Newt Gingrich
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148 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Newt Gingrich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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than hide from the underlying realities of what Trump is doing to fundamentally get America back on track. And if they can find some story, any story, that lets them avoid covering the successful things, they're going to go there. So the best thing that the Trump team can do, in my judgment, is just shut up. Say, we understand it was a mistake. Clearly it was a mistake.
We have an investigation underway. And... When we know enough, we will report to you. But until then, we have nothing more to say. Just move on.
Well, I mean, it should be a real investigation.
Okay. They should assign somebody competent with whatever team they need to find out One, why were they using Signal? Two, who put the chat together? Three, how did this particular person end up on the chat? And four, why did they have a procedure which didn't surface this person the minute they were on the chat? All those things need to be done, but I think...
That's clearly important for the country and for the next three and a half years of the Trump administration. But there's no point in trying to do that out in public until you know something. And frankly, it should be real. It should be serious. They shouldn't just cover it up. They should methodically, seriously understand what happened.
share with the American people what they're going to do to fix it in the future and move on. But wallowing in it and getting involved in who said what to who, you know, and did you really put it on? Did your staff person put it on? How did it get there? That kind of stuff, the media loves, gives them something to talk about that doesn't help Trump.
But first of all, the average American will get tired of it pretty quickly. And I think The things that Trump is doing and the things that the House and Senate Republicans are doing are so big, so historic that we want to get back to communicating those.
Right. And Trump understands this instinctively. That's why he said it was a glitch and he was going back on offense. And then unfortunately, several of his team went up and testified in the Hill and didn't quite have their act together.
And I think that's where you want to have a single sentence or two sentence answer that basically explains why you're not explaining until you know what you're going to say, which they clearly don't currently know. But I mean, Trump has had an astonishing run. From everything we're seeing right now, he's likely to continue to have an astonishing run.
You look just at what they've done on the border. I mean, in my wildest days, I would never have thought you could control the border that quickly. And it was just literally overnight. Everything Biden had done collapsed. People around the world figured out they're not going to get in. Illegal immigration has literally collapsed. The amount of investments being announced in the United States is
are breathtaking. So you have a lot of good things happening. And frankly, the fight over the shape and structure of the federal bureaucracy is a fight that people know we have to have. In our project that you know about, Charlie, the America's New Majority Project, our polling last month indicated that 82% of the country
think that Washington is corrupt and they think that it makes it harder to solve things because it's corrupt. So if the president will go out there and be the advocate of honest, clear reform, and if that's the basic theme that Elon Musk and Doge take, they're going to have huge popular support for fixing this thing.
And people are going to accept that there's going to be some turmoil, there's going to be some confusion, but that on balance, it's really a good thing.
Well, I mean, first of all, the left failed You know, you're a young person. You're out there. You're thinking, what can I do? Can I afford to buy a car? Can I afford to buy a house? Can I find a job? Do I think the future is going to get better?
And under Biden and Harris, every signal to young people was that their lives were going to be poorer, more miserable, with fewer choices than their parents. And so at one level, they're saying this isn't working. Second, I think that there's a common sense when you get into some of the weirder issues that Should men compete in women's sports, for example?
I think there's a common sense view among younger Americans that this is just stupid. Why would you, in fact, even think that this makes any sense? And so they haven't been brainwashed enough to believe in things that aren't believable. And they're faced with a Bernie Sanders AOC Democratic Party, which is still moving to the left. despite all the election evidence and everything else we've seen.
And I think that that means that younger people, plus I think younger people have a deeper sense of how really corrupt and out of touch the government is and that it really needs profound change.
I was going to say, I actually think there are two wings of the Democratic Party. And I think you're likely to see the beginning of sort of a civil war between those two wings. If you watch what happened with Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, he finally decided as a practical matter that he didn't believe the Democrats ought to be the party that closed government.
So from the standpoint of the left, he sold out. Now, he took about 10 senators with him, and they're now facing really angry crowds back home. And so what you have is the people who are trying to accommodate reality are being isolated from, if you look at the AOC Bernie Sanders roadshow, they're getting huge crowds.
So the intensity of the hard left, which is doubling and tripling down, is growing, while the people in the middle who know that this is not going to work are finding themselves squeezed by the reality that the energy and the money and the drive and the Democratic Party is all on the hard left, and that if you try to be rational and moderate, you're almost certainly going to risk a primary election.
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