It's time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "put their heads together" and work out an agreement on police reform, as it's important for the United States, former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday.
"You've got two bills, one Sen. (Tim) Scott's in the Senate and now the House Democratic bill," Lieberman told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo. "They cover the same subjects (but) they go at it a little differently. Come on, let's get together and compromise, just the way the big things have always happened in Congress, and get something done."
Such lack of cooperation is why Americans are so angry at their government, and why they are losing confidence, said Lieberman.
"The public is really agitated about what they saw in the death of George Floyd, the police officer just sitting almost blandly, unemotionally on the neck of a fellow human being until he died," said Lieberman. "They want something done about it but they don't want their police strung up either because we're a rule of law society. We depend on our police."
However, that doesn't mean that there should be "mobs controlling action," said Lieberman. "It's got to be calm. I think one of the ways to calm it down is for the Republicans and Democrats in Congress to join with the president and get a police reform bill passed. It's never going to be perfect. Nothing ever is. But the perfect shouldn't be allowed to be the enemy of the good. Let's get something good done now on this."
Lieberman also commented on numbers showing that Joe Biden is ahead of President Donald Trump in most of the national polls, saying that there is no question if the election was held now, the former vice president would win.
"But there are more than four months to go," he said. "A big factor is somewhat in the control of the president but not really, which is can we control the spread of coronavirus. And if those numbers begin to go down again, the economy will go up, people will feel good."
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