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About people, not about process or politics, its about people. like my constituent who shared with me what this means for her, she talked about the child tax cut and the benefits that thats already providing to her and her children. shes able to now afford paying the power bill and providing healthy food for her children. thats whats contained in this build back better bill and why democrats will deliver for the american people. >> look, that which youre hearing from your constituent e-everett. ...

Because they need help and support as well. reverend al, i met with a group of young men recently in a roundtable to talk to them about this bill. these are young men who literally one of them is a constituent of mine. he was shot in the face when he was 17 years old at a local party in his neighborhood. now, he could have gone out and tried to retaliate and gotten into the cycle that is never-ending violence, but he chose to do something different. now hes a youth activist at one of our nonprof...

And really listening to your constituent it is. lets be very clear here. these are not controversial bills. >> no. these are not controversial provisions. this is not a controversial legislative piece. this is something that the overwhelming majority of the american people clearly want. any time you put yourself on the opposite of, that any time you put yourself in a position to potentially be an obstruction to, that you are playing political fire with your life, with your political livelihood h...

Addressed through this reconciliation/infrastructure bill. we know that the caring economy is critical to americans getting back to work. be that home care, child care. we know that weve got to give our kids an opportunity to get a great education in this nation. that means universal pre-k across this nation. but there are a whole host of things. we know from the pandemic, for instance, that stay-at-home orders did not apply to everyone and that affordable housing is a at crisis level. in our co...

>> youve said, quote, relitigating 2020 is a recipe for disaster in 2022. as president trump is constituent out there pushing the big lie, attacking your fellow republicans for sticking to the facts, going after individual lawmakers who maintained the rule of law, law secretary raft raffensperger in georgia. how worried are you as we approach the mid terms next year? >> im optimistic. you look at our competition, and the democratic party is divided. they have their extremes that theyre concerned...

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Through first. joe manchin is not stupid. he obviously knows thats the case. is he movable? >> hes proven to be someone who follows his own lane regardless of where his party or even folks in his state are going. i joined this virtual press conference earlier today led by the poor peoples campaign that had actual people from west virginia, poor and low income folks, voters, organizers, and the like who, you know, among other things, they were pushing joe manchin to support the $3.5 trillion reco...

Change, you cant blame every undesirable weather event on west virginia coal. we dont have serious droughts here. we dont have serious fires here. we have a little bit of flooding. >> reporter: ordered a state of emergency because there were multiple counties going through droughts, and almost every county in west virginia has seen massive flooding. >> but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, weve cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoe...

>> but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, weve cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoed this monday. >> we want to make sure we have reliable power. we have basically cleaned up the environment more than any other time in the history of this world. >> reporter: prefer nicholas zegg has studied the state and climate change for 11 years. he says breaking through the complexity of the issue feels impossible. >> climate change is so compl...

Trust is valued between $1 million and $5 million. will you be okay knowing that west virginia could continue to get hit by severe flooding because we as a country failed to curb green house gases? >> i think the premise is filled with malarkey, i really do. now, again, you know, we are sensitive to the fact that if were contributing towards climate change, but you cant blame every undesierable weathe event on west virginia coal. we dont have serious droughts here or serious fires. >> reporter: ...