in 2018 by just three. the former west virginia university football player and ex-governor, manchin won his first race in 2010 after vowing to literally shoot down his party s climate change bill. i ll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. because it s bad for west virginia. reporter: moderates say he is reining in the party s ex treatments, broken an infrastructure package and a gun violence bill that biden signed into law. are you happy? i am happy he moderates many a times. he is with us 70, 75, 08%. time. nobody agrees with everybody 100% of the time. reporter: he along with kyrsten sinema refused to change filibuster rules, he has become a gop trlg darling. would you support him if he ran in 2024? absolutely. reporter: how helpful has he been to republicans in the 50 senate? i think helpful to the country. reporter: some say he should
ex-governor, manchin won his first race in 2010 after vowing to shoot down his party s climate change bill. i ll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. because it is bad for west virginia. reporter: moderates say he is reining in the party extremes and helping brokering the gun violence bill that biden signed in to law. are you happy with the position he is taking? i m happy that he moderates many a times. he is with us 70%, 85% of the time. no agrees with everybody 100% of the time. reporter: and he along with senator krysten sinema has refused to change filibuster rules, he is a gop darling. will you support him if he ran in 2024? absolutely. reporter: how helpful has he been to the republicans in the 50/50 senate? i think that he has been helpful to the country. reporter: some say he should just change parties. you keep hearing republicans say he should just join our
living or tried to provide for their family. if they want to criticize that, looking for some reason, the bottom line is inflation. the reality, manchin is a where democrat from a state that donald trump carried by 40 points. manchin only remained winning reelection by 2018 the former mansion won his first race in 2010, after vowing to literally shoot down his parties climate change bill. i will take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. because it s bad for west virginia. moderates say he s raining in the parties extremes. they credit him for helping broker an infrastructure package and a gun violence bill that biden signed into law. are you happy with the position he s taken on these issues? i m happy that he moderates many of the times. he s with us 70, 75, 85% of the time. nobody agrees with everybody onto percent of the. time and see along with kyrsten sinema have refused to
republican republicans came to the conclusion that there were more political gains to be made for this bill, and standing with 90% of their constituents backing up the gun laws. that movement of families, of parents, who wants additional changes to gun laws, is just going to become stronger after uvalde, after highland park. i am realistic, i don t know that we are going to come back and pass another major anti gun violence bill in the next 30 days, but i don t think that these parents are and i know that these parents will not stop, and i think the congress will do more. that s what happens with the social change movements. once they get a taste of victory, they come back for more and more, and more. they usually get more, and more, and more. senator, we appreciate your time as always, thank you for covering so much ground with us tonight. senator chris murphy of connecticut, he is a member of the senate form relations committee. during yesterday s january 6th hearing, we learned
violence legislation in 30 years. i can understand why he wants a break. but what i know is that the demand for action isn t abating around this country. it is increasing. what i also know is that the strength of this movement is really what moved the needle. 15 republicans supporting this bill, supporting a bill this significant would be unthinkable years ago. republican republicans came to the conclusion that there were more political gains to be made for this bill, and standing with 90% of their constituents than backing up the gun laws. that movement of families, of parents, who wants additional changes to gun laws, is just going to become stronger after uvalde, after highland park. i am realistic, i don t know that we are going to come back and pass another major anti gun violence bill in the next 30 days, but i don t think that these parents are and i know that these parents will not stop, and i think the congress will do more. that s what happens with the social change movemen