Joe Manchin: “When the money is disbursed, if you can make sure that 20 percent of the money goes directly to rural areas.”

We’re not trying to start another party.

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.

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…