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Story, so i contacted his press secretary on wednesday morning and just said, i may have a time-sensitive matter for the senator. i know you guys are busy. what's the best way to get this in to you? you know, phone, email, are you the best contact? and she -- this is what journalists do. and she said, email me, this email, and she put another colleague on the email chain. i said, great. i'll let you know. and then half an hour later, we had the story kind of buttoned down, and so i went back and explained what it was, and asked for a comment and i said, can you get back to me by the end of the...

Have you ever -- >> no. you know, i'll be very honest. anything that was ever said, that we've ever talked about, if i'm an embarrassment to my democratic colleagues, my caucus, the president, me being a moderate centrist democrat, if that causes you a problem, let me know and i would switch to be an independent, but i'd still be caucusing with democrats. that's the only thing that was ever discussed. no one accepted that and i said, i'll make that offer if you need it. >> so, by the way, that is a major shift from manchin's categorical denial of the reports earlier this week. >> i can't contr...