with the democrats agenda hanging in the
balance
west virginia senator joe manchin is
increasingly in the hot seat tonight
facing these accusations as kevin
reported that
he's a white supremacist who favors
voter suppression because he doesn't
plan to support the democrats election
overhaul bill or
to get rid of the filibuster and that's
what progressives say they want will the
accusations of racism
win him over let's discuss with fox news
contributors leslie marshall and jason
jason chief it's great to have you both
with us tonight hi
shannon glad to be here okay so
congresswoman corey bush says this in a
tweet
mansion and company be like defund the
police costs us elections while actively
sabotaging our dem
agenda our movement was at the heart of
the organizing that won
us the 2020 elections now conservative
dems block our progress
join us in saving lives or get out of
our way
jason to say that he's
actively sabotaging is just not correct
they haven't won him over they
he is an independent thinker he has
earned a solid reputation
on both sides of the aisle as being fair
uh i don't always like the way
that he votes but he is a good decent
person and if the democrats think
that they could just bludgeon him by
calling him a racist i don't think
that's going to fly i don't think
anybody believes that
and boy wouldn't it be interesting at
some point if joe manchin said you know
i'm going to caucus with the republicans
oh boy jason's starting starting a fire
there tonight
well we'll see i'm sure that they would
love to welcome him with open arms
okay the washington post has this
opinion it says that democrats should be
careful
about how much they push mansion they
say this uh mark thiessen writes
u.s voters elected an evenly split
senate and gave democrats
a narrow majority in the house the
normal reaction to this outcome would be
to follow
manchin's advice temper their demands
reach across the aisle instead
democrats are acting like they won in a
landslide if they had an actual
mandate to do this one conservative west
virginia democrat would not be able to
stand in their way leslie he's offering
caution to your side of the aisle
well i would say caution at the name
calling that's not going to accomplish
anything i've said it before i'll say it
again i've always thought joe manchin
was a republican with a blue cape and a
d
on it and i don't think he's racist i
think he's selfish
and the reason he's selfish is even the
voters of his own state
want things that he isn't sold on we saw
it in the past with the fight for 15 and
raising the minimum wage to that
we've seen it right now with
infrastructure 78 percent of the voters
in the state
and by the way sorry 68 and let's look
at 79
support shannon for the for the people
act by the way 76 percent
republican support so i don't know who
joe manchin is
is trying to please he's not pleasing
the voter is in his state that's not why
he's holding out on this
he's pleasing republicans certainly
right now possibly
and he's certainly not uh pleasing his
party but it's not just the progressive
and left-wing faction of my party
it's centrist and moderates like me
centrist and moderates like president
biden
who actually talked about this and had
put this out there
when he was on the campaign trail so i
honestly am not sure what joe manchin is
doing but he certainly is not winning
a lot of friends right now maybe jason
and his buddies in the gop
have that red coat in that red cape farm
but the blue one's not
it's not looking very blue right now
well senator manchin seems to be
somebody who doesn't worry too much
about what people think
and regardless of where you are
ideologically maybe we should want that
more of our politicians whether they
call themselves republicans independents
democrats whatever
think for themselves um okay i want to
talk about something else that is
bubbled up the daily
mail says that it has gotten these texts
that it says are
back and forth between hunter biden and
his attorney um
using the n-word uh donald trump jr
tweets this try to imagine one of the
trump kids dropping the n-word
real quote from hunter and then he uses
one of the quotes from the text
with the hashtag racist hunter jason
witch is trending tonight
well it's disgusting it is racist now
joe his
father and granted it's a father and son
situation but
joe biden calls hunter biden the
smartest person on the planet
uh i understand he's had some serious
serious addiction problems
but that still does not excuse the
underlying question
which is what was hunter biden doing in
ukraine in china
what was joe biden doing at the same
time while he was the vice president
you know what's going on with hunter
biden taking millions of dollars from
from foreign interest while his dad is
in the highest of political office
that is still there but these these
emails they're disgusting
and it's a shameful that we even have to
talk about him but he wrote them so
they're going to be out there
i mean we are having this conversation
uh about race
about you know language about things
that people say i mean we just talked
about senator manchin being accused of
being racist because of the way he plans
to vote
and now we have these um texts benny
johnson tweeting this weird how everyone
who screamed about racism and white
supremacy for the last four years are
completely
silent about members of the first family
hunter biden
using the n-word multiple times along
with racist stereotypes and memes
isn't this what you have been waiting
for i mean leslie isn't there pressure
on those who've been out there saying
listen we gotta talk about these
difficult issues even if it's one of
their own that they have to be willing
to
come out and publicly denounce this
but he's not one of our own i mean this
is this is what kills me
and jason you would know this better
than i because you served in congress
okay
when jason ran his wife and children
didn't and his wife and children in my
opinion and i don't care if they're
adults or not i don't care if you're a
republican or democrat
should be off limits now if hunter did
something wrong investigate it
indict him uh arrest him but even though
the n word is absolutely disgusting in
my opinion i don't care who is saying it
to who and i've had some people
that i know that said to me it's okay in
certain situations i'm not okay with
that
but hunter brighton is not president and
even though he's the president's son
he is not a slave honestly
i think leslie though you speak honestly
if this was don jr or eric trump
honestly do you think that the
mainstream media
honestly has to be all over it and
republicans would be under pressure to
come out and say
that's disgusting and not okay yeah sort
of like when marjorie taylor green kept
making her holocaust references and it
took
days and even silent on the right
not not wait not calling her out this is
what happens and you know it jason
both of our parties democrat republican
if we have somebody say something
disgusting
the other side points fingers and a lot
of people in that party want to protect
and want to stay quiet and we need to
just be honest and call it what it is
left or right it's wrong to make a
racial comment anti-semitic comment
exactly
exactly jason very quick we got to go
that's not the way you treated the trump
children the trump children who were not
part of the administration
and and it suggests that there's
something else there i
it's just wrong it's just wrong and his
involvement
in china and ukraine those
investigations at least one publicly
that we know of continue
uh so we'll track them leslie and jason
come back soon thank you both very much