Jo Manchin just wants to see the world burn.
He's once again blocking the Democrats paltry efforts to do something about
climate change and has become so indisputable that he doesn't care about
this and that he is willing to let the climate just go up in flames.
That even the New York times, this is how they wrote about his most recent move,
senator Jo Manchin of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and
gas industry than any other senator.
And who became a millionaire from his family coal business independently blew
up the Democratic Party's legislative plans to fight climate change.
That's New York times, that was like the beginning of the article.
Usually the truth, let alone the opining happens much later.
But no, he's killing it once again, they are sort of in the background still trying
to do some sort of reconciliation bill.
And every month or so we get an update that implies that
maybe we're moving towards a deal, but no, no climate according to him.
And of course this is just the latest in a long line of him single handedly or
teaming up like the wonder twins with Kyrsten Sinema destroying these efforts.
First he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean
up their climate warming pollution.
Then, he shattered an effort to help consumers pay for electric vehicles.
Finally, he said he could not support government incentives for solar and
wind companies or any of the other provisions that the rest of his party and
his president say are vital to ensure a livable planet.
It's weird that the guy who owns a coal company doesn't want to subsidize
renewable energy.
So weird and totally not corrupt.
But here's the thing, breaking news not long before we went live,
is he actually killing it?
He was very clear within the last day.
But now we read on Axios Manchin opens door to climate spending after July
inflation numbers.
See he went on radio show in West Virginia and
said Chuck talking about Chuck Schumer, can we just wait until
the inflation decisions come out in July and then make a decision.
Inflation is absolutely killing many, many people metaphorically not literally
like the climate change will, but as far as I'm concerned, I wanted climate.
He speaks like Trump, I want energy policy Chuck if you're in a political deadline
and it has to be done July.
The one thing you know, you can get done is basically do that bill,
write a piece of legislation on reducing drug prices, letting Medicare negotiate.
That saves about 288 billion over 10 years,
take 40 billion of that extend the ACA discounts that people were getting.
So he was done with it, but now he totally totally wants climate.
And so I don't know about you guys, but the football has been placed out again,
I feel like running towards it and trying to kick it.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, so there's a lot here.
This is a really important story because it shows you not just about this bill,
but about how politics works.
First of all, if the New York times mentions your donors,
that means they have gotten permission from other people in power,
otherwise they will never ever mention it.
They did one good piece about Manchin donors while back,
which we gave them a lot of credit for.
And now this is their second time measuring,
[LAUGH] It's like by far the most relevant thing, it is nearly 100% of politics.
But if a mainstream media outlet is mentioning it, that means other corporate
democrats have told them it's ok, you can actually say it this time.
Because they're unequal number at least of corporate democrats on the other side,
otherwise they would never ever say it in the story.
So that must mean the establishment is pissed.
Okay, so at least some portions of the establishment are pissed.
And by the way, there are a lot of donors who do want action on climate change
because one of the things that.
And I told you this a couple of years back, I won't get to what we said about
mentioning the second two because a lot of rich folks and some of them bad guys,
some of them good guys who've always been on the right side of things.
But even though some of the bad guys are going, yeah,
we live on this planet, like we have a gazillion dollars, but
it's not gonna be much use to us if the entire planet melts down.
Okay, maybe we let you do something about that.
But now of course on the other side is the coal companies, the oil companies and
they push back super hard, so it's a little bit of a battle.
And so that's why you've got the New York Times willing to say the truth for
like a second.
It was mentioned in a paragraph and then they moved on.
Okay, now to the part of the issue, we told you here we got a clip right
of me saying but we you you watched the young Turks on any given day.
You've heard me say this thousands of times,
you've heard Anna and John everybody say this.
But I give you this old clip because I want you to understand
politics is solvable.
It's just that people on the New York times CNN corporate Democrats,
they're choosing not to solve it.
It's actually super simple.
That's why we're almost always right.
I'll tell you the magic answer as to how we solve it in a second.
But this is us telling you what was gonna happen before it happened.
I'm telling you right now, the minute they pass the infrastructure bill,
that's the corporate back bill, they lose all leverage instantly.
They have literally zero leverage I wish it weren't the case, but that's the case.
And so what is Manchin gonna do what any sensible negotiator would do.
I changed my mind in fact, I didn't even change my mind.
I told you ahead of time that I was equally likely to vote no and
you're an idiot and surrendered to me anyway.
And that's exactly what he did.
He said, yeah, I'm not gonna vote for your bill.
And then he said, okay come come this way a little bit for a little bit further.
Don't don't criticize me, don't criticize me which Lisa that last portion that
John mentioned the reason he goes on west Virginia TV is for
the radio to talk about like no, no, no, you never know.
It's because for the first time he has gotten pushback from other Democrats and
look what a tiny tiny amount of pushback did.
Like remember Biden hasn't pushed back and
sent his spokesperson out today to say I will never push back.
I'm the weakest person in America.
My beloved Joe Manchin has basically done what me and my donors want anyway, right.
So Biden's not doing it, but it's like show Senator White House senator Schumer
tweaked him a little bit in the public got mentioned in a newspaper article.
They sat down a tweet and he's like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.
I mean I was gonna do it.
Look at what a tiny microscopic amount of pressure gets him to do.
Imagine if you put a world of pressure on him all of a sudden he'd be able to do.
I like climate, I like climate.
Right, so this is so fundamental.
So why did we know he was never gonna do the climate deal?
Because politics is simple.
Three words has always been the case.
Certainly since the mid 1970s follow the money,
if you follow his money and we have on TYT investigators, we showed you made
$5 million personally from coal in the last 10 years and so has his son.
So and he's got a coal company, etc.
But most importantly, the donors, the donors are he's the number one
recipient of fossil fuel, campaign donations, their bribes.
So we tell you all the time, if you follow the money, IE follow the bribes,
you will get to that answer 100% of the time.
That's why we're apparently geniuses, like the mainstream media can't figure it out.
What is it, is it the color of the bill?
Is it the when they release it, is in the summer and the fall?
I can't tell anything what's going on?
What are the debates and the principles and
the ideology like it's the bribes were right, 100% of the time.
It's super easy.
So there, I solved politics for you.
And what is the other thing we say when corporate, useless, lying,
Democrats tell you, there's nothing we can do.
What do we tell you pressure?
You apply a tiny amount of pressure.
And he's like, I can't believe I'm twisting my arm.
I like the climate, I like the climate were right about everything, okay.
It's and it's not because we're geniuses because it's really, really simple.
All of Washington has to lie to you to make it appear complicated Caroline.
>> Yeah, that's I mean, that's absolutely right.
I think the strategy that he is ostensibly going with now is that he's
worried that with inflation any that voters might look at any attempt to
increase spending anywhere might be really volatile for him.
People thinking that this has anything to do with inflation or gas prices.
Of course these things are like very indirectly related as everything is.
But the reality is that spending on infrastructure and
necessary improvements to our climate change policy are absolutely
unrelated to the gas prices every day that people are seeing.
And if that were the case, like, let's go back,
I believe I read today that Manchin in his first election for
Senate, like his big ad was that he shot a rifle through
Obama's climate policy or whatever.
And look how much higher gas is now.
And we haven't done anything.
So like equating climate policy with higher gas prices is totally false.
This is what the Republicans are doing.
They're saying we can't have this because people can't afford food.
They can't afford gas and they're absolutely unrelated, we only need to look
at our past inaction on climate change and how much higher gas is right now.
So yeah, he's absolutely wasted two years of the Democrats time.
What my question is is that like, do we really think that this is,
is just Manchin or do we think that there are like other Democrats in the wings
who has Manchin basically like acknowledged that he will be the villain.
Him and Sinema are like sort of trading off rotating.
Like do we really think that this is just him or do we think that there are people
in the wings in our own party that are also pressuring him not to do anything.
So that they don't have to go out and be held accountable as he is basically like
he knows that this is his position in the party now.
>> So that's a nuanced answer.
So let me just a couple of things real quick.
So, TYT is the longest running show in internet history.
So we actually covered that ad, when Manchin put it out,
him saying like, I hate Democrats, look at someone shoot Obama's climate bill.
I hate anyone trying to do anything about climate change boy, it was so
hard to tell which direction Manchin was gonna go.
Reporters were flummoxed by it for years in the Biden administration, so
which what what's he gonna do, what's he gonna do?
It's so obvious what he's gonna do?
Number two Caroline's point is devastating.
Not only have they not done anything on climate since then.
Not only did we have four years of Trump since then that put us backwards, but
they didn't pass this climate bill.
How could it be the climate bill that caused inflation if it never passed?
>> Yep.
>> I mean these things are super simple, right.
So that's why Washington is an illusion.
Everything you see from corporate media is meant to trick you.
>> Yeah.
>> So they don't say these things that are super super obvious.
That would get you to understand that politics is simple.
Now to Caroline's point real quick to to our question,
I would guess that there are 40 Democratic senators that agree with Manchin.
Now again, if you tell that New York times or CNN their heads will explode.
How dare you do, sir.
Those are wonderful powerful people.
And they have told us that they don't agree with Manchin.
So we have written it down in our role as journalists without questioning it or
asking for any evidence.
Okay, now why do I say at least 40?
It seems like Marquee and White House and a couple others really do care and
White House actually, did a great job of putting out a tweet that Biden
could do like nine different executive orders.
That would actually help a lot.
It wouldn't be as good as this bill, but it would help a lot.
And my prediction is Biden will do zero of them.
Okay, so why do I predict that about Biden?
Why do I predicted about the other 40 Democratic senators because they all take
money from fossil fuel companies.
So if you're bribed you're gonna do what the person who bribed you, I told you to
do now at this point they don't have to come forward matches their cover story.
Can you believe Manchin killed that bill, golly gee voters.
I am so mad New York times write it down, write it down CNN state on their I am so
mad about that bill.
Then they turn around I bet you very literally call their donors and
say don't worry, got killed.
>> Yeah. >> Cuz they're corrupt,
I solved it for you.
>> And if the democrats wanted, they could institute some sort of litmus test that
you cannot accept money from these industries.
They could do that to send a strong signal to the voters that they actually care
because the voters certainly care.
The voters care about dealing with climate change.
The Democrats just don't care that that's something they could theoretically
used to win elections if they actually reassured people.
Yeah, your point so good.
Look, I don't know what's gonna cause the massive rise in gas prices in three years
or in seven years or in 12 years.
But I know we're going to endlessly have those and
even between them when the price drops from its peak,
it will settle at a point that's higher than it was previously.
Because I got news for you the Republican plan and for many Democrats,
the plan is to drill more pipes to extract more oil.
No new oil is being created by the way.
You can suck up what's down there as fast as you want.
You're just gonna run out that's how it works.
The Sun isn't running out, the wind isn't running out.
Seems like maybe at some point we should transition over to that.
And for now, Manchin is more concerned about inflation and the deficit.
And as far as I can see, the only solution to that is for
the Republicans to take over, they won't fix those problems.
But you'll never hear about it again and
they'll pass trillions of dollars in tax cuts.
With no concerns about the deficit whatsoever.
For now though, Manchin says we need to find out about inflation.
Bureau of Labor Statistics is gonna release July's consumer price index on
August 10th.
So I hope there's good numbers cuz that's totally why he's doing it or not.
For now though we do have some numbers not those numbers, but well we know that for
the 2021-2022 election cycle, Jo Manchin got the most money
from a number of different industries including seems relevant.
Coal mining also all mining and natural gas transmission and distribution.
Oil and gas also savings and loans.
Hey tobacco, that's fun.
Alternate energy production and services is at number two.
I don't know what that actually includes it sounds like it would be solar and wind.
I'm doubting that it does.
But if that is what it is, could you guys give him more money please?
Could you become number one so that he'll do the right thing.
Also electric utilities are there, I'm sure none of this is influencing it and
they're not giving him money to influence him.
That would be bribery.
They just like democracy and want to be a part of it and thus the money.
But honestly as much as that, as much as like you can find individual like
the world, the nation's largest coal producer.
Peabody energy, they gave $5000 to Manchin to TYT investigates reported that,
that's obvious corruption, Alliance Resource Partners CEO publicly
thanked Manchin in a quarterly earnings call.
That's good.
The future generations aren't giving him any thanks for dooming them.
But for right now there's a CEO that has nice things to say honestly as important
as that donor money is.
I'm not even convinced that that's the most important part because donor money
goes to your campaign and you want that, but that's not your money,
you can't get a tune up on your Maserati with that money.
You can't buy a bigger yacht with that money.
No, for you to do that you need your own money.
And he's getting it very directly,
very literally here are his yearly dividends from his energy company.
That is so much money per year.
Just in dividends he's not understand Manchin is not digging for coal.
I want to be very clear about this, he is not down there digging up the coal.
He just sits back and earns hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In one year, over $800,000 actually, two of them were over $800,000.
All told he's made well over $5 million dollars and
he would like to continue making that fabulously large amount of money.
Understand it has no effect on his life.
He already has the Maserati, he has the yacht.
Look at Manchin, what do you think he's doing with his money?
It doesn't matter, it's just a number in a bank account.
But for that to go up, your future must be doomed and
he is perfectly fine making that tradeoff.
>> Okay, I just want to say, I'll ask things from me.
One is, I want you to know that in this, the things that he killed,
he also killed tax raise on rich people and
corporations, why he's a rich person and owns a corporation.
Boy this is so complicated to figure out.
So, and to John's point.
Look, the campaign donations also matter, especially for
Manchin cuz it allows him to protect his coal company and to get contracts for
his coal company cuz he's a really powerful senator.
And if you're in the coal business,
you would want to give his company a contract so that he looks out for you.
So both his own personal money and the campaign donations wind up
helping him get richer and certainly more powerful, etc.
And so at the end of the day, now,
here I will instantly become the best reporter in politics.
You ready, Joe Manchin is a liar.
He only cares about the money.
Boom, no other Washington reporter has ever said that.
I just said that I'm obviously correct.
They're all obviously incorrect, I'm the best journalist in America.
Thank you.