Joe Manchin: “There's schools of thoughts here, because some people think that we throw so much money, and it's just wasted, and…”

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

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.

We don't even have a budget anymore.

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.