that is where newt gingrich comes in.nificance of cable television, significance of having a cable tv showing the house floor sharing everything. he was an outsider, irritant to republican leaders. congress was a very different place back then too. there were real authentic moderate republicans, liberal republicans. lots of them. gingrich took charge of a small band of conservative back benchers. the mission was ideological, but tactical. no more compromising with democrats. just open partisan warfare. this was their vision. it was a vision that resonated powerfully with the conservative grassroots. and c-span was integral to the gingrich game plan. house rules allowed for something called special order speeches. so members could take to the floor after hours and hold court on any subject they wanted. no one ever did it. what was the point of droning on to an empty chamber? but when c-span turned its cameras on, that changed the equation. the chamber was still empty. for the first time ever, any american will cable televi

in the efforts, newt gingrich, your name gets thrown out all the time by people. you said look, the last shutdown they got it sorted because in the end, and you told me this, bill clinton told me this, you got in the room and just did the deal. what is going on here? i've had a tweet already from something saying just a bunch of egomaniacs, that is all they are. democrat, republican, get rid of them all. that is what americans are starting to think. >> sure, you can hardly blame them. the fact is, when the president who is presumably the leader of the american government, and now the opening line is "i will not negotiate." now, bill clinton never said anything like that. he would say i'm really mad at you and don't think you should do this, but let's talk about it. >> he should negotiate, because at the moment, the ted cruz element the -- element of the republicans say we will only negotiate if it is cutting the obama care -- >> well, that is the beginning of conversation. he is saying i will never negotiate, they're saying give us everything. that is how you star

in the efforts, newt gingrich, your name gets thrown out all the time by people. you said look, the last shutdown they got it sorted because in the end, and you told me this, bill clinton told me this, you got in the room and just did the deal. what is going on here? i've had a tweet already from something saying just a bunch of egomaniacs, that is all they are. democrat, republican, get rid of them all. that is what americans are starting to think. >> sure, you can hardly blame them. the fact is, when the president who is presumably the leader of the american government, and now the opening line is "i will not negotiate." now, bill clinton never said anything like that. he would say i'm really mad at you and don't think you should do this, but let's talk about it. >> he should negotiate, because at the moment, the ted cruz element the -- element of the republicans say we will only negotiate if it is cutting the obama care -- >> well, that is the beginning of conversation. he is saying i will never negotiate, they're saying give us everything. that is how you star

reisch on the left, and newt gingrich on the right. and why there is an attempted right wing coup against the president. we'll answer your questions tonight live, tweet us, and with washington in a straight jacket, who better than to show us how to get through an impossible situation. chriss angel, showing us how to get out of a straight jacket. and again, from john mccain, he said from the beginning of this, the americans will blame the gop for the shutdown and things are no better with the debt deadline looming next week. senator mccain, it has been more than a week with the shutdown, and many are asking when is washington going to get its act together and get this sorted. do you know the answer? >> i don't not, piers, but we may reach the point where the markets tell us to come to an agreement, and that would be, of course, when we start to default on our debts. i hope that is not the case. because i think the markets will react. and obviously, that will be bad for almost all americans who have stocks in the stock market. but right

one nine hundred ninety five and ninety six government shutdowns former speaker of the house newt gingrich who has some strong words for washington next politicking with larry king. on the ticket i'm larry king a lot going on in washington we'll go straight to capitol hill to talk to someone at the center of all congressman david schweikert republican of arizona thanks for joining us thanks for being an old time fan of my old radio show as he told us before we went on yeah it anytime and you tell them you know you had some amazing guests during those years and i learned a lot they were great days david what's going on you get is the house going to pass what the senate's going to approve that's my guess now it may require a mixture of republicans and democrats and a lot of people moving away from their previous positions of no negotiations but you know we're up against the deadline we've had this sort of dance before. one of my concerns is is this sort of the new normal. are we walking into a world now where you know if we only have two percent g.d.p. growth are we going to be having to hav

gingrich railed against mr. clinton's treatment of him. at a breakfast, he said he was insulted and appalled that mr. clinton had refused to invite republican leaders to the front of the plane. mr. gingrich said, where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy? and thus was born one of the most famous newspaper front pages of all time. this was the cover of the "new york daily news," three days into the 1995 government shutdown. "cry baby -- newt's tantrum, he closed down the government because clinton made him sit at back of plane." and this is not something the press made up, right? this was the republican's own explanation of why they had to do what they had to do. newt gingrich says he sent the shutdown bill to president clinton specifically because of the bad manners, because his ego was bruised, was he felt disrespected. not realizing how bad that sounded to admit until it landed on the cover of the "daily news" with him drawn in diapers, republicans seemed sort of surprised by the backlash. but the cry baby hurting

joining me, newt gingrich, the co-host of the brilliant new show.nd during the last shutdown, i feel like i'm bringing ali and frazier back. >> i'm ali. >> of course you are, dick. let's talk about the shutdown, newt gingrich said earlier it was not a crisis, but surely most american people would imagine that any shutdown of the government constitutes a crisis, right? >> no, i'm opposed to the shutdown, i think it is stupid. i think the republicans should fight over the debt limit where they can win. but the shutdown, there will be no sonic boom going off at midnight. a percentage are entitlement, they are not affected. they get paid anyway. this is only about a third of the budget, it means, for example, you can use your passport to travel, you can't get a new one, you will get your social security checks, you can't newly apply, you can't get a new gun permit, the national partial parks will be closed. we felt disappointed frankly, at the lack of the shutdown. have you any idea as a great american, a historian, what that means if the statue of libe

one other thing newt you say we go back to the gingrich revolution in retrospect was it a success well in the sense that we created a houseman public a majority the lasted for twelve years for the first time really since in over seventy years we balanced the budget we reformed welfare we had the first tax cut in seventeen years for the economy grew dramatically and we reduce regulations i think in that sense it was it was a success and it didn't fundamentally change the direction of history but remember when i left here in the middle of four consecutive years of a balanced budget and we were actually projecting the paying off of the federal debt it was a remarkable moment i think bill clinton certainly deserves half the credit but i think the house republicans deserve the other half and one of the thing in the overall picture of things here an optimist or a pessimist on the total optimist i don't see how you can be an american believe in american history look at the american people and not be an optimist i think it just is it's a part of who we are. newt as always thank you very much l

but bob dole with newt gingrich right there and that's what people saw.ed in their leadership. >> eleanor, take us to the nuts and bolts of medicare spending and what was the 1995 shutdown about? >> well, the president had endorsed a balanced budget in the spring of that year, and so the debate was not about whether the budget would be balanced, but now and the republicans had cut backs in medicare and so it became a confrontation over whose values do you support. the republicans versus the white house. and so in retrospect, it looks look a knignice setup for presi clinton. i was at the breakfast three days into the shutdown when speaker gingrich confessed that one of the reasons behind the shutdown was that he and senator dole felt snubbed because they were on this long plane flight to israel for prime minister yitzhak rabin's funeral, he was assassinated and the president stayed up front with presidents carter and george h.w. bush and never summoned them to the front for negotiations. and they had to exit the plane by the back ramp. tony blankly, who wa

on the right newt gingrich. in "crossfire", congressman jan schakowsky, who supports obama care, and congressman tim murphy, who opposes it, obama care, under fire tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the crossfire tonight representatives jan schakowsky and tim murphy. people seem surprised i've drawn a parallel between nixon and the dishonesty of this administration, but let's look at what happened in the last few days. a white house tweet saying, quote, nothing in obama care forces people out of their health care. that's patently not true. today the secretary testify health and human services said the obama care website hadn't crashed, which is so wrong it's painful. she also alleged she's barred by law from enrolling in obama care. mo are on that in a moment. cnn is it reporting the administration is pressuring insurance executives to keep quiet, which would be an illegal abuse of power, if it turns out to be true. which part of t

it was also newt gingrich, speaker gingrich, who was caught lying to congressional investigators lookingcharges of his ethical wrongdoing. his colleagues voted overwhelmingly, 395-28, to reprimand him. pressure from his own party then prompted him to resign. yet even after his flame-out, even after his recent bizarre race for the presidency bankrolled with money from admiring oligarchs, even after new allegations about his secret fundraising for right-wing candidates, gingrich remains the darling of a fawning amnesic media. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> on cnn.com the other day he issued a call to arms to his fellow bomb-throwers, "don't cave is shutdown." at least let's name this for what it is, sabotage of the democratic process. secession by another means. and let's be clear about where such reckless ambition leads. as surely as night must follow day, the alternative to democracy is worse. at our website, billmoyers.com, there's an exclusive video interview with environmental activist bill mckibben. that and a lot more are at billmoyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see you

on the right newt gingrich. in abandi harris, a republican congressman, who is also a doctor, fixing what ails obama care. is it a hopeless case? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm stephanie cutter on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the crossfire tonight, ann felipic, and andy harris. obama care is a train wreck. the problems are so widespread and so obvious, some people think it's hopeless. i've joined those who are calling for secretary sebelius to be fired. today even president obama tried to tamp down the anxiety. >> nobody's madder than me, which means it's going to get fixed. >> but, you know, the problem is that this creates a general sense the anxiety. if the federal government after 3 1/2 years can't get a website right, why would you believe that they're also going to get the doctor right, they're going to get the procedure right medically. this is a really complicated process. don't you agree that this has been a much more disappointing start than you had hoped for

i'm stephanie cutter. >> from the right, i'll newt gingrich. us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront." spying on manager's best friends. today spies finally went on offense. >> some of this reminds me a lot of the classic movie, casa blanca. my god, there's gambling going on here. >> plus a grisly discovery at two water treatment plantss. >> they discovered a human

gingrich gave a little bit, and we got out of this. the problem i have with this crisis, everything is blaming republicans, but it takes two to tango, and you can't negotiate with a president who has said repeatedly for the last three weeks he will not budge, he will not move an inch. that is not negotiation, that is not compromise, and that is not getting us out of this crisis. >> steve, let me distinguishes 1995-1996. i was there. that was not an attempt by republicans to stop or mac or change a rule of law. that was a disagreement between republicans and democrats over a about the. right now we have the republican party cease we have shut down the entire government. we have not going to called the affordable act on the books, already signed into law, already affirmed, unless that law is changed or delayed or amended or rescinded. that's not the way in a democracy we work. that is dangerous. that is playing with fire, unethical. i'm sure the framers of the constitution did not consider that would be done by one party, and you know so

newt gingrich with a historical advantage.y much for coming in. >> right. >>> you can always follow what's going on here in the situation room. you can tweet me. you can tweet the sho show @cnnsitroom. crossfire starts right now. >>> tonight on crossfire, tough talk. >> let's stop the excuses. >> and calls for more talk. >> the president said today was if there's unconditional surrender by republicans, he'll sit down and talk to us. that's not the way our government works. >> when will somebody listen? on the left, stephanie cutter of the on the right, s.e. cupp in the crossfire. bill burton who supports the president's refusal to negotiate and david limbaugh who says republicans should force him to the tabl. more talk or more action? tonight on crossfire. >>> welcome to crossfire. i'm stephanie kurt on the left. i'm s.e. cupp on the right. president obama and the democrats spent the day trying to paint the republicans as extremists. i think it's other way around, insisting he won't negotiate on the debt ceiling? something tha

as you mentioned before, newt gingrich and bill chont sat down and worked it out.onight we asked for a conference committee to say let's conference with the senate. that's how we've worked things out when jefferson wrote the rules in about conferences between the house and senate when we get to an impasse, you sit down and have a conference. we're going through the process tonight to say we've done three different proposals over in the senate. all those rejected by the senate. now we hear harry reid says he's going to table that and not even going to meet 0 discuss these things. as my colleague mentioned, we've sent 45 things over to the senate which they just ignore everyone. at some point we have to sit down and talk about these things, no the just send things over to the senate one after another and pretend they didn't occur. there are real concerns and real problems with the affordable care act. there are real issues that have to be addressed there. >> here's the thing though. robert, here's the thing. nobody disputes that. everyone knows it's a huge program an

i think the difference between the gingrich shutdown and this one is that the gingrich shutdown happened in the shadow of a big republican sweep in '94. and it happened at a moment when conservative commentators and the conservative movement was actually pretty united around the idea that this was a confrontation worth fighting. the big difference today is that again i was just defending sort of the broader strategy. but i'm not going to defend the specific shutdown strategy. it's very hard to find prominent republicans who actually honestly will. >> can't you see the out on this, though? it just seems to me fairly clear. you take a timeout for 30 days. pass a short term c.r. harry reid names conferrees. >> what do you want the president to give all they're asking at this point is to figure out a way to defund -- keep cutting back and try to nibble away at obama care. >> all john boehner need right now is for harry reid to give him something. if harry reid did the medical device tax, a tax that many democrats would actually like to see repealed, if he was given that this would end tomorr

former house speaker newt gingrich is the cohost of cnn's "cross-fire." we want to welcome "wall street journal" columnist and editorial board member kimberley strassel. this is her first "face the nation." we're glad to have you. and rounding out our foursome, someone who has been here many, many times the chief correspondent of the "washington post," dan balz. let me just throw this out there. does anybody think a deal will be cut in the next 48 hours or are woo headed for default? mr. speaker, why don't you start. >> i don't think we're headed to default, but i doubt a deal will be cut in the next 48 hours. it's much too complicated, and i think that the very fact you only had reid and mcconnell meet yesterday for the first time in 17 days tells you how big a mess this is, and how much the personal hostility is a part of this. >> schieffer: i was very struck this morning, john mccain and chuck schumer sitting here across the table, two people who are very different ideologically, but they're both smart people. they're people of good will. and you sit h

on the right newt gingrich. the associated producer of the movie "blackfish" and a wildlife trainer and conservationist. free the whales or put them on display? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> and i'm dan jones on the left. >> in the "crossfire" tonight. tim zimmerman. he wrote a magazine article that inspired a film called "blackfish" and greg who is a wildlife trainer and conservationist. listen, tonight cnn is airing a film, it's a tough one. it's about a woman, a trainer. she was actually killed by one of the orcas at seaworld. as a dad i've taken my kid to these big aquariums. i always had a great time. i thought it was wonderful. you're seeing these big animals up close, so i was really shocked when i learned how risky these jobs are for the trainers, and how terrible the conditions are for these magnificent creatures after they get captured. look at this clip from the film "blackfish." >> we started having difficulty getting them into a small steel bo

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newt gingrich and van jones are here. romney put out a statement today saying that what's working in massachusetts should never have been used as some sort of national platform, if you will. he said health reform is best crafted by states with bipartisan support and input from its employers as we did without raising taxes phasing it in without seeing the disruptions we're seeing nationally. >> first of all, if you study carefully romney care, it's the second affordable health care in the united states. >> people in massachusetts like it. >> sure, and they pay for it, but you couldn't extend to the rest of the country. >> should individual states have done what massachusetts did, as opposed -- >> they were drifting in that direction. you look at vermont, which has adopted a single payer system, totally different than anyone else. >> you have romney hugging romney racare. he spent two years running from romney care, now he's promoting it. that said, romney care started out unpopular and glitchy. now it's popular and works w