60-vote threshold off the table? >> no, no. we're going to make the place no. we're going to make the place work. >> good effort by manu. that's senator manchin. as for mitch mcconnell, he's made it perfectly clear where his party stands. he says so. >> 100% of our focus is on stopping this new admin administration, what we have in the united states senate is totally different from susan collins to ted cruz in opposition to what the new biden administration is trying to do to this country. >> not only does that not sound like the beginning of a beautiful bipartisan friendship, sounds like what mitch mcconnell told the national journal back in october 23rd of 2010. quoting now, the single most important thing we want to achieve is for president obama to be a one-term president. joe manchin knows in, of course. he's a democratic senator in an overwhelmingly republican state, a state in which nearly 70% of people voted for donald trump in the last election. joining us now is bernie