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love you but not as much as al sharpton. i ll take it. i will take what i can get. thank you all for that. all of you have a wonderful evening. i ll see kate and sarah on monday and we re going to talk about this, believe me. but that was queen sarasee. it was such a kind of smashing together of all these different worlds. you have media, you have politics, you have lebties and hollywood, and it all kind of mushes together in washington, d.c., which, you know, does have the feel of a small town from time to time, you know. i don t know if any of you all have been in the room i assume you all have. what are kind of your thoughts about it in terms of how it mixes together all these different people? i remember last year i saw pat zajac and i lost it. i mean like i lost it. and it s like what are you doing
is that individually things like child care, things like paid leave, many of the things that are being talked about as being part of the bill are individually relatively popular but they ve all been thrown in together into this big, massive bill that most people don t think is going to benefit them directly and so as a result, the political upside of doing one versus another, i think the difference is negligible. i think democrats backed themselves into a problem where individually something like infrastructure is very popular, et cetera, et cetera, but requiring it all to be tied together has created an absolute political mush that is not giving them any of the benefits i think they were hoping for. chris: we do not like political mushes there, i ve got to tell you that. so meanwhile, there was news over the weekend and that is that senator joe manchin, the 50th democratic vote from west virginia, says that he is going to oppose and block the centerpiece of president biden s climate c
is that individually things like child care, things like paid leave, many of the things that are being talked about as being part of the bill are individually relatively popular but they ve all been thrown in together into this big, massive bill that most people don t think is going to benefit them directly and so as a result, the political upside of doing one versus another, i think the difference is negligible. i think democrats backed themselves into a problem where individually something like infrastructure is very popular, et cetera, et cetera, but requiring it all to be tied together has created an absolute political mush that is not giving them any of the benefits i think they were hoping for. chris: we do not like political mushes there, i ve got to tell you that. so meanwhile, there was news over the weekend and that is that senator joe manchin, the 50th democratic vote from west virginia, says that he is going to oppose and block the centerpiece of president biden s climate c
see today on infrastructure but sinema and manchin and republican colleagues at the white house come together on this and perhaps hope down the road on other mushes. certainly president biden is banking on that and needs that to deliver on the overall agenda with voting rights, civil rights, as well. yeah. my thanks to you all. phil, you are also the author of i alone can fix it. i don t know where you find time to write the books but congrats on that. a senator at the center of the negotiations joins me now. democrat mark warner of virginia. thank you for being with us again. thank you. for bipartisan group of senators to agree is lightning speed in two to three weeks time. how did you do it? i got to take a little exception to your former panel.