host: matt bennett joining us, the founder and vice president of the group third way.m patrick in new hampshire. republicaner: good morning, mat. guest: good morning. caller: i was listening to talking about wars and saying how the wars around the world in ukraine, gaza, potential wars between china and taiwan, that is nobody's fault in the united states. it is not joe biden's fault. it is not the democratic party fault. you do not think it has anything to do with our weakness around the world and how we are being perceived as weak by these bad actors? i live in a small town in new hampshire. walking around the past three years and consistently, i walked three times, one time was at 9:30 to go to the gas station and i was scared looking over my shoulder in new hampshire to see if me to commit a crime against me. it is scary for regular americans. we want to be safe. as a republican i would love for joe biden to do great on the world stage. i would love there to be no wars. i want everything to be safe and have a good life as republicans. close the southern border. keep

tuesday morning matt bennett cofounded senior vice president for the center left group third way discussesin campaign 2020 for the future of the democratic party and note labels efforts just deal the third party unity ticket this public policy foundation talks about efforts to secure the southern border with mexico amid legal battles with the biden administration. c-span's "washington journal" join the conversation alive at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning on c-span, c-span no free mobile app or online at

host: matt bennett joining us, the founder and vice president of the group third way. n line. caller: good morning, matt. guest: good morning. caller: i was listening to talking about wars and saying how the wars around the world in ukraine, gaza, potential wars between china and taiwan, that is nobody's fault in the united states. it is not joe biden's fault. it is not the democratic party ult. you do not think it has anything to do with our weakness around the world and how we are being perceid i live in a small town w hampshire. i have been walking around the pa and consistently, i walked three times, one time was to go to the gas station and i was scared looking over my shoulder in new hampshire to see if someone would be walking up behind me to comt a crime it is scary for regular americans. we want to be safe. joe biden to do great on the world stage. i would love there to be no wars. i want everything to be safe and have a good life as republicans. close the southern border. keep us safe in the united states. thank you. let me applaud you for that very patriotic

matt bennett. thank you so much for joining us tonight. mark mckinnon stick around. we've been hearing four months that voters do not want another biden-trump rematch in january reuters asked voters in a poll if they were tired of seeing the same candidates run for president and more than two-thirds said, yes, they weren't tired of it. numbers like this, of course, had fueled the possibility of third bids from groups like no labels, the group says that it wants to appeal to more moderate voters and turned the heated political rhetoric in this country they've already secured ballot access and more than a dozen states, but here's the hang-up. they >> still >> don't have a candidate that's willing to run. they've been basically playing the ultimate guess, who game. >> for who will be the no >> labels candidate. >> there were so many >> contestants as you can imagine, but one by one, they all turn down the job bill cassidy larry hogan, dean phillips, nikki, haley david petraeus, jon huntsman, joe manchin, geoff duncan, and chris christie, who just turned down the job yes

with me today is cassie smedley and third way cofounder matt bennett. welcome to both of you.'s dig into these fox news poll numbers out today. on president biden's job performance, 42% approval, 58% disapprove. is that a sign of trouble in an election year, matt? >> it didn't great. we would love to see better polling right now, but we are eight months out. i remember i was on a call with frank luntz, great pundit and pollster, at 6:30 on election night in 2016, and he was predicting hillary clinton would easily win the election. we're eight months out, so a lot can happen between now. mike: i was traveling with the clinton campaign, and they definitely thought they were going to win. all right, we have president biden's approval compared to his predecessors at the start of the election year, biden, 42%, trump 45% in 2020. obama, 45% in 2012. george w. bush at 53% in 2004. delaware senator chris coons, a close ally of the white house, talked about some of the poll numbers today. >> what matters is how people vote, and we have consistently as democrats overperformed polls not

tuesday morning matt bennett cofounded senior vice president for the center left group third way discusses its role in campaign 2020 for the future of the democratic party and note labels efforts just deal the third party unity ticket this public policy foundation talks about efforts to secure the southern border with mexico amid legal battles with the biden administration. c-span's "washington journal" join the conversation alive at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning on c-span, c-span no free mobile app or online at >> hurt presiling owhen ae hea0 a.m.e spen mobile video app and online@c-span.org. >> a hearing on federal law enforcement use of financial this follows a congressional investigation examine how the fbi and other law enforcement agencies have used their authority to monitor the financial data of the ameri evidence on generally six 2021. this is just under three hours. subcommittee will come to order without objection the chairs authorized to declaree to today's hearing on the weaponization of the federal government the chert not recognize the gentleman from kentucky mr. matthew

matt lively back there in the studio. >> thank you. >>> i've got to say, donna allen, electric. i love that. third ncaa tournament in a row. the tenth time overall under head coach randy bennett for the gaels. >> you don't get this too many times in lives. >> st. mary's is used to going to spokane every year when they would play gonzaga. this week they have been busy preparing for a new opponent. the antelopes of grand canyon university. >> i know you probably don't know too much about grand canyon, but what have you heard? >> i heard it's a party school. that's all i've heard, but i'm sure they're a great team. >> honstly, i don't know much. i heard it's a fun school. >> as someone who went to arizona state university, just ten minutes away, i'm not sure party school is the way i would describe the lopes. the gaels have won their opening games in the last two years, but then they were eliminated in both years. time to change that this time around. >> yeah, and those crazy kids, you know, that big fan base. >> don't worry. you know they can go to asu and you know they'll be partying there. >> we're looking at you. >> remember, you can play along at home to enter our bracket c

a lot of tense exchanges with matt gaetz in particular anderson and the theme was what you just underlined, which is 100 pushing back on the idea that his father, bennett benefited from any of his business dealings overseas in ukraine or in china? i'll read you just a part of one of his exchanges where he he tries to turn the tables on the republicans, saying, have you not been interested in another president and his son-in-law, jared kushner donald trump's son-in-law and his dealings in saudi arabia. what he says i'll read you just a part of what he says here. he says when jared kushner flies over from flood, flies over to saudi arabia, picks up $2 billion, comes back and puts it in his pocket, okay. and trump is running for president united states. you guys have any problem with that? matt, gaetz responds, the clock has stopped, and then he responds, know the clock has not stopped. do you guys have any problem with that? >> i'm >> asking it's unbelievable to me. in part of this, anderson was a hunter biden pushing back again on the idea that his father was involved in any thing and he also explained some of the text messages that republicans have bee

matt, i'm going to ask you to take a final question. you alluded a little earlier to bill bennett was, you know, magnificent using the bully pulpit among among his other gifts is we look forward. you were to point to one in conservative leaders, state official or national figure who has spoken of most effectively or most effectively on this whole bucket of issues over the last 30or is there an individual two that you would point to as kind of a role model for folks trying to get this right? partment of education was extremely innovative and extremely effective using the bully pulpit as one of the things you can in the federal government in as well as break up the accreditation cartel. that would be on my to do list for next conservative department of education. but. i would say bennett, i would say you we mentioned william f buckley jr got him in at yale. the other b■÷0nig was the closif the american mind right. and alan blum and there to a focus on the content not not the structure of what are we actually teaching what do we expect of our schools and especially our institutions o