Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show podcast.

Welcome back in rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. Clay Travis Bucks Xton Show.

Hope all of you are having a good start to your day. Senators back on Capitol Hill,

Congress men and women back on Capitol Hill as well. And the big story that happened during

during Christmas break, during the New Year break, Joe Manchin and a real slap in the face

to the Biden administration announced that he would not accept or support build back better as

it's presently constituted. And he went on Fox News to do it with Brett Bayer, which I know just

had to drive the White House crazy. Manchin is now back on Capitol Hill and he was just asked

recently, is he going to support both the filibuster, which he said, no, nothing's changed

there. And also have they had any conversations about build back better and whether or not he would

support it. Here's what Manchin said. I'm really not going to talk about build back better anymore

because I think I'd been very clear on that. There isn't any negotiations going on at this time.

Okay. And there's an awful lot of things that had a lot of things that were very,

I think well intended. And there was a lot of things that was pretty far reach on some things.

And the most delicate times that we have right now in our country is divided. And I don't tend to

do anything that divides our country anymore. So whatever I can do to unite and bring people together.

And that means you have to work harder as you work across the aisle to bring people together.

I just want to say Clay, this is the system working. Believe it or not, I know people don't often

pose it that. Certainly Democrats think that this is awful. And they, the Bernie Sanders has a

lot of trouble with math. And it was like, one senator shouldn't stop. Well, it's like, no, it's all

the Republicans. Plus, but here what we have is the system working the way it's opposed to in so far

as you shouldn't have a massive multi trillion dollar additional spending package going through.

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