Joe Manchin: “I would like to, once again, receive your commitment to working on this in a timely manner.”

We’re not trying to start another party.

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.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

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