Joe Manchin: “I can't imagine why we wouldn't have shut it down. That is common sense, that you shut down the system.”

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

Listen, this is not normal. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And we shouldn’t be hating each other.

They’re the kind of the centrist Democrats you need.

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…