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enterprise for the next generation. these are shaped in great part by the leading conservative by the resources and our guests today is one key leader to play a critical float over three decades. speaker of the u.s. house of representativeses, a longtime ally to the american foundation regularly attending conferences before and during his time in congress and from our macon ranch center in santa barbara filming one of their many documentaries. we are honored to hose young america foundation review in virginia itt is no surprise that he reachespe young people with the role that makes america great.

so history and environmental studies at westridge a newt gingrich is a teacher who did not stop teaching when he left. first in congress in 1978 and then there 20 yearsf in 1995 elected because the house he was there through 1999. in his first speech he told the young audience he was taught about public service at an early age to dedicatete their life for freedom and people i have an obligation to do my share. he is well known as the architect that led conservatives to victory in 1994 along with the u.s. house of representatives for the first time in a decade under his leadership he passed the first balanced budget in a generation and as he rose to

the leadership ring he was committed to inspiring and educating people throughout the 1990s and then he held a press conference to over 400 students on capitol hill covered by every major news network. following his time in congress he launches center for health transformation and served as chairman through the 2012 presidential bid as an author is published 36 books including 13 fiction new york times fiction bestsellers. and now is a fox news contributor. time magazine named him man of the year that exceptional leaders and encourages that category of exceptional we wholeheartedly agree at young america foundation please help

me to join in welcoming newt gingrich. [applause] and i thank you very, very much. i am glad you are here who was also an intern with us. we are glad that we are here to talk about it gingrich a production. young america foundation tells a very important role let me ask you a question. for those of you who are students at the present time, how many of you would say there is a liberal bias on your campus? [laughter] anybody here would say there is not?

[inaudible] and i got the largest school that i have heard that does not have a bias. it had find out why young america foundation matters part of the reason i wrote this is because we are in a i long-term struggle for those of you that are in the middle of classes how many of you have a professor if you gave it directly conservative answer on your test they would give you a lower grade? have you had professors who will markk you down giving the wrong answer by definition? >> it was outsourced of the universities as they became her liberal the news media follow that pattern. and it is from the news media

that we have today. how many of you on election day 2016 thought hillary would probably win? this is a conservatee -- conservative audience 9 that 90% of the hands went up. what aboutut trump? one or two? so this is part of whyrs i wrote trumps america because the book understanding trump is because he iss so different that they say i don't understand what he's doing or how he does it but they focus on d trump. but they of weathered over the last year pretty well and it is relevant because large

parts of who he is hasn't changed. but as they watch what is goingli on as a great deal is in trunk has a personality that things happening in america. in looking at the larger picture in order to fully understand the trump presidency. that is why trumps america is different. i have a theory why the left is so hostile. it goes back to election day. think about all of your friends who are liberals. 8:00 o'clock p.m. about to pop the champagne and break the glass ceiling and get a left-wing supreme court justice. with those policies on the left with weakness overseas and raise taxes. life was good. and two hours later.

they are suddenly staring at each other. not only will she not be president but that means donald j trump will be president. that was a traumatic event comparable to a psychosis with the intensity of the speed of change was soas great that most liberals today suffer from a political variant of ptsd and the part of trumps is between every morning so these people go to bed and spend the night trying not to think of the nightmare (and they wake up in the morning and they are about toto be with a happy new day than they see the tweet and they realize he is still

president. they cannot get over it is like groundhogg day. and that comes back again and again and again. that is why there is an extraordinary level of anger but there is a deep personal part because in the middle ages he would usurp the kingship that shouldn't be there legitimately. of course he ignores all of that what people don't appreciate is he grew up in the new york media market the toughest nastiest most competitive media market in the country and by 1985 he would get coverage every day and he likes coverage. he has spent the last 33 years fighting.

people he will get worn out. no. he wakes up in the morning looking for a fight. he enjoys itha and games energy from it. that is why there is this noise level up here. but under that there are huge things happening and a couple of examples are obvious. we now have the lowest flat unemployment rate in american history. using liberals wouldhi be thrilled because now this means this group that they express deep concern for now have more job opportunities than ever now a report that there are more vacancies now than people looking for work. you would think that is good. the federal reserve in atlanta estimate this quarter the economy will grow 4.8%. if that happened that's not only twice as fast as ever

under obama but going back into the reagan range. part of that segment that is a very good professional economist who said size of the investment structure is coming down the road the number of companies now o investing. i was at a canadian firm two weeks ago and he said virtually every company in canada looks atmp moving people to the united states because the new tax code makes us the most competitive country in the world. you are better off tax wise to be here than anywhere in the world. t you will see a huge amount of money coming into the u.s. to create jobs but at the same time you have the deregulation process. the trump team has deregulated more than all the other presidents in world war ii

combined. so that liberates businesses to invest but then you start to see the economy take off because the deregulation process and will that say go out and increase your business to hire more people the government will not harass you or try to be out of business. you are already starting down that road.

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it is designed to carry a rocket up to 50000 feet then launch it to make flying in faith the same convenience of getting on an airplane to say i will call aheadd then you don't have to go through training -- training to houston. the e third example is the owner of tesla was a south african but has now become an american

one of his projects is called basic echo mom --dash 8x and he wants to have a handful of astronauts simply train he mean people like us to show up one morning 45 tee5 but the biggest problem is cost so he would use a rocket o once. so imagine if every time you took off on an airplane that was the only flight that it would make and how expensive commercial flying would be. now youof reduce cost radically that he is been designing his rocket survey will take off and return. you may have seen that you two video's goal is to have every

rocket usedle at least ten times that would take 40% out of the now suddenly there is a different cost rupture with different opportunities. the person who is a real example of the wright brothers and henry ford is jeffplhe be s. he has been with these fanatics as he was 122 years old and got rich for the purpose of going into space amazon did better than was expected and now the richest man in the world at present i sat with him a couple months ago he writes a personal check for $1 billion every year. no federal hearings and no regulations no investigations. he hires engineers. no nasa bureaucracy or long-term planning.

by the next year or the year after they will have a rocket called the john glenn which is heavy lift a and reusable which will literally put 5500 pounds into space than the rocket will come back down toe be refueled and take another 5500 pounds and the goal is to do that every day one flight per day. this is a revolution. i use this example because it is happening around the government not because of the government. nasa provides certain facilitiesac but the truth is these four entrepreneurs are just doing it and not sitting around long planning sessions. although elon musk has the most government support but there isle a firm called you

density that is the online learning system that invented the google self driving car and taught at stanford with advanced computing and offer that online had 402 were registerednt and 53000 people signed up online. which made the stanford faculty pretty mad because they didn't pay for tuition. a considerable number of them finished the course at the fight over the top stanford student was number 400. 399 people online did better

there was a realization that as much as he liked his lectures they were not the most effective way to learn. the most effective way was to have a relationship to ask the computer over and over if you don't get it because the computer doesn't get bored.ev it's very hard to ask a professor four or five times the same question. you get intimidated even if the professor is willing to bet you are not. the computer does not care. so he built tee9 udacity. and university of california hated it because it was a threat.

so whoever is in the last cycle doesn't get excited when the next cycle, he had the courage when they said you cannot offer this material and university of california system. he said fine.n he started design contracts in places like google, apple, amazon, facebook that if you take his courses and pass for the first of hiring you they are certified by the company. so they say i can get a normal degree or i can get a degree that google recognizes for the purposes of hiring me? i will try that. so what is the beginning of the future. if we go through artificial intelligence and robotics so many job people will need to beo reeducated we need to think

of new and creative ways of learning for people can continuously upgrade their marketablehehe skills otherwise the system doesn't work. from my perspective you see lots of changes coming down the road. t r. there are 90 different efforts working on alzheimer's that is the biggest public health costs $20 billion between now and 2050. it is a huge area. so there is a serious effort underway to develop a non- addictive pain killer to replace all of the opioid that is effective with no addiction. that probably will come online in two or three years because they understand the biology but i look around i see all these opportunities coming down the road. then you see the left.

they want control whether a government run health system, school system, go down the list. from the left standpoint it isn't a fun and happy optimistic world it is terrifying. what if people just went out to be happy and didn't need a bureaucracy? what if they didn't have to have somebody? so in the sense that hold worldview to create enough new jobs is very threatening if you arere the left and second the idea to make america great again applies to everybody so you end up with any american of any background having an opportunity which violate that

we should not be considered as individuals all of you should be broken into groups and then decide what group you should w belong to and which group you should be mad at. it is a model of devices in this and taking the country apart. not putting it back to together in texas a poll came out last week senator cruise is now carrying the latino vote governor added is tied with the latino vote they have a much higher percentage than from four years ago because if youth have the lowest rate in history people talk to each other and then they say what if it's working? maybe it is a good idea so there is a lot of things going on that really represent a profound change.

understanding trump with trade inform policy, i think it is very funny that the european or canadian have no idea how the meeting will go today but they decided they will gang up on trump with the g7 that is funny because the fasces growing economy in the g7 is the united states and this happened to reagan by h the way his very first meeting with all of these guys they basically treated him like a kid who didn't know what he was doing. when hee came back years later the fastest economy in the world now they want him centerstage. fastest growing economy so you might think the other leaders would say what you doing right?

but he pulled out of the paris agreement and he pulled out of the iranian agreement and with the terra for has been started i know canada and fans on -- france picked a fight with him and he came right back at them that canadians have 140% tariff on american farm goods. and said you want to pick a fight? economy depends on us very heavily. so the french economy still performs an t8 has tried very hard to reform france but is having a hard time but the french people are not that thrilled about being reformed. but the railroad workers

striking two days a week for months just to be a happy so imagine the chaos that. so then they decide they will lecture us on the economy. but trump understood something very profound from world war ii from 2016 we used the american economy toca prop up so if we needed your help so for a very long time it made perfect sense of the soviet union was our major competitor because we were half the world economy we are the one country that had not significant any and we could afford to be generous.

over the last 25 years that has all disappeared we agreed to work with the chinese with theo hopes they would become part of a rule-based modern system. the director of national intelligence said two years ago the chinese stole $460 billion of intellectual property and one year. . . . .

if we put ourselves first we are formidable and a little bit frightening. trump has a deep belief in his of the body to learn and negotiate and one of the things people in the washington press corps that doesn't get as he

listens to everybody. so when he was in saudi arabia he was with him after three days of. i wonder what i should do about this to the staffers, three from the brookings institution and the american enterprise institute inviting a paper so they all feel important fighting over the paper for seven weeksda

and finally his answer is i think i will call the president of south korea and talk to the prime ministers of japan. this is a guy that is not afra afraid. he used to say be not afraid, not have courage. i do not know what is going to happen in singapore. i think it is possible that they will have a very successful meeting. i think it is also possible that that morning at about breakfast time they will decide that it isn't going to work and that is the range of options. options. we did a movie earlier thatha he shot called rendezvous with

destiny o the life of ronald reagan. in iceland there is a little house where they met in 1987 and there is a great scene in the movie straight out of the news reels where ronald reagan was holding out for missile defense. gorbachev was offering everything. we can have armss limitations treaties and reagan kept saying i'm not giving it so they said that we are not going to give you anything. so, they walk outside and there is a scene where ronald reagan, not normally this aggressive, is in his face talking to him

saying you database, you made a mistake, you are going to regret this and it's clear that he is angry. i was in congress at the time and all of the people came back and said this is a terrible mistake. all he had to do is give up the missile defense thing. six months later gorbachev came to washington and agreed to everything he wanted and gave up on trying to stop missile defense. ndi think trump understands that model. you don't have to say yes. the other guy that has a problem so it's interesting to see how he negotiates next week. you are practicing to be journalists, here is your

chance. going to become an exciting moment here. you havee your first victim rigt here. you have to be more assertive. [laughter] many that you mentioned sound a lot of their success in previous years of the administration so i wonder how that correlates to trump. >> the government hadn't been able to screw up yet. i would argue most of america is still relatively healthy, but the impact of the high taxes

slowed everything down. they had the current tax environment we would be 50% further down the road than we are right now. right here and then we will come back over there. >> when i talk to people about how it's at its lowest time in history the common response is that his and trump doing that is obama. >> i would say it is astonishing that we had eight years where they never got got a growth rae above 2%. it was told it was impossible to get to 3% and there would be a depression and we were told we should get used to the new normal. they show up saying people

shouldn't be complaining. it is miserable and ourbl own fault. a recession is when your brother-in-law is unemployed and a depression is when you are unemployed.

what is the difference in revenue and job creation between the 2% growth and what's currently happening. trump claims that he has added $7 trillion of his policies he wouldn't qualify with the policies because it is so much fun to say i added $7 trillion. if this continues we have a lot of things to make this continue but if it does you will see the

kanye west reaction. i am confident that if they work out an agreement in singapore and they walk out front and announce they are giving up all of their nuclear weapons by wednesday evening, the headline will be a dramatic effort despite the personality. >> if you look at president trumpbackground, he's been liberal. he used to be pro-choice, he used to be in favor of socialized medicine.

after the presidential election he accused mitt romney as being too conservative or heartless and now he is pro-life who wants to overturn obamacare. what do you think accounts foror this change in policy and production on the part of ask >> trump is not a conservative. he is the most effective anti-liberal in history but it's not because he is conservative, he applies common sense. he tells a story about a woman that he got to know who had been advised to have an abortion and

his wife was with when telling the story. he would also can't wait legalizingco marijuana. you can't assume he's going to walk in the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. originally ronald reagan was an fdr democrat and as large as 1948 made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey when he was the anti-communist liberal running in minnesota. we tend to forget how bad it was. he became an anti-communist independent when he married nancy her father was a right-wing medical doctor and gradually through the conversations begin to be more and more anti-tax and was hired by general electric. a wonderful book you all should read called the education of ronald reagan.

it's about the tears that he spent at general electric and had as a mentor the general relations. i worked with him for years and when i read this book i understood what he was doing for the first time. through the blu the blue-collar audiences with q-and-a andit picture taking by the time he'd been interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas that the guy that hired him was a very conservative person and he wouldn't fly back then. he refused to fly. he had a very bad airplane flight and i think they got caught in a thunderstorm and he decided that was it. he didn't fly again until the fall of 65 he gets a call one

evening from his brother in san francisco who says there's a group of guys that would like to have breakfast with with you in the morning andhe talk about support for governor. he said i can't get from here to san francisco this past. you get to decide if you are going to be governor and hung up on him. >> the first time he gets on an airplane which tells you how and vicious he was, but for the period he is working he is riding a train. he didn't gamble and they keep giving him conservative books. so, he's reading conservative economics and trump didn't do anyat of that. he made money, invented things like the apprentice, the best-selling tie in america.

he doesn't drink. it's not like he was hanging around being wasteful. he is a business guy, not a politician but how badly run the country was in his own ego that he could do a better job because he got up that morning and thought i am donald trump, of course he could do a better job otherwise he wouldn't be donald trump and that is what propelled him. when he makess a decision, one s a big decision for two and a half years he said it was a bad deal and i had europeans approaching me a tour they finally ended the agreement and said what can we do. you either come up with a better deal or he's going to kill it. you have two and a half years.

it's not like a secret. cutting taxes, deregulation, conservative judges. when you get down to little things, he is totally a predictable. he's basically a free spirit on things and you have to see it that way but your observation is right. it's an interesting question because trump evolved in response to this reality and in part as a response to running as the populists in tha populist i6 other people over time he realized that he was going to put together a base that wasn't just personality, he needed a frame of two applied to this large bloc of people and the two came together.

one of you has to go way over here now. thank you for coming. i met for dinner with former national security advisor the other night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you were the speaker of the house you wrote a contract with america and seeing to have an uncanny ability to work with president clinton to get things done. fast forward and it seems congress is in a perpetual state of gridlock. what changes can we make and do you think this is an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> we are not in a perpetual state of gridlock we passed the largest tax cut in history and a number ofde other bills but

there's a deep partisan divide and at least two parts to what's going on. the gap is much bigger as i described in trump's america we are in the middle of a cultural war and i need that literally. these are profound differences about the nature of america and i think that makes it a real challenge. second, you have to have a personality that you can deal with. i personally would have had no idea how to deal with barack obama because i think that he was okay. he got up every morning knowing the greatest t person of the planet just got up and he spent all day with the brightest person on the planet and he would treat with contempt. there was no way to break through. i talked to john boehner when he wasea speaker and if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because i think

that by personality obama was hard to deal with. clinton is an astonishing human being. about a third of the time he would lie that you've got to get used to that. that. it was part of the process and you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are not. when i had a couple of occasions that they buried you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve, this is just the business that you are in. the democrats right now don't want to work with trump. their goal is to fail. i'm delighted that they will keep the senate in that they have no interest of being

provocative and in that case they just run over. i would have figured out issues that made it expensive in such a way the leadership was constantly under pressure because about a third of them are saying i can stay with him i will get beat back if i go home. that's the kind of pressure that breaks apart the partisanship. if i were a legislative leader today i would recognize you have to spend a lot of time with him and listen to him a lot and try to sort through the end wear a seatbelt because every once in a while he will do something that you didn't expect a so you need

a seatbelt just to get through a. >> university of florida. you were talking about how the deregulated governments are. how do you see them shrinking in the next couple of years? >> they will continue the pressure to reduce the total number and continue to try to find every way to make the government faster and more efficient.

you have to handle that pretty quickly because if you are in therc middle of a cancer researh project at the institute of health, you don't want a freeze so thatt is tricky. my guess is that they will be somewhat smaller by the time theye are done with the exceptin that they are expanding homeland security and the defense system. that will continue and given the rise of getting this role but they won't have a choice. they will have to invest more in defense. >> right here in the middle. >> we are about halfway through the first term and there is still a substantial amount left.

where do you see the economy going in the second phase of the presidency? >> we divided into two parts. the first is what we have accomplished up until now and the second halintothe second hae we have to meet a. i think that if he continues down the road, with the deregulation if they continue to beue tough into trade negotiations, the economy will continue to grow pretty dramatically. i would be shocked to have three and a half or 4% of growth over the next four or five years. somebody had a great line that said this would be a great minor project for somebody that's good at math. if you assume the american economy historically for 200 years averages over 3% come as close to 3.5% compounded and you look at the last two years of bush and eat yours of obama even

though we were sort of slowly recovering it was at a rate below the historical slope so if you figure out on a compounded basis if we stayed at 3.5% what would the economy look like it gives you the gap we can grow into the wind w when we are cloo the end we can't grow much more. by historical standards we have 15 or 20% smaller than we would have been if we have grown consistently so this is what happens with ronald reagan at the last three years we were growing unbelievably fast and i think that if bush had not come out for a tax increase we would have continued to grow through the early '90s. they were slowing down the economy that helped elect bill

clinton and then the first republican house. yes ma'am. >> you talked earlier about how the age of artificial intelligence like the american workforce is going to have to be more agile. what steps do we have to take to become more agile? >> if you went back to 1800 you would have a substantial number of people engaged. he would have overwhelmingly the number engaged and if you said to them we are going to be down to the current number of 3.5% farming and we produce a massive surplus which we have to solve

somewhere because farmers are just so productive. the average person would have thought you were crazy. humans have a knack of inventing the next cycle of desirable things at a rate that is slightly faster so over time in most of the jobs they invent are better. i also believe human are right at the edge of the generation that will on average would be over whenat or if and if they wl be much healthier. it would probably be about 60 partly because people will be worn out physically. you work in a steel mill you are basically worn down. most of us nowadays you may exercise but that is a volitional thing. you are not being burned out.

henry kissinger recently is 95 and works full-time. he would be bored to death if you said we are going to make you retire, he would think you were crazy. so people are going to live longer and are going to have a greater range of options. one is we have to build online convenient systems that allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and take your courses online, i don't care. i don't think you have to go to the campus andom be available fr two hours a week the professor is available. think about how inefficient the curb instructors are.

then you have to rethink the finances. i was talking to a relative of mine who might retire from a company he's been with for 25 years. he said he never had h a pension of the system was with a matched so he had a large amount of money in his four o. one k.. we have to be thinking in terms of each of you on average would have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime i don't just mean internships. i've reinvented myself four or five times and people just learn to do that. that is my guess. >> i have an idea for the next book, and i think you are probably the most qualified to handle it. it could be the guide to

creatively handling the ever-changing nature of events and you could use a system of computers to have all the infinite numbers of possibilities that could be taking place at any given time. given the problem it is your job to come up with the most viable way of handling this problem and have a system of grading it so you can read out all of those that should never run for president. >> i haven't rethink the rules are legitimate. anybody can run and the american people get to weed them out and they don't do it because of a rational process. in the end who has the makings

to become president. there would be a whole series of crisis. the library has done this. they take the operation and take students and put them in a situation romance a you're not going to get the information they got. you have to make the decision and think it through and that is a pretty good ground rule. >> michel sanders. you touched on the fiscal conservative policy and i think a larger portion of america is starting to agree however a lot of people the need they have is the social policy. i think a lot of people can better themselves conservative

fiscally liberal. what do you think they need to do to combat and adapt to that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. you could argue the whole question for example has moved particularly in your generation towards what we call the left. on the other hand i would suggest a good abortion has moved to the right and the development of technologies that allow you to see the baby at an earlier date has had a devastating effect on the acceptability of abortion after the first 20 weeks. it is a more complicated pattern but also sometimes you build a majority around the issues and part of the art of politics is to focus on the ones you win and not lose. one of the things i'm proud of as the speaker i helped write a

method for balanced budgets of your lifetime and we will get back to that. there are ways to do itac at our real and we will do a series of short courses on how to balance the budget because the country is getting ripe for sort of reclaiming control of its destiny into being honest about what we have to get done. to go back to where we started, the foundation is important. we badly need people like yourselves who are willing to learn, debate and stand up on campuses and then later on stand up in newsrooms and other setting. it gives a likelihood of running this argument in the left but i think it takes people like yourself who are willing to do the work and have the courage to

stand up so i am honored to be here and i think you for letting me talk. [applause] thank you all for being here today and watching on c-span. for more information about the programs you can go to the website, yaf.org. the speaker will be taking photographs in the lobby so we ask that you line up and there is still food left over if you would like to line up. i know you have to get back for your next session. they have signed books inside. if you want an extra buck or two can ask your staff out there. thank you for joining us and we hope to see you again.

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shooting. it's the feeling of anxiety and uselessness love being able to do absolutely anything. there's only one other place that i felt that, the united states congress. it might sound like a funny remark but it's no joke. i've spoken with legislators across the board, representatives, mayors and not one single person is confident the one thing can be done about the 17 people who died in my school and many others who have died since. up next on booktv "after words" reporting on how russian hackers attack the presidential election interviewed