EXCERPT:
AXELROD: "Listen, I mean, I don't want to be unkind to Senator Manchin, but he's kind of dead man walking in West Virginia. There's nowhere for him to go. He's got a popular Republican governor in the state that Donald Trump carried by almost 40 points. He didn't win by very much last time. So he knows that he can't win reelection in that state. This would be a graceful exit for him.”