We have shared these awful instances where men and women are killed needless late. Announcer in a sunday story in washington post, a band of exasperated republicans act of late plotting to draft in independent candidates who would keep donald trump from the white house. Bill kristol is joining us here. How is your effort coming along . Bill there is a lot of support out there. We should have a choice other than he and Hillary Clinton or donald trump. Getting a serious, credible every fouro run years, it is not so easy to do. You have two parties who set a monopoly situation there are serious people engaged in real direction discussions and it is not too late. It is a question of finding the right candidate. Deadlines, the deadline for texas has passed although there may be another way together on the ballot. Winky face in terms of the calendar . Bill texas and North Carolina, you would probably have received. The law would probably succeed. Everywhere else you can get on. Other places are harder the and others stop anything can happen. You can get on a bunch of balance in july and august. Early june is a real deadline thethe mitt romneys of world. Someone with National Credibility who might get a turn of voters, mostly republicans but not entirely false a lot of independents and democrats would ink that person would be a better president than donald trump or Hillary Clinton. We keep hearing the name it rob me. How likely is that he would run as an independent . Bill he has publicly said he does not one either donald trump or Hillary Clinton to the president. I have been critical of mitt romney at times but i would support him over the others. He is of it good character. He might do it out of patriotism. He does not need to do it but it probably would be a losing raise, he would get attacked by the i think he does think the country deserves better end i think he is looking at it. I think the senator from nebraska who has written so eloquently and powerfully and has gotten a huge response about the need for a better choices out there. He is reluctant for many reasons. Maybe he will be persuaded to do it. Thurber, retired senator from a, wonderful man, has worked across the aisle strong conservative. Interestingeight an an interesting candidate. On patriotism. More trouble so to speak then it is worth for shortterm gain in the case of romney or colbert who are comfortably in myretired. Of all of them just think how awful it would be to go forward for the next six months with the choice being trump and clinton. Calling this a suicide mission. Weresure of there thirdparty conservative candidate on the ballot that would guarantee hillarys election. I give you that. We would not be saying that if you want worried about it. Donald trump, maybe most republicans will continue to sort of acclimate to him it that is the right word. Accommodate him, decide he is successful. But not knows, there could be a lot more that will come out that will cause his campaign to implode and i think it would be good to have a real conservative on the ellen. Partys foran repealing obamacare, foreign policy, none of these are things donald trump is associated with so i think having a real conservative who might have an independent streak would be a very good thing. Inbill kristol, last week your essay you said for the first time in 11 president ial cycles you will not be voting for a republican candidate. What kind of reaction have you received . Mix. Some people think i am being foolish. I have good friends and people i respect to have looked closely and think they will donald trump, better than hillary and they think the deficiencies of job are manageable and people can work around them. But i think his character falls short of the basic standard of being president s i cant join my friends. Emailsotten a lot of in response and i think the public and conservatives are split and want to take their time. Take a look at how things look in september and october. If you are a normal citizen, you can keep your pattern dry so to speak and i would keep encouraging to do so. Have somee to fundamental questions, are you comfortable at donald trump given his record, his character, his judgment, his temperament . Are you comfortable with him as commanderinchief . What you think of donald trump . L i dont think i have anything against him, he is just a a selfpromoting businessman. It was probably unpleasant to do business with and work for. That is his business and ive never given much thought to him. At the Weekly Standard since 1999 when he was inking of running for the reform party candidate, you can search 15 years of the Weekly Standard and about him. I dont think you should be president of the united states. Who else is joining you in the separate to wind a viable thirdparty conservative candidate . Bill a lot of volunteers. A lot of conservative types. The editor of National Review has written eloquently on the case against trump. It is a very ad hoc volunteer effort. There are some small organizations out there but im not part of those. This is very much a spontaneous decentralized effort and people say we are recruiting someone and of course were trying to current but it is up to them. It is not as though we do not have any means to put pressure on anyone but we do not want to pressure anyone. It needs to be someone who believes it is in his hard to do it and is committed. How much of this is about the white house and how much is about the senate raise that could swing, putting democrats back in control next january. Bill i would make a case of having another one on the ballot who gives like me incentive to vote it would trickle down to the senate and house races. That is not my purpose. I assume a lot of republicans are looking at that and donors. For me it comes down to who should be in the oval office and i just think with six months to go i hate to give up on the notion it could not be someone better than Hillary Clinton or donald trump. Bill kristols editor of the Weekly Standard and his work is Available Online stop taking for being with us. Announcer coming up on cspan, the stop act, the proposed legislation to end Campaign Fundraising by members of congress. After that, Panama Papers document week. And another chance to see the white house will of valor ceremony. Medal of valor ceremony. Announcer cspans washington journal, live every day with his hand policy issues that impact you. Tuesday morning, democratic congressman joins us to discuss the latest move by the Obama Administration to stop bathroom laws like the one signed in North Carolina as well as efforts to elect more lgbt people to congress. 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