and good evening. thanks for joining us. we are focused, tonight, on two powerful lawmakers standing between president biden and virtually everything he hopes to accomplish in his presidency. one of them is senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell. thother is a democrat. in just a short time ago, he spoke with cnn. west virginia democratic senator, joe manchin, despite having many of the same goals as the president, is refusing to change the way the senate works to achieve them. not on infrastructure or voting rights or even a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack on the capitol. his deeply-held belief that giving the minority the power to block important legislation will bring compromise, and not paralysis, is why the bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection could get 54-yes votes and just 35-no votes, and still fail. yet, even in the face of that, senator manchin has stood firm against eliminating the