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00:00We'll extract every lump of coal, we'll extract the gas and oil, and West Virginia will do
00:22her part.
00:23We've always done our part.
00:26He's not sold out to the coal industry.
00:29He is the coal industry.
00:31The people of West Virginia and Appalachia, we've become a sacrifice zone.
00:38We're dying here.
00:43I don't think we expected to end up in such a deep story.
00:57The words dropped like boulders.
00:59On Fox News Sunday, Senator Joe Manchin suddenly threw President Biden's Build Back Better
01:04agenda into new turmoil.
01:06So what does this mean for the fight against climate change now, then?
01:09Well, it means legislatively the U.S. appears to not be in the fight here.
01:16How much farther down here are they?
01:18It works different in this state.
01:21You have no grounds to arrest me, sir.
01:22Yes, ma'am.
01:23Sure deal.