I told Manchin, by the way, I'll pay for
the damn pole in West Virginia on those issues.
See other people in West Virginia field.
>> Senator Bernie Sanders,
much like any real progressive is furious with Senator Joe Manchin.
And his unwillingness to vote in favor of Biden's build back better agenda,
the social spending package that would provide universal pre-K.
And all sorts of other programs that would materially improve the lives of
working americans.
Now, not only is Sanders fuming about it, he's calling out Manchin for
the corruption that actually fuels his decision on this matter.
Something that, to be quite honest with you,
I wish Senator Sanders did more of to the lead up to this moment.
Now I really appreciated some of the specifics in this interview that he had.
So let's just get to it,
here's Bernie Sanders calling Manchin out on his corruption.
>> I've always said this bread.
If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for
it and I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.
I just can't, I've tried everything humanly possible.
I can't get there.
>> You're done.
This is this is a no.
>> This is a no.
>> So there is, there's Manchin saying no, I'm not gonna vote for it.
And here is Senator Sanders responding to him.
>> You know what's going on now, Jake in Washington is the big money interests
are pouring hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
To make sure that we continue to pay the highest prices in the world for
prescription drugs at the rich do not start paying their fair share of taxes.
And I would have hoped that we could have had at least 50 Democrats on board who
have the guts to stand up for working families and take on the lobbyist and
the powerful special interest.
Do you know much money the pharmaceutical industry has spent in the last year
on lobbying alone?
Over $300 million dollars plus campaign contributions plus all
kinds of advertising, fossil fuel industry is spending a fortune.
Let's not kid ourselves.
We've got a corrupt we have a corrupt political system dominated by big
money interests.
And finally, some of us are saying, let's stand up for working families.
Average worker has not seen a pay raise in inflation accounted for
dollars in 45 years while the rich are becoming
phenomenally rich corporate profits are at an all time high.
And what some of us are saying maybe maybe we'll stand up for working families for
a change.
But apparently we don't have the 50 votes that we need.
>> I'm gonna go to another portion of his interview with Jake Tapper
in just a moment,.
But I want to add some meat to the statements that Bernie Sanders made there
because as we've talked about repeatedly on this show.
Not only is Manchin corrupt because of moneyed interests,
he's corrupt because he's also financially benefiting from fossil fuel companies.
For instance, according to his most recent financial disclosure,
Manchin gained $492,000 last year alone due to his non public
shares in a coal company called Enter Systems.
Which records show is a contractor for
a power plant in the states north that burns waste coal.
Meanwhile, mansions 2020 income for being a senator was $174,000.
So he's making more than double from this one coal company.
And of course that's going to have a huge impact on how he votes for
a social spending package that includes climate action.
That could of course jeopardize his future profits.
And just to give you an example of who Manchin's top
contributors are the top bribers for Joe Manchin.
Take a look at this, this is from open secrets.
These are the top industries that donate money to him.
Joe Manchin is a top recipient from the following industries in the 2021 to
2022 election cycle.
Coal mining, he's the top recipient mining,
top recipient natural gas transmission and distribution top recipient.
Oil and gas top recipient, savings and
loans meaning banks top recipient tobacco industry he's the top recipient
business associations second recipient for profit education.
He's in there and of course electric utilities number three.
>> That's out of 535 Members of Congress.
>> Exactly, yep.
>> Number one most corrupt legislator in the country.
So I just want to thank Bernie.
Finally, finally, somebody used the word corrupt.
>> Yes.
>> That's what it is.
And by the way to everybody in mainstream media, you think your reporters,
but you don't realize it, you're just you're playing a reporter,
you're not actually a reporter.
If you don't talk about how Joe Manchin takes all those bribes, you're deceiving
your audience, you're doing marketing for the powerful, you're in marketing.
You don't realize it.
You're not a journalist at all.
If you're a journalist and you tell me the millions of dollars that Joe Manchin
has received from campaign contributions don't affect his vote at all.
You're an utter fool, please stop, go go do a job you can do.
No journalist thinks actual journalist thinks
millions of dollars that would never affect a human being.
Your only other option is I know it affects them,
I know how much it affects them but I won't share that with my audience.
Well again, you're not a journalist.
So and part of the reason why these fake journalists keep covering up for
the powerful is because you don't have other powerful people saying,
hey, he's corrupt, right?
If you do,
they have to pay attention because that other person also has power right?
And all the reporters in DC care about his power like the entire
National National Press Corps could be renamed Gollum.
Okay, they're just chasing after pressure power.
The audience who gives a goddamn about the audience.
We're not gonna tell him the truth.
They're legalized bribes.
If you don't think they're bribes, you're an idiot.
Go do another job.
Thank you Bernie Sanders for calling it what it is, corruption by the way.
Pretty late in the game.
>> Yes.
>> Okay but at least somebody finally did it.
And now even Barbara Lee, AOC, Ilhan Omar all beginning to use similar language.
>> So look, I think that the mistake that Bernie and
other well meaning progressives made in this process.
Is they bought into this notion that you have to be civil in these negotiations
that you can't apply pressure or be harsh.
In fact, steve Clemons published some piece today about how incivility
is what led Manchin to say that he's against the build back better.
How naive and stupid can you possibly be to make that ridiculous argument?
I mean Biden went out of his way to do all sorts of favors for Manchin,
including appointing his wife to a federal job that she wanted.
Yeah, this is all about the lack of civility, get out of here.
But anyway, putting that aside, there's one other part of the interview
that Senator Sanders had with jake tapper that I want to get to.
Let's watch that.
>> Chairman Sanders, Senator Manchin says he can't get there.
This is a no, he's tried everything.
What's your reaction?
Well, I think he's gonna have a lot of explaining to do to
the people of West Virginia to tell them why he doesn't have the guts to
take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Why he is not prepared to expand home healthcare.
West Virginia is one of the poorest states in this country.
You got elderly people and
disabled people who would like to stay at home were forced into nursing homes.
He's gonna have to tell the people of West Virginia why he doesn't want to expand
Medicare to cover dental hearing and eye glasses.
I've been to West Virginia a number of times and it's a great state,
beautiful people.
But it is a state that is struggling and
he's gonna have to tell the people of West Virginia while he's rejecting what
the scientists of the world are telling us.
That we have to act boldly and transform our energy system to protect
future generations from the devastation of climate change.
>> I think that's a powerful message.
And I just wish that message was taken to the state of West Virginia.
And that Manchin was politically beaten over the head with that because
the fact of the matter is as we know from polling the build back better
agenda is incredibly popular even among West virginians.
And one other thing I wanted to mention is that the Huffington Post reported that
people familiar with the negotiations involving Joe Manchin on this very issue.
Claim that he was against the child tax credit because he
believes that poor parents are gonna use it on drugs.
That's the kind of thinking that Joe Manchin is using to push back
against something that would lift a giant percentage of children out of
poverty in this country.
>> Yeah, let's be more specific.
30% of kids were lifted out of child out of poverty because of
the child tax credit.
So now we know that as a fact because it existed, right?
So now 30% are gonnago back into poverty because Manchin thinks that their
families are losers who just used drugs and wanted to government money for that.
Now why does Joe Manchin think that?
Because it's projection he's a terrible person who is incredibly greedy and
only cares about money.
And so he assumes so do poor people.
And so the middle class people,
he doesn't understand that there are infinitely more decent than he is.
He got to where he is because of how indecent he is.
He told donors I'll do anything for you guys.
I have no morals at all.
You want me to crush the working man in West Virginia done.
Okay so he assumes you're as much of a bad guy as he is.
Well we give them money.
They just use it for their own good and for drugs and stuff, right?
No, Joe, that's you, that's you and your family, by the way.
There's no way we can go after Joe Manchin.
Golly gee, we have no choice.
There's nothing we can do.
No the only thing politicians care about is their beloved reputation.
Well, here's my reputation.
All right, well your daughter took $30 million dollars and outsource jobs and
a golden parachute and outsource thousands of jobs in West Virginia.
Your whole family is corrupt.
That's a fact.
Your son runs your coal company.
TYT investigates showed you made $5 million 10 years from your coal company.
You took millions from those coal companies in the oil companies, etc.
Those are facts, but everybody in Washington wants to cover it up.
I actually like steve Clemons used to be on the show all the time.
But he couldn't be more wrong about this.
His point of you is look, even if it were true, which is preposterous,
it has nothing to do with the truth.
But even if it were true Manchin that Clemens was writing Manchin said,
well you know, people were not civil enough.
That's why I'm voting No.
So wait in that fact pattern because your feelings were hurt.
You denied the people of West Virginia benefits that would have
greatly helped them because of your ef and feelings.
And people in Washington think, yeah of course, the feelings of the elite are so
much more important than the voters.
They genuinely believe that in their bones.
Okay, so
real quick because I did it earlier in the show to back up Bernie on the polling.
He doesn't need to pay for a new poll.
Okay I looked it up.
I said 90%, let me correct it lowering drug prices
by having Medicare negotiate pulls at 83% in West Virginia.
And by the way it pulls highest in west Virginia out of the swing states.
The other swing states where their senators that might vote no.
So West Virginia is not even a swing state is deeply red.
Why does it pull the best in West Virginia?
You know why?
Because it's a populous state and they need lower drug prices because
they're poor on average they're poorer than the average American.
So of course they won't lower drug prices.
Only a moron would think they don't want that.
And everyone in DC is either a moron or
pretending to be a more of a lot of people in West Virginia.
What I wish there was a poll, there's a poll paid family leave,
70% expanding child tax credit 61%, universal pre-K 59%.
I read you all the other stats before this bill is incredibly popular
in West Virginia.
The only difference between what you hear from us and
what you hear from a stream media is we actually cite facts.
Now you can look up and verify the mainstream media is filled wall to wall
with liars who lie on behalf of the powerful.
Every one of them is pretending it's not popular in West Virginia to cover his
corrupt ass.
That is the reality of american politics.
Thank you Bernie for finally fighting back.