Joe Manchin on the Fight for America's Future: Term Limits, Bipartisanship & the 2028 Election

Alright, everybody. Welcome back to the All In podcast. We are super pleased to have with us today senator Joe Manchin is joining us today here on the All In interview, and Chamath and I will be interviewing him, on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense, a great book. Welcome to the program, Joe Manchin. I know you like to call Joe. So, Joe, welcome to the program. Jason, thank you. It's great to be with you and Chamath, and and I've Yeah. Followed you all, and you've been unbelievable what you put out and some of the people you've had on. It's been very entertaining, very interesting, and very thoughtful. So anxious to be here. Thanks. And we we have a tradition here. I don't know how often you watch the interview show, but we always try to get a personalized gift for each of our, our guests. And so I in the book, you talked about your first car, your 1964. If you could find that if you could find that thing for me, there's a bullet back, I can't find the car. Well, there it is with the white interior. Oh my god. Where can we buy it? No. No. You got it. It's it's in your driveway right now. When you get out of your, office there, it'll be waiting for you by your yacht. Let me tell you that oh, by my yacht. Yeah. I got a bit taller than you. $200,000 trawler. It's a fishing trawler. Correct? It's Joe. Joe, listen, Joe. What what Jason has just proved is he has not read the book, but he looked at the pictures in the middle. That's all he's done. Yes. No. I did the he's ripping off the pictures in the middle. No. I don't have the physical book. I did the audio book. But, Joe, you did the right thing. Oh, you did the audio. Read it yourself, which a lot of authors, you know, they get try to get talking out of doing it, but it makes it so much more personal. Hey, Jason. I didn't know I was supposed to do that. And I and all of a sudden, my daughter, Heather, says, dad, you guys show up at the studio and start reading your book. I says, how how did I said, why do I have to do that? She says, it's in the contract. I says, I didn't see that. She said, I didn't show it to you. It's the part of the contract. It's like six or seven hours of reading. It took twenty hours. Twenty hours. So three days. Three, four days. Four days. And let me tell you what's the best thing I've ever done. The make me reminisce everything we put in the book. It's just Chamath, if you you haven't done this yet because you haven't written it yet. I'm not really into audiobooks. I read the book. Look. I have …