Some Juicy Details about How It Went Down This Morning . . .

Representative Joe Manchin (D., W.V.) directs during a designations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

civility of Playbook:

Under 30 minutes before he killed the Democratic Party's most significant piece of enactment, an associate was dispatched by Sen. JOE MANCHIN(D-W.Va.) to give the
White House and legislative administration

A heads up. The representative himself was going to go

Live and was preparing for his meeting with BRET BAIER on "Fox News Sunday." He was away with family and doing the hit by means of satellite, yet had his best Sunday show clothing. He wore a red tie and pin-striped suit. His hair looked great. It would likely be one of the most popular video clasps of his long profession.

At the White House, there was frenzy and mistrust. He sent an assistant to tell the leader of the United States that he was going to go on Fox News and put a slug in

Top White House authorities mixed to call the representative and work him out of what

He was going to do.
"We attempted to take him off," a senior White

House official told Playbook, yet Manchin "would not accept a call from White House staff."

At Fox News' Washington studio, Baier was facilitating his first episode of "Fox News Sunday" since CHRIS WALLACE unexpectedly deserted for CNN+ last end of the week. The show's staff knew how much consideration would be on them and how significant it was, in the continuous conflict among news and assessment at Fox, to demonstrate that the news side actually could drive the discussion about the organization.

Manchin didn't surrender Baier a heads about the news he was going to break.