guest: there has been a lot tension within the libertarian party as of late. we convention in reno that there was a takeover by a faction of the party that now controlsthose not within that faction have been this satisfied with that leadership. when tbringing trump and rfk junior to the convention there was a falling people tried to this invite trump. but this is proceeding as planned. host: why were both former president trump and rfk junior invited to speak at a libertarian event. guest:nusual. there has never been a sitting or former president who has addressed li typicallydon't feature other party's presumptive nominees. what the libertarian party chair told me was that she wanted to try to increase the visibility of her party and she thought rump on stage to do that. she thinks that this is a great unity for libertarians to trump will have to defend his record. for trump, he sees this as an opportunity to gain libertarian in some states this could be a close contest and those voters could make up the difference. his attempt is to tell libertarians maybe yo

libertarian party getting 3%?reason to take a chance of having thient destroy, she will do in far less than four years -- it is not going to take four years. that is why i'm itting to you tonight that i will put a libertarian in my cabinet■,, and also libertarians and senior posts. pretty good. that is pretty big. or you can keep going the way you have for the last long decade, get 3% and meet again, get another 3%. you want to make yourself winners. it is time to be winners, you have a lot of common sense. time to be a winner. i am asking for the libertarian party's endorsement, or at least lots of your votes based on my four year, very outstanding presidential record. much of my record is libertarian. >> i would like to nominate the greatest president of our time, donald j. trump. ■>> can anyone tell me if donald j. t is able to accept the nomination? >> i object the consideration. >> i need you to be quiet -- no o points of order. we are in the middle of a nominaonmy curd and chills chair if he's checked to see

ladies and gentlemen of the libertarian party, i want to unify this party, so we can be the strongestst powerful engine of liberty in the 2024 election. and make no mistake, i want to fight for ballot access in each one of your states because i want to make sure that we run awesome libertarian candidates all over the country. [applause] now, you are going to get asked, ok, what is chase all about? give me the elevator pitch. here is the elevator pitch, guys. if you are living your life in peace, free from force, fraud, coercion, theft, or violence, then your life is your life, your body is your body, your business is your business, and your life is your life. it is not mine to handle, it is not the government's. i know we have had a long day, and we have had many ballots. i urge you -- we can make it a little longer. i'm actually going to get out of here, but what i want to say in closing, i am fighting for a world. i am fighting to end are you fighting to end the wars that kill innocent people all over the world? i am tired of that inflation is forcing people into abject poverty for

i've been a member of the libertarian party since 2013. me a lifetime member in 2022 when the abortion plank was removed from our party platform. i'm a former secretary of the chesterfield county lp, a former secretary of the lp of central virginia and former vice chair of the commonwealth of virginia. i am here to nominate joshua smith for president of the united states. despite our hurdles as working and middle-class people for blue-collar candidates in raising enough funds for the pay to play straw full, we believe in josh, his message and his charisma in getting that message out to the masses so much that we rallied in the 11th hour, grassroots, work boots on the ground effort to ensure you, the delegates heard from him in the debate. it was a great debate, wasn't it? [applause] so what is our primary value? electability or messaging? there is an ongoing debate within the party that our mission. if the message of liberty primary or as a political party can we expect to get libertarians elected into office? this is a false dichotomy. you

the libertarian party can make a big difference. the libertarian party can make a big difference.we can make america freer than ever before for citizens all walks of life. weekendgç optimism, so that people can have an unlimited future. united will be unstoppable. if we unite, we are unstoppable. i will be a new friend to libertarians in the white house. and i am be the only president in 70 years who -- no new icomplex. broke the stranglehold on neocons and warmongers on the republican party. and instead of war, i made peace in the middle east, something nobody thought was possible, and dealt with kim jong-un of north korea where a nuclear war was guaran periods of time if hillary clinton became president. a nuclear war. 100%. you would have never had the october 7 attack in israel. it would have never happened. and the attack in ukraine by russia woulder ever have happened. it wouldn't have happened. hundreds of thousands and even millions of food would be living today. i unbowed the united states from a agreements. i withdrew from the paris accords, from the anti-gunnd from the

trump trying to appeal to their sharedshared interests, a deep n for federal bureaucracy, but libertarian party members told me they do not see trump as one of their own. >> donald trump is not a libertarian because donald trump is an authoritarian. >> reporter: libertarians have been spoilers in the past can could be again, especially in a tight race with so many voters dissatisfied with the two major party candidates. during his address, trump calling out his democratic rival. >> why isn't joe biden here speaking to you tonight? >> reporter: in a statement, the biden campaign taking aim at trump's record, saying donald trump says his republican party is the party of freedom, but

ladies and gentlemen libertarian party, i want to unify this party so we can be the strongest , most powerful engine of liberty in the 2024 election. make no mistake, i want to fight for ballot access in each of your states because i want to make sure we run awesome libertarian candidates all over the country. you are going to get asked, what is chase all about? give me the elevator pitch. if you are living your life in peace, free from force, fraud, coercion, theft or violence, then your life is your life. your body is your body. your business is your business. and your life is your life. it is not mine to handle and it is not the government's. [applause] we have had a long day. we have had eight ballots. we can make it a little longer. so i'm actually going to get out of here. what i want to say in closing, i am fighting for a world set free in our lifetime. i am fighting to end the war wars that kill innocent people all over the world. i am tired of the monetary policy forcing families into abject poverty for no other reason that we print trillions of dollars a year to fund those

i am a -- on the libertarian party ticket. thank you all so much. ve had a great time this weekend, i hope you have too. i love you guys. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. hello, my fellow libertarians. i am michael rectenwald. [applause] i have a confession to make. i am high. on liberty! [applause] i want to thank michael and dave, and i want to thank all of you for being here. and i am running not to reform the state, i am running to dismantle it. i call for an end to the federal reserve, the military-industrial complex, the cia, the nsa spying, and the crushing regulatory regime. and i call for the fertile -- the full restoration of all of our rights. and as dave mentioned, i understand the new threats to liberty. the censorship industrial complex. the climate change tyranny. agenda 2030. central digital currency. and all of the elite plans to destroy freedom. [applause] and i have the strategy to combat these threats. decentralization and nullification, a movement we will build together when you nominate me. [applause] why should you nominate

what is the purpose of the libertarian party? what is the future of the libertarian party? we have a future? i believe we do have a future. i will go further. i believe we have to have a future because we are the only ones who understand this. we are the only ones who get it. there isn't a single other candidate or political party in this country who understands the real problem america is facing. even with the best of intentions they may have, if you don't understand the problem, you are only going to make it worse. we are necessary. as some of you may have heard, donald trump spoke to our delegates last night. i don't know if you caught that. he made a lot of promises that were promises of things we like. he also said a lot of things we didn't like but you let him know that. one of the biggest promises he made in my mind was to free ross ulbricht and i'm glad that happened. even if he didn't actually do it, he brought it into the mainstream which means it is more likely to happen. if there was only some way for us to know what donald trump would actually do if he were to

the libertarian party is small, but influential often taking votes that would otherwise have gone to conservative republican opponents. but libertarian vote total has been impactful. at least in swing states all around the country. the republicans know it, the democrats know what the independence knowing, so it's not surprising that are of getting in trouble and try to come in and get our votes. but we have always had the self respect to not given to that. adding insult to injury in the eyes of many libertarians. the trump speech came a day after another knowing libertarian presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy junior took the stage, although trump was clearly the main event you're getting here in tears at the same time within. as you can see, several of those read megan understands. most people came just for this event. we didn't come to the libertarian convention, and within the convention, trump, my presence has been device here and it shows joe wanted to do was drag down is trump tried to appease the crap. i will put a libertarian in my cabinet. and also libertarians in senior

why is the libertarian party doing this? two years ago, the party was taken over by a faction there was very successful in organizing and arguing against the status quo, saying we need we, the libertarian party needs a tighter more ante status message. we need to be focusing on ending war is ending the fed, ending covid, lockdowns and restrictions the group that took over called the mesos caucus has seen basically revenues from over a two-year period decline find by a third membership declined from sustaining active membership from 16,000 to about 12,000. this is a party that is declining and i think what they're doing here, it's kind of a hail mary pass to see if they can get back into the public consciousness. they were expecting to have a couple of higher-profile people running for president. that hasn't worked out. so we're left with this unprecedented media circus where the third largest party in the country is bringing in people from other parties to make a pitch to their delegates. rfk juniors pandemic pitch. i'll use

but libertarian party members told me they do not see trump as one of their own. >> donald trump is not libertarian because he's an authoritarian. >> reporter: libertarians have been spoilers in the past and could be again, especially in a tight race with so many voters dissatisfied with the two major party candidates. during his address, trump calling out his democratic rival. >> why isn't joe biden here speaking to you tonight? >> reporter: in a statement, the biden campaign taking aim at trump's record saying donald trump says his republican party is the party of freedom, but tell that to the women who have had the freedom to make their own health care decisions ripped away. robert f. kennedy jr. blasting trump over covid lockdowns. >> greatest restriction on individual liberties this country has ever known. >> linsey: maryalice parks joins us now. there was question whether robert f. kennedy might secure the libertarian nomination. it would go a long way in insuring he was on every state ballot but it seems like that won't happen. >> reporter: it was sort of a surprise he went for i

executive director in 2018 of the libertarian party, trump is the opposite of a libertarian.e also should have expected that trump would easily be capable of running $1,000,000,000,000 deficits after all, he does have vast personal experience with bankruptcy yeah. >> and when he was in office, he spent a lot of money and like you just said, ran up the debt and deficit. but donald trump is there because he is also trying to compete with kennedy for his voters both donald trump and president biden are taking rfk junior very seriously. now. that he is doing well in the polling considering in the double-digits and most polling he is pulling from both trump's supporters and biden supporters. and he's a threat to both of them. >> he's a threat, but he is only on the ballot, right now in michigan, utah, hawaii, delaware california and oklahoma, he's gathered signatures for many more, but it hasn't been have been approved the libertarian party is on the ballot in most battleground states, except virginia, pennsylvania, and new hampshire, which is, which of the earlier point it does b

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and former president trump booed at the libertarian party convention this weekend. instead, the party chose a candidate who's vowing to appeal to younger voters angry over the war in the middle east. abc's perry russom has details. perry. good morning andrea. >> good morning and such a close race. >> the libertarian candidate could play spoiler this year, which is why trump and independent candidate robert kennedy jr made an appeal to the party's convention. >> let's win this nomination and fight tomorrow for liberty. >> overnight, 38 year old chase oliver beat out rfk jr and former president trump to win the libertarian party's presidential nomination. trump over the weekend booed while addressing the party's national convention. >> now, i think you should nominate me, or at least vote for me and we should win together. >> trump rejected by the crowd while appealing to libertarians opposition to big government. the former president, responding by mocking the party's performance in recent elections. >> keep getting your 3% every four years. >> independent candidate r

i spoke with libertarian party members, to organize this. they all believe in free speech.nt to the constitution is important to them but some of them really didn't want to hear from him at all. they disagreed with what he did during his presidency, especially his handling of the covid pandemic, of adding to the deficit. these are people who want limited government. they don't think trump follows those protocols at all. i posed the question to one organizer, if she would ever consider voting for either trump, depending on what he said that night or biden, any of the major parties. take a listen to what she told me pat -- told me. are you committed to voting for the libertarian party no matter what or could you potentially be swayed by what he has to say? >> i would rather eat my own foot out of a bear trap. i only vote for terry in. -- libertarian. >> that is a crowd trump walked into last night and it was evident when he told them, support me, endorsed me. if you don't endorse me, vote for me. that was the wrong direction to get this crowd. other members i spoke to told me

the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. [ crowd booing ] whoa, that's nice. that's nice. only if you want to win. only if you want to win. maybe you don't want to win. maybe you don't want to win. thank you. no, only do that if you want to win. if you want to lose, don't do that. keep getting your 3% every four years. we're asking that of the libertarians, we must work together, combine with us. we cannot give crooked joe biden four more years. we can not give crooked joe biden four more years. if we unite, we are unstoppable. i will be a true friend to libertarians in the white house. [ crowd booing ] deroy murdoch, who i've become friends with, wrote an article yesterday in which he mentions just some of the things that make me a libertarian without even trying to be one. that's nice. or you can keep going the way you have for the last long decades and get your 3% and meet again, get another 3%. no, you want to be winners. it's time to be winner. you have a lot of common sense. it's time to be winners.

kennedy was eliminated as a possible contender for the libertarian party's presidential nomination. now, this comes a day after former president donald trump appeared at the convention this weekend and was booed. skyler henry has more tonight on what lies ahead for trump later this week. skyler. >> reporter: hey, jericka, good to see you. it could very well be a pivotal week for the form err why president as the decision in the so-called hush money trial against him is expected as soon as this week. meanwhile, the former president is looking to gain more support along the campaign trail off the traditional path. nascar fans cheered and waved ahead of former president trump's arrival at the coca-cola 600 race in north carolina today. it's his third visit to the swing state this election cycle. >> keep getting your 3% every four years. >> reporter: but he had a few speed bumps outside d.c. on saturday. trump looking to make gains with libertarian voters was instead met with hecklers. >> the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. [ boos ] whoa. >> r

former president trump faces hecklers and booing on the campaign trail at the libertarian party conventionhow he handled the rowdy crowd. >> you should nominate me or at least vote for me and we should win together. [ boos ] >>> costly cookouts. how inflation is hitting your barbecues, from burgers to sides. >>> also, threats against congress. an increasing number of investigations sparked by safety concerns. >> it shows no sign of abating. >>> and later, honoring our heroes. ♪ we'll take you to a little town in italy living up to the promise of never forget. >> they have kept their memories alive all these years. >> they didn't forget. >> they never forgot. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news." from new york with jericka duncan. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us on this sunday. it has been a horrific month for people living in the nation's heartland. the latest severe storm system overnight has killed at least 16 people, and tonight more than 100 million of you are under the threat of dangerous weather. the worst of the devastation stretching across texas, oklahoma and

on to the libertarian party has selected the man who will challenge joe biden. and donald trump, the us presidency, chase oliver, others cool for us these far and gathering on light bite. and then trump describe the will, the as a genocide, $100.00 reports. now from the policy conference, donald trump and joe biden have a new life. the libertarian party of america has nominated chase oliver to be their standard there in the 2024 presidential election. it was a divisive vote that came after the 7 ballots. 37 percent of the people here wanted none of the above to be their choice. that would have meant the party would not have feel that a candidate, now chaise oliver said he's going to unite the party after many members were upset about the fact that to non libertarians, donald trump and robert f. kennedy junior, were allowed to speak of this convention. the libertarian party is small, influential that tends to get one to 3 percent of the vote nationally speaking in a presidential election. that's enough to determine whether the republicans or the democrats in the

talks to delegates at the 2024 libertarian party convention in washington, d.c. he focuses on the u.s. constitution and bill of rights with an emphasis on limited government and individual rights. [chairs and applause] -- cheers and applause] >> can you hear me? i am very, very happy to be here today. i'm going to speak about the united states constitution and particularly, the bill of rights. leave this. as we take you life to the three day libertarian convention being held at the washington hilton. independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. speaking to convention delegates today. >> i'm going to speak about the united states constitution and particularly, the bill of rights. a lot of people don't realize at the articles of the constitution don't grant citizens any rights or freedoms whatsoever. that was real problem to some of the founding fathers. in particular to george mason. mason wrote a pamphlet during the convention that opposed the new government. that pamphlet was so convincing that the other framers of the constitution felt that it was t

and they're not showing about things the standing ovation, the libertarian party is small, but influential often taking votes that would otherwise have gone to conservative republican opponents. but libertarian votes total has been impactful. at least in swing states all around the country. the republicans know what the democrats know what the independence knowing, so it's not surprising that are of getting in trouble and try to come in and get our votes. but we have always had the self respect to not given to that. adding insult to injury in the eyes of many libertarians. the trump speech came a day after another non libertarian presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy junior took the stage, although trump was clearly the main event you're getting here in tears at the same time within is proud. you can see several of those read megan from fans and most people team just for this event, we didn't come to the libertarian convention. and within that convention, trump, my presence has been devised and it shows jo. wanted to do was drag down is trump tried to appease the credit i will put is a

i joined the libertarian party in 2018. and i'm a member of the mesus caucus. i've been learning in the years since then about different factions within the libertarian party, different views that people have. there's obviously a few issues that libertarians have typically had debates about. i'm thinking immigration, abortion, things where there are kind of libertarian luminaries who have made libertarian arguments that take you to different sides, starting from libertarian principles and take you there. one faction, i don't exactly know how big it is in the libertarian party has over the last couple of years, this is really shock -- this has really shocked me, supported the policy of funding ukraine and are now currently supporting the spoil of funding and arming israel. i do not understand how you can get from a libertarian starting point to justifying robbing one group of people to fund another nation's conscripted army. just because i've been so baffled by the fact that there are some self-identified libertarians who support this, i want to ask both of you

look, this libertarian party is utterly irrelevant, but here's what trump is doing. and you know what i think about donald trump. i think he's a lawless un-american psychopath let's not forget jessica, as we honor those who died for our country today donald trump referred to those people as losers and sucker's look, he's trying to go everywhere. jessica, because he's trying to contrast himself with joe biden. trump wants to make the case that biden is not going to get out there and biden's not going to get in front of anybody who disagrees with him. it's why trump went to the bronx, right last week. trump snack and a win. new york he's trying to give this perception that he's way out there and he'll go in front of anybody to contrast himself with biden and keith rfk junior, not just a threat to the trump campaign are cnn polling chose among all voters, kennedy stands at 16% with some strong indications he is siphoning support from both trump and biden. >> so what should the biden campaign be doing to guard against this? >> well, i'm not sure exactly how rfk jr. cousi

you want to be on my team. >> a third party like libertarians as a party of principle.y know they won't win the election. they get 3% of the vote. it's more than the major parties in a two-party system. they hang out their principles and make a statement that way. that said, i think the best argument donald trump pants. he is not a libertarian in no way can be considered a libertarian. neither can robert kennedy jr. but he can argue i'm a better choice than the alternative, joe biden's green new deal. he is closer to many libertarians on foreign policy than he is on trade. he is restrictive. but on foreign policy, he's closer to many libertarians with traditional republicanism. i think he has a case to argue my administration with regulation and lowered taxes would probably be more to your advantage than joe biden with the green new deal. even with robert kennedy's green program which requires the government to execute it. a lot of people are not going to agree and that's their choice. >> molly: he has a trance to get out there and make those sentiments to independent v

the libertarian party has been overtaken by maga. i think trump thinks he can get the libertarian vote this year. michael, why did he go to the bronx last week? why is he going everywhere? i think he's trying to contrast himself with joe biden that he will get in front of any crowd. he said there were 20,000, 30,000 people in the bronx last week. there was not. he's giving the appearance his going anywhere to get any vote. >> he's getting desperate. i was wondering, what is donald trump doing at the libertarian party convention or conference, especially because vivek ramaswamy was there earlier as this week when he mentioned donald trump's name there were boos then. understanding this now in the reporting, the libertarian party invited donald trump and president biden. president biden declined. he got a couple cheers while he was there. he got some boos. this moment, i was struck by, he again talked about the january 6 protesters, not calling them protesters. promised a pardon yet again. we want to play this for you and your reaction

the thing about the libertarian party is it's not a cohesive party. in all different directions. he's sand -- standing from font of a sign that says anarchy. so for any former president to win over a libertarian party that is just a anti-government, you know, the boos are going to happen. it's going to happen for ronald reagan, donald trump, barack obama, anyone. but the fact he's willing to to there to get maybe 10% of them to vote for him, to go to the bronx to get maybe 5 for of thee for him, the margins are going to matter. i think his base is to aligned that he doesn't need to go to texas even though democrats think they can nip if it. he will, but he doesn't immediate to. he has so is well constructed is the message that that he's spending that he can go out to -- sending that he can go out to these outliers. anybody when's been in government would probably get booed in front of that crowd -- will: that's because libertarians are inherently terror train -- contrarian. they're not going to have a warm reception to one of the two major parties in

if the libertarian party is successfully given to maga and sacrificed on the altar of a donald trump er left nor right, but something different. what angela mccartel has right now is authority. she has the power to basically put donald trump on stage of our presidential candidate's debate for the nomination, but she doesn't have the power to make libertarians like it. one thing libertarians are famous for is we're individualists and we really don't like being told what to do. it's backfiring already. there are even more lawsuits. we're very hard to manage. >> don't like being told what to do by your chairman of your own party or by a former president either. former chairman of the libertarian party and still fighting, nicholas, thank you very much. >>> a new era dons for the ncaa, paying completes directly. a multibillion dollar settlement is paving the way for the first revenue sharing plan for college athletes. >>> taylor swift is taking to europe and having an unprecedented impact on travel. l power e*trade's easy-to-use tools, like dynamic charting and risk-reward analysis, help m

took the stage, interesting fully, they were actually sitting in the front few rows but the libertarian party delegates actually kicked them out to the back of the room so that they could stay in the seats that they paid for. of course, this libertarian convention, this is in a trump rally so i thought that was interesting. trump's whole point of making this appearance, at the beginning, why am i here? why would i come? because he started getting boos even before he got on stage. it is because he, like robert f entity jr. who also took the stage the night before at the same invention and prez joe biden's are also going back going to be a very consequential election in november. solo trump did not get a warm reception at all. he had many boos, including that light that you heard there on the screen. he also spoke for about 40, 45 minutes. a little shorter than his usual rallies where he is facing a sea of people in magna hats and red gear. so certainly a very unwelcome welcome for the former president. in this all, as he heads into what is going to be closing arguments in his hush money trial

thin i am asking for the libertarian party's endorsement, or at least lots of your votes, lots and lotsibertarian votes based on my four-year very outstanding presidential record. much of my record is libertarian. booing] as an example deroy -- where is he? y? where are you? he is great. i have liked him for a long time and he is a libertarian. thank you, the roy. thank you.he wrote " the $1.5 trillion tax cuts and jobs act was america' release -- the largest tax release ever. it's like individual tax rates for all taxpayers and/corporate tax rates from a punishing 35% to a globally competitive and much more than that, only 21%. way down. tax cut in the history of our country. you can like it, or you don't have to like it. diate expensing of business equipment and other reductions fueled the best economyha t had. for four years, had the best economy that our country had ever had. black and hispanic unemployment reached the best levels of history. joblessness slid two levels unseen before. black povert collapsed to record lows. the things -- income inequality shrank atssed. between 2016

should nominate trump for president of the united states. >> no surprise, the libertarian party did not nominate trump for presidents. in fact, he didn't even appear on the ballot. he says that he never wanted to and the party says that it was he never submitted the paperwork and said that distinction will go to chase oliver. he was a us senate candidate in georgia on the libertarian ticket, got about 2% of the vote and was potentially a spoiler. and one of the runoff races there. so but but donald trump's outreach was not necessarily well received as you heard in those boos and talking to people at the convention people who, who got the nominee and oliver himself. they said that looked donald trump may be saying things that sound good to libertarians now. but why didn't he do those things when he was in office? >> yeah. and not the reception the former president is used are getting at all. >> you mentioned rfk jr. and trump attacked him and that truth social post, as well. talk more about the increased concern that we're seeing from the former president with regards to rfk's ca

trump's record will see that he barely aligns with a conservative camp and is a far cry from the libertarian partythat's true. i mean, luck trump's record in office was it particularly libertarian? no. i mean, he grew government, which is the first thing he ran huge deficits i mean, he was, he's not a libertarian. >> he signed surveillance law, covid is huge you know, he covid spending the whole operation warp speed and everything they were against covid vaccines or the whole covid restrictions. >> so he's not a libertarian he, i do like the idea of seeing libertarian candidate for cabinet. i would love to see how the republican party, the senate, republican rand paul good confirmed by the united states senate. now, mitch mcconnell and john thune john barrasso and john cornyn and how they all vote on libertarian can, that'll be something we'll see if that actually comes to that, but that was one thing. davy went in the room. >> he mentioned this. pardon of russ albright, who was the founder of silk road, which is a massive dark web drug market. he was actually charged with money laundering and dru

the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. whoa. that's nice.ce. [crowd jeering] >> only if you want to win, maybe you don't want to win. if you want to lose, don't do that. keep getting your 3% every four years. >> while the libertarian party ended up choosing a lesser-known candidate as their nominee, a reuters-ipsos paul this weekend chose joe biden and donald trump in a statistical tie among registered voters if the election were to be held today. recent polls in swing states have been more favorable to donald trump, for instance. a new york times survey from may 13 from mr. trump leading in five of six major swing states, nevada, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania, and georgia, and mr. bennet had a marginal lead inhe state of wisconsin because of how the electal college works, these keepsakes will have an outsized influence on november's election. polls have also shown that president biden's support has fallen particularly among young, black and hispanic voters. the biden campaign has tried to move the needle by focusing heavily on issues like

trump tonight, expected to make his pitch to voters attending the libertarian party's national convention could be in for a rude awakening. >> do we reject donald trump? and everything he stands for? [ applause ] >> reporter: attendees here, who pride themselves on pushing a limited government, telling me they don't see trump as a libertarian, but a republican rival. >> there hasn't been a single internal libertarian who has been happy about the trump speech. >> reporter: independent candidate, robert f. kennedy jr., at the convention yesterday, bashing trump for covid lockdowns. >> so back to the former president, what are officials there saying about why trump was invited? >> reporter: this is interesting, because obviously the libertarian party will nominate their own candidate for president, but the party chair said she welcomed the debate, the exposure for her party. this is a small group, but they have made a big difference in some key states in the past and they definitely could again, especially this year. so many voters are frustrated with the two major parties. >>> tonight an am

. >> less than two hours former president trump a schedule to get a speech at that libertarian partyational convention in d.c. he is looking to try to rally support there but it could be a tough crowd. alexis mcadams is live from the convention floor plate she has more for us. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> jon g but didn't one thing i did learn about the libertarian party they are not afraid to speak their mind telling us they might end up coming into this room where the former president take the stage behind me and they could be booing him he may not be the most popular guy that they not build flip a lot of people to vote for him. that is the goal tried to go after the nontraditional voters. the people i talked to say it's going to be a tough sell for trump, watch. >> i do not think he would be able to sway me at all. i think having him here but as a spotlight on our movement. i also think that maybe we could have some influence over him. he is here because he needs us. >> he did not drain the swamp. it did not happen. wheat want to hold him accountable to the things he said is going

x and possible on saturday, continues with a speaker from the arrival party, whose goal it is to steal votes from the libertarians. former republican president, donald trump, the user patient of the party is many libertarian. c, it has some seeing read in the 53 year history of the libertarian party as an independent political entity. this is the biggest betrayal that's ever happened from leadership where you would actually give our stage our time. trump will enter a room fits do with signs like this reading. let's deny trump inviting victory on election night. personally, i don't like it. but i'm also rational enough to say, if this draws attention to what we're doing here, maybe it's worth it, but i'm skeptical that it is for his part independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy junior would like to earn the endorsement of the party, which could put them on the ballad in all 50 states, many party members who planned to vote on their presidential candidate this weekend . say he's welcome, but he hasn't put in the work. i would say that for our of k to actually have a shot, he would have had to have camer

republican party iese elements of what everybody has to say in respecting freedom. but rf is in no sense a libertarian either. i would in this room, but ask a hard question to this room, y -- i have said this -- i -- the republican party is at a crossroads. right now it's a choice, a fork in the road in the conservative movement between resuscitating the ghost of dick cheney, reviving a post-9/11 surveillance state backed by the patriot act what is it? the expansion, not the renewal of fisa 702. . that is what republicans are rooting for by large numbers today. the same party tt took us into the iraq war is forking over more of your own taxpayer dollars to so one fork in the road is to go the way of dick cheney in the past. the other part is now emerging as a fork in the road is to go in favor of what tt increasingly looks and smells like a right-wing version of the nanny state. and i don't support that either. the right answer there is none of the above. what is the right answer? it has to do with the people in this room. [applause] that's the right answer. it's a false choice between the new crony c

that's the thing that sits with me. >> the former president of the libertarian party was on "morning joe" thursday or friday, and he predicted exactly what happened. he's going to get a bad reception and not get the endorsement. i don't think even that guy thought he would get six votes. but it is that he hasn't done a lot of other campaigning. he's in the bronx last week. >> new jersey. >> and then new jersey. people are like, oh, he was in new jersey but it is the philadelphia media market or you could go to philadelphia. co go to an actual battleground state. so it tells me that the campaign thought they're worried about rfk and they think this is a good move to try to get those voters over. but then also, you know, i think he just won't appeal to haley's voters. i think he's too upset about it. you're correct that that -- you do both things. appeal to the libertarians and also try to appeal to haley voters, but he does not appear to want to do that. >> no, he doesn't. i think rfk got more votes than him at this convention. so not even that works. and trump has to expand and the p

both candidates are trying to appeal the voters within libertarian party. mately neither got the reception they were looking for. news nation's reports. >> if i was in libertarian before, i sure as and military and now. >> donald trump met with mixed reactions of the libertarian national convention hoping to court right-leaning third-party voters in the tightly contested 2024. race. the former president met with loud boos and jeers upon entering the room. the noise continued after trump recalled a recent article suggesting the party should nominate him for president. >> the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. don't leave. you want to win. >> only if you want to wait, maybe don't want to win. >> trump urged voters to combine with us to be president biden in november and wanted to, quote, extend a hand of friendship to libertarian voters. >> you can either nominate and put us in the position or give us vote. >> i invited them to debate in front of for the members of party. but he declined. >> independent candidate robert

libertarian. [applause] so i don't bend the knee to one particular party or another democrat,.ublican party i respect some elements of what everybody has to say in respecting freedom. but rfk is in nolibertarian either. i would call out not everybody else in this room, but ask a hard question to this room, because i think the republican party -- i have said this -- is at a crossroads. they will not come to this room -- the republican party is at a crossroads. right now it's a a fork in the road in the conservative movement between resuscitating the ghost of dick cheney, reviving a post-9/11 surveillance state backed by the patriot act permits today what i expansion, not the renewal of fisa 702 . that is what republicans are rooting for by large numbers today. the same party that took us into the iraq war is forking over more of your own taxpayer ukraine. so one fork in the road is to gor part is now emerging as a fork in the road is to go in favor of what they would call industrial policy, but what increasingly looks andlike a right-wing version of the nanny state. and i don't

cable satellite corp. 2024] >> former president nald trump has accepted an invitation from the libertarian party to speak at its national convention on may 25. members of the party will share their top issues with the former president and expect him to address their concerns during his remarks. mr. trump will be the first major party presidential candidate to speak at the libertarian party convention. president biden also has been invited to attend but has not responded. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more, including wow. >> the world has changed. today the fast reliable internet connection is something no one can live without. so wow is there for our customers with speed, reliability, value and choice. now more than ever it all starts with great internet. wow. >> wow. support c-span as a public service among these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> next, a news conference on college protests focused on the israel hamas war with committee chair james comer and other members of the committee. th

the house education and rkforce committee and beginning friday live covera of the three-day libertarian party conviction. friday speakers include 2024 independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. and saturday speaker include former president donald trump. watch this week live on e c-span networks or on c-span now, our free mobile video app. head to c-span.org for scheduling information or to watch live on demandrnment.>> nd austin on the helicopter crash that killed the iranian president and foreign minister over the weekend. secretary austen gives an update on the war in ukraine alongside joint chiefs of staff jared general charles brown, jr.. >> the secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then we'll have time to take a few questions. please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. due to time constraints, please limit the follow-up questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. secretary austin, over to you, sir. the speaker: thanks. good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. general brown and i have just c

, he was greeted by a mix of loud boos and few chairs as he tried to convince members of the libertarian party to vote for him. cnn's steve contorno has details donald trump was booed and heckled from the moment he took the stage at the libertarian convention in washington dc on saturday nights, trump arrived here hoping he could convert some libertarians to support his presidential campaign. >> his supporters and convention attendees clashed in the audience. sometimes physically as trump suggested that it was time for them to unite, he splinted through his speech, giving a ton of reasons why he thought the two sides should come together. the biggest one defeating joe biden. >> that is why i have come to extend a hand of friendship to ask for your partnership to defeat communism, defeat marxism and defeat crooked joe biden, who is destroying our country, trump did manage to win over the crowd at some points, like when he said you have put a libertarian in his cabinet if he was elected president, the biggest cheers the night came when he said he would commute the sentence of russ albright. that

libertarian party convention. president biden also has been invited to attend but has not responded. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more, including wow. >> the world has changed. today the fast reliable internet connection is something no one can live without. so wow is there for our customers with speed, reliability, value and choice. now more than ever it all starts with great internet. wow. >> wow. support c-span as a public service among these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> next, a news conference on college protests focused on the israel hamas war with committee chair james comer and other members of the committee. they spoke at george washington university saying they wanted to ensure student safety while the pro palestinian demonstrations were on the campus. >> can everybody hear me ok? we will be very brief. the oversight committee is here today because as you saw yesterday from mike johnson's press c