The Democratic Party may be looking for an alternative candidate.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today Senator Joe Lieberman, and he’s been acting as chairman of No Labels, but he is a worldwide statesman. So, Senator Lieberman, where would you like to start. There’s so many problems going on in the world right now, in the world in Washington. It’s your flaw.

0:23 Speaker 2 Thanks John, always really good to be with you. So I’ll start with No Labels because we’re involved in something different this year. We started about thirteen years ago as a group that really was going to try to overcome some of the partisanship in Washington, to try to bring Republicans and Democrats together to solve some problems for the

0:48 country the way it’s always happened in American history. And I think we’ve done pretty well helping to elect more centrist, independent Republicans and Democrats. They in turn have work together to help the last two presidents, certainly President Trump in President Biden, to get some good things done that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. But in the last year or so,

1:10 our members said, you know, we’ve never been involved in a presidential race, but maybe we’re never going to really stop the partisanship and gridlock unless we have a president that’s committed to buy partisanship, why don’t we think about running our own ticket. So we thought about it and we said, well, that’s something we really can’t decide until

1:32 we see what the two parties do next year. But one thing we know, because of the rules of the game, we got to start now to get on the ballot for a separate no labels line in all fifty states.

1:47 And I’m really proud to say that we’ve now crossed ten states in which we’re qualified for a third line and we’re going to keep on going, hopefully to get to twenty or twenty five by the end of the year.

2:00 And what motivates us not that we want to run a ticket, but we hope that maybe the strength that we’re showing will be a message to the two parties to try to come back toward the center and at least not to change what they think is right, but to begin to work together for the good of the country.

2:20 I mean, the reality is john that there has never been as much angered toward the two parties and as many people in our country who are identifying themselves today as independents. And that’s the group we want to speak for, one way or the other. In next year’s presidential race.

2:39 So what we’re thinking about is the possibility of actually running a bipartisan ticket for president and vice president next year, a third ticket, which will be the first time that’s happened since eighteen sixty four with Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

2:57 We’ll see what happens.

2:59 Speaker 1 Yeah, that’s a long time ago. And common sense has to prevail. Senator and me and you have always believed in that. And it’s crazy. There’s the one thing I’ve seen in Washington lately is a lot of hate, hate on both sides, and I just don’t understand that we used to be. You know, what what should be is

3:24 we’re all Americans and we should fight for America. The problems we have with our borders, it’s crazy. I’ve been talking about it with everybody. New York City is underwater with all the migrants. I mean, you know, our country, our borders are under attack, and I just I’m having difficulties saying what’s next now.

3:54 Speaker 2 John, I agree with you. Look, I want to you use towards common sense, and people in Washington seem to have lost it. I mean, no labels put out a kind of a platform for next year’s election. At a big event up in Hampshire about six weeks ago, we called it our common Sense Agenda, and I mean in it,

4:17 we actually have a platform policy on immigration, and you know, we make the point that immigration has been good for our country and in some ways we’d like to see more legal immigration because the legal immigration really helps the country.

4:38 But you’ve got to have border security. We’re a country of law, and you’ve got to have laws to say who can come in and who can’t, and right now we don’t. And look, part of what we’re saying is if the members of Congress at both parties and the next president sit down at the table, they can work

5:00 us out. And it’s pretty clear what they got to do. They got a tough in security at the borders, which is has been somewhat tough in but not enough obviously, because too many people are coming to illegally, and then we’ve got to figure out how to let in more legal immigrants. Frankly, like our families, John who were this

5:22 was the greatest gift of their lives to become Americans, and you and I as their children and grandchildren, have been blessed to be able to live our lives in this great country. So it’s all about balance and what you’re what you’re saying is right, John, there’s too much hat in Washington. I mean, there’s always been differences of

5:44 a opinion, but today you don’t just have a difference of opinion and a debate on an issue on the floor in Congress. But but you treat the other person as if they were a member of an enemy nation, and they’re not. They’re a mare, as you said, And we’ve got to get back to that. The kind of

6:04 Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirkson, Ronald Reagan, Tip O’Neil and Bill Clinton and Luke Gingrich. Who would have thought that those two would work together, but they and they disagreed, and then but they did and they got the balanced budget.

6:21 Speaker 1 Yeah right, And I you know, I both admire Bill Clinton and I admire New Gingriish, and I admire putting it together for the sake of our country. It was the last time we actually paid down the deficit.

6:35 Speaker 2 And absolutely right me too. The last three years of the Clinton administration we had a surplus and that was because of the Clinton Gingrich agreement on the Balanced Budget Act. So we’ve done it. Not so long ago, and we can do it again, but it’s not happening now with the people we have in Washington.

6:58 Speaker 1 Agreed Uh, Senator Lieberman, I look forward to working closer together to get what’s good for our country, and we look forward to catching up with you again real soon.

7:09 Speaker 2 Thanks John, always the pleasure. God bless you, my friend, being blessed