[Music] Reflections and reactions continue to pour into The Newsroom over the death of Joe Lieberman thanks for joining us here at five I'm Bren Harden and I'm Sarah Sanchez the news of liberman's death broke last night he died due to complications from a recent fall according to his family liberman's career in office was an impressive one he was Connecticut's Democratic senator for 24 years before heading to Washington Lieberman was a Connecticut state senator for 10 years and spent six years a
s Connecticut's attorney general he also joined Al Gore's presidential ticket as a candidate for vice president back in 2000 Fox 61's Bridget buoro joins us in studio tonight with more on how Connecticut leaders are remembering the man who dedicated his life to Public Service Bridget BR Sarah no matter who you talk to the description of Joe liberman Remains the Same a political Trailblazer and an independent thinker so much so that he helped start the not labels party to support those in Washing
ton committed to bipartisan work and just weeks before his death he was back here in the his home state of Connecticut speaking at Quinnipiac University about why leaders should put people over party really heartbroken Joe was such a good friend but a colleague as well Joe Lieberman a political Powerhouse best known for delivering solutions for the people of Connecticut a family man who dedicated four Decades of his life to serving the Constitution State first as state senator then as State Atto
rney General and for the last 24 years of his political career United States Senator we grew up in New Haven politics he was someone who was such an advocate for people really such a gifted individual and took those values of his own family life and uh you know projected them uh for the state of Connecticut for the nation as well Senator Richard Blumenthal stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Libra in the Senate and remembers him as a fierce leader unafraid to go to battle for the people and issues t
hat mattered most most strikingly about Joe lman is that he was a fighter he stood up for everyday Americans and people of Connecticut leaving a legacy of working and fighting for environmental values civil rights and Liberties consumers and other great causes of our time and while he dug in his heels from time to time he also had a soft side and I met him when I was a teenager he was incredibly warm and kind and welcoming to me and um that's when it started for me supporting those who would fol
low in his path William Tong recalls liberman congratulating him in 2019 is shortly after he became Connecticut's Chief legal officer he said um how very proud he was that 30 years later that I was sitting in the same office that he had occupied as attorney general liberman broke barriers as the first Jewish Vice Presidential nominee for a major party in 2000 while also breaking party lines most notably through his support of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 he lost the Democratic Primary in 2006
but still won re-election to the Senate as an independent Governor Ned Lamont remembers that time well he and I met under a different circumstances during a pretty frisky political debate about the war in Iraq that said at the end of that campaign we shook hands and we've been friends ever since and that says a lot about Joe liberman those very friendships cementing his legacy in American politics especially the bonds he built with whom he disagreed liberman eulogized his good friend and Republ
ican John McCain who came close to making Connecticut Senator his running mate in a Unity ticket in 2008's presidential election an idea that lives on through liberman's No Labels party a push toward bipartisanship in an Ever polarized Washington beautiful beautiful man gifted and would I just say is uh one of the Giants in the United States senates who knew why they went to the Congress and what they needed to do on behalf of the people of their state but of their country a lasting Legacy indee
d and and until his dying day liberan was pushing for compromise over division just last week he told Bloomberg news quote this is the moment for a bipartisan Unity ticket he believed the majority of Americans really wanted and deserved an alternative to Donald Trump and Joe Biden in November Brent Sarah and Bridget thinking U speaking of pushing for Unity people might forget that just a few years ago Trump was going to appoint him to a top job do you want to talk about that yeah so back in 2017
James Comey was fired as FBI director so there was a vacancy of President Trump had a short list and on that short list really topping it for a time as do liberman even though he spent most of his career as a Democrat so it spoke to his ability to build relationships build respect with ev even people who opposed him politically so really interesting it speaks to his legacy it really does all right Richard thank you thank you
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