capitulate to democrats. he represents a state that donald trump won by almost 40 percentage points. beat joe biden by almost 40 percentage points. joe manchin is a unicorn democrat in west virginia. probably the last one ever. reporter: maybe. all of his political in sent if s push him not to the democratic party but the republican party. okay. you can have progressives threatening him. but he s privately told people that helps him back home. anyone who has two brain cells can see that. i don t actually understand. maybe it is just venting and frustration and there is no strategy. but if there is a strategy, i d like someone to explain it because it doesn t seem particularly coherency to me. i tried to drag kate bedingfield into it. she can t get into it because of the hatch act while she s standing there. however.
he of course was once a democrat. what is your number one reason for believing he shouldn t be there anymore. . i think you look at the condition of our state and where our country is. louisiana is 50th in the nation in crime, 49 in opportunity, 47 in health care, 46 in education. you name it. and kennedy has been elected almost as long as i have been alive. you can t take responsibility for our good culture and gumbo and all the flavor we have but not responsibility for where we are as a state in comparison to our neighbors. and so my generation and others are looking at the leadership. we don t want senator frog horn leghorn. we want somebody to go to d.c. and represent the people. we have a senator who voted against the infrastructure bill, right. we have a d or f grade in infrastructure. we ranked 47 in the country in infrastructure. the billions of dollars will help fix our crumbling roads and bridges.
welcome back. president biden set to speak with republican senator shelley moore capito again today as the white house works to reach they hope a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. it is not clear if the gap between democrats and republicans is one that can be bridged. the real key new sticking point is new money versus repurposing funds already dolled out to states. let s talk about this with democrat of california sitting on the house transportation and infrastructure committee which means you are right in the middle of all the important issues on infrastructure. thank you and good morning. good to be with you, poppy. let s just begin with you have the white house that wants a trillion in new spending. you have got the republicans that want about $300 billion if new spending. that s a really big gap but you have got even liberals, democrats like larry summers who
stroking or whatever lbj, it was never going to happen. he is confronted with that now. jonathan, you warn us don t try to read the tea leaves on joe manchin. thank you for letting us do that. good to have you. thank you. republican congressman mo brooks is served with a lawsuit over the january 6 insurrection. filed by fellow congressman democrat eric swalwell to hold brooks partially personally responsible. it is a tactic attempted before. whitney, has the court been notified and what happens next? when we were reporting this story over the weekend the court was not notified but that is imminent. it is 9:00 a.m. now and the expectation is that the court will be notified. brooks has 21 days to respond to
more of key democratic priorities including with broad bipartisan support such as infrastructure, is he at risk of overplaying his political hand? well, that s a sort of separate question. manchin has all the cards in his hands. he is safe. a big frustration for progressive democrats on capitol hill is that they have no leverage over manchin. there s no credible threat to him in west virginia. he is in a state that donald trump won by 30, 40 points, a unicorn democrat in that state and in a powerful position. so what you are seeing right now among democrats on capitol hill is this sort of bursting out of emotion and anger because they can t actually move him. he is completely impervious to political pressure and the anger is really starting to bubble