act is going to reduce costs for poor families and working families. and can they figure out how to get don t get mad. don t shoot the messenger here the de facto president on board? and you know who that is. we can t go too far left. this is not a center left or a left country. we are a center, if anything, a center right country, and that s being shown, and we ought to be able to recognize that. listen, you know, that was a bit tongue in cheek, but that s what it amounts to. even the president said in our town hall, even when you have 50 potential little presidents in the senate and in the congress. there is something that i as i was watching, i watched joe manchin on our morning show this morning and on all the morning shows, and he s talking about coal and china and firing up all the plants and that sort of thing, which seemed like a
okay, so there is an admission there. and maybe it was there was always a knee jerk reaction, maybe the data will show something different or maybe it s more nuanced than they got shellacked, but no, they got shellacked. they know what they have to do. can they get out of their own way? this election on tuesday showed us how seriously we have to take these issues, these pocketbook issues, and the reality is the build back better act is going to reduce costs for poor families and working families. and can they figure out how to get don t get mad. don t shoot the messenger here the de facto president on board? and you know who that is. we can t go too far left. this is in the a center left or a left country. we are a center, if anything, a center right country, and that s
parliamentary makes a ruling, that s when i make a decision on that, yes, i would be, if they make a decision. i haven t seen that. i think the scrub is going on, the scrub will go on as we re speaking. in terms of extending medicare benefits for dental, something bernie sanders still wants very much and you ve been in discussions with him. you had a lot of talks. is there any middle ground there for you to expand medicare? are you just john, i love this i love to expand to dental, to eye, to ears, everything that you that we talked about. it would be wonderful. guess what, in west virginia, the lifeline to these people that i represent and people all over this country is that medicare, i mean, social security and medicare are the lifelines to many, many people. that s all they have. and they re told right now by 2026, medicare will be in default. it will be unsolvable. and they re told by 2033, the social security, should we be adding more weight to take it down sooner or qu
phil murphy s margin is five points, won it by five points. but president biden won it by 16 points. even the more democratic counties pretty big swings there. so, yes, a win is a win for phil murphy. he will be governor for four more years. but you can see how there have been big changes in one year, brianna. yeah, very dramatic. berman, thank you for that. so one of the top issues for voters was the economy. and one of the central questions is where have all the workers gone? employers across the country are scrambling to find people to fill open jobs. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is with us now. i talk sometimes to business owners, and i noticed, like, their hours are shorter. and you ask them why and it is because they can t find workers. that s absolutely right. they had to get really creative and pulling their hair out. you heard it called the great resignation. we know that americans are they re quitting their jobs in record numbers, millions since
him to be fdr. they elected him to be norville and stop the chaos. what do you think about that? i think he can do that. i really do. i believe in president biden. i still do. he s a good person. he s here for the right reason. he really is and in government for the right reason. we have to work together. we can t go too far left. this is not a center left or a left country. we are a center if anything, center right country, that s being shown. and we ought to be able to recognize that. and all my friends on the left are progressives, liberals, whatever, i said i m not, i always say that i m a responsible west virginia democrat. and i m fiscally responsible and socially compassionate. i think most people in the middle feel that way. but i also empathize with the people on the far left and the far right. that s aspirational. come together, realize what can and can t be done. don t force basically something that is not going to happen to make it make people believe it will. let s loo