Joe Manchin: “Has MSHA ever considered basically taking the lead role on, basically, teaching the safety end of it?”

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.

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

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…