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U.s. senator joe manchin is under fire from the white house and fellow democrats after saying he will not vote for president joe bidens build back better plan. a top legislative priority that would expand the social safety net. manchin has long been a key holdout on the plan despite months of talks. heres what he said on sunday. >> 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 i...

Legislation, and i have my reservations from the beginning. and i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just cant. ive tried everything humanly possible. i cant get there. >> white house press secretary jen psaki blasted manchin in a statement, saying, quote, if his comments on fox and written statement 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 and the senators colleagues...

Senator ben sasse says manchin and kyrsten sinema are the only democrats in touch with reality. >> the overwhelming majority of the congress knows this bill is crazy even though there are six or seven dems that only say in private what manchin and sinema say in public. there should be a reality check on progressives. they arent the mainstream. >> good afternoon to you. ever since senator joe manchin felt the fatal blow to build back better he has been taking -- jen psaki called him a liar and wo...

Just last week, the president met with senator manchin and said after that in a statement that he believed that they could find common ground on the remaining differences. and then on sunday came this bombshell interview by senator manchin in which he said he was a no on moving forward with build back better. were told that the white house got less than a 30-minute heads up on this, president biden tried to get senator manchin on the phone before the interview, was unable to do so. then came thi...

They really thought that, as that statement says, that they were making progress maybe not by the end of this year but they thought they were, you know, going to be able to continue to deal with him. this really reflects the fury that the white house is feeling right now and a question of what -- as you say, what do they do next. they continue this kind of rhetoric, they continue pushing back, or is there sort of a cooling-off period and are we going to come back in the new year and see them try...

Democrats are trying to pick up the pieces after west virginia senator joe manchins very public announcement yesterday that he will not, we receipt, not, vote for joe bidens sweeping $1.7 trillion social and climate spending bill, aka build back better. democrats are now trying to determine if that bill can be salvages in a smaller form or if manchins announcement is fatal to the centerpiece of the administrations domestic agenda. in an unusually harsh and personal statement yesterday in which n...

And i dont know exactly know the details of exactly what they did, but you can juxtapose that with what the white house put out, which is really saying that joe manchin betrayed the senate, as well as congresspeople in the house. the white houses statement was as lengthy as it was biting. i talked to some white house officials this morning who said they were taken aback by the tone and tenor of that statement. and you dont usually see the white house put out a statement that says, essentially, j...

Of bipartisan comedy. that he wasnt going to engage this the personal destructive attacks that define our politics today that he was going to look to peoples better angels, decide whats good and try to make dealing even when people dont agree with everything. that statement is very much out of the style that biden campaigned on. >> just for clarity, when bill says comity, he means c-o-m-i-t-y, not comedy that you laugh at. >> thats correct. >> look, i think there are a lot of democrats out there...

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...

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...