ladies and gentlemen this has exciting libertarian nominating convention. it is my pleasure to introduce our chair of the libertarian national committee. nicholas: good afternoon. libertariand ballot convention nominated to governor gary johnson. he received 55.8% of the vote. a majority. he is our nominee for president of the united states. i'm ready to take questions. we're going to do everything we can to cooperate with the johnson campaign. our general counsel is here. we will get together and strategize.

this is been in our bylaws since the founding of the party was 45 years ago. it is our tradition. it is a bylaws rule. would you like to know who the candidates for vice president are? now, they are still tabulated. why.ill cole lee seo le mr. weiss. mr. larry sharp. weld of william massachusetts. either massachusetts or new york. mr. derek grayson of georgia. dern of california.

historically within the libertarian party you had to get signature tokens to be placed in nomination. 30 three minimum of nominated for president or vice president. it has traditionally been our practice to suspend the rules and cap presidential tokens as vice presidential tokens for purposes of vice presidential nominations. for anyone who had run for president. a motion was made to suspend the rules and it did not receive two thirds. areonly candidates eligible those who were able to submit their vice presidential tokens by the deadline of 1:16 p.m. this afternoon.

someone may cross the 30 tokens threshold. i don't know how many were outstanding. time the names i listed are the only ones who've met the threshold. ballot access needs to be assured in all 50 states. one action is the libertarian .arty taking

takee coordination of place according to whatever is negotiated between the party and the campaign. we have our lawyers present at the convention to make that happen. will be quite operating on ballot access to get into all 50 states right now. we are on and 32 of the states. in all 50ate being and the district of columbia. people in our country here this positive vision of our party. every american has the right to pursue happiness any way they choose. that is such a positive good alternative to the two most hated candidates in modern history.

there is back channel communication to suggest to the koch brothers that the return on their little investment would be a lot higher in the libertarian party and we align better with their values than the republican party. where donors collectively andugh $166 million basically lit it on fire in an effort to try to nominate jeb bush. i am aware that the koch issued aspokesperson denial that they had been in talks about funding governor johnson's run. that was a pre-nomination denial. it was unrelated to whether the parties reached out to them. i would hope they would respond favorably.

if they want to have a political investment in this country they should support us. the republican party is not fixable. any party that can encompass donald trump and rand paul stands for nothing. being successful businessman, they should understand the nature of return on investment. it is time for them to come home. there are back channel to medications to try to reach out to them. >> are there other major super pac's being formed?

a lot of 10 or $15 million to throw around. >> i've spoken to at least three people at this convention who are currently lacking a candidate to support. any other questions before we turn it over to governor johnson? thank you much. >> you keep playing the hamilton musical. he started the first central bank. is this a mixed metaphor? >> you got me on that one. guilty. did i would've enjoyed

the music. that's libertarian. lighten up a little bit. >> the super pac's have radically changed the landscape. nicholas: one of the problems with the super pac as you don't know who it is. you don't have any control over it. there are couple of super pac's they were behind me in 2012 and , youact that they put out flush your brand, what are you thinking? five minutes later he comes back and says was that the super pac. >> you expect to get the support of the tea party?

johnson: the tea party was formed and identified with it. it was really all about fiscal conservatism. i think the tea party has been co-opted by republicans. it is now a social conservative organization further to the right than the party itself. hopefully those tea party members that are still out there , here is a home. >> one survey says you are taking more support from hillary clinton from donald trump. johnson: i've been in three national polls. there are probably been 40 other polls without my name in them. the key for us is being in these polls at all. at the end of the day we pull

from both sides. this is another voice at the table. it is arguably providing the best of what is to be both a democrat and republican. neither of which i should do very well at what they're supposed to be doing. most people are socially liberal and tolerant but fiscally conservative. and then the wars, the interventions. how about a skeptic on these military interventions? how about involving congress? we have 69 treaties with foreign countries that have been presidentially authorized and we have to defend their borders. congress is an involved in any of those treaties. that just doesn't seem right.

we will have to cross the road we get to it. i believe that if bill weld is not my running mate, i don't think i will be elected president. that is not to take away from any of the other candidates that are on the stage. we all look at the vice president first and foremost as can this person step in and actually take the role of president if something happened to the president? bill fills that role in spades. disaffected republicans are really for smaller government. provenld and myself have to be small government guys. republicans that certain heavily democrat states. both of us got reelected. have you do that if you're fiscally conservative. we did that because we also care about the social side of life. we also care about people's

freedom and liberty. it has never been my tax to reach out to anybody. the message i have is the same message no matter whom i am addressing. the most effective reach out is just saying the things that should be said in that context. the lgbt community should embrace what we're saying. i am not about isolationism at all. i'm about diplomacy to the hilt. but military intervention. i can't think of an example where any of our military , flying drones to

kill innocent people, i can't think of any ones that have made things better. in 2012 you never really caught on, they say. zero to 1.3 million votes, here is the trajectory. it really hasn't stopped since. in 2012.in any polls and yet the media would say he is not showing any interest whatsoever. when i was in the polls much lesser polls there was some interest. right now leaving this -- if billwho else weld is the vice presidential nominee i find it difficult to

be excluded. i would ask all of you to report on that fact. the presidential debate commission in the fall saying they weren't pulling that well. the reality is that with the we weren't included in the polls. that is the rate nature of this game. the presidential debate commission is made up of republicans and democrats and they have no interest in letting anybody else on stage. 50% of americans are registering themselves as independents. owners are registering themselves as independents. where's that representation. i happen to think is libertarian. are people in this country libertarian they just don't know it. >> you said you didn't want to comment on trump. what can we expect from you in terms of taking him on? johnson: he wants to

deport 11 million illegal immigrants. he wants to build a wall on the border. that's nuts. saying that mexicans are murderers and rapists. it is incendiary. state governor i can say it is incendiary to 50% of the population of new mexico. the absolute opposite is true. call him out on what is really racist. it is just racist. >> what are some of the challenges? governor johnson: the democrats and republicans science documents agreeing ahead of time that they will debate no one other than than the democrat or

the republican. they will have no part of the third party unless it is decreed by the presidential debate commission. there is a legitimacy to having my name in the polls. i am going to be the only third-party candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. nobody else can lay claim to that. >> donald trump lets the challenge people to debate. when you challenge him to a debate? governor johnson: i will reiterate there is no advantage to him in doing that. the presidential debate commission. they science documents that say will only debate democrats and republicans. that would be terrific. libertarians of them throwing those bombs forever.

since the start of this party. nothing has resulted from that. why would it change this time. this is a big alternative. arguably we are talking about the two most polarizing figures in american politics. this is our choice for president. my tack is not reaching out to anybody. if the ted cruz people want to reach out to me they had every reason to do it. >> were about susana martinez? johnson: governor

martinez of new mexico took me on and she made a name of herself in new mexico. my proposal to legalize marijuana. she made a name for herself being anti-marijuana. >> thank you governor johnson. [applause] [applause] governor weld: thank you. i am truly humbled by this. this is a national ticket. governor johnson and i are going to do our level best to make sure that we represent all of the very best ideas and ideals

of the libertarian party of the united states. in doing that we can offer something meaningful and to the country. to the entire country. that will be a third way for want of a better word. our platform of the libertarian party is economic and fiscal responsibility. and social and personal freedom. [applause] that combination did not happen ofmatch the current approach either the republican or the democratic party. without waving the bloody shirt to let me close by saying we are going to have a lot to talk about in the fall. thank you very much. [applause] [applause]

>> after being nominated by the libertarian party gary johnson and william weld spoke to the campaign -- the media about the campaign moving forward. >> what convention. -- what a convention. i can take some questions. i am the political director of the committee.

governor johnson: i couldn't feel any better. i am so easily did. -- belated. elated. we have a real shot at shaking up politics for the better in this country. i feel hope and optimism for the fall campaign. what can lie behind it. i meant what i said in there. i don't think anyone else in the united states is advancing the mix of holiday ideas the gary johnson and bill weld are. total support of freedom on social and personal issues. that is certainly not the republican party. the emphasis on fiscal

responsibility. we were rated the two most fiscally conservative governors in the united states in the 1990's. that is certainly not the democratic party today. we'll have a lot to talk about in the fall. speak truth to power. can you talk about what this means to the libertarian party to have this ticket? outside this building there are of millions of americans who want to understand what the arianism is and means. best opinion this is the message team going forward to a copper said. -- accomplish that. weld: we do plan to run as unified team.

the late great paul cellucci and i ran as unified team. meet for governor and then him for lieutenant governor. it was a total unified administration. the lieutenant governor didn't have separate staff. everything was done together. gary and i have talked about this. if we are successful the best way to organize the white house would be for the vice president to have no staff. there could be no striking of staff against each other. the total unified approach. does help that gary and i see the issues exactly the same way and free of good personal chemistry. we've known each other for 20 years. having viability to compete is money. are you going to be embarking on governorsing effort?

absolutely. i want to have a web-based fundraising effort like bernie sanders and howard dean. that could be a productive line. i read that half of the major republican donors have not yet lined up to support donald trump. i was people's national finance chairman when he ran for president in 1995. i was mitt romney's co-finance chairman in new york. in 2012.008 i have met a certain number of the major republican donors. there are some democrats with libertarian sympathies as well. i'm not going to let any stone go unturned there. we would do traditional fundraising in the states as well. i want to make sure we have all three major donors web-based and

party fundraisers. wait.ing to states -- the next few weeks look like? >> i am headed to new york for the next three days. really all of this was incumbent on getting the nomination and that now has happened. i imagine it will be a pretty full schedule. the whole notion of not , now itg things, hoping is a reality. i expect it will be full. >> introducing libertarianism to

people, do you stay on everything on the platform? i have said this all along. we're going to articulate the pragmatists we will always sign on to anything that makes things better. is that not every part of the platform then? >> you need to understand and articulate the goal but also and reachinglity that goal may not be accomplished. i will start with how that is not going to be accomplished tomorrow. here is what might be accomplished tomorrow. that is what we bring to this. dogmatic on

libertarian principles. getting from add is much better than just ticking at a. have you received a message of congratulations from donald trump or hillary clinton? i believe donald trump was treating congratulations all afternoon. >> maybe i will have my first drink in 29 years. no i'm not. by the way, no alcoholic here. i quit drinking because of rockclimbing and i wasn't drinking and rockclimbing by the way. i just wanted to be good all the time. do you have criminal justice

reforms that you're going to put forward is elected? >> we're going to address the mandatory minimums. we're going to address that non- violent criminals that are in fact behind bars. that is the majority of makeup of federal principles today. they've been convicted on numerous occasions. there are tens of millions of americans that are outside of prison that are convicted felons. william weld: i used to have a different opinion on this. even then we emphasized the

demand side of narcotics. there is something happening in the country that is kicked off by republican governors in the south which is the realization that we are not getting too far by treating narcotics problems .nd alcohol problems if you study the economics of the impact on the economy of narcotics and drug addictions, it is an enormous. people want to treat it as public health issues.

we want to become more productive members of society. interestingeen an political event. you two are experienced politicians but does the polity -- party have a image problem? do they have a ways to go to be taken seriously? i don't think freewheeling is crazy to libertarians. republicans and democrats have got them. and that is the way it is. it's ok. for those of you that have gone to the democratic national convention, you can attest to what i just said. >> are you conducting a 50 state

campaign? >> it really depends on resources. the modern-day campaign is social media these days and it is taking advantage of free media. the two coolest might be in front of 50 million people of as opposed to getting on the ground. do you see any reason that the polling institution would come forward? >> how about a pitch? why shouldn't these two guys be included in the polls? that's what i'd like the headline in the polls. what is there to fear. --t they might get a net

enough attention to be a part of the debate? who should fear that? i'm kidding. >> you talked about how you appeal to both republicans and democrats. isld you speak to what it that is going to drop a republican disinfected group or democrats disinfected with hillary clinton to consider if you two. i don't think we're entering this with a mindset. never joined the never truck movement. william weld: someone does not have to be disinfected with mrs. clinton to think that we have a good story.

people have not heard our story. they don't have to be never combination. our we can prove it. without bearing the baggage of those socially conservative that are championed by the republican party in washington. the republican party that i knew prior to 1994, there were people that held that makes abuse. do you see any authoritarian tendencies with mr. trump? [laughter] i think that is a legitimate difference. i would call him out on deporting 11 million illegal

immigrants and building a fence across the border. i would call him out on the fact that they -- he is calling mexicans rapists and murderers. there are people looking to advance themselves. they want to achieve the american dream. commit far less crime than u.s. citizens and they are not taking jobs that u.s. citizens want. thank you all very much. thank you for hanging in there this whole time.

>> libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson will talk more about his candidate this week on washington journal. he will also take your call slide tuesday at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span. now former green party presidential candidate ralph nader spoke in washington wrapping up a day long for them on community organizing. his remarks are about 15 minutes. 15ph nader: you've seen now years of civic action experience in one day.

what it takes to persist and to invitingte and to be and to have priorities in order. one time my parents talked about something i didn't know anything about, we were talking about and theyopportunity said what about a civic opportunity? i had a lucky choice of parents. it is one where it works to make the democracy more able to people'sand to reflect rights. without civic opportunity, there is not much economic

opportunity. without civic opportunity to elevate the labor laws, get fair elections and public debate underway. you're not going to have a functioning democracy. you will share my commendation of all these people. let's give them a good hand. [applause] this is the super bowl of citizen in action. here, all ofoints these initiatives would have left-right support back home.

when to get down to where people live and work and raise their families, the ideology is not much around. it is around on some of the issues. issues of health and safety you think conservative families lives of from -- differ from liberal families? divide and rule has been the strategy of ruling parties for some -- centuries. they pay people against one another and the media jumps in. as i pointed out in my recent , i came up with at least 24 major areas in the country where

there is left-right support. it goes operational. going operational on challenging the civil liberties suppression in the patriot act. it is going operational for criminal justice reform and juvenile justice reform. we have to focus on because once you get a left-right alliance on any issue, it is unstoppable. it doesn't matter how many corporations land on capitol hill. it doesn't matter how much money goes into politics. money is not important. it is just a means to do that. if you cut them off at the money pass when you have immobilized similar strain, it comes to the

point where it can make real change. look at the budgets of these groups. look at the staff of these groups. league in terms of numbers, never mind birdwatching. if we only had congress watchers likely have birdwatchers. what if these groups and others had 10 times the budget? 10 times the rigorous advocates? times athey had 100 budget? drop in the bucket compared to what corporate executives get away with.

there is a distinction between charity and justice? charity is supporting soup kitchens. certainly immediate relief for needy people. why should the country have soup kitchens at all? justice develops livelihoods that prevent the need. for soup kitchens. a society that has more justice is a society that is less charity. that is what these groups are all about. .tructural change it is a lot easier than we think . less than 1% of the people mobilized in the district. i will reiterated again and again based on history. achieve the we

blessings we inherited. it is far less than 1% of the .eople even at the peak of the civil rights movement, there were not more than 1% of the people who spent three to 500 hours year on that mission because it represented under -- overwhelming public sentiment and a final recognition by those in our society that were in difference to the civil rights. this idea of polarization is a divide and rule myth restricted to a fuel -- few areas between conservatives and liberals but ignoring far greater differences.

you have ron paul and barney frank when they were in the house. people imagine purple -- further apart? when it comes to fundamental small business communities and recycling communities and community banks and armour , when it comes to local sustainable energy, when it comes to community health ainics, do you think there is left-right divide on that? the same is true in the educational area. allow the future will the many they will command the divide and rule tactics and distract attention from the broad areas of convergence. we live in a strange. of time.

they are received by a very tiny audience which we hope to address tomorrow in the break that cannot be the case in a vigorous democracy. upton sinclair spoke, "the jungle" we have got to come back to a principled verity. readers bank and thinkers rate.

are writtenut there by people you have seen here on the stage today. they're organized materials and magazines and publications. thate you to look at lineup and see what you want to take back home to your friends for expansive deliberation. i hope people looking at this on the lives stream saying we can start a group. we can start a citizen group. , we can meet group once a month. how many of you remember maggie qian? she retired from the methodist social work and started the gray panthers.

she goted to a sale -- on the johnny carson show more than once. she made a difference. no money, no context. just been driven social concept -- conscience. they have a good foundation now. if we don't break through the commercial media, if we don't develop alternative media, democracy cannot thrive. [applause]

thomas jefferson was only half kidding when someone asked him what would you prefer mr. jefferson? a government without a free press or a free press that a government? he said i prefer the latter. we do not have a free press for most of the hours on television and radio. we have a commercial investment using our property. tomorrow will be the most , informed critique evere commercial media brought together in one day. [applause] presenters will be the greatest promoter of the history.ndment in

phil donahue. demonstrated the belief for the first amendment then phil donahue. he brought on his show people despised wide him -- him and a failed him. that is the ultimate test of the belief in the first amendment. he brokeiscuss how taboo. one tab you -- it opened huge areas of american life and voice to expression. we want to get rid of this idea that piece was something week.

our wars have failed again and again. you will see the documentation , people who worked for the cia and fought in wars that they wish they were never a part of. the traditional peace groups that had these vigils every sunday and people drove by them. sometimes snickering. day four will be breaking , the moste congress underappreciated instrument of democracy by all too many people. if we recover the congress and we have the votes and we have the people and the left right

we will affect the ande and local governments we say to the next generation what we're going to pass on to you is something we can hold our head in pride so doing. that and fulfill whatour modest potential are our descendents going to think of us? we don't have to guess. the use of time is under our discretion. income of discretionary and savings for many people who are not poor iserwe turn the tie

resources and art talent in the direction of the functioning democracy. you will see change faster than you can ever conceive of. let me end on this note. those of you who came today, we appreciate. who are watching by life streaming, we appreciate. i hope some of you will be passing out to dollar bills because the two dollar bills has and then on one side other, the room where the in july came to sign

1776. yes they were all white males and some of them had slaves. declaration that against the most powerful army in the world controlled by king they thoughtird, they were signing their death warned. for them it was an act of extreme courage. part of a broader vision. i think we can look back at that document called the declaration of independence and say we are glad that these people showed up on july 4, 1776 and it is about time more of us show up as well for democracy. [applause]

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