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Subject to reconciliation. that it should be subject to a 60% threshold. "the wall street journal" taking aim at the media for the fact that it will be far more from being hit in, saying that the press has reported almost none of this which is how democrats like it. what do you think of that? >> i suppose that's true, i have to say i did not know it, i did not know that you knew it. i thought the article was an eye-opener. >> john: i was emailed a month to go about it. >> it's very good reporting. i'm not sure i blame the mainstream media so much for this one, i do credit "the wall street jour...

They don't mean what the president means when it comes to that. the stunning silence from republican members in terms of their attendance and what their plans are for saturday and how they are all distancing themselves as fast as possible from this, but not really wanting to talk about it, i think it speaks to their dilemma. on the one hand, they can't afford to totally alienate the base that still thinks and trump supporters who still think that the people who are here on january 6th were righteous in some way or justified in some way, some kind of -- they still see them as sort of heroic, wh...

Do we cut those costs, that really are squeezing families, squeezing people, keeping them up at night and keep the tax cut going that we passed that's, frankly, the biggest tax cut for american families in history. and how do we deal with the climate change while we're creating millions of new jobs, and a lot of those in michigan, i have to say, we're clean energy manufacturing, we want to bring those jobs back, we want to bring them home. but she's going to be talking about all of that. and then as i said, the really great part of all of this in the end, when you look at all of the budget iss...

There is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ought to treat constitutional issues the same way we treat budget issues. we move the budget forward without this filibuster application so as not to threaten the credit of the united states of america. and we ought to move forward on constitutional issues when it comes to the filibuster. so the filibuster i think has its place, but not when it comes to voting and other constitutional issues. so we'll see where we go from here. i am hopeful that joe manchin will do what i know that he is ca...

Conversations with joe manchin. i like joe manchin. we have been friends for a long time. we used to do a lot of these kinds of chores together, just like i did with joe biden. so both of us have developed a great deal of patience with each other. and so i think that joe has made me a little bit sensitive to the filibuster. i wanted to get rid of the whole thing, but he convinced me that there is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ought to treat constitutional issues the same way we treat budget issues. we move the budget forward wit...