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The two most powerful people in Washington, DC right now are both named Joe. One's the

president, the other is a senator from West Virginia, the most conservative Democrat,

the swing vote in the 50-50 Senate. Joe Manchin.

Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin.

So far, he's outright opposed one Biden cabinet nominee leading her to withdraw last night.

As you heard on the show yesterday, he's a roadblock on the $15 federal minimum wage.

And he said he'd never vote to abolish the filibuster. Actually, when asked about it

this week, he said, never. Jesus Christ, what don't you understand about never?

Okay, alright, calm down, Joe. We get it. You love the filibuster. Maybe he's just

not used to all the attention. He's getting a lot of attention right now in Congress.

He was the man of the moment. If we were out in the hallway and there was a reporter around

him, they took a beeline right toward him, you know? To matter of John Ausef, Lisa Mrakowski,

anybody was near him. They were going for Joe. And the questions that they would ask him,

you know, they touch every facet of government, minimum wage, climate change, health disparities.

He gets every kind of question. And so he's just like, he's a rock star up there right

now. Joe, Severino is a reporter at the Charleston Gazette mail. We did not have any moonshine

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