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The Young Turks

Stop Manchin

The Young Turks

TYT Network

Government, Politics, News

45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo clashes with Joe Manchin on push to work with Republicans: “They don’t want it to work!” Biden to push for his big infrastructure plan in a GOP stronghold.

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0:00.0

Studio shutters

0:30.0

All right, well, I'm Turks, come on in, it's friendly over here, well, unless you're a

0:52.0

public or a corporate Democrat or mainstream media.

0:55.8

Take your grand experience with you guys. Look, is this studio sometimes called Rebel Headquarters?

1:01.5

I guess, is it called a department of justice? Maybe, not yet, but I'm starting to hear

1:10.1

the chitter chatter on the streets. Okay, so got a great show ahead for you guys.

1:16.5

Chopeite does something interesting. We wish you would do something more interesting.

1:20.9

Is that for a piece of a story? Chris Cuomo does something good, but we're gonna celebrate

1:26.9

it in a second. And we've got petitious for you. We've got funny stories. We've got important

1:32.9

stories. That's why it's called the Hunters. All right, Anna Kasperian.

1:37.9

I want to begin today with a discussion on the whole notion of unity. Senator Joe Manchin

1:44.2

has been towing the line of the Republican Party by pushing back against any of Joe Biden's

1:52.3

proposals, whether we're talking about the Coronavirus relief bill, the infrastructure

1:56.5

bill, the American families plan. Joe Manchin has said, I will be the obstacle. I will

2:02.6

be the cop that stops it. And it's interesting because he does so by claiming that what

2:08.5

he cares about is unity. By partisanship, he wants to work with his Republican colleagues.

2:14.2

And I have to be honest, it felt really good to see Chris Cuomo challenge him on that.

2:20.6

Let's watch.

2:21.6

And I'll do respect to your party. I don't think you guys played power politics as well

2:25.9

as the other side. And I think that if you were to get rid of the filibuster, McConnell

2:30.0

would use it against you guys when he gets back in power. And it's only matter of time

2:33.7

in a way that you never even thought of using it. So I hear you on that.

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