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Aides to the president for a breakdown in negotiations. >> it's not the president. it's the staff. and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable and they know what it is, and that's it. >> reporter: the white house press secretary jen psaki pushing back in a remarkable weekend statement calling manchin's actions a breach of his commitment to the president and the senator's colleagues in the house and senate. tonight her tone was more measured as the white house works to find a path forward. >> from the president's viewpoint, he has worked with senator manchin over the course of...

Term? let's discuss the political commentators analyst ron brownstein and kirsten powers. good to see you both. ron, let me start with you, if i can here. the white house put out a scathing statement. i'm sure we read it accusing senator manchin promised to don't conversations in the days ahead and to work with us to reach that common ground. if his comments on fox and it indicates an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitment to the president and house and senate. they changed their tone today calling manchin and biden ...

Colleaguies in the house and senate. they changed their tone today calling manchin and biden friends. what is going on behind the scenes? what are your thoughts? >> what we're watching is extraordinary in several respects. one, as you've talked about, west virginia is one of the states that would benefit the most from this bill. i mean, it ranked 44th in the share of kids in poverty, 45th in extreme poverty, 43rd in kids experiencing food insecurity. so there are literally thousands of families in west virginia that would benefit from the programs and the bill and very few who would be facing ...

Other thing that's remarkable about this, laura, if you did a census at this point of every elected democrat above the level of mayor, governor, member of the house, member of the senate, joe manchin may be the only one willing to sink this entire legislation. virtually every other democrat wants to pass something along the lines of what the house did and the thought that like your view from manchin who is part of this collective loosely to say i with a 290,000 votes i won should out weigh everyone else including the guy that got 81 million votes in the white house is pretty extraordinary. loo...

Legislation, and i have my reservations from the beginning. and i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't 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 senator's colleagues in the house and senate. in fact, new york democratic congresswoman alexander ocasio-cortez ech...