Episode 327: Senator Joe Lieberman on The Centrist Solution
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Newt’s guest is Senator Joseph Lieberman, whom he’s known for more than 30 years. When they served together in Congress, they managed to work together on key issues that were facing the country. Senator Lieberman’s new book: The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again is available now.
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| 0:30.7 | On this episode of Newt's World, I'm really pleased to welcome my guest today, Senator |
| 0:39.2 | Joe Lieberman. We've known each other for more than 30 years. And when we were in Congress, |
| 0:45.2 | he was a Democrat from Connecticut and of course I'm a Republican from Georgia. But we managed |
| 0:50.0 | to find common ground to work together on key issues that were facing the country in |
| 0:55.0 | the years we served together. And that's the subject of his new book, The Centrist Solution, |
| 1:01.4 | How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again, reaching across the aisle to get |
| 1:07.1 | things done in a way that I think we'd both agree really doesn't happen anymore. |
| 1:13.2 | Senator Lieberman was the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 2000, served 24 years |
| 1:18.3 | in the US Senate, retiring in January 2013. During his tenure, Senator Lieberman |
| 1:24.8 | helped shape legislation in virtually every major area of public policy. He served in many |
| 1:30.2 | leadership roles, including as chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government |
| 1:34.9 | Affairs, where he led numerous congressional investigations, including investigation into |
| 1:40.3 | NRON's collapse. The federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, the Fort Hood |
| 1:45.4 | mass shooting and the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. Prior to being elected to the Senate, |
| 1:51.4 | Senator Lieberman served as the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut for six years. |
| 1:56.1 | He also served 10 years in the Connecticut State Senate, including three terms as majority |
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