democrats are left wondering well where is the president s leadership? this is not how he even wants to have these negotiations conducted he needs to take ownership of this at this point and get his fellow members in line. and he realizes he s the president but he is the president with a 50/50 senator so any one of those senators has veto power. normally you say the president has veto power and right now president manchin has veto power over.and that s why you don t see bide ensaying it s this way or no way and senator manchin is responding to his constituents in west virginia. there s been public polling that shows some of these are really popular in the state. that s one of the reasons one of the progressives in the house, you re running in in new york city suburbs very different than running in west virginia. that s a fact and hard thing to work out. they come from very different places but he s tweeting on sunday the american people and the constituents deserve to know