 A full court press was quickly assembled to help dissuade Manchin from appearing on the show. That effort included a weekend phone call from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. No one wants to be the first one to knife Julius Caesar, one Democratic Party official said. Here's the thing. Doesn't matter who doesn't want to be the first one. Julius Caesar gets knifed. Julius Caesar gets knifed. That's the end of it. That's all you got. Barack Obama is now coming out of the woodwork to start leaking to the press about how maybe Joe didn't have it.