All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Joe Manchin on the Fight for America’s Future: Term Limits, Bipartisanship & the 2028 Election
23 Oct 2025
(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Senator Joe Manchin! (4:20) Blocking Build Back Better, defending the filibuster while dealing with paid protestors and death threats (19:39) How Biden's staff pushed him to the far left, mental acuity, how he "lost the will to fight," why Obama was an "elusive" president (28:12) Why socialism is on the rise in America, entitlement culture (37:06) Importance of term limits in Congress, Joe's favorite current senators, cascading issues from the loss of bipartisanship (52:25) Breaking the Dem/Rep duopoly by opening up primaries, thoughts on midterms in 2026 (57:18) Expectation vs reality for Obama, Trump and Biden presidencies; thoughts on the 2028 election Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x.com/Jason https://x.com/DavidSacks https://x.com/friedberg Follow on X: https://x.com/theallinpod Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theallinpod Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theallinpod Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpod Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://x.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://x.com/TheZachEffect
Full Episode
All right, everybody, welcome back to the All In podcast. We are super pleased to have with us today, Senator Joe Manchin is joining us today here on the All In interview and Chamath and I We'll be interviewing him on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense. A great book. Welcome to the program, Joe Manchin. I know you like to be called Joe. So Joe, welcome to the program.
Jason, thank you. And it's great to be with you and Shamath. And I've followed you all and you've been unbelievable what you've put out and some of the people you've had on have been very entertaining, very interesting and very thoughtful. So anxious to be here. Thanks.
And we have a tradition here. I don't know how often you watch the interview show, but we always try to get a personalized gift for each of our guests. And so in the book, you talked about your first car, your 1964.
If you could find that, if you could find that thing for me, it was a bullet back. I can't find the car. Well, there it is with the white interior.
Oh, my God. Can we buy it? No, no, you got it. It's in your driveway right now. When you get out of your office there, it'll be waiting for you by your yacht. Let me tell you that. Oh, by my yacht. Yeah, I got a bet. It's a $200,000 trawler. It's a fishing trawler, correct? It's a trawler.
Listen, Joe, what Jason has just proved is he has not read the book, but he looked at the pictures in the middle. That's all he's done. No, I didn't.
He's riffing off the pictures. No, I don't have the physical book. I did the audio book. But Joe, you did the right thing. Oh, you did the right thing. You read it yourself. I did. Which a lot of authors, you know, they try to talk them out of doing it, but it makes it so much more personal.
Hey, Jason, I didn't know I was supposed to do that. And all of a sudden, my daughter Heather says, Dad, you got to show up at the studio and start reading your book. I said, why do I have to do that? She says, it's in the contract. I said, I didn't see that. She said, I didn't show it to you. It's a part of the contract.
It's like six or seven hours of reading. It took 20 hours.
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