we've got some breaking news coming in
the senate reportedly poised to pass a
china
industrial policy bill could be a
quarter trillion dollars to counter
china in manufacturing and technology
that is what could be coming in the
senate that may be one and done
because by biden's agenda looks like
it's hitting a wall in the senate as
congress returns from recess democrat
senator
joe manchin saying he's not going to
eliminate the senate filibuster that
means democrats will need
60 votes to pass president biden's
agenda that means
even a small number of senate
republicans can torpedo
biden's agenda joining us now former
arkansas governor and fox news
contributor look who's here with us
governor michael huckabee
sir you know senator manchin is getting
slammed as a quote traitor over saying
he's not going to
get rid of the filibuster what do you
think of that rhetoric
i think he's not a traitor he's a
statesman this is how it's supposed to
work
if joe biden has great ideas it's his uh
responsibility
to sell it to the republicans and if the
republicans don't accept
really good ideas they'll pay the price
for it with the american people
that's why joe biden has spent the last
several months ignoring republicans
he says he wants to work with him he
says he wants to bring everybody
together
but if there ever was something that
would work it would be the
infrastructure bill and here's why
republicans love to build things
democrats love to spend money
a true infrastructure bill gives
everybody what they want
republicans get to build stuff democrats
get to spend money
people get to go to work it's actually
helpful to the economy
for every mile that is built in a road
10 jobs get created you want to create a
million jobs
here's what you do you create a hundred
thousand miles of road across america
that's how you do it and it's an
incredibly valuable
return on investment joe biden ought to
be selling that but he's not he's out
trying to get everything he wants and
he's throwing stuff into the definition
of infrastructure
that has nothing to do with
infrastructure like early child
care wonderful thing but it ain't
infrastructure next i expect him to say
that
a second helping of ice cream uh since
he loves it so much
that too is infrastructure it just isn't
well in my world it is too but you know
governor you make it an
interesting point you wonder if they
they blew it by doing such a huge
blowout in spending
you know that turned off people the
moderates in the senate and in congress
and the other thing too is time is
running out i mean democrat senator
chuck schumer
he's no arm-twisting lbj we've got the
august recess about to start
the september budget fights to avoid a
government shutdown about to start
the start of campaigning for next year's
midterms that democrats could possibly
lose do you this feels like president
bind's last chance
is the next few months to make his mark
as a president biden's heading to europe
next week
joe biden needs to listen to some of the
greatest political science of all time
the rolling stones
and i say that because their song was
you can't always get what you want
politics is about compromise it's about
getting something but in order to get it
you have to give it so the question is
what is joe biden willing to give in
order to get
and if he's unwilling to give anything
if he says it's my way of the highway
if he wants spending that the
republicans are never going to accept
then we go back to this maxim of
politics liz when you
have this attitude all or nothing now or
never
you get nothing and you get it forever
yeah that's where joe biden is headed
he doesn't change well here's the my way
or the highway thinking that could
happen
governor because now we have the energy
secretary jennifer granholm
indicating that they may try to ram it
through with just
50 all democrat votes no republican
votes
on what's known as budget reconciliation
let's listen to the energy secretary
dodge questions about that watch this
you didn't answer my question because
the question is would manchin
vote for a bill if it's just democrats
and you said he would vote for it if
it's bipartisan
i mean i don't know of any republicans
who are willing to vote for this
reference
yeah well not just preference that might
be his line though right
right of course that's his line and
you'll have to ask him about where his
ultimate bottom line
is doesn't sound like they're wheeling
and dealing here
you know it just doesn't sound that what
do you what do you think
they're not and politics is exactly
wheeling and dealing it's about sitting
down and saying what do you guys have to
have
well here's what we've got to have you
start where you agree
not where you disagree i've never seen
such incompetent
political activity in my life is what
i'm seeing look i had a legislature that
was
90 percent democrats when i first went
into office
90 percent it wasn't trying to get you
know
10 democrats i had to get 50 democrats
or i was sunk but you make it work but
you don't do it by stiff arming
everybody on the other side you sit down
you listen
you give up some stuff then you get some
stuff and you get things done that's
what the american people are looking for
and if joe biden rams this through
without any republican votes he might
want to go back
and remember what happened to the obama
administration
back in 2010 the american people
had obamacare rammed down their throats
and up their noses
and they gave it right back to him and
gave the congress to the republicans
well it sounds like as governor you gave
out a lot of ice cream too i'm just
kidding governor mike
it's good to see you you knew how to get
it done all right governor how can we
come back soon it's good to see you
we're coming into the