Senator Joe Manchin

I'm not staying over.

Once you're gone, I'm gone.

Why not let you have your team unless I, and they can do an FBI background check, find out if I'm a sound character and moral values and no criminal records and boom, let me go.

So I begged Harry, just go over and cut a deal with Mitch and say, Mitch,

Let's together do this unanimously, that 51-vote threshold for all of the president's appointment, people that will be will and pleasure, no holdovers whatsoever.

But you can't do it to judges to get lifetime appointments.

You can't do it for other different agencies that have a six-year or a nine-year term.

Just will and pleasure.

And I thought that would be very simple, and he wouldn't do it.

They said, oh, no, we've got to get the judges.

I said, you're going to basically change the confirmation process to 51 votes for a lifetime?

Are you crazy?

But they did it, and then guess what happened?

They did it for district and circuit judges, okay?

Didn't do it for Supreme Court.

Guess what happened as soon as Republicans took over?

They were in control.

Mitch McConnell says, fine, we'll do it for Supreme Court.

Now we have a 6-3 court.

Didn't work too well before he did it, whether it be Harry or that.