Joe Manchin: “I would really like to. I mean, the timetables that you are going to be able to meet on this because we have an awful…”

So you’re not making a commitment that you owe your soul to the company store, or basically to the parties, whether it be a D or an R, they’re going to have to earn your support, but the people will be much better off, and they’ll…

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

I will make a decision in January -- at the end of this year.