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Money interest to prevail and basically saying if i dont get everything i want, im not going forward. that is not acceptable to me. >> manu raju joins me from capitol hill. youve seen different approaches to be frank. sanders and jayapal are progressives, full frontal assault. dean phillips said we cant attack this guy, we do it at our own peril. what is the party leadership doing here and do we expect it to have impact on manchin? >> reporter: at the moment, it seems like manchin cant be swayed...

He doesnt seem to be open at all, not much wiggle room for revamping build back better. talked about taking it back through the committee process, pushing aside the momentum that would move it forward with just democrat votes so could they parcel out different issues included in build back better? maybe they can, but whats most likely based on what we heard from, is that he has no intension of changing his mind. hes very much set on a no vote here. schumer is going to push this to make it more p...

Person to do. >> reporter: menendez is threatening to bypass the committee process and take the nomination straight to the senate floor if republicans keep stalling. whats the line that they would have to cross for you to move to discharge it from the committee? >> well, at a certain point in time, you know, if we continue on a process and all i get is a sense that we are running out the clock by our republican colleagues, then that may force me to do that. >> reporter: and if democrats do move ...

Have one today, but i will not be part of it today. and many of them going back today will have second thoughts of questioning the legitimacy of the quorum last week. but if there is a quorum, we are going down the wrong road here, and we are seeing the republicans acting with the bills in committee and no negotiations and no discussion and no public testimony, and treating the committee process as if it is the floor which means bills can be heard in 40 minutes and this is not bipartisan or prag...

Can continue to work. whats your sense of how this evidence might be used in a hearing. do you think, for example, that jeffrey clark may get called to testify? >> boris, i certainly think theres an interest in that happening. its not yet clear whether the former presidents lawyers or mr. clarks lawyers will allow that or seek to put constraints on that. i think like we know that this first batch of testimony may be different than subsequent requests and, look, this all kind of exists in this po...

Pages this bill. so there are a lot of details. is there anything that if included in this bill would make you vote no in the end? >> well, theres not. not what i know of. and so thats an important point. thats why its so important to get the bill text dropped into the bill as an amendment and we get on the amendment. there are a lot of member who is havent seen as much as i have. theyre perhaps on other committees. i think the more they see it, theyll like it. the members find things we havent ...

Nature of it. >> is there any way to investigate january 6th that wouldnt be partisan then? >> i think the committee process is exactly the way to do that, thats why were here, thats why were elected. thats why in a 50-50 senate, the work of committees have jurisdiction, they did good work, came out with findings helpful going forward, but wanting to expand that, review history in the context of the next election or whatever the case might be, i dont think you need an extra commission and layer ...

Going to be about messaging. the trick for democrats is as they go forward with this, with the exception of liz cheney now, its going to be unfetterred democratic participation in this committee process. how do they sort of stick to the facts in a way where if the american public is watching hearings on television, it doesnt feel partisan, it doesnt feel like what the minority leader just sort of set forth there for us. >> manu, it was very interesting to hear jim jordan and jim banks there try ...

Jordan have any intention of taking an active role now in what remains of this committee process. you heard them both talk about sort of -- pivot with the question but talk about the idea that they dont see this as a good faith investigation and also the idea that they could somehow conduct their own parallel minority investigation into the real issues. so i think what we are looking at now is kind of a two-track situation where pelosi and the democrats and liz cheney are going to try to go forw...

No more bulky pads! find your leakproof underwear at knix.com i have no doubt that mrs. pelosi will have this be an endless committee process. >> its all political theater. thats what it is. >> i think the committee is fundamentally flawed. i think its overtly political. its really not necessary. >> anybody says its nonpartisan up here, thats a joke and everybody knows it. >> so seems to be going well so far. if thats any indication there wont be many gop yeses when the house votes on a select