Joe Manchin: “Just for the sake of the patients, for the sake of that hospital, have to have something permanently done there on a…”

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

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

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.