Senator Joe Manchin
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they kept sending the president up there to talk to him and pass the bill.
And they wouldn't pass.
And they kept saying, Manchin lied to us.
And I said, Schumer, you better tell them the truth.
You know exactly how you got on this bill.
And you know I never, ever said I would ever vote for this bill.
No, I said two of them, two.
Two of them, okay.
Clinton, Bill Clinton.
If you tell me people that are engaging with you, Bill and President Trump.
Correct.
Correct.
I think President Barack Obama is a very good man, you know, but his politics, I knew him when he was a U.S.
senator.
representing Illinois.
And he knew about the coal industry.
And of course, I come from the coal industry, being governor of West Virginia and growing up in the coal fields.
And we talked about fossil and why we needed this, that, and everything.
He wanted me to help him and vote for something that would help his called FutureGen, which is the new coal-fired plant that was going to be
CO2 capture and all this and that.