We`re taxing the rich. I agree. We`re going to make the rich and the famous pay.

the best ad Joe Manchin could run in West Virginia is I was the man standing between AOC and the socialist left, you know, that might that might get him elected senator for life there?

I am on board with all those things.

Call me skeptical, but given the record of the Democrats in Congress here on runaway spending, I just don't believe it.

The truth is that we are spending at an alarming rate in this country.

Our ballooning debt is not some abstract problem.

One thing we have learned over the last several years is that we need to take the threat from China more seriously here in America.

I`m very proud of my son, he does a good job. You`d do best to change the subject now.

It's going to be at one, one and a half. We don't know where it's going to be.

If progressives want more progressive agenda items and policies, then they need to elect more progressives.

No, it`s not possible.

We don`t have 50 votes. Basically, take whatever we aren`t able to come to agreement with today and take that on the campaign trail next year, and I`m sure that they`ll get many more liberal, progressive Democrats with what they say they…

I brought the 1.5, as you have seen, I think, by now. The 1.5 was always done from my heart. I have never been a liberal in any way, shape or the form.

I never knew about that. I have never heard of it.

I trust them, I negotiate in good faith. We just have different positions.

We have the most important piece of legislation that we`ve ever had in the last 30 years, which is the bipartisan infrastructure bill does so much in so many ways. Clean energy, everything we talked about before. Why wouldn`t you take…

Why do you think we worked so hard to separate them?

Running up these massive debts that our children will have to pay back for this spending is just not right.