let s bring in margaret, cnn political analyst for axyos and ron brownstein and senior edit for for the atlantic. welcome to you both. i want to play more of this radio interview that senator manchin did today in which he talks about some of the strategy that progressives and potentially the white house took to try to get him to come on board. listen. they just never realized that because they figure, surely to gott god we could move one person. surely we to badger and beat one person up and get enough protests to make that person uncomfortable enough. and guess what i m from west virginia. i m not from where they are from and they could beat the living crap out of people and think they ll be submissive. period. margaret, the strategy that we saw from progress ifrs was to try to pressure manchin. he said i ve been in the same place since march.
movement. you re laying out what you think republicans can give. what do you think the democrats, the moderates, the progress ifrs really want to see on the other side? do they want to see the rate change for the rich? above 250, 300, 400? do they want to say before you take a piece out of me, you ve got to take a piece out of them. i think the 250 above is really important 679 i ll fell you why that is. it s because if you look at who got hurt the most in the downturn, it was the 98%, right? the very rich, the wealthiest in this country did pretty well. they did well even as the rest of the country has fallen often the cliff. so the idea that you re going to make it a little more progressive, even if later on you did tax reform, you will now made that tax code a little more aggressive. you will have given a little bit more pain to the top two percent.
still important for us. but he gets inside the room. you even eluded to that movement. you re laying out what you think republicans can give. what do you think the democrats, the moderates, the progress ifrs really want to see on the other side? do they want to see the rate change for the rich? above 250, 300, 400? do they want to say before you take a piece out of me, you ve got to take a piece out of them. i think the 250 above is really important 679 i ll fell you why that is. it s because if you look at who got hurt the most in the downturn, it was the 98%, right? the very rich, the wealthiest in this country did pretty well. they did well even as the rest of the country has fallen often the cliff. so the idea that you re going to make it a little more progressive, even if later on you did tax reform, you will now made that tax code a little more
you have to do it. and it s america. be need to find that middle ground. that s what the people want. they don t want us holding hands skipping down to the state of the union address. we ve got to go. they want us to work together. thank you, senator. i ll be right back in one hour from now, 7:00 eastern with a new edition of hardball. . i meant it, she s one of the best. anyway, we ll be talking more. good evening, i m cenk uygur, live tonight from miami, where it s fun. we ve got a great show for you tonight. coming up we ve got these stories. the republicans want more concessions from president obama in his state of the union. c mon, dude, really? the president has done plenty to appease conservatives this year, and i m going to show you a whole list in a second of all the things he compromised on. i want to know what he s going to do for progress ifrs the senator sherrod brown will join