Joe Manchin: “We need incentives. We need financing mechanisms.”

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.

Let me just say that I think what happened is we have a bill that is hard to vote against. It really is. And I understand why there were 73 Senators who voted for it. Senator Cruz has had this and worked diligently for many years on this…

The brand got so bad, the D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's just -- it's toxic.

You did not elect the comforter in chief. You elected a basically commander in chief, and he's hit the ground running.