds her daily briefing in just 30 minutes. meantime, manchin responded to the backlash this morning in a radio interview with a west virginia station. >> i understand staff. its not the president, its the staff. and they drove some things and they put some th...

Were inexcusable, they know what it is, and thats it. >> reporter: the press secretary calling manchins actions a breach of his commitments to the president and the senators in the house and senate. today, her tone was more meameasure as the president -- >> hes worked with senator manchin over the course of decades. theyre long-time friends. >> reporter: the long simmering tensions inside the democratic party reaching a boiling point. with manchin blasting the build back better plan and deriding...

For everything from universal pre-k to paid family leave. >> i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just cant. ive tried everything humanly possible. i cant get there. >> youre done. this is a no. >> this is a no. on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. >> the white house response followed quickly, saying the president spokeswoman writing senator manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead and work with us to reach the common ground, yet c...

The wake of senator manchin announcing that he would no longer be negotiating on this but that he could not move forward with this piece of legislation. the white house said in a statement that, quote, if his comments on fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, meaning the effort to find common ground, they represent a sudden and inexplicable vereversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senators colleagues in the house and senate. the presi...

The white house claiming manchin gave president biden a proposed version of the bill earlier this week that the white house believed could lead to a compromise acceptable to all. and blasting manchin for “a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president.” the house in mid-november passing a $1.75 trillion build back better bill that puts significant funding toward climate action, child care, paid family leave, education, and health care. >> ...

I just cant. ive tried everything humanly possible. i cant get there. >> the white house firing back in a lengthy blistering statement. writing manchins comments are, quote, at odds with his conversations with the president this week where he pledged to keep negotiations going. if his comments indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president. the proposal which democrats had hoped to pass this year ...

Aegs in delaware. it revealed manchin came to the oval office, put down in paper the outline of what he would agree to and be willing to support. and then as you mentioned, the statement goes onto say that the senator in the white houses view, breached his commitments to the commitment and fellow democrats. now, one way to look at some of the comments that senator manchin made this morning where he lights up the white house staff, not the president himself, but the white house staff, is to at le...

They represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senators colleagues in the house and senate." cnns suzanne malveaux has more reaction it to manchins decision. >> the senate and the house are on recess for the holiday, but the reaction was fast and furious. democrats, moderates as well as progressive, angry, frustrated, disappointed. all tweeting out statements over the weekend regarding this bombshell announcement that wa...