So normally the way it works is if the Democrats are in control.
One Democrats say Joe Manchin can stop them from accomplishing virtually anything
you can stand in the way of it.
Never has to answer for it, and he never really gets criticized for it.
Well, most of that is still true, but in this case,
he is actually being criticized at least a little bit.
In this case by Bernie Sanders.
As you'll see.
>> You got 50 people in the Republican Caucus.
We have gotten no support from them to lower the cost of prescription
drugs to expand Medicare.
So you got 50 Republicans were not prepared to do anything For
the environment of working families.
You've got 48 people in the Democratic Caucus who are prepared and
the president of the United States prepared to think big.
And you have two Democrats who in my view, are kinda acting like Republicans.
And to me, I respect other people's points of view.
But I do not respect the arrogance of any member of the Senate who says,
you know what?
I'm gonna torpedo this entire bill, supported overwhelmingly by the American
people, and you've got two people say, You know what?
Hey, if you don't do it my way, I don't care what the president wants.
I don't care what 48 of my colleagues want.
It's my way or the highway and that I regard as arrogance.
>> Certainly arrogance in terms of presentation,
backed up by a whole bunch of corruption and lack of interest in democracy,
representing people or doing what's necessary to benefit their constituents.
So Mansion, as of right now, has once again thrown, I guess,
into jeopardy, as if anybody was expecting the build back.
Better to be passed this year.
It's not gonna be.
He wants either the expanded child tax credit to be taken out or
basically everything else.
Or I would guess,
everything altogether to be passed taken out of it cuz he doesn't care.
He's not interested.
And so it's not getting past this year.
The closer we get to the midterms,
I don't know why that would strike us as increasing the chance that it'll get past.
And so things are not looking good for build back better.
If only someone had predicted that they wouldn't actually make progress on
this if they decided to do the bipartisan one first.
>> I wonder who could have predicted that.
By the way, we're not, like, yes, us, but
really the six just Democrats who voted No.
Cuz they said if you give mansion the infrastructure bill he wants, of course,
he's gonna destroy the other bill.
They were right.
Not one person in Washington has given them credit,
even though it is indisputable.
Okay, so now on, Bernie.
Look, I love that he's being more aggressive cuz what you have to lose
anyway, Man, you just killed it.
They said they were gonna pass it by Christmas.
Now, that's not the case.
Once you blow past the deadline and you don't put a new deadline on it.
No, no, no, no.
How you gonna get past either child tax credit or or
nothing else or no child tax credit?
I mean, it's so eviscerated.
What they wanna do was eviscerated and then passed, like a sham version that
actually did one or two good things and then call it historic.
My God. It's
like the most important thing in the world now.
Mansion a cinema ruining that they're not even gonna be able to pass a mirage.
So that's part of why they're angry.
So Bernie Sanders says, Well, we've got nothing left to lose.
All right, I'll go on TV and I'll take a couple of shots at him.
So is that correct?
Yes. Good.
That is a very positive step forward.
I calling him arrogant and Republican like that big a deal?
No.
So how would you actually move them?
You would start talking about his corruption, and then he'd get catch all
sorts of feelings, and then he would pretend I was gonna pass it.
But now I'm not going to, And then you go and hit him again and again and again, and
you talk about his coal company.
You talk about his daughter who, stole from the people of West Virginia,
got a golden parachute and outsource jobs from West Virginia.
You start talking about all those things, you're gonna catch his attention, and
all of a sudden you're back in negotiations.
But Bernie, I mean, I would be shocked if he had that in him, and
certainly no one else has that in him in Congress.
So no, they'll take a couple of tweaks.
Manchin will be fine.
He'll go back on his yacht.
That's also half hybrid.
It's a hybrid.
It's good for the environment.
It's a hybrid between a yacht and a mansion.
He'll drive his Maserati there.
He'll be fine, but I wanna give credit where credit is due.
At least Bernie is on the right path.
>> He is.
And I gotta tell you, it's a little disappointing that,
that's what the president should be doing.
I know Biden can't get as mean as Bernie was in that segment, but
Biden has that bully pulpit that is just gathering dust right now.
This should be the job of the president to go out there to the public and
sell his policy, sell his bills to them and let them know, Hey,
I'm waiting to give this to you, but they are saying you can't have it,
so maybe we need to put some pressure on them.
That is the president's job to sell this.
It's great that Bernie is out there doing this.
It's wonderful that that he's talking about this,
that he's calling them out, that he's with the striking workers in Michigan.
Well, we have this other guy who says, No, I don't like this.
And by the way, also this week, Manchin comes out and says,
No, I'm not gonna support your ban on drilling in the Arctic.
So sorry I'm killing that as well.
That's another one that kinda flies under the radar there,
but Manchin killing everything that he can get his hands on cuz of
his financial interest here cuz of his donors cuz of all of it.
And I do think it's time that he gets called out for it by the people in power.
We do it all the time, but sometimes you got to have the big guys, the big wigs
up there, making those same claims to the public to a much larger audience so
that people wake up and understand what's really happening and
why they can't have these nice things that they need.
Not just that they want that they need so they can survive in this country today.
>> Yeah, and and we're not seeing aside from like Bernie.
There's this code of honor, you wouldn't besmirch them.
You certainly wouldn't point out that one representative is corrupt,
cuz then you could be attacked in the exact same way.
The media is not gonna do it cuz of a generalized lack of interest.
If you're making $5 million a year the prospect of losing
your tax credit seems pretty meaningless just to care about $300 a month.
And you're certainly worried,
as the politicians are the rich politicians of your taxes going up.
And so there's this unspoken alliance between the media, of which
they love to make these distinctions supposedly between left and right,
mainstream media like CNN, MSNBC and Fox exactly go to the same dinner parties.
It's the same people they just disagree a little bit on maybe the L G B T Q issues,
and that's basically it.
And so it doesn't matter to mention that one quarter of all
seniors in West Virginia don't have any of their natural teeth.
He didn't care.
He got rid of dental coverage from the bill.
He doesn't care that won six of his constituents constituents technically, but
the people living in West Virginia,
our kids who would be benefited by this child tax credit.
He's gonna screw them all over.
And we know economically.
West Virginia is doing really badly like it.
Just there's no expectation that it could hurt him in any way.
It's not gonna hurt him financially.
Passage would hurt him and hurt him politically.
You remember when, cinema did her little thumbs down and she was really, like, spit
in her face and some polls came out and showed that it was hurting her approval?
Have you seen anything like that out of West Virginia?
Like he's been just as much a roadblock to virtually every part of Biden's agenda,
and it seems like he's probably gonna be just fine come re election.
>> You know why?
Cuz the twirling thumbs down got a lot of press.
And then people are like, What's she saying?
Thumbs down to higher wages.
I hate her.
Whereas with Manchin, they never laid a glove on him.
So they're like, Yeah, they talk about Manchin.
They got like older Democratic voters that watch MSNBC are mad at Manchin,
but like they never go to West Virginia.
They never actually, like, get his actual constituents cuz they're all corrupt.
So they don't wanna talk about you know what Manchin just did.
He just robbed you of lower drug prices cuz he takes
tons of money from drug companies, so he wants you to pay more.
Well, MSNBC can't say that's all their advertisers.
And Menendez can't say that I pick a random Democratic senator
cuz he takes maybe more money from drug companies than Manchin does.
And by the way, Bernie is wrong about one thing he thinks my God has just mentioned
in cinema that's blocking this and 48 senators and the president agrees.
I love your brother, but that just isn't true.
Biden agrees more with Manchin than he does with his own so called agenda.
He kinda halfway loves that Manchin is killing all
these progressive proposals that Biden never believed in,
and the plan was always to have Manchin to kill Most of them.
He's just killing too many.
So it's that's the only disagreement there.
And if it wasn't Manchin or Cinema and
you know there was like more Democrats, my ass.
Under Obama, we had 60 Democrats in the Senate.
We had a supermajority that couldn't even use the filibuster.
And you got Mitt Romney's health care plan.
That's a fact.
And that's all you got.
They didn't do any other reforms.
They didn't even increase the minimum wage.
They didn't do anything.
If you got rid of Manchin or Cinema, it's another two would pop up.
Well, it turns out it's Coons and Carper.
My Nobody could have seen this.
Give us more Democrats.
Wink, wink, Get out of here.
So until Bernie and the rest of the progressives in Congress rhetorically take
on their colleagues, their corrupt Democratic colleagues, you're never
gonna see any actual movement cuz you're not gonna move the national conversation.
>> And the problem is, like you pointed out, you do kinda have to have somebody
that that is pure cuz otherwise they're gonna throw it right back at you.
You can't attack this guy's fossil fuel donations when you're taking just as much.
You can't go after the big Pharma donations when they're your top donor.
So you do have to either get money out of politics.
And we know these people are not gonna move on that, or
you have to be able to support these politicians.
And hopefully we get a hell of a lot more of them coming up in 2022 that
aren't taking the corporate money really pure politicians.
I mean, that's what has to happen.
And unfortunately to go that route, which is what we do have to do here.
That's still gonna take so many cycles before we finally get things going here.
And a lot of people don't have that time to wait.
[CROSSTALK] I'm gonna give you guys, you know, I don't have another answer for
it, though.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna give you a tiny bit of hope, and then we gotta go.
So, look, first of all, you're gonna get money out of politics.
Wolf dash Pac dot com.
Left wing right wing.
It doesn't matter.
We hate the corruption.
Number two Look, I started Wolfpac.
I still started just democrats, and there was one rule I insisted on.
It was no corporate pac money.
So you're not waiting for politicians to act out of the goodness of their heart.
It's a rule you cannot take it.
Otherwise, you're not just Democrats.
And what happened?
The six that voted no and voted the right way on the infrastructure bill.
We're all just Democrats who don't take corporate pac money so
it actually can work.
It has worked.
We just need to make it larger and get a load of this guy's.
The future is completely ours.
Do you know what percentage of the country is under 55?
It's 61%.
You're not surprised by that?
Obviously, most people are under 55.
Do you know what percentage of people that read the Washington Post are under
55 years old?
14%.
So mainstream media has nothing but 70 year olds watching it and
reading it so they are huge voters, but tick, tick, tick.
I'm no defense to the older voters.
And we have plenty of older viewers, and
we love them, and they're actually some of the most progressive people on earth.
But generally speaking, those older voters watch Rachel Maddow and
she she hurts them right into Pelosi and Schumer and Biden, Hillary Clinton.
And they are very powerful today cuz they vote in much greater numbers.
But there's not that many of them.
And every day less people watch mainstream media less People read mainstream media
cuz the real problem is mainstream media poisoning people's minds with no
corporate Democrats surrender to the Republicans is a great idea.
They're geniuses.
You need an actual fighter on our side.
Who says no Surrendering the corporate rule is not genius.
It has destroyed the Democratic Party.
Let's fight back.
The minute the fight back starts in earnest is the minute we start winning.