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Newt Ginrgich Joins Preston · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: The Morning Share with Preston Scott. Were I to read
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  Speaker 1: his entire resume, it would take way too long. He
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  Speaker 1: is chairman of Gingridge three sixty, former Speaker of the
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  Speaker 1: House of Representatives. He is the architect of the Contract
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  Speaker 1: with America. He's also author of a new book, Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Triumph America's Greatest Comeback. He is new Gingrich. Mister Speaker,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me this morning. You are not
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  Speaker 1: prone to hyperboles, sir. Greatest Comeback?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we were on the edge of a
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  Speaker 2: total disaster. That between Obama and Biden, we had moved
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  Speaker 2: so far towards gigantic deficits, so far towards radical lifestyle,
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  Speaker 2: so far towards bureaucracies that just don't work that I
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  Speaker 2: think will put in a few more years like that,
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  Speaker 2: we would have been in real trouble. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the American people under center that that's why, while it's
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  Speaker 2: Trump's triumph, it's actually the American people made the comeback.
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  Speaker 2: And you could tell that because they were for him
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  Speaker 2: against Biden, they were for him against Harris. He carried
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  Speaker 2: all seven of the key states. He got a two
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  Speaker 2: and a half million vote majority, which for Republican is
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  Speaker 2: very difficult, and as a result, I think it's fair
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  Speaker 2: to say that it was a combined victory for the
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  Speaker 2: American people and for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: When Donald Trump came down the escalator in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: what were your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a very interesting guy. Kliston and
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  Speaker 2: I had had breakfast with him back in February or
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and talked about what presidential campaigns are like, because
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  Speaker 2: I'd run in twelve. But I didn't at that point
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  Speaker 2: think that he was anything like the phenomenon that he's become.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I knew he had a good business background.
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  Speaker 2: I knew he'd done The Apprentice for thirteen years on NBC,
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  Speaker 2: but I just didn't realize, you know, when he came
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  Speaker 2: down the escalator. Jeff Bush was clearly the front runner
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  Speaker 2: to be the nominee, raised the most money. He had
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  Speaker 2: both a father and a brother who were president, so
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  Speaker 2: he had name idea at a nationwide organization, and to
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  Speaker 2: watch Trump just take him apart, so that literally by
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  Speaker 2: the time they got to the Hampshire primary, Jeb had
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  Speaker 2: just faded.
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  Speaker 3: And then Jeb was a very good.
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  Speaker 2: Reform governor of Florida, so watching that happen, I began
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  Speaker 2: to think, you know, there's something going on here that
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  Speaker 2: we don't understand. But I didn't realize how extraordinary Trump
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  Speaker 2: was going to be until I watched the campaign that
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  Speaker 2: fall and realized he understood where the base of working
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  Speaker 2: Americans was in a way that no modern Republican had
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  Speaker 2: probably not back since Theodore Roosevelt. And he understood how
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  Speaker 2: to talk to them in a language that made sense
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  Speaker 2: to them.
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  Speaker 3: And he was prepared to take on the old order.
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  Speaker 2: And the establishment and the swamp and Washington in ways
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  Speaker 2: that of course, the Times in the Washington Posts were.
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  Speaker 1: Enraged by those of you just tuning in, you know
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  Speaker 1: the voice Knut Gingrich. He's author of a book, Trump's Triumph,
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  Speaker 1: America's Greatest Comeback. Do you think, in retrospect not winning
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty though a lot of us have doubts
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  Speaker 1: even about making that statement, is it a blessing in disguise?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a better version of Trump with that
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  Speaker 1: four year break?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, ironically, historians will record that liberals having
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  Speaker 2: rigged the election. I think that that's.
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  Speaker 3: Totally true, and argue that when I was told on election,
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  Speaker 3: But no question.
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  Speaker 2: That was rigged, may have in fact done themselves an
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  Speaker 2: enormous disaster because he had four years to think about him.
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  Speaker 2: He had four years to get angrier and understand better
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  Speaker 2: how deeply corrupt the system was. He had four years
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  Speaker 2: with the American First Policy Institute, which I worked with
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  Speaker 2: to develop an enormous program of change.
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  Speaker 3: And the person who came in but I lost say
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  Speaker 3: this at two levels.
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  Speaker 2: He both had a much deeper and better understanding of
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing. He knew all the world leaders.
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  Speaker 2: He was determined to really change things. But in addition,
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  Speaker 2: I think having almost been killed really changed him, both
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  Speaker 2: when he was shot in Butler and then when they
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  Speaker 2: told him that they had intercepted the potential assassin at
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  Speaker 2: marl Argo. And I talked to speaker Mike Johnson, who
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  Speaker 2: was there that day, and he said after they briefed
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  Speaker 2: Trump there had now been two attempts to kill him,
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  Speaker 2: that he and Johnson went into a private room and
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  Speaker 2: prayed for two hours. And I think that the Trump
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  Speaker 2: we see today really, and he says this occasionally, it
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  Speaker 2: really does feel that there was a providential moment at
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  Speaker 2: Butler where if he had turned his head one second later,
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  Speaker 2: he would have been dead now that sort of thing
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  Speaker 2: focuses you. It happened with both the President Reagan and
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  Speaker 2: Pope John Paul the Second. Both of them were shot
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  Speaker 2: by assassins, and when they got together they compared notes
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  Speaker 2: on un why did God spare them? And in their
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  Speaker 2: time they concluded it was to defeat the Soviet Empire.
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  Speaker 3: I think Trump really came to believe that God.
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  Speaker 2: Had allowed him to live to make America great again,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that gives him a maturity and a
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  Speaker 2: complexity that people really haven't caught up with yet.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Speaker, time is fleeting, and I appreciate you carving
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  Speaker 1: some out for us this morning, and I wish you
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the best in your book.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I was really thrilled to be able
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  Speaker 2: to write Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback, and I think
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  Speaker 2: people will find it very, very helpful in understanding where
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 1: Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Gingrich,
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  Speaker 1: the book is Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback. More to
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  Speaker 1: come on the Morning Show with Preston Scott