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A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. This is why he did that, why he won. The American People rejected more of this, more blood on politicians hand, the democrats want this issue politically more than they want a solution and that is a factor. If i was advising this president i would say tell Mitch Mcconnell to go nuclear. National security issue, simple majority of the senate for Border Security. Rob the president asking congress to provide 5 billion next year to Start Building that wall along the southern border. Donald tr...

Opportunity to speed the transition to a new economy, new jobs. there should be electric vehicle manufacturing. west virginia has workers there have amazing skills in all kinds of sort of industrial aspects. manchin has an opportunity to do something about that right now. one of the political observers in west virginia that i talked to said that if this were senator bird whose seat manchin took who is a well-known west virginia senator for many decades that he would be taking advantage of this and the streets of west virginia would be paved in gold. instead you have senator manchin walking awa...

Story about senator bird and mitch mcconnell today that i think is meaningful tonight. tell the audience the story. >> when bird was literally almost on his deathbed, the senate was considering the affordable care act. mcconnell insisted that, all six democrats -- that 60 democrats had to be that overcome the filibuster and move it along. he didn't say, as the protector of senators would do, look, we are not gonna wrestle him out of the hospital bed to come here. we will find a republican who will vote that way, just so that we can, you know, let happen what would've otherwise. instead, bird w...

Senator burned -- bird rather. well what is your sense of how joe manchin now lines up with senator bird or what he might mess in senator bird's legacy? >> i think he misses very much what robert bird was all about. he thinks bird was dead set against any change and set of rules, and dead set in keeping the filibuster as it was. i knew him pretty well and talk to him about these issues many times. to follow on iris, he cared about the integrity of the senate and the norms of the senate. there were times when i spoke to him and he would be furious about, for example, democratic. a senator in al...

The partisan sentiments mcconnell. >> if joe manchin can get bird on the phone, where do you think board would advise him of the situation? >> three experts, we all knew senator brunei one time or another. but i think senator bird would say, you have to work for something that's bipartisan. work for something that can get broad support that you believe is the right legislation. election support is full of integrity. you have to get it done. if it means changing the filibuster rule, i would favor doing that. >> norm bernstein, you knew