CNN’s Blitzer to Rep. Jayapal: Do You Think Manchin Still Belongs in the Democratic Party?

EXCERPT:

BLITZER: "Senator Manchin says he'd like to think there’s still a place for him in the Democratic Party. Do you think he still belongs in the Democratic Party?"

JAYAPAL: "Look, we welcome everyone to the Democratic Party that can back the President’s Democratic agenda, the agenda that the House, the White House, the Senate ran on and delivered on. And that is the thing, Wolf, I think we have to understand. We know that there are structural problems with the Senate where we twist ourselves into parliamentarian pretzels to actually get by the filibuster, which is a Jim Crow relic. But the reality is, we have an opportunity to deliver, and we worked from cutting the bill from $6 trillion to $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion, that framework that the President and Senator Manchin committed to.”