Joe Manchin: “The President's stated goal is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and prevent their return to Afghanistan and…”

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.

They don't believe in these extreme causes and going to the extreme mats and fighting each other and hating the other side.

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

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