And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome back to Conversations and I'm very pleased today to have as our guest Senator Joe Lieberman. Thanks for joining us, Joe.

Great to be with you, Bill.

Thank you.

And I look forward to discussing your long,

distinguished, very interesting

public career in public life. Maybe I begin by just asking you, is there one moment that stands out?

What's the most when you wake up late in night?

What's the one moment, flashback moment that comes to you first when you think about that

long and distinguished career.

So I've been lucky.

I've had a lot of great moments.

I mean, I suppose the when I got elected to the Senate in 1988 as an upset winner.

That was a big moment.

In 2006, after I lost the Democratic primary

Iran as an independent and won, that was was really a thrilling moment maybe the most

thrilling but but really the most memorable moment I would say it would have to be the

barrier-breaking opportunity that Al Gore gave me when he asked me to be his running

mate in 2000 as vice president and then that whole campaign and the remarkable aftermath of it.

But it was it was thrilling. I remember hearing about your

pick. I was at a beach house I remember this. It was like very early in the

morning the news broke. Yeah. To a interview, instant analysis knowing nothing.

I was, of course, was happy to pontificate about it.

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