>> BETTE MIDLER ISSUES APOLOGY
AFTER FIRING OFF MEAN TWEET
ABOUT WEST VIRGINIANS.
TODD: COPLEY COAL MINERRED FROM
THE STATE REACTS.
READ THE TWEET FOR THE VIEWERS
WHAT JOE MANCHIN WHO REPRESENTS
A POPULATION SMALLER THAN
BROOKLYN HAS DONE TO THE REST OF
AMERICA WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD
NOT BACKWARD LIKE HIS STATE IS
HORRIBLE.
HE SOLD US OUT.
HE WANTS US ALL TO BE LIKE HIS
STATE, WEST VIRGINIA.
HERE IS THE KEY LINE, POOR,
ILLITERATE AND STRUNG OUT.
WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU
FIRST SAW THAT?
>> I THINK MY FIRST REACTION WAS
BETTE WHO?
I DON’T RECALL ANYTHING SHE HAS
DONE TOO SIGNIFICANT HERE IN THE
LAST LITTLE BIT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T THINK A
LOT OF WEST VIRGINIANS ARE
LOSING SLEEP OVER IT.
ONLY THING LOSE SLEEP OVER IS
GETTINGGETTING UP EARLY AND HEAD
TOUT WORK.
ASHLEY: BROOKE, FIRST OFF A GIRL
FROM A LONG LINE OF COAL MINORS
ON BOTH SIDES OF MY FAMILY I
COMMEND YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT JOE
MANCHIN FOR A SECOND.
YOU SAID THAT YOU AGREE WITH THE
OPPOSITION TO THE BBB
LEGISLATION AND IT IS SOMETHING
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN WEST
VIRGINIA ASK FOR BUT DO YOU
THINK THAT PERHAPS HE IS JUST
DOING THIS TO GET REELECTED
BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A
DIFFERENT SITUATION WHEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
I MAY BE A LITTLE JADED ON THE
SUBJECT.
I ACTUALLY RAN FOR SENATOR
MANCHIN’S SEAT BACK IT IN 2018.
YOU ARE LOOKING AT A GUY WHO
SPENT FOUR PLUS YEARS OPPOSING
THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE AND
WHAT THEY WANTED IN FIGHTING
PRESIDENT TRUMP ON EVERYTHING HE
DID.
AND NOW YOU HAVE HIM FIGHTING
AGAINST PRESIDENT HE SUPPORTED
IN OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
SO, MORE OF HIM GIVING US HIM OF
WHAT WE WANT OR MORE OF A CHANCE
FOR HIM TO STAND IN THE
LIMELIGHT.
FOR ME THAT’S WHAT IT LOOKS
LIKE.
GIVES HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO
REPOSTURE HIMSELF GOING INTO AN
ELECTION TRYING TO MAKE HIMSELF
LOOK BETTER.
COMING UP TWO YEARS OUT OF
ELECTION TIME.
SO IS IT REALLY DRYING TO DO
WHAT WE WANT FOR ONCE OR JUST
TRYING TO SAVE FACE AND SAVE
HIMSELF FOR RE-ELECTION?
TODD: LET ME GET IN THE SECOND
MIDLER TWEET QUOTE UNQUOTE
APOLOGY.
I APOLOGIZE TO THE PEOPLE OF
WEST VIRGINIA FOR MY LATEST
OUTBURST.
JOE MANCHIN AND HIS FAMILY
CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.
IS HE THE BEST TO OR THE
CITIZENS.
SURELY SOMEONE HAS THE BEST
INTEREST AT HEART NOT HIS OWN.
I KNOW YOU SAID YOU RAN FOR THAT
SEAT.
HOW TIRESOME DOES IT GET THAT
THESE LIBERAL BLUE STATERS JUST
SIMPLY THINK THEIR WAY OF LIFE
IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS?
>> THEY WILL GET TIRESOME.
THEY HAVE THE PLATFORMS.
THEY’RE THE PEOPLE THAT CAN GET
THEIR TWEETS READ AND FOR PEOPLE
TO REACT TO.
WE KNOW DEEM IN OUR HEARTS THE
THINGS WE DO IN THIS STATE
REALLY DRIVE THIS NATION FAR
MORE THAN SOMEONE LIKE BETTE
MIDLER OR HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL
ELITIST.
IF SHE REALLY FEELS THAT WAY, OF
THE WAY I LOOK AT IT, I’M SURE
THAT THERE ARE WAY MORE PEOPLE
IN THIS STATE THAT COULD DO HER
JOB THAN ANY OF THESE JOBS THAT
SHE COULD POSSIBLY DO.
YOU COME DO WHAT WE DO AND SEE
HOW WELL YOU DO AT IT OR GIVE US
A CHANCE TO DO WHAT YOU DO, I
PROMISE WE COULD DO BETTER AT
WHAT SHE DOES.
ASHLEY: SEEING WHAT YOU GUYS DO,
IT’S NOT EASY.
TODD: BO, THAT’S A GREAT POINT.