Latest / Rich Valdés: This is America! / Media Meltdown, Mr. Speaker, Midterms

Transcript

Media Meltdown, Mr. Speaker, Midterms · Rich Valdés: This is America!

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: You worked for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, done
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of public service stuff.
• 0:18
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez, columnist now with the Washington Times.
• 0:21
  Speaker 5: This is America.
• 0:22
  Speaker 6: Richie V, you're on the air with The Nation.
• 0:25
  Speaker 5: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
• 0:32
  Speaker 4: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
• 0:35
  Speaker 4: Your liberty-loving Latino amigos 17 blocks away from Madison Square
• 0:39
  Speaker 4: Garden right here in Times Square, New York City. Blessed,
• 0:42
  Speaker 4: honored to be here with you, this wonderful audience. It's
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: the Wednesday night edition of This Is America, our late-night
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: national town hall conversation.
• 0:50
  Speaker 6: And I want to hear from you. Give me a call, 877-VALDEZ, 1-877-NATO. 825-3371.
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: Let me know what you want to say and we
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: will air it during our Open Phone America segment. And
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: it's Wednesday night. The energy is electric out there. I'm
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: watching President Trump still rolling through different states on his
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: midterms tour, packing out these.
• 1:13
  Speaker 6: Huge fields.
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you, I was looking today and I said,
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: this guy is 80. I hope I'm doing at least
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: displaying that level of energy when I'm 80. because he's
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: really killing it. But anyway, and reminding, he's out there
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: reminding everybody what this momentum looks like, and when you
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: show up and you fight, this is how it looks. Now,
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: he's been out in the Midwest, the Sun Belt, he's
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: leaving no stone unturned. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, you got
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: students that are claiming to be students, right? In France,
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: these guys are rioters, and they're lighting France up like
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: a candle. President Trump is mincing words. He's calling the
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: whole thing BS, saying it looks like a communist takeover.
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: I got a clip on that. That's coming up in
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: a little bit. And you're going to enjoy that one,
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 2:05
  Speaker 5: I hope.
• 2:07
  Speaker 6: All right, you got it ready? All right, listen to this.
• 2:09
  Speaker 6: Check this out. This is a good one.
• 2:13
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: President, France has free health care, free child care, a
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: 35-hour work week, and five weeks paid vacation. Despite all that,
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: people are looting and burning down parts of their cities.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Do you think spending a little more on education is
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: going to stop this?
• 2:26
  Speaker 8: No, it's not about education. It's about immigration. It's about
• 2:30
  Speaker 8: illegal people coming in who basically hate France.
• 2:32
  Speaker 5: They hate the people.
• 2:33
  Speaker 9: They hate everything. They hate the architecture.
• 2:35
  Speaker 8: You saw the building from the mid-1800s that fell down yesterday,
• 2:41
  Speaker 8: that burned down to the ground. Boy, it was a tragic,
• 2:44
  Speaker 8: tragic sight. No, these are people that hate France, but
• 2:47
  Speaker 8: they've been let in. They hate France, but they've been
• 2:50
  Speaker 8: let in. And you have to get them out. If
• 2:53
  Speaker 8: you don't get them out, you're not going to have
• 2:54
  Speaker 8: a France.
• 2:55
  Speaker 10: For the vice president and for Andrew Ferguson, back on
• 3:00
  Speaker 10: the incentives and the rewards, is it 1% up?
• 3:05
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: So we're going to get to that too, that 1%
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: commission as well. But look, when the streets are filled
• 3:13
  Speaker 4: with chaos and the red flags are coming out, the
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: communist flags, the Palestinian flags, which is lately synonymous with
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: the communist movement, You don't need a PhD in history
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: to see the pattern, right? We've seen this movie before.
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: George Floyd, Ukraine, Zuccotti Park, New York City, same people.
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, they might have some new actors now. The
• 3:39
  Speaker 4: Black Lives Matter, January 6th. These things are all planned,
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: coordinated attacks to make things look like something they're not, right?
• 3:46
  Speaker 6: So we're here looking at what's going on.
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: Somebody is paying a high price to get those people
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: out there to make things look so destabilized. And things
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: are destabilized in France, but they want to make it
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: look that way.
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: Excuse me.
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: Had to hit my sneeze button. And the question is why.
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: Is it an attack on Macron? Is it a political maneuver?
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: Or is it really genuine?
• 4:09
  Speaker 6: Is it astroturf? Or is it grassroots?
• 4:14
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: I would submit that whenever we see these movements, whenever
• 4:18
  Speaker 4: we see somebody climbing to the highest building and hanging
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: a flag there, that is a political statement. And that's
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: usually not done by people like you or me.
• 4:28
  Speaker 6: Think about that.
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: When was the last time you hung a flag from
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: the top of a building or hung the flag upside down?
• 4:33
  Speaker 6: You haven't done it. Yep, me either.
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: That is for someone that's well beyond the level of activist.
• 4:40
  Speaker 4: That's for somebody who typically works for a foreign intelligence agency.
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: Or maybe a domestic intelligence agency. And this is what
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: they do. Are those the CIA guys there destabilizing things
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: in France?
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 4:53
  Speaker 4: But I would suspect that some foreign government is providing
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: some sort of assistance there to highlight a problem, to
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: bring about a change. Because it goes without saying, this
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: Emmanuel Macron, he's useless. Now, are they a month away.
• 5:10
  Speaker 6: Or so from elections? Yep, they are. Is Marine Le
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: Pen well-positioned to win?
• 5:18
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 5:18
  Speaker 6: Is she a conservative candidate?
• 5:20
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 5:21
  Speaker 6: So would I suspect that she has something to do
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: with that?
• 5:23
  Speaker 11: Her?
• 5:24
  Speaker 6: Probably not. But someone supporting her?
• 5:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 5:28
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 5:30
  Speaker 6: Right? If I had the ability to.
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: Use clandestine covert operations or pay money to former CIA
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: MI6 people and say, hey, look, I need your help
• 5:40
  Speaker 4: pulling this thing off. It's going to help Marine Le
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: Pen win.
• 5:44
  Speaker 6: I would do it, right? As long as it's not
• 5:47
  Speaker 6: a crime.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: And what they're doing is a crime, but paying them
• 5:52
  Speaker 4: to do it may not be a crime, if that
• 5:54
  Speaker 4: makes sense. If you're telling them, look, I hired them
• 5:56
  Speaker 4: to do demonstrations in the streets, they decided to go
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: and break into Foot Locker and the Louis Vuitton store.
• 6:02
  Speaker 6: That's on them. And that's true.
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: And after you've washed the money so many times, saying, oh,
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: I gave it to friends of X, Y, and Z,
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: and then friends of X, Y, and Z gave it
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: to the community, for a better blah, blah, blah. And
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: they went ahead and gave it to this other nonprofit.
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: And once it changes hands, oh, but so many times
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: it's difficult to keep your finger on the pulse. Anyway,
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: speaking about the finger on the pulse, President Trump's got
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: his finger on the pulse of this Ilhan Omar situation.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: They keep trading barbs like it's open mic night at
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: a comedy club. I can't stop laughing at either of them.
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: The back and forth is getting spicy. And obviously the
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: stakes are real. And neither side is backing down. Speaking
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: of backing down, Ilhan Omar and President Trump, I got
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: clips of both of them. And I want you to
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: hear that because obviously people are out there saying she's
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: running away. She's fleeing the country. I don't think she's
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: doing nothing. She's been defiant. And I think we have
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: a clip of her.
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: Hold on. Let's go.
• 7:02
  Speaker 11: Go ahead.
• 7:02
  Speaker 6: Play it.
• 7:06
  Speaker 7: Just wanted to say thank you so much.
• 7:08
  Speaker 6: Let's take it from the top.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: Hi, everyone. Ilhan here.
• 7:11
  Speaker 7: I just wanted to say thank you so much for
• 7:14
  Speaker 7: the support to everyone who sent a note of support
• 7:19
  Speaker 7: for everyone who sent $ 5, $ 10, $ 20. That goes a
• 7:24
  Speaker 7: long way as we fight Trump and his administration for
• 7:31
  Speaker 7: trying to intimidate me and so many people right before
• 7:37
  Speaker 7: the midterm elections. We know that they're running scared. We're
• 7:40
  Speaker 7: not going to be intimidated. We're not going to be silenced.
• 7:42
  Speaker 7: We're not going to be scared. I'll be out there
• 7:44
  Speaker 7: campaigning alongside all of you and making sure that we
• 7:49
  Speaker 7: beat back all of this and that we win in
• 7:51
  Speaker 7: the midterms, win the House, win the Senate, and hold
• 7:54
  Speaker 7: this administration accountable. Thank you so much again, and please
• 7:59
  Speaker 7: continue to support us It is going to be a
• 8:03
  Speaker 7: very expensive and challenging time. And so we appreciate whether
• 8:07
  Speaker 7: you're able to send five, 10, 20. Thank you.
• 8:11
  Speaker 4: That is Ilhan Omar, Ilhan for Congress, not asking for
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: a GoFundMe, not asking for a legal defense fund, solely
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: asking people to support her campaign because she's going to
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: be out there campaigning.
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: Now, I know.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: I know people are, oh, she's running scared. She's not
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: running scared. She is out here defiant. I played you
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: the clip the other night where she said that she's, um, not,
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: you know, she thought it was disgusting to marry her brother.
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to defend her. I'm just trying to say,
• 8:41
  Speaker 4: don't believe all the hype.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: When people say Ilhan is running scared, she's not running scared.
• 8:47
  Speaker 4: She's not running scared. Neither is her husband.
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: Uh, he's out there. He's in these streets. He was
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: walking his dog. And, um, bumped into the people from
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: Fox News, and he let them know, too.
• 9:00
  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
• 9:02
  Speaker 11: Hey, Tim.
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: There are rumors that the congresswoman left the country.
• 9:06
  Speaker 9: Is that true?
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: She's still.
• 9:08
  Speaker 10: That's annoying the hell out of all the neighbors around here, man.
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: No, I just wanted to get your response to everything
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: that's been going on. That's all. And what the president's
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: saying about the net worth and the investigation. Just giving
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: you a chance to respond.
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: And he's just walking his dog, carrying a plastic bag,
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: He said, you guys are annoying the heck out of
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: the neighbors. And he walked right into the front door
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: of his house there. And he seems relatively unbothered. And
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: he comes back out.
• 9:41
  Speaker 6: And he goes back in.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: But he's not hiding. And then her staff. They pull
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: up to the house. They walk in. Very quiet block.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: Staff is walking in the front door. Just telling you
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: what I see here on this video.
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: And then Mr. Minnette, Tim Minnette, the husband, comes back
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: out with the dog. The dog looks well fed.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: And everybody seems hunky-dory over here. Nobody seems very concerned
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: about what's going on there. Now, President Trump, that didn't
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: stop him. El Trumpito, Donaldus Magnus, the 45th and 47th
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: presidents of these United States, he shredded Ilhan Omar in
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: the Oval Office today, really just dropping it on her
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: with respect to his thoughts on Somalia.
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: If there is a problem with Ilhan Omar's age, Could
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: she be deported?
• 10:52
  Speaker 11: Well, she could be.
• 10:52
  Speaker 8: She could also go to jail. I mean, she could
• 10:55
  Speaker 8: also go to jail. You know, they keep talking about deportation. No,
• 10:58
  Speaker 8: she could go to jail. This is just my opinion.
• 11:01
  Speaker 8: I think she's a sick, very dishonest person, but— who
• 11:07
  Speaker 8: hates our country. And she comes from a country that
• 11:11
  Speaker 8: is essentially not even a country— Somalia. It's a real shithouse, okay?
• 11:19
  Speaker 8: It's got no government. It's got no police protect. All
• 11:22
  Speaker 8: they do is have people running around shooting each other.
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: Then she comes over here and she'll say, and she
• 11:27
  Speaker 8: wants to tell us how to run America. She wants
• 11:30
  Speaker 8: to tell us how to run the United States of America.
• 11:33
  Speaker 8: And she'll say, oh, I have constitutional rights. And she
• 11:37
  Speaker 8: never heard the word concept. She never saw that before.
• 11:40
  Speaker 8: See that? She never saw that before. She says she
• 11:42
  Speaker 8: has rights. She's a disgrace to our country. And it's
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: amazing that She can get elected, but Somalians vote for her.
• 11:51
  Speaker 8: You know, Somalians vote for her.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: He did not hold back. El Trumpito de Naldes Magnus.
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: And he didn't stop there.
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: He kept going.
• 12:01
  Speaker 8: Most of them shouldn't be here. Do you know they
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: have like a 98% unemployment rate? They don't work.
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: 98%.
• 12:08
  Speaker 8: It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. And they've ruined a
• 12:12
  Speaker 8: great state. You know, you have a great state. I
• 12:15
  Speaker 8: remember Minnesota in the old days. What a beautiful... What
• 12:18
  Speaker 8: a beautiful— with lakes all over the place. They have
• 12:20
  Speaker 8: more lakes than any place I've ever seen.
• 12:23
  Speaker 11: So beautiful.
• 12:24
  Speaker 8: They're destroying it, probably. Maybe they've destroyed it. And I
• 12:28
  Speaker 8: only hope a Republican woman, who happens to be very
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: respected by everybody, gets in, because you will see a difference.
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: But I will say this. I hope they treat her fairly.
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: But I think she's a very dishonest person.
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: Very dishonest person.
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: Well, at least he told us how he really feels,
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: letting us know that the place is a crap hole
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: and doesn't like Somalia, doesn't like what the exiles of
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: Somalia have done in the United States. And he didn't
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: say it's because they're Muslim. He didn't say it's because
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: of this. And I think people make these false assumptions
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: that that's because of that. And I'm not trying to,
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: you know, cover anything up because he doesn't say that
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: about every country. He says it about the ones that
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: he sees being very destitute.
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: And poorly run.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: And whether you agree with him or not, you can't
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: fault them for having an opinion, right? Anyway, meanwhile, Ilhan Omar,
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: she did an interview with Amanda Devine. No, that's lies.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: That was Attorney General Blanche. I'll get to that one, too.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: She did an interview with Chris Hayes from... Formerly MSNBC,
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: which is now called MSNow.
• 13:48
  Speaker 6: Check it out.
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: To do this that doesn't sound like I'm insane.
• 13:56
  Speaker 10: And I'm saying this up front because the president of
• 13:58
  Speaker 10: the United States is one of the biggest bullhorns, right?
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: And every time he talks about you, he will casually say.
• 14:04
  Speaker 10: Something wild about you. Like he will tweet, Bill and Omar,
• 14:09
  Speaker 10: she married her brother, blah, blah, blah. You see that
• 14:10
  Speaker 10: and you think to yourself, Boy, that sounds odd.
• 14:14
  Speaker 9: It seems unlikely that she married her brother. There are
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: right-wing people who believe that this man was your brother.
• 14:19
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 14:21
  Speaker 9: You have called it a disgusting lie.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: Who was this man that was your husband? When did
• 14:26
  Speaker 9: they start saying that he was your brother?
• 14:27
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 14:28
  Speaker 9: It started with the Somali blog.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: That I don't know if it still exists but somebody
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: put in there that you know that he had to
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: have been my brother or something to that effect and
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: right wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: it and they just kind of went and like found
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: random people who were like she introduced us you know
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: she introduced him to us and said he was her
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: brother which is you know insane. I mean, I don't
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: know those people that they talk about.
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: You were not related to him at all.
• 15:08
  Speaker 10: Not to my knowledge. That was the big gotcha, right,
• 15:13
  Speaker 10: in terms of what you're talking about promising. Like, we're
• 15:15
  Speaker 10: going to nail her on the marriage. That was the
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: source of the immigration fraud. That no longer seems to
• 15:21
  Speaker 10: be the issue.
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: That they are putatively investigating, right?
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: They've now moved on to whatever your representations your father
• 15:30
  Speaker 10: made in his naturalization process about you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: Is that your understanding? But it's also very convenient because.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: My dad's no longer alive.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: So it's another thing they can drag on forever.
• 15:46
  Speaker 10: Right, because the person who signed the paperwork and did
• 15:50
  Speaker 10: it all is no longer.
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Here to answer the charges.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Right, even though they have the papers that he sent.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: There you have it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Ilhan Omar speaking out exclusive interview with Chris Hayes from
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: MS now used to be called MSNBC. And she says, Hey, look,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: didn't do it. It's a full denial. She kept her
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: smile on. She looks like the girl version of Zoran Mamdani, right?
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Smiling her entire way. I'll tell you this. If somebody
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: said that stuff about me, I don't think I'd be
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: smiling maybe every now and again, but there's no laughing matter.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: Now, does that mean I don't believe her?
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Probably not. I'm not saying I think it's her brother. I'm,
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: I honestly don't have an opinion on that. I feel
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: like I read somewhere that I believe that's called co-sanguinous marriage.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And that co-sanguinous marriage is incredibly popular in certain parts
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: of the world where everybody ends up marrying their first cousin,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: second cousin, and in some cases even closer, like a
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: sibling or a step-sibling.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: So does that make it right? Hell no.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: That's like she said, that's disgusting. But does it mean
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: it happens normally? It does happen normally in other parts
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: of the world. I can't say I know for a
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: fact or with any degree of certitude that that's what
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: happens in her old part of the world.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: But just interesting, right?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Interesting to think that this is the conversation that we're
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: having less than two weeks away from the big midterm elections. So, again,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I'm going to stick with my prediction, which has been
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: whether she's guilty or not doesn't matter to me. I'm
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: more concerned with does she get found guilty?
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Does she pay some sort of price? And I don't
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: know that we're going to see that happen. Maybe I'm wrong.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Maybe that's what this is all about, right?
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Maybe if it was really a nothing burger, she wouldn't
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: have taken to MSNBC and done this damage control interview.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: So maybe I just need to zip it, keep my
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: mouth shut, keep my eyes peeled, see what's going on,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: and see if there's a little change there.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: But very, very interesting stuff, to say the least.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Anyway, I want to talk to you guys about the
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: situation in Russia. Because I believe his name is Stephen Hubbard.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: He's been a hostage in Russia for several years. He
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: was taken during the Biden administration, and he's now been
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: set free. He's been set free. The ambassador, Special Envoy
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Steve Witkoff, along with others on the American team, have
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: been in Russia negotiating directly with Putin for the release
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: of this prisoner. I think that's not a bad thing.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: President Trump answering some questions about that today in the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Oval Office. And first, let me give you the best
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: little piece right here. This is the part where he
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: just smacks down Caitlin Collins from CNN simply for asking
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: a question that he didn't think was too bright.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: You know, I have the right to do them at
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: any day. If they behave badly, if they be... You
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: don't know what you're talking about. You're a dummy. You're
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: a low IQ person.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: You're a dummy and you work for CNN.
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: Let me tell you, if I'm negotiating to get a
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: man back, a man that we've wanted back for years,
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: a man that was a prisoner in Siberia or someplace
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: in Russia, and we're getting him back because of me,
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: should have been brought. It should have never happened. But
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: it should have been brought back during Biden, because he
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: was there during the Biden. He was captured or taken
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: during Biden. When you're negotiating that and you're dropping, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: I know that I'm doing it, and because a lot
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: of people didn't know and they say oh let's put
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: sanctions on russia the negotiation would obviously come immediately to
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: an end so use your head.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Use your head now he didn't stop there he kept
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: going doubling down because he was angry He was very
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: angry about what's happening with this whole thing. And good
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: for him, right? I think, you know, it's important that
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: he explains this. And I'm going to play just for
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: context a little bit of the fuller clip just so
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: you can hear the fullness of it in its full context.
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: Well, I'll tell you the interesting thing. As you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: we have a gentleman coming home from Russia that they've
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: been after for years. He was captured or taken during
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: the Biden administration.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Wouldn't have happened if I were.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: President, but he was taken. And he's a highly respected man, Mr. Hubbard,
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: Stephen Hubbard. and we were in the midst of negotiating,
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: and a lot of stupid people said, and people that
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: don't know how life works, they said, why aren't you
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: putting Russia's sanctions and all this in the midst of
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: a negotiation to try and get a long-term hostage back
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: from Russia? If I would have done that, you would
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: not have Mr. Hubbard coming back. Right now, right now,
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: and you don't know anything. I mean, you're fake news CNN. Look,
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: right now you have a man that's, beautifully flying from
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: Russia to wherever he's landing in the United States, that
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: I got out because I had a very good and
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: very fast negotiation with President Putin. If you would have
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: put those sanctions on, or whatever you want to call them,
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: you could forget about him. You'd never see him again.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: He'd be back in jail for 25 years. The other thing,
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: very important, we're negotiating with Russia right now on Ukraine.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: We are maybe close to a deal. For the first
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: time in a long time, We're maybe close to a deal.
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: When you're close to a deal and you have very
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: delicate negotiations, you don't put sanctions on. And the other thing,
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: we have decimated Iran. Russia has had very little input
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: into Iran. They have— certainly, they could have done a
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: lot more, but I'm not sure they did almost anything.
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: That's something that you have to take into consideration also.
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: We've beaten Iran. We continue to beat Iran. And Russia
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: and China, frankly, have not been certainly much of a player.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: And we appreciate that. So the people that say that, oh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: let's put sanctions on, you know, I have the right
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: to do them at any day. If they behave badly,
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: if they behave... You don't know what you're talking about.
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: You're a low IQ person.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: That's how much time he gave her before he lost it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: If I'm negotiating, you get a man back.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: You heard this part already. I played that part for
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: you already.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: But I just wanted you to see how he goes
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: on back and forth with her almost nearly three minutes
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: until he says, you don't know anything.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Because he had already explained his.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Point about why they're not putting these sanctions on. Because
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: he's trying to get back an American citizen.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: It's that simple. And all I could do is think
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: to myself, if I was that guy, I would.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Want President Trump doing that for me, too.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Shoot, wouldn't you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: It's crazy to think that they will criticize Trump for
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: just about absolutely anything. Anyway, I know I got to
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: take a break and we've got Speaker Newt Gingrich joining
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: us momentarily. We're going to talk about the Russia stuff,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: about the midterms and a bunch of other things. He's
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: got a brand new book, by the way. But before
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: we do that, you know what? Let's take the pause
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: right here. We'll come back. We'll go to Speaker Gingrich.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: We'll come back and then we'll talk about what's happening
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: in Florida. Bill Clinton is going to Florida. Hillary Clinton
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: running her mouth again. Lots to discuss. Too many things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: So little time. I'm Rich Valdez.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Don't go anywhere.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: and he's breaking it down.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's so handsome.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: What's his name?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Rich Valdez.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez keeping you company tonight.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: And a special treat, we got the author of the
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: brand new book, the speaker himself, Newt Gingrich joins us.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: He's the author of America's Golden Age, Trumpism and an
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Era of Limitless Possibilities.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Speaker, welcome.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: It's good to be with you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: So let's talk. This book sounds phenomenal. I love the
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: title because there's a lot of skepticism over the possibilities
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: that come from Trumpism. Probably most notably, I remember Obama saying,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: what are you going to wave a magic wand and
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: bring manufacturing back to the U.S.? Meanwhile, we're seeing that happen.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Maybe not at the scale some would like to see,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: but it's definitely happening. And tariffs, I think, were surprising
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: to many people who were skeptical of it, the real
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: reason for that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: The catalyst for it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: But you talk about a lot of things, namely, I
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: would say, expansion or progress in health care. You talk
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: about 20-year-olds living to 115 years old. You talked about
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: space travel and AI and the economy. So I want
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to start with the health care stuff, if you don't mind,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: because I think that's fantastic. I think a lot of
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: people want to live to 115 years old or at
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: least know how we're going to do it. And I'd
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: love to hear your thoughts and how you laid it
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: out in the book.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well, the reason I developed that particular section is that
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: with the breakthroughs we're getting in biology and the more
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: advanced technologies. For example, over 6 billion people now have smartphones.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: So you can actually start building apps for healthcare and
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: we can help you monitor yourself just in your smartphone
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: 24-7 in a way that moves us away from patients
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: towards people. Because our real goal is not to take
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: care of you once you're a patient. It's to make
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: it possible for you to not ever become a patient
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: because you stay healthy. I think the breakthroughs in science
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: probably mean that we will have a cure for Alzheimer's
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: before 2050. That's probably the single most expensive problem that
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: our health system pays for. And literally about $ 10 trillion.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: between now and 2050. And it's looking like for the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: very first time, we're getting the kind of knowledge about
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: your brain, which we just didn't have. I once co-chaired
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: with Democratic Senator Bob Kerry, a working group on Alzheimer's,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: when we reported in 2009. We didn't have the computing power.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Your brain is so complicated. It has so many different
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: things going on that it's like... basically like astronomy. It's
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: like looking at all the stars in a galaxy. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: we literally couldn't track down what was happening inside your head.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Now we're beginning to, and we're learning things. For example,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: most people who have Alzheimer's, the first symptoms occur 20
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: or 30 years before they actually manifest themselves as a
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: serious health problem. So we're beginning to be able to
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: identify who might be in danger much like we do,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: for example, with breast cancer, and be able to intervene
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: and help them avoid it. And the truth is, if
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: we can postpone your getting Alzheimer's for, say, 20 or
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: 30 years, because it's largely a disease of older people,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: you very likely will pass away from something else and
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: never actually end up getting Alzheimer's. So that's an example.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: There are just huge breakthroughs. coming down the road. And
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I decided to write America's Golden Age because I was
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: so tired of the negative advertising, the negative newspaper reports,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the sort of mood of the politicians, people who think
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: we're sort of at the end of the road. We're
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of a whole series of revolutions in technology,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: in science, and in opportunities to get things done And
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: we have every reason to be very, very optimistic about
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the next 50 years. And I chose 50 years to
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: be the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: of Independence. I thought that was about the right time
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: to look out.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, America's third centennial. Amigos, we're on with Newt Gingrich,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: the architect of Contract of America and the author of
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: America's Golden Age, Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: The book is available. Make sure you order it. Now, Mr.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Speaker, I want to get your take on this medical
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: breakthrough from the sense of, is this just simply science working?
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Is this government injecting more and more money into the process?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Are we just getting better at things like you mentioned
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: because of AI and computing ability or all of the above?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's all of the above. I think,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: first of all, we have real breakthroughs in research, much
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of it funded by the federal government. I was part
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: of that. When we were balancing the federal budget and
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: when I was speaker, the only four balanced budgets in
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the last century came out of that period. But even
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: while we were controlling spending, we doubled the size of
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the National Institutes of Health. And the reason was we
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: were convinced that the kind of breakthroughs, that I'm describing,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: whether it's in cancer, in heart, in kidney, in brain diseases,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: those breakthroughs are all going to come out of scientific research.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: And then they're going to be translated by entrepreneurs into practical,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: doable things. that you can buy at the store or
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: that you can get sometimes mail order. And so that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: a big part of it. Another part of it is
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: that our ability to track and communicate has gone up
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: so dramatically. I very strongly favor that you have information,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: transparency about price and quality. I don't think that you
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: should go somewhere and have a hospital not tell you
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: what it's going to cost. And I think you should
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: be able to look at three or four or five hospitals,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: pick the one that you think has the right price
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: and the right quality for you. And those kind of
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: things are going to dramatically shift power back to the
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: patient and take power away from the big institutions that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: currently dominate us in terms of things like health care.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And I think it's that same free market approach that
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: you're talking about that we're seeing play out in real
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: life with NASA or with space exploration, where it was
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: once an arms race with every other country out there
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: trying to do it, the Americans versus fill in the blank.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: But now it seems you've got Jeff Bezos and Elon
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Musk and a number of entrepreneurs that are also involved
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: in that. So you mentioned this as well in the book,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: this spacefaring Americans. And You know, some say, oh, I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: going to spend the weekend in Boca Raton or we're
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: going to go to West Palm Beach and others.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: We're going to go to Mars. How far are we
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: from that?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I think Mars would be more than a weekend.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: But one of the great stories and great examples of
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: how America works is a South African born Canadian educated
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: entrepreneur who made his initial money off of finance companies
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and then took the money he'd made. and turned and
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: put a lot of it into space and came up
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: with the first reusable rockets, something which I had advocated.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I actually, working with Bob Walker, had gotten $ 400 million
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: for NASA in the late 1980s to build a reusable rocket.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: They hired Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin couldn't make it work.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Elon Musk comes along 20 years later and he creates
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: the first reusable rocket. Well, His next rocket, which has
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: now had six successful tests, is the Starship. The Starship
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: will be the biggest rocket ever built. It will carry
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: 100 passengers or 200 tons of cargo. He's building it
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: to be reusable, and he hopes to be able to
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: launch one a day. And if that all works, by 2028,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: SpaceX will have 98%. of the weight being put in
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: orbit on the entire planet. That is, if you add
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: up China, Russia, Korea, Japan, Europe, and the other American
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: companies together, there'll be about 2%, and SpaceX will be
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: about 98% of the weight being put into orbit. What
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: does that mean as a practical matter? I think by 2033,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: you're going to have, for the first time, a village
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: on the moon, not just a small space for three
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: or four scientists, but actually a place that begins to
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: be a town. I think by 2040, you'll have a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: village on Mars and you'll have outposts on a couple
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: of the big asteroids. And I say this in part
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: because young people, I'm trying to get young people to
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: understand they could have fabulous futures. They could do amazing things.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: And it's worth their learning and studying and acquiring skills
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: because their life could be remarkable.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about that because I think a lot
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: of young people in particular are very afraid of an
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: economy because they feel that AI is going to replace
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: so many of the jobs that they once had, or
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: I should say superintelligence. And this is a question I
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: think a lot of people have. I've seen Elon Musk
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: speak at several forums where he says, Eventually, we're going
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: to have universal basic income, but it's going to be
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: very high, something like $ 10, 000 or $ 15, 000 a month. This
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: sounds like a far-fetched idea to me, and it sounds
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: like socialism on steroids.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: How do you square that?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I don't agree with Musk about a
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: universal basic income. I think, to your point, what's made
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: America amazing is we've had an ability to dream about
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: and a very big work ethic. And it's the work
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: ethic which has transformed things. The six largest technology companies
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: in the world are all American. Five of them were
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: founded by teenagers. One was founded by somebody who was 24. Now,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: that's more like where we need to go. Everybody, my wife, Calista,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: is now the ambassador to Switzerland, and she's spending a
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: good bit of time looking at the Swiss apprenticeship system.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And they have a system where as early as 14
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: or 15, you work part-time, you go to school part-time,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: you learn to be an adult, you acquire a set
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: of skills. I've met with six or seven CEOs of
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: billion-dollar corporations who started as apprentices. So it's not like
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: going to vo-tech school in the United States. It literally
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: is you're learning to do a job. And part of
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the reason it works is when you put 14 or
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: 15 or 16 year olds in with adults to learn
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: to do real work, you change their whole attitude because
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden it's not a game. It's very real.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: And the number of young apprentices we've seen who are
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: very impressive. And one of Calista's major goals is to
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: maximize the the rate at which we have apprentice programs here.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: So I'm much more in the let's encourage people to
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: work camp, not the let's give them money to do
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: nothing camp.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: And speaking of Switzerland, I was there for the first
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: time a few months ago in Zurich.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Man, beautiful.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: I've never seen mountains like that. And people say they
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: have them in Canada and Pennsylvania and Colorado. I don't
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: think they're quite the same. But congratulations to Madam Ambassador.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So I'm with you. I'm concerned about this. And do
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: you think that this becomes a bone of contention as
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: we move forward? Because there is a reality of perhaps
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: not having enough jobs. Or do you think that doesn't
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: exist because of the innovation?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: You know, in 1800, 97% of the jobs were farming. Today,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: less than 3% are farming. Somehow, we invented whole ranges
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: of jobs. Whether it's being an airline attendant or a
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: pilot or a mechanic or it is working at Disney
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: World or it's becoming a psychologist. I mean, if you
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: think about it, if you had said to people in
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: 1800 that the total number of farmers would be 3%
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: of the country, they would have said, well, what's everybody
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: else going to do?
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: But instead, we've managed to figure out things for virtually everybody.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: You know, if you're willing to work, We'll figure out
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: a job for you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes sense. Interesting historical perspective there. Amigos, we're
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: on with former Speaker Newt Gingrich. He's the author of
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: America's Golden Age Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Speaker, stick with me for a couple more minutes. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: want to get your take on the midterm elections and
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: a couple of other questions that I have for you.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: Keep it locked right there. Familia, I'm coming right back.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: President Donald J.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Trump, Mr.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: I know you very well, and I listen, but I
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: have a lot of people that listen, and they love
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: All right, America, welcome back. Rich Valdez again here keeping
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: you company this evening. We've got Speaker Newt Gingrich here
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: with us tonight. He's got a brand new book. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: urge you to get not only one copy for yourself,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: but one to give away. The book is America's Golden Age,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Speaker, we talk about a number of things in this book.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: And one of the things that you're most famous for
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: is the contract with America, balancing the budget. The only
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: budget I've ever seen balanced in my entire lifetime. I'm 48.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: And I think it's remarkable that A, that you did it,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: but more remarkable that it hasn't happened since. That's truly
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: remarkable to me. But all that being said, we're on
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: the cusp of a bunch of elections. And uh, we've
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: got elections in Georgia. Uh, we've got elections in Texas
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and Michigan and so many places. Uh, I want to
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: get your take on, on, uh, what you, what you
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: think is happening with, um, Senator Ossoff and Mike Collins
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: in Georgia and, and just your general thoughts on the midterms.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Is it a strategy of let's hold on to what
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: we've got and maybe not make some gains and we're safe?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Or is it, um, a different strategy where we're going
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: to pick up and have a celebration?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think, first of all, I think
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: the core issue is whether you are more angry about
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: gasoline and diesel. I filled up my car on Saturday,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: and I can tell you, standing there watching the price
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: go up as the gasoline went in the car, I
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: got pretty irritated myself.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I bet.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: So on the one hand, you could say there are
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: things Republicans haven't delivered and I'm going to vote Democrat.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: On the other hand, if you then say, well, here's
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: what the Democrats are going to do, and that scares me,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: so I guess I'm going to vote Republican. And I
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: think that's the tension that we have in the last
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: three weeks of the campaign. If the Democrats had run
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: normal candidates, they would be in much stronger shape. But
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: when you look at how radical many of their candidates are,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: it's actually, I think, going to cost them. And I
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: suspect we're going to pick up Michigan and potentially pick
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: up Minnesota. And that's not what they expected when this
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: year started. So I think in that sense, I don't
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: see much evidence of a blue tidal wave. I think that,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: in fact, it's going to be a very, very close election.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: And the Republicans almost certainly are going to keep the Senate,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: and they have a shot at keeping the House. So
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: it's a very interesting kind of environment. I also think
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: that the American people really want some way to work
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: together to get things done. I mean, I'm astounded. Everywhere
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I've gone talking about my new book, America's Golden Age,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the number one reaction is, they're just so happy it's positive.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: They're so glad that it shows an interest in the
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: future and it's not just one more attack on people
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: and one more negativity. So I think the country is
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: hungry for people who will work together and people who
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: will try to get something done. And I think that
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: actually hurts the Democrats because it's pretty clear with their
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: open statements about impeachment and about investigations that if they
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: end up in control, we're not going to get much
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: done as a country in the next two years. And
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I think the American people actually want to see a
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: lot done. They don't want to see Congress and the
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: president just locked up in getting nothing done for two
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: solid years.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would agree with that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: And I also think that whether it was messaging or
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: just the practicality of real life, You're right that people
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: are upset, myself included, about gas prices at the pump.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: But I think the Democrats tried for months and months
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: on end to try and tie gas prices directly to
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: the war in Iran. And I feel like the war
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: in Iran is just not front and center, top of
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: mind awareness in most people's minds the way they thought
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: it would be. I would probably argue the ICE issue
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: is probably a more of a hot button issue.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: Your thoughts on that?
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that... Look, I think affordability is an issue.
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: For sure.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I think people feel it in their pocketbook. They feel
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: it when they're trying to buy a house. And I
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: think it worries them. I think beyond that, you know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: you look at the riots in France and, you know,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the Lameau City Hall burning, and you think, you know,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: could that happen here? And that brings up both the
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: issue of illegal immigration and And it brings up the
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: attitude of some people on the left who don't respect
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: the Constitution. I mean, I think this most recent example
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: with the WNBA, where in the championship games, the basketball
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: players refuse to be in the arena when they play
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: the national anthem. Well, I think the average person looks
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: at that and just thinks, that's just plain weird.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a disgrace.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: And so... I think what you have is the American
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: people would like us to settle down. They think a
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: lot of things are, frankly, practical common sense. I mean,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: the issue of women and men competing in the same sport,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: which was, I thought, best illustrated by the two professional
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: NBA players who said that they wanted to declare they
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: were female and joined the WNBA. And all of a sudden,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: faced with guys who were 6'11, the people in the
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: WNBA began to think, well, we actually may need to
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: narrowly define who's allowed to play here. So I think
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: you look at stuff like that, and the average person
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: just thinks that that's kind of a common sense. You
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: know it's true. It's not about ideology. I think the
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: other thing is people understand that this is a dangerous world.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: It's dangerous in terms of criminals at home. It's dangerous
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: in terms of the drug cartels bringing in drugs that
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: can destroy our children. It's dangerous in terms of terrorist groups.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: And it's dangerous in terms of countries like Iran that
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: basically would like to destroy the United States. So I
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: think that probably one of the challenges for the Democrats
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: is that historically they're the party of weakness in foreign policy,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: and they're the party of weakness in terms of crime.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: And I can tell you that, for example, in New York,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: the issue of the governor being soft on crime is
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: probably the biggest single issue that the Republican candidate has
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: to potentially win the governorship. And people look around and
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: they don't want to be frightened. They don't want to
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: be mugged or raped or killed. And they don't want
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: excuses that... you know, it's really unfortunate that we released
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: this guy 37 times before he finally killed somebody. I mean,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: the people really want, they want the system to protect
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: them and to protect their children and their grandchildren. And
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: that's a much bigger subliminal issue, I think, that helps Republicans.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: You mentioned a foreign policy weakness on the Democrats as
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: well as crime, but on the foreign policy front, um,
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: what do you see as an off-ramp or potentially getting
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: towards one with, uh, this current deal that's being made with,
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: with Russia?
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: They're allowed to make a little money. They're selling some diesel.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: Is that enough to coax them into, uh, ending Ukraine
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: and maybe, uh, potentially not working with, with Iran? Uh,
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: I don't see the parallels or the connections and, and
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: how do we get out of this?
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you raised a really good question.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: I just want to say, um, I'm very clear about this.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I've been studying the Soviet Union and then Russia for
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: my entire life. I actually joined congressional delegations going to
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Russia right after the fall of the Soviet Empire and
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: watched the transition. And I'll never forget, I was in
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: this huge room. It must have been 70 or 80
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: feet long. And one entire wall was a map of
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: the Soviet Union. And I was meeting with an Air
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Force lieutenant general who at that time was the vice
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: president of the new Russian Federation. And I said to him,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: being clever, oh, that's a map of the Soviet Union.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: And he looked at me and he said, yes, it'll
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: be like that again. And Putin basically stands for the
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: KGB wing that believed that the collapse of the Soviet Union,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: he has said this, collapse of the Soviet Union was
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: the greatest calamity of the 20th century. And so he
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: wants to reestablish something pretty close to the Soviet empire.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: And he, in my mind, he's basically evil. He's willing
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: to kill families, kill children. He's willing to kidnap young
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Ukrainians and take them to Russia to brainwash them into
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: being Russian. I mean, the idea that we would do
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: anything to help Putin, I think, is an enormous mistake.
• 48:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: I would agree.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: I've never been a fan of Putin's, but it seems
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: like he's the gift that keeps on giving. He doesn't
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: seem to go away and he has the wherewithal to
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: withstand the fight. So I wonder if from the Trumpian perspective,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: being a builder, being a pragmatic businessman from New York,
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: he says, look, this guy's not going anywhere. I might
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: as well keep him closer than ostracizing him. I don't
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: know that either strategy has worked in the past.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's part of it. I think the
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: other part of it is that, remember, Zelenskyy was in
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: some ways involved with Biden in an effort to really
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: hurt Trump. So there's something very personal there. And then
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: Zelensky had, if you'll remember, this one televised meeting in
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: the White House that was a disaster. It was a
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: sign that Zelensky had no idea who Trump was. And
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: and that if you, you know, if you take, first
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: of all, you show up in a military uniform, uh, that's,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: that is, uh, worn, not very sort of sloppy. And
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: then you take on the president of the United States
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: and in the White House, um, with a guy with,
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: with Trump's personality, um, He decides, I'll show you. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: I think there's been bad blood at a personal level
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: all the way through. But I will confess, as much
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: as I have studied Trump and I've written about him
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: and I have a pretty good general sense, I have
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: no idea why he is friendly to Putin and why
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: he allows Putin to get away with stuff. And I
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: think that it's one of the things that you'll see
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: once we get through this election. I think you're going
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: to see Republicans and Democrats take a position of trying
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: to tie the president's hands and make sure that he
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: can't sell out Ukraine.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Now, moving over to Iran, what do you think the
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: end game there is? Is it the mother of all bombs?
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: Do we hit them hard? Obviously, I think we've erased
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: the top level, the next level, the third level, and
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: we seem to have an Ayatollah problem.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: Well, this is another example. I first started studying Ayatollah
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Khomeini in 1979. I was a freshman congressman. Jimmy Carter
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: was president. I was from Georgia.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: And I was one years old.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay. Well, that certainly puts me in my place. But,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: you know, you look back on that, the religious dictatorship wing,
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: which is not most of the Iranian people, but is
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: probably 10% to 20%. They have been chanting death to
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: America since 1979. Now, as a historian, it's my belief
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: that when you have a militant group that chants something
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: for almost 50 years, there's a pretty good possibility that
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: they mean it and that you should take them seriously.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Which says to me, you're not going to get a
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: deal with this dictatorship. That if you really want to
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: change it, you actually have to change the dictatorship because
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: what we're asking them to do in disarming is we're
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: asking them to give up their ability to shape their
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: own future. And they're not going to do that. I mean, so,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: you know, I watched this. We bombed them. We think
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: there's going to be a truce. The truce breaks down.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: We bomb them again. These folks fought the Iraqis in
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: the 1980s for eight years. They took a million casualties,
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: probably 400,000 dead. This year, they killed at least 47,000
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: of their own people. Now, if you have a dictatorship,
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: that is willing to kill 47,000 of its own people,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: what does the EU think you're going to do that
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: they will regard? I mean, we're not going to go
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: in and kill 47,000 people. Right. Our values wouldn't allow us,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: the news media wouldn't allow us, the American public would
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: be appalled. So you either have a real strategy and
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: you help arm all the Iranians who hate the regime,
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: and that's probably 80% of the country.
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: Why haven't we done that?
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: I do not know. I would say this ranks with
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: why do they pretend Putin is okay. For some reason,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: this is a hunch. I have no proof. This is
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: a hunch. I think that the leadership believed that if
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: you hit them hard enough, that it would shake them
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: and that they would decide they had to negotiate. Now,
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: I personally never believed that. But I think that that's
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: probably because the original design was, let's go in with
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: a big heavy air campaign and we'll really pound them.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: And then when we've gotten their attention and we have
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: blown up all this stuff, then we'll find a way
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: to negotiate. Well, you know, first of all, if you
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: kill the senior leaders, you actually create space for junior leaders.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: Who might be more radical.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: They may be more radical. They may be tougher. They
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: also may be smarter. I remember when I was doing
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: a review of the intelligence for the second Iraq war
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: in 2003, I met with the air force sergeant who
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: was in charge of analyzing the Iraqi air defense system.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: And he said, um, It's getting much harder to track
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: down and kill their anti-aircraft missiles because we've killed all
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: the dumb ones. And the ones who are left are
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: pretty smart.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: And they're better at hiding. And I just thought, I'd
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: never quite thought about the second level consequence. And I
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: think you have a little bit of that in Iraq
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: and Iran right now. I think you have the people
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: who survived the bombing are very tough. And very militant.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: And they're very prepared to take us on unless they're defeated.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: So defeating them is the only way out.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, we're going home. You decide to risk someday losing
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: American cities because they do actually mean death to America.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Or you have to defeat them.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: Which means destroy them because there's no other way.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Basically, you want to replace the regime. period.
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I get it.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: You don't want to destroy most Iranians because most Iranians
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: don't like them, but most Iranians don't have weapons. So
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: you've got to find a way, as we did in
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: the 80s against the Russians in Afghanistan, to undermine them.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I was part with the Reagan team. I was part,
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: for example, trying to make sure we could get printing
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: presses into Poland for solidarity. I mean, we had a
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: very active campaign to undermine the Soviet empire And it
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: finally collapsed in 1991. But that was partly a consequence
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: of a very complex Reagan campaign that came at them
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: from almost every direction. Yeah.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: Death by a thousand cuts. Mr.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Speaker, I want to thank you for being with me.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: And I want to part ways with you asking you
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: a final question. One of the highlights of my career
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: was to take it over a radio show that was
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: once held by Larry King and Jim Bohannon. And Larry
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: King had a great opener, and I use it as
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: a closer, which is, how did a nice kid from
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: Georgia end up in a job like this, right? You
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: create documentaries. You've been speaker. You're a New York Times
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: bestselling author. It seems like you're doing it all, and
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: you seem to make it look easy. Is this what
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: you plan to do?
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Well, when I was at the end of my freshman
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: year in high school, my dad was serving in the Army,
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: and we'd been living in Orleans, France, and we'd moved
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: to Stuttgart, Germany, the 7th Army Headquarters. And I was
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: going to be either a vertebrate paleontologist or a zoo director,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: but I saw enough different things that convinced me that
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: countries can die and that you need leadership. And so
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: I decided in August of 1958, after spending the summer
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: praying and thinking about it, that I had three jobs.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: What do we have to do to survive? How do
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: you explain it so the American people give you permission?
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: And if you have permission, how do you actually implement it?
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: And that's basically all I've done since August of 1958.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: And it's led me in a variety of places. It's
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: led me to make movies, led me to write books,
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: led me to run for Congress, and then ultimately helped
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: grow a majority for the first time in 40 years.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: And then work with President Clinton because My mission didn't
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: say Republican. It's about America. It's about the survival of freedom. And,
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: you know, we couldn't have gotten welfare reform or a
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: balanced budget without President Clinton because he's president. So we
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: had to work with each other. He wasn't going to
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: get anything through the Congress without me. And I wasn't
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: going to get anything signed into law without him. And
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: that's how we learned to work together.
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: In all those travels, what's the I guess the single
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: most important piece of advice that you've learned along the
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: way that you can pass on to not only me,
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: but those younger than me.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Listen, I learned from the deputy commander of the Army's
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: training and doctrine command in 1979, the phrase, listen, learn, help,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: and lead. And so it is a single phrase. I
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: tell people all the time, you ought to dream big.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: You ought to learn every day. You ought to work hard.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: you ought to be true to yourself, and you ought
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: to enjoy life. My younger daughter and I wrote a
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: book on those five principles. And I think if you
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: do that, you'll have a long life and an exciting life.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: And you'll look back as I do. And suddenly say, gee,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I had no idea we were going to do all
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: these things. They just added up.
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: And they all kind of strung together. Amigos, I want
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: you to get a copy of the book for yourself
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: and one to give away. The holidays are coming. The
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: book is America's Golden Age, Trumpism and an Era of
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: Limitless Possibilities. Speaker Newt Gingrich, I want to thank you
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: for being here. Godspeed to you, sir. You're a gentleman,
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: a patriot and a scholar.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Great to be with you. Thank you.
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: You bet.
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: This is America.