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The Democrat senator from West Virginia denies claims that he's contemplating leaving the Party.

Involved in this process, it is interesting for all the rest of us to watch you creatures evolve, but thats what creatures do. >> very, very -- >> thats evolution. >> we are wicked slow at evolving, rachel. >> its jurassic time, we know. but well all watch while you all get it together. >> it is, thank you, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. david corn our lead guest tonight on a day when he reported the most important scoop of the day in washington under the stunning headline "scoo...

To isolate. norm ornstein, angus king invoked you in the last hour talking about what needs to be done in the senate, but i want to first of all in terms of the 60-vote threshold, which i want to get to in a moment, but i want to begin with davids reporting on joe manchin. youve seen all of these party switches, and youve seen that momentum over decades now, an its been basically a one-way street except for jim jeffards from a northern state. it remains something of a political miracle that joe ...

Motivations here, a lot of factors, and were not going to, you know, get to the bottom of it until he talks more frankly about it. >> and zerlina, today is also the day, davids reporting is out there, and at the same time you see a kind of increased momentum toward lets get a deal and certainly for chuck schumer holding onto joe manchin as a member of the democratic party has to be part of that urgency. >> absolutely, lawrence, and i think that, you know, the leadership of the democratic party n...

>> david corn, thank you very much for joining us with your exclusive reporting ornstein, t your wisdom as all. zerlina, thank you very much for reminding me how the pandemic interacts with the need for this legislation. appreciate that. thank you all for starting us off. >> thank you, lawrence. coming up, today every republican senator voted to block democratic senators right to vote in the senate. thats next. he senate. thats next. ♪girl, i dont know, i dont know,♪ ♪i dont know why i c...

To make chuck schumer the majority leader and put democrats in charge of every committee of the senate. chuck schumer knows the history of democratic senators in republican states switching parties, and so since he became the majority leader of the 50/50 senate he has to have devoted some thought every day to keeping joe manchin in the democratic party. publicly joe manchin has always said that he hasnt given a thought to leaving the democratic party, but david corn reports today in "mother jone...

Signal. he would then wait and see if that move had any impact on the negotiations. after about a week, he said, he would change his voter registration from democratic to independent. manchin told associates that he was prepared to initiate his executive plan earlier this week and had mentioned the possibility to biden. leading off our discussion tonight, david corn -- with msnbc -- norma nortons teen -- at the american enterprise -- is arena maxwell, the host of the program zerlina, that is on ...

Knew republicans would vote for it. that was a bill for that was up for the vote. this was the bill that he was democrats get behind, even though they dont like a lot was wouldnt. because he still voting rights had to still be bipartisan, and should be bipartisan. -- lot a single republican vote today, for this bill, not one. there was reporting today, a very real provocative reporting that senator manchin is considering leaving the democratic party, if he left the democratic party and became a ...

To happen, he would declare himself an american independent, and he has devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure. manchin has discussed bolting from the democratic party, perhaps to place pressure on biden and democrats in these negotiations. he told associates that he has a two-step plan for exiting the party. first, he would send a letter to senator chuck schumer, the top senate democrat removing himself from the democratic leadership of the senate. he is vice chair of the senate dem...

Change anything. he is not going to go to the republicans. i actually would like to see lisa murkowski think about becoming an american independent. if theres one senator in the senate who has been dissed and treated badly by the party of which he or she is a part, it would be lisa murkowski, but shes not moving, and i doubt very much that angus king will move. hes getting some leverage here, and hell use it to his advantage, and hes sending a signal to the progressives in the house and senate. ...