Ron Klain: “Senator Manchin, he doesn`t answer to us at the White House, he answers to people of West Virginia.”

I think the polls do show a very, very close midterm election as a whole. I think on inflation, look, prices are high and the President is working to bring them down.

I think he's absolutely up to the job. If you saw after the debate -- he had a bad night at the debate, I won't deny that. But after the debate, he gave an hour-long press conference. After the NATO Summit, where he talked about world…

I think the president had won the nomination fair and square. 14 million people went and voted for him and the vice president as vice president.

He views them as very responsible efforts to get to the bottom of a real threat to our democracy. So the hearings Congress is holding, I think is part of what should be a national reexamination of whether or not this country is dedicated…