Hey it's Jonathan Kapart. Welcome to K-pop. Senator Joe Manchin is the Democrat

everyone loves to think will switch parties.

For me to be a Republican I would have to put the bottom line before I would a human being.

I can't do that.

We can hear more of what the West Virginia senator has to say about his fellow Democrats,

President Trump, Russian interference in the election,

and the messy attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Senator Manchin, thank you very much for being on the podcast and from what I understand this is your first

My first Jonathan, this sure is buddy. I'm glad it's with you. Well, I'm honored to be your your debut in the podcast world so let's talk about health care what

on earth is happening with what's supposed to be the repeal and replace of Obamacare with something that doesn't sound like it's

improving the situation.

I can understand the high emotions that are running right now.

If you were a Republican and you were working against the Obamacare from day one,

if you've been here long enough from 2009, I wasn't here when when it passed I didn't get here to the

end of 210 it was already law by that time so I can say that people have been since I've

been here is about 60 votes to repeal it and I said you know I know there's going to be some adjustments we need to make. We all have talked about some tweaks.

Any major social change such as this, whether it be Social Security, Medicare, they didn't happen the first shoot

time out of the box.

It took time to evolve.

So I knew this would have to be repaired, but they never would put a repair, it would

repeal, repeal, repeal, repeal. And some of the repairs they put

out would just cut slash and burn. But if you look back in 2009, I would say that I felt that the

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