Joe Manchin: “The complication is, that this administration doesn't want anything that comes out of the ground. I am fighting them…”

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

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…

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

They’re the kind of the centrist Democrats you need.