Manchin reveals whether he'd support a second infrastructure bill, responds to calls to join GOP

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III said Thursday he cannot support any infrastructure bill subsequent to the narrow bipartisan plan forged with the White House last week if it has a bloated price tag north of $4 trillion.

Last week, Republicans including Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats like Manchin, Mark R. Warner of Virginia, and Jon Tester of Montana in agreeing to a traditional infrastructure plan. However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said the bill will not get a vote unless a currently $6 trillion plan from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is approved first. "I understand we will probably have to go to reconciliation because I did not vote for this 2017 tax bill that President Trump put forward," Manchin told Baier when asked about his support for the reconciliation process.  "I had worked for a long time in a bipartisan way with my Republican colleagues and friends and Democrats and we thought we had a good bipartisan bill for tax overhaul. But at the end they wanted reconciliation, and no Democrats were there, and I thought it was weighted too much to the high-end earners, if you will… With that, I'm agreeable to making adjustments to the tax code, which I think will be fair and competitive."