joe lieberman connectic brand-new book. senator lieberman will come to the "washington journal." >> guest: thank you. it's good to be with you. >> host: by my count this is your ninth is the title of the government work and can make itt you write the book and why now? >> guest: so thanks for asking and thanks for having me on. this is a book i've been thinking about for a long e extra time to write the book and the main point is that like most othated the by federal government congress and t president and i get disappointed or angry and maybe i have something i can do to help little bit which is to talk about the way in which the things that i filled us my 24 years as a u.s. senator and happen from the center out. they cover w the book is a wide range of policy areas protection budgets balance in national and homeland security rights and we got good things done because people from both parties came to the center.pin the book that being a centrist is not the same thing as being a moderate. conservative republicans. the more

joe lieberman is our guest.welcome your calls and comments at (202) 748-8001, the line for republicans. (202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats. and for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a text at (202) 748-8003. on your group, you are the cochair of no labels. i want to ask about a report in "the intercept most quote -- rec -- reconciliation bill could be killed. they have been able to dealing the bipartisan infrastructure bill away from the larger infrastructure package that includes the bulk of the biden agenda, with the possibility of killing the billig -- the big bill in play. what's your understanding? guest: well, i haven't seen that note. there's no question we totally support the $1.2 trillion bipartisan reform bill because it is bipartisan and it was written really by people who no labels have supported both with policy help and politically. there are some people in our -- in the no labels group with points of view about the reconciliation package, can we afford it? do enou

host: we are joined by former senator joe lieberman, former >> for the next hour we are joined by joe lieberman former senator from connecticut talking about his brand-new book welcome to "washington journal". >> good morningng and good to be with you. host: your ninth birthday centrist solution how we mean government work and can make it work again why did you write the book and why now? >> thank you for asking and having me on this is a book i've been thinking about writing for a long time is a strange thing to say but the pandemic working from home they gave me some extra time to write the book and the main point is i am frustrated by the lack of accomplishment and the federal government and i get disappointed and angry and i decided maybeo there's something i can do which is to talk about the way in which the things that i feel the best all were bipartisan and had been from the center out the wide range of policy availablenm areas to balance national security and human rights and gay rights only because they came to the center to be a centrist is not the same thing t as a moderate

joe lieberman is our guest. calls and comments at (202) 748-8001, the line for republicans. (202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats. and for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a text at (202) 748-8003. on your group, you are the cochair of no labels. i want to ask about a report in "the intercept most quote -- rec -- reconciliation bill could be killed. they have been able to dealing the bipartisan infrastructure bill away from the larger infrastructure package that includes the bulk of the biden agenda, with the possibility of killing the billig -- the big bill in play. what's your understanding? guest: well, i haven't seen that note. there's no question we totally support the $1.2 trillion bipartisan reform bill because it is bipartisan and it was written really by people who no labels have supported both with policy help and politically. there are some people in our -- in the no labels group with points of view about the reconciliation package, can we afford it? do enough -- do we

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host: we are joined by former senator joe lieberman, former >> for the next hour we are joined by joe book welcome to "washington journal". >> good morningng and good to be with you. host: your ninth birthday centrist

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joe lieberman joining, john wrote reaching across to get john mccain who was largely bipartisan in much of what he did with mccain-feingold. bill after bill he was involved. he worked with ted kennedy on a health care issue as well. so overall i don't know that ted kennedy was necessarily one that wanted to reach across the aisle a great deal but when somebody reached across the aisle they accepted that support. so you have to have passers and receivers in football and you have to have the same thing in politics. a person has to be receptive and the other person has to be willing to take the risk of seeing if somebody will join with you. >> you tell a number of stories in the book about the congressional delegation that went abroad to support our troops, to learn, to do oversight, to thank our troops, let them know they're not forgotten. tell us about your first couple of trips and what was the bipartisan experience like those congressional delegations? >> one of the first was not too in a war zone of the middle east but it was down in columbia where the drug war was underway in full sw

joe lieberman joining, john wrote reaching across to get john mccain who was largely bipartisan in much of what he did with mccain-feingold. bill after bill he was involved. he worked with ted kennedy on a health care issue as well. so overall i don't know that ted kennedy was necessarily one that wanted to reach across the aisle a great deal but when somebody reached across the aisle they accepted that support. so you have to have passers and receivers in football and you have to have the same thing in politics. a person has to be receptive and the other person has to be willing to take the risk of seeing if somebody will join with you. >> you tell a number of stories in the book about the congressional delegation that went abroad to support our troops, to learn, to do oversight, to thank our troops, let them know they're not forgotten. tell us about your first couple of trips and what was the bipartisan experience like those congressional delegations? >> one of the first was not too in a war zone of the middle east but it was down in columbia where the drug war was underway in full sw

. >> he's the joe lieberman of republicans. joe lieberman become a hero to republicans.a. >> i think despite the heroic music, it's former president trump who was claiming victory. two down, eight to go. i do think it's worth looking at those remaining eight who voted to impeach the president. liz cheney at the top of the list. >> my over/under is five running. so far eight are running. >> the democrats use redistricting the go after adam kinzinger. he lives in his district by 1.6 miles in a 700-mile district. you'll see a lot of praise for him from democrats except no one in the l.a. legislature wanted him to come back. >> perhaps minneapolis is the best place to go, cornell, because it has this referendum on what to do with police. this gets to the young animated voters you brought up, police reform was one of those things. minneapolis, obviously, ground zero considering this is where george floyd was killed. i want to put up the split inside the minnesota democratic party on this issue. essentially getting rid of the police department as they know it, having a departm

think had most to do with finding the caucuses join together bringing somebody else together, joe lieberman joining together, reaching across to get john mccain who is largely bipartisan what he did. he was involved he worked with ted kennedy on a healthcare issue as well. overall i don't know ted kennedy was necessary that the one to reach across the aisle a great deal. but when somebody reached across the aisle you accepted that support. you have to have pastors and receivers person has to be receptive the other has to be willing to take the risk of seeing if someone will join. >> you tell number of stories in the book about the congressional delegation you went on abroad to support our troops to thank our troops and let them know they are not forgotten. tell us about your first couple of threats what was he bipartisan like during those congressional delegations? >> it was down in columbia where the drug war was underway in full swing. and so a group of us went down to columbia and we spent time with the president of columbia as well as with the military, flew over the area where poppy wa

and former democratic senator joe lieberman of connecticut calls for compromise this politics. also being published this week, journalist will haygood examines the history of black american cinema. in trump shadow, van. ty fair senior political correspondent david drucker explores the future of the republican party. and in liberty is sweet, historian woody holten suggests the founding fathers were influenced by marginalized americans. watch for many of these authors to appear in the near future on booktv. >> on our weekly author interview program "after words," wayne films offered -- phelps offered his views on drone warfare. >> one of the big changes we have seen with the employment of our own drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. particularly within the air force where they're flying remotely piloted aircraft near las vegas. so that mental transition occurs when you wake up at your house in the morning, and then you drive to work. you basically commute to combat, and you'll fly a combat sortie or a combat mission on the other side of the planet. you

in the center solution democratic senator joe lieberman calls for compromise and politics also being published this week journalist examines the history of black american cinema and colorization, and trump's shadow senior political correspondent david drucker explores the future of the republican party, and liberty is sweet historian woody holton suggests the founding fathers were influenced by marginalized americans, find these titles coming this week wherever books are sold and watch many of these authors to appear in the near future on the tv. . . . brings many years of public education and experience to the smithsonian before joining us in june she served as vice president for education policy and strategic initiatives at the american institute for research. so now please join me in welcoming. [applause] >> good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. i like to start off tonight's event -based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the diverse communities who make their ho

so you know, this is now the tea party of the left as joe lieberman said of "the hill" newspaper. left progressive are leading a movement that speaks for a tiny portion of the electorate. they don't have a mandate. where is the bipartisan pushback against that? because we sure have seen far lefter bullying, they tried to occupy the department of the interior this weekend. not a lot of media coverage of that, right? >> it is. you know what's scariest, what happened during the obama administration when the irs was targeting the tea party, this is, this is back to that same approach once again. the irs should never be used as a tool against american citizens. it is unacceptable. it is horrifying. it should be a bipartisan approach of folks being against it. liz: we're showing far left activists pushing against cops last thursday t happened through the weekend to as they tried to push their way into federal buildings in washington to occupy them. democrat senator joe manchin is saying no to, he doesn't like the 150 billion-dollar clean electricity plan. this is the democrats signature

what that means is that the democrats can stop kowtowing to joe lieberman, and instead seek other avenuesion process is still quite available, and we will use it for good rather than evil. >> and they are using the process now. she's made that very clear, what is your sense in terms of the white house when you talk to white house officials whether they did get to that end game she says she wants to get to. >> what we're hearing from both members on the hill as well as the white house, just the fact they're directly continues to negotiate with the senator, putting it out there that she has a view that they could be close to a deal. it's clear they are continue to go engage with her. a person through her reporting says she does support a financing plan where it would be about ten years for the reconciliation package, around $2 trillion. from the white house, they still want to get climate mesh nurse there. there's goings to be negotiation when we go to that. you saw the president at the town hall making it clear that, while he's not getting community college, he's going to want pell grants

this country needs a center-left party, very broadly based where there is room for people like joe liebermanbut also people who consider themselves more on the cutting edge, and the republican party, i would hope, would reconstitute itself someday as a center-right party, where there is also a tolerance and people do not have to pass too many litmus tests. we have two parties -- only two -- there are reasons for that historically. both parties need to be expensive and inclusive. if they are not that way, if people feel there is no room for them in this or that big tent, they will become independents, and sometimes become seriously alienated. it is not a good thing to have people feeling there is no home for them in either party. i appreciate the spirit of what joe says. i hope in the democratic party we still have room, and i think we do, for people of various ideological persuasions. host: let's hear from our republican line. it is david in st. james, new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to ask of you, make a statement or two and asked her question. the democrats real

my message to the democrats, if you are joe six-pack, blue collar democrat, the party of joe lieberman back to the beginning of this conversation, you want to regain your numbers, you want to regain the support of america, you have got to denounce this movement. ashley: you do. and, brent, you've talked about defunding the police and, you know, now, of course, the democrats are trying to say, no, no, no, it was the republicans. of course, we have the tape that proves it isn't. i mean, it's ridiculous. they blamed trump for the border, they blamed the previous administration for everything when, clearly, it's a bald-faced lie. >> yeah. and the media, we have to cast gate the news media for being silent on this. it is up to the abcs, the nbcs, "the washington "the wash" "the new york times." tell the damn truth about what's happening in this country. ashley: amen. >> explain who's doing it and who's not doing it. just tell the truth. let the chips fall where they may, and i guarantee you the republicans will win in an absolute landslide. ashley: great place to leave it. brent bozell, gre

senators from joe manchin to john mccain to joe lieberman have feuded with their parties, with some abandoningheir team altogether. she writes ms. synema could be on a similar path. the arizona democratic party has threatened a vote of no confidence if she persists in her obstructionism. democratic colleagues are slagging her in the media. her poll numbers with arizona democrats are falling. progressive groups are recruiting primary challengers for her in 2024, when she is up for reelection. earlier this month when she was home, activists detailed her into a university restroom and recorded themselves lambasting her through the stall door. this is linda on the independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. we have poor connections. i am in the mountains. i am an appalachian american, college-educated. i have no political party. a brief comment about the general that just past. i identify with him. he is a great leader. i have liked the general. i have been a good democrat, and i have been a good republican. i even dabbled in marxism in my use. now i am an independent. th

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." >> for the next hour we are joined by former senator joe lieberman of connecticut here to talk about his brand-new book. senator lieberman, welcome to "washington journal." >> thanks, good morning to you and good to be with you. >> by my count, this is your ninth book, "the centrist solution" is the title of the book, "how we made government work and can make it work again." why did you write the book and why now? >> thanks for asking, thanks for having me on. so this is a book i've been thinking about writing for a long time. it's a strange thing to say, but the pandemic and the fact that i was home and working from home, not just spending time on the road, gave me extra time to write the book. the main point is that like most of americans, i'm frustrated by the lack of accomplishment by our federal government, congress, and the president. and i get disappointed, i get angry, and i decided, well, maybe i have something i can do to help it a little bit which is to talk about the way in which the greatest -- the things that i feel best about that i did in my 24 years in the u.s. senat