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The democrats went into this election thinking they were going to pick up an easy 15 more seats in the house of representatives, but they wound up losing 7 seats to the republican party. Theyre going to keep their majority, but this is going to lead to many more votes that are what i call squeakers are just getting by. On last weeks show we focused on some of the lessons that republicans might be learning from this election. And this week were going to talk to a leading democratic senator to see what kind of soul searching his party is doing these days. He has senator joe manchin who represents the state of West Virginia where he previously served as governor. And hes the only democrat Still Standing elected to a federal position from his state. Let me just put it to you. Which agenda one did the agenda of wiping out Student Loans of health care for everyone. Did that Progressive Agenda win or did a more cautious deal making centrist agenda agenda when the selection im not sure anybody wants from that standpoint because theres nothing overwhelming lace supported by either side. We were so right down the middle more stills that i can only speak of West Virginia and tell you how West Virginians feel basically on all the opportunities that, that theyre given, their very appreciative and the time the government is involved. That gives them an opportunity whether it be health care and and job said theres always one very welcome. But when the scare tactics, you scare the bejesus out of them by making them believe that theres going to be some type of an energy shift that will take jobs away. Not even give them recognition for what theyve done. An opportunity to continue to live a much to do that scares them and then they get mad if they do those like anyone else, if you lose your opportunity provided for your family and yourself, thats very scary. So with all of that, its a tremendous challenge that we have right now. I still remember the belief. Theres more the divide, the more the unites us than divides us as a country. Were still the United States. We might be a little fragment of the right now, but we always come back and, and i think well come together, but i heard your i, and you were talking just briefly there about where we stand as a country and a basically as a different direction. Were going to go because the house didnt win seats and lost seats still had a majority, but a slim majority. The senate didnt get the majority, which it thought it would get. And were not sure if we will get it or not, because were still waiting on the results of 2 elections in georgia in january. But no matter what happens, we are much closer in the numbers that make it harder for any one side. To have the frenchs from control, which the hard left or the hard right has very little control over very narrow margin in either house or the senate. So i think it gives us a tremendous opportunity and come to the realization that we have to Work Together see versus just fighting for our respective sides. Because theres no comfort there. Theres nobody. If, if the Senate Becomes 52 to 48 or becomes 5050. If the house has to rely on not losing some of their moderate democrats to stay in control, then that will bring them back to the middle. And the moderate middle is where we run our lives, where we run our, our businesses, and what we run our country from. And weve got to get back to that. So maybe its a blessing in the skies. Im not sure yet. Well, let me ask you, you know, i mentioned senator that you were now at for in terms of those that are elected to federal office. The last democrat in West Virginia. You also happen to be overwhelmingly popular in West Virginia, in a, in a state thats conservative. You stand out and im just interested in whether we can derive any lessons from that. As now, president elect biden thinks about reaching out to those 71000000 people who voted for president from well, as i saw the last figure there, 73000000 and 78000000. 00 votes for donald trump, i mean voted for joe biden. So its a tremendous, overwhelming victory. But theres an awful lot of people that maybe are incensed how many of those will start looking at reality . Ive said this before, the bottom line, we need it. We need to cure our, our country of this pandemic. We need to read it with a vaccine and antibodies that work, and until that happens, itll be hard for us to get back to the normals that we had before. I dont think the new normal will be what the old normal was and what that might be greater opportunities that we have. We have to be prepared right to do that. And i think the, the more the more reliance we have on science and not denying it and give people false hopes it is not going to harm them. And its just basically a hoax is nothing real. Dont worry about it. I think weve seen study that this is serious. This is a killer, not just in the United States of america or of our all over the world. And we need to be attacked and much more serious than what we have been. So hopefully will come together on that. And next of all, we need a bipartisan bill. Whats the best bipartisan bill you can start with that everybody agrees need to be done. I said this if you have a bad road, a part of all. If you have a bridge is falling down. And trust me, that pothole in bridge and bad road doesnt know if youre democrat or republican, you know, bust your tire, tear your car up. The main danger your life, thats something democrats or republicans can agree on. Lets do something that unites. Lets do a major bipartisan bill as far as infrastructure, connecting all rural america, the divide between rural and urban is getting deeper and deeper the chasm. Its growing. And with that, weve got to come together. How do you do it . You do it with infrastructure, you do with Broadband Connectivity row connectivity, the same as f d r brought our country together during the greatest depression or is there or not . Thats what we need to do. So thats what were working on, and were going to try that hopefully with the binding ministration. Were in the most pragmatic way to start repairing and uniting, not only opportunity wise job wise. But truly the emotional generational gap that we have and, and, and making sure that we understand each other that thank you for that part of the trauma of this year has not just been cove it, but its been the murder of george floyd. Its been the, you know, protests over racial, divides and Economic Justice issues in the country. Do you think there is a program out there that can address some of this, you know, Racial Justice and Economic Justice means issues without losing the center and play to that area . Well i think we all, weve all heard basically that the defund, the bullying, that is the most good is ludicrous and ive ever heard see, why would you be front when you know you have a problem, you would invest more expect better results. That would be why would we do less training the most civilized nations with our police force and, and the continuing education as should, should be coming demanded by every police force to know the social challenges and social changes that are happening in there. And there is a police because its most of these areas are transforming themselves with all the new influx of population growth and shifts going on. And i think they should be basically experienced in that and educated towards the needs that they have there. But so when they use that, that they scared the bejesus out of a lot of people that were going to defund the police and were going to accept the looting and rioting. Theres not a democrat that i know of, thats in favor of the fight. And if anything, were in favor of more find the and better targeted funding of how we expect the police to be trying next of all in the areas that have been hit, the hardest. Weve got to get in there and basically Start Building a social gathering. If you will, and on never forget after 911 in the West Virginia, you know, we were probably the least not bursting a nation. But when i was governor, we start bringing all the denominations and churches and religious. So we could understand as long as we can understand from our, from our brothers and sisters, whether it be our rabbis, our priest or preachers. We want to know what was going on. We had them all together from the rabbit to the amman, to, to the priest, to, to the pastor we had a ball trying to explain to us the social challenges that we have and how we have better embrace that. So we dont understand it better. That needs to be done more now than ever. You know, you might, you talk about defunding, the police, and i just want to read a tweet that you sent out, and that represented how exactly ocasio cortez. And we have, we did with her giving you the devil stare when you were looking at this and its a defund, the police defun my but im a proud West Virginia democrat. Were the party of working men and women. We want to protect americans, jobs and health care. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda and we do not believe in defunding the police. She sent that out with her just staring at her no words. So i guess that gets at the point of part of the question of the divide, right, is to get at this question of whats happening with the soul of the Democratic Party, where that struggle is and what role youre going to play in that. I mean, i remember, i mean, youre kind of, you know, in an interesting vice, i would remind our viewers that when you ran 2 years ago, donald trump jr, was going in campaigning against you in that state. And you still won with the trump machine going after you, but now youve got yet don trump jr. On one side, now youve got alexandria across your court as on the other. How does that feel . But 1st of all that was the president himself came in 6 times the president , donald trump, him state 6 times campaigning against me. Now afterwards i told him, i said i wasnt running against my opponent. I was running against you, mr. President , because thats what basically you could, and people most reduces. We want our senator, not your senator, mr. President. And its been tough. It really has been now to have that when you said so of the Democratic Party. Steve, i truly believe this. So has been silent when it has been very, very silent, and sometimes silence is deafening. And thats what i believe is how can, the people such as a o. C. , are there aspirational, thats fine. They have some ideas and they want to express that. That is not who we are as a Democratic Party, that i know i can on speak for myself. And the people that i know within the Democratic Caucus. But by being silent except that you know, we should denounce immediately when i said the from were not defunding the place were going to invest more and expect more at point blank. We shouldve spoke really, really strong. And that wasnt spoke spoken by leadership or whatever reason. They just were kind of silent about that. Not knowing how to tiptoe around it and not talking about looting and rioting. Abouta brought in the National Guard towers. I had the National Guard my at my beck and call when i was commander in chief of the West VirginiaNational Guard. I dont need the federal government to come in or federal officers to commit. We can take care of it. Were not going to tolerate it, but you prevent that by happening because in areas, you know, you have a hotbeds of dissent or this type of anger and hatred build up. Youve got to go in there and bring those people to the table 1st and defuse that before it gets lit. And thats what was done. But again, the soul of Democratic Party denounced looting and rioting. So the republicans picked up a made a believe that the democrats are acceptable to the looting and rioting and tea fire never even heard of anti before. And the black was matter. Well as what we saw happen to george floyd. I think it should have shook everybody to their core to watch a person who is of the police and with authority. Basically took the life of a human being in front of the whole world to this, to watch, in the most callous. An insincere waiters are a matter of fact, this is what i do every day. It was beyond our imagination that Something Like that could happen, let alone the confirmation of watching it happen in front of our eyes. So these are the things we speak about. And yes, black lives matter and yes, all lives in that. But when people have been treated and dont you think youve got to step up in the fantasy, listen, were going to tolerate that america. Its not who we are. Not how i was raised a. Now and i think we need to speak up, have the democrats yet done . Has senator schumer has nancy that nancy pelosi sat down and really analyze with those of you who have been complaining about the direction of the party for a while. Have you done an assessment of what . Right, what regt, what went wrong so far . Let me just tell you. I want to give senator schumer all the credit in the world for coming to a realization that we have to be heard. Every senator representing every part of this country has to be hurt. Those that want and those that those in difficult areas and what theyre seeing and what hasnt been said. And for 2 days for 2 days now, every democrat senator has been on his own as we are right now. See. And was able to speak as long as they wanted to and take it also just what they think is wrong. And right now i can tell you that it has been a deep soul searching and understanding that we have to listen. We have to Work Together, but its different. And, you know, just trying to hold all of this together because its a real challenge, anybodys. A challenge when you have a tent as big as our camp, with all the different people that we have. They always say from Bernie Sanders to joe manchin or liz before him to joe manchin. Well, the thing of it is i come from a very i think youre very pragmatic. Realistic and conservative area, you know, was for jimmy was never given a lot, but the West Virginia basically was always hard working and never complained a lot. We did the heavy lifting, we never complained we were happy and we were just expect everyone to pull their own weight. We never wanted people to be slough ers, are slackers that if they were capable of doing something, they should work and provide value. And those who couldnt, you should have the empathy and sympathy of basically, and i think the more responsibility of taking care of those. I think the good lord put been put there for us to see if we would react as human beings. And thats who was for doing it is our ive said today, ive talked to West Virginians and i said, you know, joe, we believe that the west, the Washington Democratic