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Ocasio-Cortez has become the new Cassandra of Troy, foreseeing Manchin's betrayal as Democrats did nothing to stop it.

Today on TAP: The Democrats and the Manchin Captivity

Supporting it. congress sort of trimming down the bill by identifying programs to eliminate, manchin may be well helping the process by dropping a bomb. democrats need to understand their old policy design is dead so they can restart the negotiations on manchins terms where the white house decided to personalize and attack a senator who supported needs is difficult to fathom. the bill may be dead but democrats cant give up on the last chance to make the economy a little fairer and to take action...

Regard. just as people in arizona holding kirsten sinema in high regards and certain members of the media. those are not political reality. the question is do democrats want joe manchin to just switch to the republican party that would certainly make his life a lot easier. >> well, there are a host of questions we have to face this morning. its interesting. senator chris kuehn has sharp words with regards to senator manchin. the white house not only needs manchin but they need the progressive ca...

The last 24 hours, as you know, the senator buffered his own party and killed the build back better act. manchin said he was at wits end with negotiations and something specific pushed him over the edge. listen. >> we know the real reason what happened. they wont tell you and im not going to. >> well find out more about that, and well get to new reporting from our sources saying manchin is a no partly because of concerns that parents might use the child tax credit to buy drugs or use paid family...

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he cannot back a $2 trillion social safety net bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the legislation.

Back to you, do you want to tackle another one on the list? >> well, you know, i think i want to actually elaborate more on the manchin point here, because this foreshadowing even more of bidens agenda, he has been talking about in the past few months about voting rights. we know that in order to pass voting rights, not only do we need all 50 senators but we also might need to kill the filibuster. joe manchin is going back on his word that he gave to the president. the white house came out with ...

Couple of weeks ago to the "wall street journal." hes talking to these more right-leaning conservative organizations like fox news as well, appealing to those folks that watch those programs. he said, listen, i always thought the reconciliation package was too expansive. i think reconciliation should not be used for a massive social reconciliation like democrats are doing. thats what he said in the beginning of december. now when you look at what progressives are saying, they are frustrated, bec...

Down. >> all right. he has a lot of questions to answer. however, you heard the senator talk about one of his biggest sticking points, saying how the top line number kept shrinking but all the priorities remained in. he said that democrats need to pick their priorities and fund them for ten years versus delivering on all of them for one year, maybe up to three years. as you hear that, what do you make of that criticism, and would the progressive caucus be open to picking fewer priorities, fund t...

He is talking to other special interests and thats what -- what really irks me about him in saying no today is that this is not something that fully aligns with him saying hes been negotiating good faith this entire time, right? like, this is what those representatives in in the progressive caucus warned us against and i am sure none of them take pleasure in being right about their concerns for not trusting him. but he has shown his allegiance lies with special interests, not with the people of ...