Valuetainment - Newt Gingrich Predicts 2020 Election

00:00:00.240 This is one of the craziest, wildest elections you've ever seen in your lifetime.

00:00:04.160 It's both remarkably different and extraordinarily important at the same time.

00:00:08.000 How much has the game changed for somebody that wants to win a campaign?

00:00:11.520 And who's done the best adjusting to today's game being played?

00:00:14.880 Trump has a couple of unique advantages. Biden is in a totally different position.

00:00:19.040 If your opponent has 92% negative press coverage, you don't have to do a whole lot to communicate

00:00:23.920 what's wrong because the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, and the rest of them,

00:00:27.760 they'll all go do your job for you.

00:00:29.440 He chose the perfect candidate where they had nothing to come after her.

00:00:32.880 I mean, you couldn't say anything to her because of who she was.

00:00:35.440 Do you think they're going to pack the court if they win?

00:00:38.080 And if yes, what does that really mean to America?

00:00:40.480 They're absolutely going to pack the court and the reason is simple.

00:00:42.800 Kamala Harris is a San Francisco radical. I think Nancy Pelosi is a radical.

00:00:47.200 And I think Biden is so weak, so lacking in energy.

00:00:50.400 What are your thoughts if Jeff Bezos now owns Washington Post and ends up buying and owning CNN?

00:00:54.960 What happens to media?

00:00:56.000 If you're on the left, you can do anything you want to and they'll protect you.

00:00:59.040 If you're on the right, they can smear you and claim that it's good journalism.

00:01:02.240 Do you think we're going to find out next week or do you think it's going to be delayed?

00:01:05.200 Oh no, I think the marginally big enough will now.

00:01:11.360 My guest today is Newt Gingrich, the 50th Speaker of the House and a former 1995 Time Magazine Man of the Year.

00:01:18.400 Newt, thank you so much for being a guest on Valuetainment today.

00:01:21.840 Well, I'm delighted to be with you. It should be very interesting.

00:01:24.240 Yes, I've been looking forward to this.

00:01:26.320 Newt, would you agree this is one of the craziest, wildest elections you've ever seen in your lifetime?

00:01:33.360 Oh, I think it's certainly the most unusual in my lifetime and probably the most consequential since Abraham Lincoln's re-election in 1864.

00:01:43.440 So it's both remarkably different and extraordinarily important at the same time.

00:01:50.160 Now, you know, for me, just for somebody that's been following politics for now, I don't know, less than two decades,

00:01:56.000 is it seems like every time you hear that word, it's the most consequential, it's the most consequential.

00:02:01.440 And it's a form of creating urgency for a lot of the voters to get out there and want to vote.

00:02:06.720 But there seems to be a real feeling or energy of this being the most consequential.

00:02:12.760 Why would you say that is?

00:02:14.880 Well, you have a genuine populist outsider who has shaken the whole system up for four solid years.

00:02:22.040 And you have a national establishment, which is going all out at every level, from Twitter and Facebook to corporate leadership to the news media,

00:02:32.700 which a report came out yesterday that 92 percent of the Trump coverage of the campaign is negative.

00:02:39.500 All that's going on simultaneously.

00:02:41.320 And the difference in the direction of America from a Biden-Harris-Schumer-Pelosi left-wing radicalism

00:02:50.780 to where Trump and Pence and McConnell and McCarthy would go is really unbelievably different.

00:02:58.800 It's an amazing choice that the American people will make next Tuesday.

00:03:03.980 You've seen elections for a long time, and they've gone through different, you know, conditions.

00:03:10.560 So whether it was, you know, Nixon first going to being on TV to debate with Kennedy, I'm like, oh, my gosh,

00:03:16.720 you've got to make sure you look good on TV when you're debating.

00:03:19.320 It was radio prior to that, and now you've got social media.

00:03:22.640 How much has the game changed for somebody that wants to win a campaign?

00:03:26.700 And who's done the best adjusting to today's game being played versus what it was maybe 20, 30, 40, even 50 years ago?

00:03:34.180 Well, I think Trump had a couple of unique advantages.

00:03:37.020 He had done a popular commercial television series called The Apprentice.

00:03:42.400 I think it was on for 13 years.

00:03:44.980 He had he owned at one point the Miss Universe contest.

00:03:49.500 He was very used to reaching a mass market.

00:03:52.620 He really understood very quickly the power of Facebook and Twitter and so developed the largest following in both of anybody.

00:04:02.040 And as a result, he's been able to take on the entire national news media and basically fight him to to a standstill because his his reach has been as great as the collective reach of every single major elite news media.

00:04:18.000 It's a remarkable achievement.

00:04:19.660 So I would say he really understands it.

00:04:21.920 You know, Biden is in a totally different position.

00:04:24.260 Biden basically is hoping that covid will win the election for him.

00:04:28.620 I noticed that you and I are talking on a day when Biden once again has no schedule, zero hiding in the basement in Wilmington.

00:04:37.760 And, you know, but but it's not irrational.

00:04:39.960 I mean, his strategy is that if he stays out of the way and allows the country to be mad at Trump, that he'll get elected because they'll be Trump.

00:04:48.560 It's not it's not a pro Biden strategy.

00:04:50.520 It's a hide and hope strategy.

00:04:52.680 It could work.

00:04:53.600 I mean, it's possible partly because, you know, if your opponent has 92 percent negative press coverage, you don't have to do a whole lot to communicate what's wrong.

00:05:03.780 And because the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC and the rest of them, they'll all go do your job for you.

00:05:09.680 And that's what's been going on.

00:05:11.720 And it's so true watching that be taking place.

00:05:14.200 It's it's actually very interesting.

00:05:15.640 You got the whole team on your side when you're running and he does not.

00:05:18.060 But do you think President Trump?

00:05:20.780 I don't know if you've seen the documentary Trump's the story of his father and his grandfather.

00:05:25.000 You know, it's a pretty interesting documentary.

00:05:26.340 And do you think Trump was somebody that behind closed doors, he himself had plans of saying, I'm going to one day be a president?

00:05:35.620 I mean, I'm sure you've seen that one interview he did with Oprah Winfrey.

00:05:38.540 Do you think so or no?

00:05:40.640 Look, in the 80s, you know, Oprah asked him in the 80s.

00:05:44.560 He said, well, I might have to someday.

00:05:46.420 I think Trump saw himself as a potential president probably by 1987 or 1988.

00:05:53.260 He looked at it very carefully.

00:05:54.540 There's a great interview that he did with Larry King that you can find on YouTube.

00:06:01.600 And it sounds exactly like Trump today.

00:06:03.720 It's a 30 year old YouTube copy of Trump talking to Larry King about, you know, we have bad trade deals.

00:06:11.760 We're getting involved overseas.

00:06:13.300 We don't need to.

00:06:14.460 The bureaucracy doesn't work very well.

00:06:16.440 Just goes right down the list.

00:06:17.660 And he sounds, he's a much younger, thinner version, but he sure sounds like he hasn't changed much in 30 or 40 years.

00:06:25.720 Yeah.

00:06:26.200 So your answer is yes, he has been planning that one day he would be running.

00:06:30.380 Well, planning is too strong a word.

00:06:32.300 I think he has been looking at it, thinking about it.

00:06:35.840 Calista and I had breakfast with him in January of 2015 in Iowa.

00:06:40.220 And it was clear that he was seriously thinking about it, but not get up to a stage of planning.

00:06:47.400 Not get up to a stage of planning.

00:06:48.960 And how do you think he's been doing?

00:06:50.080 How do you think he's been doing for the last three and a half years?

00:06:52.080 I saw your interview this morning with CBS.

00:06:53.940 I thought it was very interesting what you said came out three hours ago.

00:06:56.780 But how do you think he's been doing the last three and a half years?

00:06:59.100 I think he is, in the tradition of Andrew Jackson, as a change agent.

00:07:06.160 I think he's a very disruptive force.

00:07:08.660 I think that is by design.

00:07:11.000 He wants to have a real impact.

00:07:15.720 He didn't run for president, you know, just to be in the Oval Office or to have Air Force One.

00:07:21.040 He ran for president to make profound changes.

00:07:23.940 And certainly, if you look, for example, at the federal judges, where we've just had the most extraordinary example of appointing the third justice of the Supreme Court, that's a pretty amazing achievement.

00:07:36.980 And he kept his word.

00:07:38.280 I was actually in the meeting with him in the spring of 15, when a number of people said to him, why don't you come up with a list of 10 conservative just judges that you would consider so people could understand that you're really seriously committed to changing the judiciary?

00:08:01.900 And he thought it was a good idea.

00:08:03.460 But Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society played a key role in putting the list together.

00:08:10.080 It's a very, very solid list.

00:08:12.220 And he's basically kept his word.

00:08:13.820 And he was fortunate because the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, understood the long-term historic implications of getting judges approved.

00:08:26.080 And as a result, focused the Senate Republicans on confirmation of judges as their number one goal and has had extraordinary impact.

00:08:36.260 I mean, I think there are 340 or 350 federal judges that have been approved, not counting the sort of secondary judges, but the actual, the main district judges, appeals court and Supreme Court.

00:08:48.960 And the Trump legacy in the courts will be there for two generations.

00:08:54.820 If you look at it, Justice Barrett is, I think, 48 years old.

00:08:59.640 She could easily serve past 2060.

00:09:04.420 That's how long the reach of the Trump presidency will be.

00:09:07.760 That's unbelievable to have it 6-3.

00:09:10.020 Is he the last president that had three Supreme Court justices?

00:09:14.300 Is it Reagan?

00:09:15.420 Is it the last time that happened was three?

00:09:16.960 It was three, and I can't remember.

00:09:20.240 I thought it was Nixon, but it's been a while.

00:09:23.000 It's been a while.

00:09:23.980 This is the first time you've had a clear conservative majority on the court since 1935-36.

00:09:33.980 Wow.

00:09:35.120 Wow.

00:09:35.820 Would you put that as his top accomplishment?

00:09:37.700 Would you put that at the top, or would you put Israel, would you put a couple things above that?

00:09:42.180 Well, I think in terms of long-term history, you have to rate that as the top one, because when you move the courts back to a constitutional interpretation of the law, and you put judges in who think that they are not there to be independent interpreters of their own version,

00:10:01.720 You know, the Supreme Court had slid to a point where it was a permanent constitutional convention, and if you could get five judges, you could rewrite anything you wanted to.

00:10:11.580 Now you've got a group of judges who actually think that the Constitution is a living document created by the founders, agreed to by the people of the United States, and that you have to interpret within the framework of the Constitution.

00:10:25.800 And I thought that Justice Barris' description at the White House when she was sworn in, and she described the difference between a politician who has a duty to think about policy and changing policy, and a judge who has a duty not to think about policy, but to think about interpreting the law that the politicians have written.

00:10:51.000 And I thought she did a very eloquent job of distinguishing the two missions and the two roles, and so I can give her a lot of credit.

00:11:01.200 Yeah, the way she handled herself those few days, I mean, it was Teflon. You couldn't get anything on her. It wasn't like Teflon, like she's good at being Teflon. She was just Teflon being herself. She wasn't trying to be Teflon.

00:11:12.100 There's a great cartoon. Remember when she holds up her notepad and it's blank?

00:11:17.520 Yeah.

00:11:18.740 Well, there's a cartoon where somebody wrote on the note card and has her holding a note card that says, I have seven children. I'm used to answering dumb questions. 0.92

00:11:28.920 I saw a lot of memes, but I didn't see that one. That's hilarious. By the way, isn't she the first woman ever to have children that are still going to school that she's going to be sitting on the Supreme Court justice? I mean, she's the first one, I believe, that's doing that. 0.98

00:11:44.200 She is the first one. Look, there are a lot of things that are interesting about Trump's decision. She is the only person on the court who didn't go to Harvard or Yale.

00:11:53.480 She is clearly a representative of the Midwest. As she pointed out, as a Notre Dame graduate, she probably can educate the others a little bit about football.

00:12:04.300 She has, I think, a background both in terms of her faith and the degree to which her life has been defined by family and faith in a way that I think for a lot of more traditional women makes her a role model that they can really look up to.

00:12:22.240 She hasn't given up anything, unlike the liberal feminist version, you know, she's had a great career. 1.00

00:12:29.540 She is a serious intellectual. She is now in the highest court in the land. She has a great family.

00:12:37.040 They have shown great compassion. And there's just a lot to the Amy Coney Barrett story that I think speaks well.

00:12:45.420 And it speaks well of Donald Trump. I think that the fact that he would pick this woman and he has several other choices and Mitch McConnell apparently went to him as a Midwesterner from Kentucky and said, you know, the easiest person for me to get to unify the Senate Republicans is Judge Barrett because she's very highly respected.

00:13:07.640 She's very solid. And, you know, don't go picking somebody who's a bigger risk because I've got a narrow margin here.

00:13:15.560 I think it turned out that it was a home run.

00:13:17.940 It almost seemed like he chose the perfect candidate where they had nothing to come after her.

00:13:22.940 I mean, Kavanaugh, you could have brought him from so many different angles.

00:13:25.740 You couldn't say anything to her because of who she was.

00:13:27.840 And by the way, she was number one in her class at Notre Dame.

00:13:30.500 I mean, she was somebody that was top notch at what she was doing.

00:13:32.920 But going back to this whole 6-3 score, you know, this is not good whether you're Republican or Democrat, whether the other side's got 6-3 or you got 6-3.

00:13:40.940 The topic of court packing came up in the VP debate where Mike Pence cornered Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:13:46.420 You probably saw this where he's like, so are you guys going to be packing the court?

00:13:49.700 Are you guys going to be packing the court?

00:13:50.980 And Kamala did her smile while she's looking at the moderator, hoping to change the topic. 0.98

00:13:54.780 And then he finally says, I hope everybody realizes she did not answer the question.

00:13:58.480 And then she said, you want me to answer the question?

00:14:00.860 I'll answer the question.

00:14:02.180 You know, diversity is the angle she went.

00:14:03.820 And you saw Biden's been trying to answer it in a 60 minutes question.

00:14:07.220 Do you think they're going to pack the court if they win?

00:14:10.420 And if yes, what does that really mean to America?

00:14:14.180 Well, look, I think if they get a big enough majority in the Senate and the House, they're absolutely going to pack the court.

00:14:21.660 And the reason is simple.

00:14:22.420 How do you go to your left-wing activists and say to them, yes, it's true, we have to put up with a Trump court for the next 30 or 40 years.

00:14:31.220 But after all, that's the game.

00:14:34.000 Because the activists are going to say, no, no, there's an alternative game.

00:14:37.260 Now, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to do this in 1937, when he was very frustrated with the conservative court, the whole country rebelled.

00:14:47.340 He was at this peak of popularity.

00:14:50.080 He had just gotten reelected, carrying all but two states, and it just crashed and burned.

00:14:55.500 He was very shocked at how rapidly his popularity collapsed when people decided he was going to try to do something that they saw as a threat to the Constitution.

00:15:04.880 So, you know, I think they will absolutely try to pack the court.

00:15:09.240 But I believe the reason this is such a consequential election is that I really do think that Kamala Harris is a San Francisco radical.

00:15:17.300 I think Nancy Pelosi is a San Francisco radical. 1.00

00:15:19.900 I think that Schumer is going to run scared because AOC is potentially going to run against him in the primary in 2022.

00:15:28.560 And I think Biden is so weak, so lacking in energy, and in some ways so much no longer in touch with reality, that I think he's clearly not going to be able to control his own administration.

00:15:41.460 It's going to be dominated, I think, by Harris and Pelosi.

00:15:45.440 Newt, your entire life they've been following politics.

00:15:47.720 When did you start following politics?

00:15:48.980 How old were you, what year was it when you started following politics?

00:15:52.580 Well, I mean, I had an uncle who'd been very active as a Republican precinct worker in Pennsylvania.

00:15:57.700 So my oldest memory is watching the convention on television in 1956 with Eisenhower.

00:16:04.620 But I really got involved because my dad was a career soldier, and we were stationed in Orleans, France.

00:16:11.880 And he took us in the spring of 1958 to the battlefield of Verdun, which is the largest battle in the Western Front in World War I.

00:16:21.360 About 600,000 men, French and Germans, were killed in a nine-month period.

00:16:26.860 And they have a huge building called the Ossuary that has the bones of about 100,000 of them that had been blown apart and couldn't be identified.

00:16:35.460 We spent three days there touring the battlefield during the day and staying with a friend of my father's who had been drafted, sent to the Philippines, served on the Bataan Death March, and spent three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp, which ruined his health.

00:16:50.240 So the army gave him a pretty soft job that he could work at until retirement.

00:16:54.660 So we spent all that time looking at the cost of defeat and the cost of war.

00:16:58.680 Then the French paratroopers came back from Algeria and killed, literally killed, the French Fourth Republic and brought General de Gaulle back.

00:17:08.300 And he founded the Fifth Republic, which still exists today.

00:17:11.140 It's the longest serving non-royalty government in the history of France.

00:17:16.200 Then we moved in June, early July, to Stuttgart, which was the Seventh Army headquarters in Germany, and arrived the week that there was the first Berlin crisis, and the U.S. Army had gone into Lebanon with nuclear weapons offshore.

00:17:32.780 So with all that stuff going on, I was going to be either a vertebrate paleontologist or a zoo director.

00:17:38.260 And I spent all summer thinking and praying about it and decided that it was my job to basically do three things.

00:17:48.340 Figure out what we have to do to survive, figure out how to explain it so the American people would give us permission, and then figure out how you would implement it once you had permission.

00:17:57.880 And since August of 1958, that's what I've been doing.

00:18:03.020 So I guess 62 years.

00:18:04.080 August of 1958.

00:18:05.800 So that leads me to my question.

00:18:07.740 Who have been the worst presidential candidates, both on the left and the right?

00:18:13.480 If you were to say the worst candidates that either party's put up as a frontrunner, who would you say those have been in the last 62 years?

00:18:21.120 Well, I think the two who had the most impossible job were Barry Goldwater, who was both too far to the right and didn't understand how to try to bring his party together.

00:18:33.160 And George McGovern, who really was the first modern radical nominee and who felt that he had to focus on the radical wing of his party.

00:18:44.500 Both of them lost disastrously.

00:18:46.340 And both of them, I think, left behind.

00:18:50.160 In McGovern's case, it's the beginning of the radical movement, the Democratic Party.

00:18:54.640 In Goldwater's case, it leads directly to Reagan and the rise of modern conservatism.

00:18:59.220 But I would say as candidates, those were the two who had the hardest time.

00:19:03.980 Where would you put Biden as?

00:19:07.160 Who?

00:19:07.840 Where would you put Biden?

00:19:09.160 Joe Biden as?

00:19:10.120 Biden is unique.

00:19:11.420 I mean, Biden is a guy, first of all, you have to give him some credit.

00:19:14.780 He's the nominee.

00:19:15.860 He outlasted everybody else.

00:19:18.460 Second, they have a very clear strategy.

00:19:22.760 If this election is about Trump, they believe they will win.

00:19:27.000 If this election is a choice between Trump and Biden, they think they will lose.

00:19:31.500 So their job is to hide like a bunny in the basement and hope that the country doesn't notice them.

00:19:37.420 And the problem is, every time he comes out, he says something goofy and loses ground.

00:19:44.340 So, you know, I personally think as of today, he's going to lose.

00:19:48.380 When he loses, the left is going to go crazy.

00:19:51.140 So it's going to be just like Philadelphia has been the last couple of nights.

00:19:54.360 And you're going to see days of rage because they've been told over and over again by totally inaccurate polls that Biden's way ahead.

00:20:03.420 Well, Biden's not way ahead.

00:20:04.660 But at best, this is a very close race from the standpoint of the Democrats.

00:20:10.260 And at worst, it's going to turn out to be a Republican sweep.

00:20:13.680 And nobody's factoring that in because they don't know how to they don't know how to ask the right questions.

00:20:19.280 And they have learned nothing from how wrong they were in 2016.

00:20:23.160 Remember, on Election Day in 2016, the New York Times said there was an 85 percent likelihood that Hillary Clinton would win on Election Day.

00:20:32.820 Yeah.

00:20:34.080 So these people have learned nothing.

00:20:37.060 And we'll find out next week whether I'm right or they're right.

00:20:40.720 Do you think we're going to find out next week or do you think it's going to be delayed?

00:20:44.340 Oh, no.

00:20:44.680 I think the margin will be big enough.

00:20:46.120 We'll know.

00:20:46.740 Oh, we'll know next week.

00:20:47.660 OK.

00:20:47.880 I think it's going to beat him badly enough that you'll know.

00:20:51.220 OK, that's that's good to know.

00:20:52.540 I got three topics to get into, hopefully, before we wrap up.

00:20:55.180 Number one, you said 92 percent of coverage of Trump is negative on TV.

00:20:59.260 Jeff Bezos just came out saying he's planning on buying CNN.

00:21:01.880 What are your thoughts if Jeff Bezos now owns Washington Post and ends up buying and owning CNN?

00:21:06.540 What happens to media?

00:21:08.700 I don't know.

00:21:09.180 CNN has been so badly left wing.

00:21:11.860 Zucker's done such a terribly one sided hatchet job that it probably can't get a whole lot worse without losing all of its viewers.

00:21:21.400 So it depends on what Bezos wants to do.

00:21:23.200 I've been very disappointed that Bezos has not imposed more order on the Washington Post.

00:21:27.840 The Washington Post used to be a serious newspaper.

00:21:31.420 Right now, it's a left wing propaganda.

00:21:33.300 Right.

00:21:34.080 And that's really tragic.

00:21:35.060 You know, if you'd had the scale of scandal that the Biden family has in the 1970s, imagine when when Woodward and Bernstein went to see Bradley, the managing editor, and said, you know, we want to dig into this Watergate thing.

00:21:51.200 And he said, no, skip it.

00:21:52.360 Let's not bother Nixon.

00:21:53.280 It's inconceivable.

00:21:56.320 Yet we have all sorts of evidence, eyewitnesses, laptop computer data that the Biden family, not Hunter Biden, the Biden family has been engaged in absolute corruption.

00:22:08.720 And the New York Times, the Washington Post, all these places, CNN, all of them have hidden it because they're trying to protect the bunny in the basement.

00:22:17.000 And I think that, you know, it would be interesting.

00:22:20.960 I'm very sad that Bezos has not insisted on some level of professionalism at the Washington Post.

00:22:28.360 So then my question goes to Fox, because if I'll turn your attention to this one part of an interview you did on Fox a couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago, I think with Harrison, Harris Faulkner, I want to get your reaction on this.

00:22:42.840 This is you on Fox News on September 9th, I believe.

00:22:47.800 Progressive district attorneys are anti-police, pro-criminal, and overwhelmingly elected with George Soros' money.

00:22:55.260 And they're a major cause of the violence we're seeing because they keep putting the violent criminals back on the street.

00:23:01.600 I'm not sure we need to bring George Soros into this.

00:23:07.740 I was going to say you get the last word, speaker.

00:23:10.960 He paid for it.

00:23:13.600 I mean, why can't we discuss the fact that millions of dollars he spent?

00:23:16.400 No, he didn't. I agree with Melissa.

00:23:17.320 George Soros doesn't need to be a part of this conversation.

00:23:21.800 Okay.

00:23:24.640 So it's verboten.

00:23:25.560 All right.

00:23:25.820 I mean, that's got to be one of the most uncomfortable moments of TV, whether it's Fox or, and you're seeing Murdoch's sons recently giving money to the Democratic Party.

00:23:37.480 So the reason why I'm saying this is, if Fox goes left and an interview like that happens, I want to get your reaction on that period.

00:23:44.400 But if Fox goes left, what's the only media channel that's left for the right to, you know, give their own side of the argument?

00:23:50.020 Well, I mean, first of all, what you saw was a mistake.

00:23:55.420 And then Fox had no problem with talking about Soros.

00:23:58.980 And in fact, the next day, she apologized for the way it was mishandled.

00:24:07.340 And what had happened was we were...

00:24:08.740 Who's she? Harris? Harris or the lady in the yellow? 0.97

00:24:11.240 Okay.

00:24:11.500 Look, the other woman is a professional Democrat and was doing her job, which is to clutter it up and try to not let us score points against Democrats. 1.00

00:24:22.020 Harris, I think, because we were separated, it was all virtual.

00:24:25.400 I was, I think, actually in Rome at the time.

00:24:28.220 And so Harris was a half step back in sort of sorting it out because it wasn't like we were on the same couch.

00:24:36.760 The next day I did her show and she openly apologized and said, look, we would never cut you.

00:24:42.860 You know, we love having you on, et cetera.

00:24:45.300 So I think it was actually a technical mistake.

00:24:47.960 Now, having said that, if at some point Fox decides to become a left-wing establishment channel, there will be three or four channels, probably starting with Newsmax.

00:25:01.480 But there will be three or four different channels competing to replace Fox.

00:25:05.280 I don't think the Fox audience is going to go with Fox if it becomes a left-wing channel, nor, by the way, when I look at their lineup, I don't think, you know, that Tucker or Sean or Laura are about to become moderates.

00:25:24.340 So they would have a long way to go.

00:25:27.600 And I do Fox and Friends all the time.

00:25:29.960 And I feel very comfortable doing all these shows.

00:25:33.380 And generally speaking, they're probably not quite as far to the right as they were under Ailes.

00:25:38.840 But they're still far and away the most effective conservative vehicle in the country.

00:25:44.000 Well, Tucker's coming up for renewal of a contract.

00:25:45.920 If he was an athlete, he's underpaid because he's getting $6 million and Andy's getting $25 million.

00:25:49.340 And he just passed him up on viewership.

00:25:51.460 I know you're friends.

00:25:52.080 You probably can't say anything about it.

00:25:53.420 But did you watch Tucker yesterday with Tony Bublinski, the guest he had on?

00:25:58.460 No, I've seen takes outtakes from it.

00:26:00.500 I didn't watch the whole show.

00:26:02.080 What's your reaction with the story of Tony coming out with the partnership of Hunter?

00:26:05.960 I know you went into it briefly earlier when I was asking you about Bezos and CNN.

00:26:09.720 But what are your thoughts about it?

00:26:11.240 And why is it that no one's covering it?

00:26:13.700 It's like almost saying, I heard somebody say the other day, I think it was on 60 Minutes or one of the hosts said, well, we won't cover it because everything is speculation.

00:26:21.920 Nothing.

00:26:22.260 We don't cover stories like this if it isn't 100%.

00:26:25.740 What are your thoughts about what we're seeing with Tony and Hunter Biden?

00:26:29.000 Well, first, that comment's a lie.

00:26:30.640 They spent three and a half years covering a Russian story about Trump that turned out to be totally false.

00:26:36.700 Both the New York Times and the Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes for covering lies, which they never returned the prizes, but their entire prize is based on lies.

00:26:46.600 So if you're on the left, you can do anything you want to and they'll protect you.

00:26:50.840 If you're on the right, they can smear you and claim that it's good journalism.

00:26:55.420 Let's just start with honesty.

00:26:57.240 Second, I just did a 30-minute video, which is available at Gingrich 360, on the Biden family corruption.

00:27:07.380 And I think I outlined it with quotes and with video and lay the whole thing out.

00:27:12.100 It's much more than Hunter.

00:27:13.560 It's a family business.

00:27:15.620 It's his two uncles.

00:27:16.680 It's his father.

00:27:17.940 And they were just out going around the planet scooping up money.

00:27:20.740 Clearly a blatant violation of public trust.

00:27:26.780 And it's an astonishing story.

00:27:28.860 It involves hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:27:32.180 This is not some small, you know, jaywalking problem.

00:27:36.540 I have seen excerpts from Boblinsky.

00:27:40.640 You know, he was a naval officer.

00:27:42.700 He has a good reputation.

00:27:44.580 We have some mutual friends who think very highly of him.

00:27:47.280 But again, what you have is the entire establishment, Twitter, Facebook, all the major media are like they're like a Greek phalanx.

00:28:02.240 They're all lined up to protect Biden.

00:28:05.380 And so they want to make sure that the bunny in the basement is safe while they go and attack the bear.

00:28:10.860 And that's what this race is all about. 0.99

00:28:12.680 Do you think the world's dangerous and we need a bear, in which case Donald Trump's a pretty good candidate?

00:28:18.000 Or do you think that Donald Trump is the problem and we could really survive as a country with a bunny rabbit as our president, as our president, which I think is just laughable, impossible.

00:28:28.180 And I'm very interested to see how people vote next week, because I think the more we watch Biden, you know, things like referring to Kamala Harris's wife, which he did yesterday, or the day before referring twice to George when he met Donald Trump, or announcing he was running for the Senate three or four days ago.

00:28:46.800 I mean, the more you watch Biden, the more you know, this is not a guy who is really ready for prime time.

00:28:52.960 Last question for you is with Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.

00:28:58.520 She was on Wolf Builds Her. 0.91

00:29:00.000 I'm sure you saw that interview she had, which Wolf pushed her on a little bit, saying, how come you're not calling Trump?

00:29:05.620 And she said, I don't call Trump.

00:29:07.000 I'm not going to call Trump.

00:29:08.260 I talk to his people.

00:29:09.200 There's no way I'm going to call Trump.

00:29:10.300 Like, she was offended that Wolf asked about calling Trump.

00:29:14.540 You were Speaker of the House before at a time where you were a disruptor.

00:29:19.380 I mean, if people go back and study what you did, you would be categorized as a disruptor.

00:29:23.260 You were able to do something that hadn't been done for a long time when it was controlled by the other side.

00:29:28.740 What was your relationship like with the president?

00:29:31.420 And as a Speaker of the House, are you supposed to pick up the phone and call him and say, let's get a deal done?

00:29:37.380 Look, you can't compare the two.

00:29:41.320 Bill Clinton and I were both sort of natural graduate students.

00:29:45.320 We liked sitting around talking about ideas.

00:29:47.480 Occasionally, he'd call and I'd go down and have a drink with him late at night.

00:29:51.080 And we'd chat very much like Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan.

00:29:54.360 We negotiated the only balanced budgets in your lifetime.

00:29:58.060 And we did it by sitting in a room for 35 days.

00:30:02.060 Now, that's a totally different world.

00:30:04.460 My advice, if Trump does get reelected, is going to be pick the 50 or 60 Democrats that are most vulnerable.

00:30:11.560 Ignore Pelosi totally and build a Trump wing of the Democratic Party and just beat her on the floor. 0.98

00:30:17.180 I think that's the only practical way to do it.

00:30:19.700 That's the only practical way to do it against Pelosi.

00:30:22.760 Yeah, because she's a radical. 1.00

00:30:24.260 She's not going to agree to anything.

00:30:27.000 Wow.

00:30:27.620 Okay.

00:30:28.260 Final thoughts.

00:30:29.100 Next week, you're saying landslide victory for Trump?

00:30:32.660 Yeah, I think so.

00:30:33.300 I think we increase our number of seats in the Senate.

00:30:36.940 John James wins in Michigan.

00:30:38.940 We pick up the seat in Alabama.

00:30:41.280 We have an outside but real shot in New Mexico.

00:30:44.980 Our candidates are all going to do much better than people think.

00:30:48.060 The incumbents are running for reelection.

00:30:49.780 So I'm pretty optimistic.

00:30:53.060 And I think Trump will.

00:30:54.320 People need to remember, Trump had 300 and some electoral votes.

00:30:58.420 And I think he's likely to be in that range again and maybe higher.

00:31:04.000 I think he's now carrying North Carolina.

00:31:06.620 He's carrying Florida.

00:31:08.000 He's carrying Iowa.

00:31:09.380 He's carrying Arizona.

00:31:11.100 I actually think he's ahead in Pennsylvania.

00:31:13.040 I've seen three polls that I trust that show him up in Pennsylvania.

00:31:16.560 Very important to know what poll you're looking at. 0.98

00:31:18.680 Most of these public polls are pure junk. 0.97

00:31:22.500 They don't know what they're doing. 0.99

00:31:23.700 They don't poll correctly.

00:31:24.720 They don't ask the right questions.

00:31:26.080 And they don't reach the right people.

00:31:28.060 So, and I think that the fracking, get rid of fossil fuels by Biden are just devastating.

00:31:35.780 And particularly in states like Pennsylvania and Texas and New Mexico.

00:31:40.320 Which polls do you trust?

00:31:41.100 You said it's important you trust the right poll.

00:31:42.940 The poll I trust the most is Trafalgar, which was the most accurate in 16 and most accurate in 18.

00:31:51.480 And to give an example of how bad polls can be, Quinnipiac, which is a very respectable establishment poll, had both the Republican Senate and governor candidates in Florida losing by seven points the day before the election.

00:32:05.380 They both won the election.

00:32:08.880 Got it.

00:32:09.540 That's very good to know.

00:32:10.900 Newt, thank you so much for bringing the guest on by Tim.

00:32:12.680 Appreciate your time.

00:32:13.880 Glad to do it.

00:32:14.620 Take care.

00:32:15.140 Bye-bye.

00:32:15.360 So, they say Newt Gingrich is one of the smartest men in politics the last 30, 40 years because he's studied this game.

00:32:20.800 He's been in the game.

00:32:21.620 He knows the people.

00:32:22.880 And he's got different perspectives he can give you.

00:32:25.120 I'm curious to know what you took away from the interview.

00:32:27.640 Comment below.

00:32:28.100 I want to hear your thoughts.

00:32:28.920 And then if you watch this interview and you enjoyed it, there's another interview I did a few weeks ago with Dinesh D'Souza on his new documentary.

00:32:35.660 If you've not watched it, click over here to watch that documentary interview that we did together.

00:32:40.320 And if you've not subscribed to the channel, please do so.

00:32:42.380 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:32:43.580 Take care.

00:32:44.040 Bye-bye.

00:32:45.360 Bye-bye.

Valuetainment - October 30, 2020

Newt Gingrich Predicts 2020 Election

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