Senator Joe Manchin

Well, our cash flow is about a little over $5 trillion a year that we run the country on.

They're doubling the amount.

You can't digest that.

The market can't take it.

But they were doing it.

And I says, are you people crazy right now?

We don't even know what the 3.2 is going to do, let alone.

But they were chasing a social reform.

And I told him, I said, Mr. President, they heard me grumbling in the hallway.

And one of the senators called the White House immediately and says, Manchin making trouble already.

Well, it was 50-50.

They had to have me.

So he called me right over to the White House.

And I'm sitting there, I said, Mr. President, I'm begging you, please don't do reconciliation on this bill.

If this is your bill, which I know it's not, this is a Bernie Sanders and this is Elizabeth Warren, because I'd heard them respectfully.

I can agree in some and I disagree, but it was just too big a bite coming right out of

And we had a vaccine that was working.

So I said, please don't, sir.

I said, you're the only one on the stage running for president with all that big lineup that says, you know how the place work.

You work on both sides.