CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield December 19, 2021 19:09:00
Months of negotiations. >> reporter: it was days. it was weeks. it was months. several congressional aides i spoke with said it was like a bomb going off essentially, blowing audiotape and killing any possibility of pushing for the most significant legislative pieces of the democratic party and administration. we're talking education, health care and climate change. the democratic leadership got about 40 minutes' heads up before manchin went public on television this morning to say he was out of it. he was done with the negotiating process, and this was very frustrating. it came after a week o...
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