Senator Joe Manchin

Anyway, he kept telling me all the different things of why he did certain things, why the rules were the way they were.

So I had a real understanding of the purpose of the Senate and my responsibilities.

So here we go.

And then the whole thing on reconciliation happened.

There's a reconciliation, it's a movement that we operate under, and it's basically stopping, it stops anybody from preventing us to make sure we can take care of our financial responsibilities.

And so reconciliation only takes a simple majority.

Well, in the Senate, that's the only vehicle that you can have a 51 vote threshold without a cloture vote of 60 votes getting to the bill.

So then Joe Biden gets elected,

And I think the story in the book, it starts out, Schumer kept calling me every hour on the hour the night of the election.

And I'm thinking, why is he so worked up?

Because in the Senate, in all honesty, if you're not the majority leader, but you're one of the senators in the caucus of the Democrat or Republicans, you have the same power.

You have the same, you know, you can participate.

Every senator can participate.

They're all important, 100 of them.

So he keeps saying, Joe, he says, you don't understand, this Georgia thing could really...

You know, it could happen.

I'm thinking, well, I don't think we're going to win Georgia.

We hadn't.

It wasn't predicted.

But Donald Trump put him in play, to be honest with you.