on climate change provisions. cnn chief congressional correspondent, manu raju here. is manchin willing to compromise? has he dug in? it s unclear if they can resolve his concerns and do as quickly as the democratic leaders want. joe biden and nancy pelosi discussed what they both share here. they want the talks to end. what is less clear is exactly how they will end. there is significant differences between progressives who want a massive expansion of the social safety net, they re willing to come down on the $3.5 million price tag, and keep the number of programs and limit the years they can offer the benefits. manchin and kyrsten sinema, and manchin has pushed back on the climate change emissions, reducing global greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. he hails from a coal producing states. he does not support the program
terms of influencing things and negotiating with these members of congress who have yet to solidify a plan that is ready to vote on. reporter: that s right, fred, and they re bickering with each other, openly, publicly. you know, yesterday, senator bernie sanders published an op-ed in senator joe manchin s biggest daily newspaper in west virginia where he touted the $3.5 trillion bill. saying that his constituents, manchin s constituents need to get behind it. this is what he said what i m about to read is manchin s response to senator bernie sanders put this up. this isn t the first time that an out-of-stater has tried to tell west vanirginians what is good for them despite having no relationship to our state. congress should proceed with
earlier, big government socialist check out what you do at school boards and in the military, now they want to check into your wallet, these people want total control over your life so they can decide, so they have the power. bureaucrats running your life, you found the party that is eager to do that. manchin and cinema, save yourselves before it is too late always been demanding the tenant colonel scheller be released from the brick and we have new details where he is. s attorney joins us exclusively. stay there. there.
partly depends on whether they put their foot down. depending on how they designed the bill and get what the left wants, the newsletter said there are no moderates here, there s a choice between the timid big government socialist in the bold the government socialist and manchin proves what i was saying, there is no reason for him to be for $2.2 trillion. i saw a number this morning that president biden is an 18% approval in west virginia meaning the people manchin represents have a 5 to 1 opposition to biden. the whole thing tells you the
pitching this multibillion-dollar boondoggle to unions in michigan but the truth is he has done more to physically america s decline then president biden himself, he voted to normalize trade relations china and supported the wto but cost millions of jobs and some republicans supported too but now president biden wants to cause more misery for working americans by taxing and spending our economy into oblivion. what is more worrisome is manchin seems to be cracking. we predicted this, he opened the door to $2.2 trillion in spending. newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and author of the upcoming book beyond biden, rebuilding the america we love. i always knew manchin was going to be soft touch. they showed up in those kayaks and he melted. is there any room for hope that this will blow up?