Senator Joe Manchin
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That's all we had to do.
And I teamed up with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, and we had a bill that all we did simply codify.
It wasn't pro-life enough and it wasn't pro-choice enough, but it's something we learned to navigate for 50 years.
Well, guess what?
Our Democrat friends wanted to open up wide, open abortions up.
OK, they can tell you what they want, what they intended, but that's exactly what they were trying to do.
And I told him, I says, I called him out and says, are you going to try to explain to people to make them believe what you this piece of legislation you're trying to put through?
on the freedom of choice is going to be just codifying Roe v. Wade, that is so insincere.
And I will not have any part of it.
And then the Republicans want to just double down.
I mean, make it criminalizing abortions.
We couldn't because of politics.
And I've seen things like that, that we had it right in the palm of our hand and let it slip through.
And we could have done that.
And that's on it.
We could have done the immigration.
And right now, you'd never be in this immigration fact.
The biggest problem, Shamath, is this.
Very few people who have been in political life and had any notoriety at all
They have almost an impossible time of saying, I got it wrong.