Manchin: ‘Can’t Understand for the Life of Me’ Why Obama Keeps Blocking Keystone

MANCHIN: “It’s just a shame. It’s just really truly a shame. I don’t know why. I can’t speak to that at all. The bottom line is that with nine bipartisan Democrats and Republicans working together, all we’re asking for is, look at the bill. Look at the jobs it creates. Look at the security it gives our nation. It makes us less dependent on foreign oil. We’re buying oil from Venezuela, we're buying oil from Saudi Arabia, we’re buying oil from Russia every day. This would diminish that and then we buy from the friendliest nation we have and our ally, Canada. Also Canada has agreed to use American made steel in all the pipes. They’ve agreed basically to pay the 8 cents into the skill fund recovery and they've agreed basically to abide by all the commerce rules that you can’t ship oil out of this country. It's treated the same as if it was extracted in Texas. We’ve hit every barrier and I just cannot understand for the life of me.”

DOOCY: “Well, a lot of people say, look, the president, it raises a lot of money with the environmentalists. He’s got to build that big library. It’s going to go with his handout asking them for money. And if the pipeline gets built, they’ll say look, they built it on your watch. I’m not going to give you any money.”

MANCHIN: “But, Steve, here is what -- the environmental community, basically it’s more of environmental hazard to transport that oil as it has been done right now by rail and by truck. Even all the environmental impact studies have shown that. It’s much more cleaner and better for the environment if we do it by pipe.”