Manchin: Democrats Risk Overplaying Hand on Impeachment
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[0:00] You've had enough experience with the Trump administration and in Washington
[0:04] that I'm sure you have a good sense of this particular promotion here, knowing
[0:10] that many voters were weighing in on the immigration crackdown in this, the
[0:14] enforcement as opposed to the border security.
[0:17] Did the president just double down on a failed policy?
[0:21] Well, first of all, it's good to be with you and Kaylee.
[0:23] Uh, I appreciate very much you have a wonderful show here.
[0:26] And you do it. You tell it like it is, and it really is
[0:29] something that, uh. I wouldn't have thought that that would
[0:31] be the direction he would have gone for. And he was going to replace, uh, excuse
[0:35] you also, but it is what it is. As he's the president, he will be the
[0:38] president for the next two years, and he's going to be working with, uh, a and
[0:42] what I think is a, uh, Democratic Congress on both the House and Senate
[0:48] that has a lot of moderate members. Everyone keeps talking about the DSA.
[0:53] But Joe, when, uh, if you look at the results, most of the people that won,
[0:58] especially on the House side, flipped a Republican district so they were more
[1:03] moderate. Now the blue districts got a little bit
[1:05] bluer with some DSA members, but that's a minority.
[1:09] And I think that there was a chance here to have an awful lot of moderate
[1:12] Democrats in the House and moderate Democrats in the Senate.
[1:16] I mean, you took it, Roy Cooper, you look