I do believe that Senator Mansion has said many things. And look, he's a nice man. I have had

good conversations with him. But I had to be clear that your word is everything around here.

You can't enter into negotiations if you are not going to be an honest negotiator and if you are not

going to keep your word to the president of the United States.

Progressive Democrats still livid at Senator Joe Manchin for sinking the party's major social

agenda. This morning, we've new information on just how talks

broke down between the White House and the West Virginia Democrat and new reporting on Joe

Mansions' private counteroffer offered to the president, despite the bad blood. Is there still a

chance they could strike a deal? Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

It is Tuesday, December 21st, the first official day of winter.

Joe and Willie have the morning off.

I got the table.

I got it all covered here.

With us, we have the host of MSNBC's Politics Nation and president of the National Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpton.

Congressional correspondent for the Washington Post, Jackie Alamini is with us this morning.

Historian and Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, John Meacham, is with us,

and the host of way too early.

And White House Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lemire.

We'll get to the new reporting surrounding Joe Manchin and the White House in just a moment.

But first, the Omicron variant of coronavirus has overtaken Delta as the dominant strain in the United States.

According to CDC data, as of Friday, more than 73% of new cases in the United States. According to CDC data, as of Friday, more than 73 percent of

new cases in the country were caused by the new variant. In some places, including parts of the

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