Senator Joe Manchin

You can make a deal.

And I always known you to be that person.

And now all of a sudden you're throwing, you know, the nuclear bomb out.

You're saying we can't work with the Republicans.

We got to do it.

And I said, Schumer's got you all fired up, thinking that's how you're going to run it.

And I knew in my mind they wanted to run what we call the 117th Congress.

The Congress is a two-year stand.

Every two years you have an election.

So Congress, we were in the 117th, just starting it.

My...

My thought process was is that Schumer had convinced the president that we could run this Congress for two years with four reconciliation big bills, two in 2021 and two in 2022.

And I said, over my dead body.

That's not going to happen.

That's not what we're here for.

And that's not how this place is supposed to work.

So they called me over in the White House and they grabbed me always, Jason, it was you're sitting there and you see it on television.

He made everybody leave the room and we're sitting there.

And then president reaches over and grabs your arm.

And he says, Joe, your country needs you.