even newt gingrich said the president did absolutely the right thing today. so, he was by that time really popular, successful and surefooted president. there's no question that he would have won a third term if he could have stayed in. he left on one for him was a frustrating and sad note that remember the last thing he was trying to do was middle east peace deal. i do a pretty good job of discussing that in the book although it's very short. it was quite riveting and ere some other good versions of it out there too. literally every second down to the last second of his presidency as it was ticking away as he is doing his duty by the way to ensure the peaceful transition of power, he privately he thought the decision would be absolutely appalling but he didn't say that publicly. he didn't say was in his job. his job was to ensure the peaceful transition of power that is what he did. who is using ever he could to get middle east peace. and he got the israelis to agree to the most remarkable set of concessions, that they had never agreed to before. then he wen

. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," newt gingrich will join us in just a minute. "portraits of courage," president george w. bush's new book. hollywood elites spewing hate and attacking the president at the oscars in a pretty disgusting display. that is tonight's opening monologue. yes, another self-congratulatory award show as if they are not enough. so-called tolerant liberal celebrities gathered last night at the oscars all patting themselves on the back and predictably bashing donald trump. it did not take long for host jimmy kimmel to go after the commander-in-chief. watch this. >> this broadcast is being watched live by millions of americans and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us. i think that is an amazing thin thing. i want to say thank you to president trump. remember last year when it seems like the oscars were racist? [laughter] >> we are at the oscars, the academy awards. you are nominated. you got to come, where families are nominated. some of you will get to come up on this stage tonight and give a speech that the president

. >> neil: what does newt gingrich think about this? how do you balance out what you see happening on wall street and the ways that it's covered by the press on main street? after this. internet dial up sound hi, i'm the internet. you've got mail! what did you think i'd look like? i'm wire-y. uh, i love stuff. give me more stuff. (singing) we're no strangers to love i love that! hey, i know a bunch of people who'd like that. who's that? the internet loves what you're doing. so build a site in under an hour at godaddy. ♪...run around and desert you >> neil: i don't know in newt gingrich would like, this but long before donald trump came along, he was a pioneer about ripping the media. the thing i liked about the speaker, it was said and done and he didn't dwell about it. here's where i draw the exception, mr. speaker, if you'll indulge my comparison, donald trump can't let go of it. he spend most of his remarks at cpac reminding folks of it. he can't advance the ball. he can't do that in his speech to congress next week. so if you had to

one from newt gingrich running for president in 2011.s talking about the rumsfeld case involving guantanamo and rights of prisoners and he said i would instruct the national security officials in the gingrich administration to ignore the recent decisions of the supreme court on national security matters and enter pose the presidency in saying as the commander in chief, we will not enforce this, quote unquote. this is called department and this goes back to thomas jefferson. each department of the national government is truly independent of the others and has an equal right to decide for itself the meaning of the constitution and the cases submitted to its action. now -- >> for god sake, jeffrey, that is ridiculous. the idea -- jeff -- >> the president of the united states can ignore judgments of the court, you know, andrew jackson did it regarding -- >> abraham lincoln did it. >> yes, abraham lincoln did it during the civil war which is different from now. >> we're -- >> the idea -- >> almost. >> that a president -- i mean, much credit t

front of newt gingrich. on its game, you saw what melissa mccarthy did on saturday night. >> isn't that also how to win in terms of sean spicer's bit, part in all of this, embrace it, laugh with, go along with the laughter. i mean, do you think that he is going to change anything from here on out. as you say, he has taken on some of trump's personality. is it by force or by design? is. >> it looks like him because he is not the only one. you know, lots of people around trump are doing that. you know, he was very careful in his interview after the sketch with "extra" to point out that he also didn't find alec baldwin's impersonation of trump very funny, and it was too mean. while he said this was funny, melissa mccarthy, he is also towing some company line that "snl" cannot be mean to president trump. look, the best advice for sean is to have a sense of humor around this, embrace it. it was hilarious. just, you know -- >> i cannot wait. i cannot wait to see what he brings to that white house briefing room tom

you have to be like speaker newt gingrich and like president trump. you have to say it's going to be 100 days. you're not going to stop us. you're not going to slow us down. there maractions that you throw our way. but every day we're going to move forward with another executive order, with another piece of legislation that's signed into place, with another registration that has been overruled. notice that a day doesn't go by, lou, that one of those things doesn't happen. lou: i also notice here we are on valentine's day, and there are has been chaos in this white house from day one. now, there comes a point where we're talking about the administration of government and this white house. i want to get your view first on who do you think is leaking in this instance whether it be intelligence, whether it be the fbi, whether it be the white house itself? >> well, i think you've got a fair number of people who are very important and like to consider themselves important. you've heard me say before generally saying the people who know the most say the leas

. >> when newt gingrich who had a similar temperamental approach to speaker of the house and had to dole with something everything day, it wasn't a coincide that newt gingrich game after some of us that, suddenly, every day a different story was in the new york city. every day, there was a different story in "the washington post." it just nicked and nicked and bled him. finally, it was very easy to run him out of town. >> what do you suppose they were thinking watching this performance yesterday in places like riyadh and london? what were they thinking? >> a tale of two press conferences. in bond, they were extraordinarily nervous. in birmingham, they liked it. in riyadh, they were very nervous. in raleigh, north carolina, a lot of people were cheering at it, say, way to give it to the press! way to go! so, again, let's not pretend that his 38%. >> it's there. >> didn't love him. he is horrifying the rest of the globe. at the end of the day this will bring him down if he continues doing this. but, for now, he has nobody around him that will tell him the truth. nobody. let me underline th

gingrich., but it doesn't help move the trairn forward. with what they have to do is stick together and they've got to deliver on the promises collectively, from health care to immigration security to it's sits. >> and steve bannon and reince priebus say there are people who come into the oval office and say you have to -- i said this, i made this promise to the american people, i'm going to deliver on that promise. he's doing that even though he knows his policies will be misconstrued as isolating people or dividing people. but i think we finally have someone who's walking his talk, i don't know if it was republicans or democrats, despite pressure to moderate. >> despite human decency and also compassion, the role of the commander in chief is to take into consideration things you may not have known while you were campaigning, there's nothing wrong with moderating and or compromising, that is the purpose of the house and the senate. i don't know which republicans you're talking to, maybe you ta

we also heard from former house speaker and newt gingrich.said the problem they've got is this is an off broadway performance of a show that is now a number one hit on broadway. what's next. >> and newt gingrich want a post in the trump administration and he didn't get it. i think he's bitter and you saw the bitterness in that statement. donald trump is a businessman who is now transitioning into the being the biggest chief executive on planet earth. there are going to be growing pains and my advice is to move at a slightly slower pace f. if you slow down the pace, you'll resolve problems. i think he's off to a smashing success. >> so newt dping rich and chris christie, both bashed trump said. you'll see the situation is going to get worse, not better. donald trump is using the same people from his campaign who really know nothing about running a government. they're advising him. the people who should be advising him, the secretaries of the state department, he's not listening to them. >> both of these two are the girls that didn't get invite

. >> i was chair of the republican national committee when this happened, and gingrich and dole told the republican governors, "y'all know more about it than e do." medicaid and health care are a far bigger part of the economy than wealth there, but governors to know so much more about it then congress -- governors do know so much more about it than congress. they had meetings regularly. they had staff in town all the time meeting with ways and means and energy and commerce and senate and finance. that's one thing i would say to the governors -- take this seriously. be in it for months and do not without get done governors.m >> in 2009 and 2010 when aca was debated, there was a great deal of division here at nga. it became as partisan as congress did, so it was not possible at that juncture, but in twoth changeovers branches of government, with turnover in the governors ranks andell, with experience settled opinions about the aca, i think it is a topic that would lend itself well to gubernatorial leadership. it's a great idea. >> i think the biggest challenge would be to deal with th

>> well, i go back to when clinton was the president in the second term when newt gingrich said we wererrelevant. you saw what happened. we had three years of congressman/speaker gingrich going down the road making deals with president clinton, first time we've had balanced budgets. we're not irrelevant. no one is irrelevant regardless of which side of the park they're on. by the way, we're not retreating, we're here to talk serious business. we don't retreat. >> i'm curious. what is the mood and the conversation like there? is part of the conversation still trying to figure out what happened in the election? >> we did talk about that, in all honesty, steve. what we're concerned about, where we are going forward. congresswoman tim ryan from ohio, close friend, gave the example this morning. remember wayne gretzky always said, don't follow the puck, i want to know where the puck is going. so we've got to be there. we have to look at this the smart way rather than just a visceral way. i can assure you, in all the areas that are on the table, whether it be health care, whether it be tax re

a presidential campaign was in the middle of it and there useless -- newt gingrich called president obama food stamp president. there were controversies over farmers who were getting paid whether it was bad good and everyone knew this had to be changed because it wasn't really fair. it kept getting bogged down in all kinds of conservative and liberal deep convictions and big explosions on the floor. they finally figured out how to do it was a big deal and it turned out it wasn't food it was hat held it up, the dairy program that was important to john boehner at the time. so this was a testament to some very persistent people in the senate in both parties, very knowledgeable aides. to a lot of aides working around the clock very to get d their job things done and they don't always trump each other but they together.gh work host: jill lawrence is a graduate of the university of michigan earned her masters from n.y.u. written for the ssociated press and national skwrufrp journal and is a column ill for u.s.a. today" and author of "the art of the political deal" how congress beat the odds and

could go back to bill clinton, it could go back to nafta and deregulating things from '96 on, the gingrich era. really, my lack of trust in polling has probably i would say since early 2000s, really become evident that not really -- host: appreciate the call from iowa this morning. daniel in hastings michigan, line for democrats. daniel, good morning. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. i want to make a comment on the tax cuts, proposed tax cuts. right now on corporate tax, 50% of fortune 500 companies pay less than 15%, even though the tax is 35% when they take all deductions they pay 15 or less 50% of them. you have big, big companies, g.e. paying 0, my point, we tried this, we've been down this road before. the tax cuts would be great if they were for the working class, huge for them, small ones for the rich. 70% of our economy is consumption based. when you give people that have a lot of money they will not buy a thing. if you give this tax break a big tax break, i think prot posed tax cut over there is for myself, is like $600. okay. give this to the working class, they will go spe

many opponents but no enemies and experts say civility fell apart during the transition to spiker gingrich and his contract with america agenda in 1994. michael was 9 # years old. -- 93 years old. >>> a generous d.c. family leave bill is on its way to congress. the legislation would allow up to eight weeks of paid leave to new parents. six weeks for people taking care of a sick loved one. and two weeks of personal sick time. d.c. mayor muriel bowser allowed the bill to pass without her signature. supporters hope congress won't block it. >>> a new app is designed to pulse point allows users to get alerts if they know how to administer cpr. as wusa9 evan koslof tells us more about it. >> she was aureoleddest daughter -- oldest daughter, a dancer, outgoing. friendly. had a smile for everyone. she was the rainbow in a lot of pipless clouds. >> reporter: you're hearing the voice of joel griffin. as he speaks about his daughter. -almost five years ago that the 12-year-old collapsed at a school sponsored field day. there was of course a panic and a scramble to find an aed or someone to give cpr.

. >> i've been calling him honey since newt gingrich prayed >> into thousand three he married dr.rowley a professor of public policy at rutgers university and another major milestone just four months later, his debut nonfiction book red, white, and liberal, how left is right and right is wrong. never one to back down from controversy, his hearted to get a view style made him a greatly admired from stand-up comic, to other, to radio host, to television, he lived to entertain you, the american people. telling the news how he sought and taking his audience through some of the most significant moments of our time. today, the fox news channel lost a very dear member of our family one of the nicest, kindest, friendliest people come a dear personal friend, alan colmes. >> tucker: whatever you thought of his political opinions, he was a deeply nice man and gentle, will miss ♪ >> tom: welcome to "red eye," hello everyone, i am tom shillue. let's check in with tvs at andy levy over at at the "red " tease deck. >> andy: coming up on the big show, donald trump interrupts a business roundtable

in the '90s, when newt gingrich -- they gained control of the house, the congress, newt gingrich's motto was medicare should wither on the vine. now, that's their attitude. you should know this. in this time, when they took back the congress, in their budget, in their first -- in their budget, the ryan budget, they put a provision in there to take away the guarantee of medicare and to voucherize it. medicare, to remove the guarantee is to do away with medicare. and in terms of that subject, that is a fight that we will make, and that the public is with us on, and that i've said too many times, president lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. with it, you can accomplish almost anything. without it, almost nothing. and he had some pretty big heavy lifts to do in his day when he said that. so this is this is, you heard d the affordleable care act when the republicans were mischaracterizing and misrepresenting what the affordable care act is about, and keep it off of my medicare, and well, it is a government program, but now the same people who oppose d the affordable car act have to

like, gingrich had plans for tax reform and he had plans. base! >> exactly! which is why i won! but john kasich told me a great story and i know we got to go to break. john kasich told me a great story one time about how bill clinton had a tax increase and i told kasich one time, i decided to run, watching him and tim penny on the house floor talking about their alternative plan. it was a bipartisan plan. i said, man, those two guys, i'd love to get in the middle of that. i told kasich the story. ed the funny thing is -- i said i respected you, john, because you had a plan. ed he said we took it to a vote among house republicans and only two or three people that wanted us to develop a plan. and gingrich said to the whole caucus whether you had to vote, screw them and come up with a plan. we have to have an alternative to this or once we get in power, we will have nothing to do. it was all gingrich saying if you're going to protest against bill clinton's tax increase plan. >> you better have a plan. >> you better have plan. guess what. it mad

d speaker gingrich took over. >> devi devin nunes has spoken,d the fact that you have to defend with is a sad statement about how weak this leadership has been in supporting the president who showed this party how to win and who represents the will of the american voter. >> but my question to you is which would you rather have. lou: you just used up your question, i'm out of time. you can ask me a question next time. it will be soon. breaking news. emergency officials at oroville dam are bracing for what could be a major setback in their fight to save the emergency spillway. a reef advised forecast has a huge storm looming. it could drop as many as 12 inches of rain over the weekend. tonight only voluntary evacuation orders are in effect. but everyone watching this storm system approaching oroville, california. the nation's leftist academia waging a war on the president and his administration. you will be stunned by what teachers in austin, texas have done to undermine enforcement of law and specifically immigration and customs enforcement. we'll take that up. a programming note. i h

i am going to repeat something that newt gingrich said and i apologize for recycling this. media is it going to chase the rabbit and you might as well give them one to chase. you see the repeated thing. bannon, he talks about the opsugz party and any new's conference and press briefings over the last several weeks, what does the press ask most? they ask about it themselves. the press is part of this, too. what should the press talk about when the president is commenting on this. are we making the right decision by continuing the conversation and talking about ourselves more? >> i would be the first to say that media are self absorbed. but everything that the president says is news and he uses twitter new's organizations by name. it is a deep-seated feeling that he has in talking about the corporate media and they believe the press is out to undercut the agenda. there is a lot of unfair reporting and negative tone to a lot of reporting. you are right, don't do it at the expense of what is happening to obamacare and tax cut and infrastructure bill. >> jenna: there is quite a

there's the local law enforcement grant started by newt gingrich.urn grant program in which the federal government gives local law enforcement grant money for radios, for additional police officers and so forth, so i think the president is saying let's engage and do something, and i think there's a lot of opportunity. >> michael, listen to what the president said this morning about getting americans back to work. >> it's time for all americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. you're going to love it. you are going to love it. >> the perceptions of this president seem to be distorted and rooted in stereotype of many orders. i think, look -- as a temporary means so they can ultimately make ends meet, but the federal government has to play its role and, of course, offering jobs and worthy opportunities for employment is something that those people who are presently on welfare seek to have. if the president is capable of forging the connection again between the employment sectors and the private sector and in the public sector to make sure th

and he said when newt gingrich 1992u simply praised his pulitzer prize-winning book "the radicalism of the american revolution," wood describes newt's praise saying that was the kiss of death for me among academics. none of them are republicans and none of them are conservative. george mason law school sponsored american history seminars for united states federal judges for about five years. the two history professors chosen to lead the discussions among these elite were gordon wood and joel ellis. i have talked with federal judges doug ginsburg among many others and they said how much they benefited from these incredible seminars which coincided with the annual conferences that our federal judges have by district around the country. wouldn't you love to have been in those meetings? dr. wood was one of three historians chosen to write for the oxford history of the american people, by far the most respected multi-volume history of the united states. this is the equivalent of the american history of -- american history encyclopedia. his contribution, which is wonderful if you can read it

a lot of the political allies that trump had, newt gingrich, judy guliani have fallen away, not jeffsions. that's a trusted ally of the president and he's in a position to advise him closely on the matter. >> shepard: he was the earliest supporter of candidate trump in the united states senate. he was out there, out there often. donald trump rewards loyalty. always has. anybody that deals with him in business has. when you're loyal to him, he's loyal to you. he's been a very polarizing figure. what are the matters that people have concerns? >> yeah, i think, you know, sessions is the chief law enforcement officer essentially of the nation. while presidents typically put loyalists in this position, eric holder and loretta lynch and john dean under richard nixon that went to jim for him come to mind. they don't typically rally for them like sessions did. he will be more strained in his language now he's attorney general. nevertheless, he will be very close to president trump and playing a key advisory role. >> shepard: thanks, eliana johnson. great to see you. thank you. >> thanks. >>

in the 1990's, they gained control of the house, the congress, and newt gingrich's motto was medicare should weather on the vine. now that is their attitude -- medicare should wither on the vi ne. that is their attitude. this time when they take back ryanongress and in the budget, they put in a provision to take away the guarantee of medicare and to voucherize it. remove the guarantee, which is to do away with medicare. in terms of the subject, that is a fight that we will make and that the public is with us on. and i have said too many times, president lincoln said public sentiment is everything. with it, you can accomplish almost anything. without it, almost nothing. and he had some pretty big, dayy lifts to do in his when he said that it you heard during the affordable care act, when republicans were misrepresenting what it was about, they said, government, keep your hands off my medicare. well, it is a government program. [laughter] now, these same people who opposed the affordable care act, have to know that it will undermine its solvency and benefits, but not only that. coupled

. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," newt gingrich will join us in just a minute.its of courage," president george w. bush's new book. hollywood elites spewing hate and attacking the president at the oscars in a pretty disgusting display. that is tonight's opening monologue. yes, another self-congratulatory award show as if they are not enough. so-called tolerant liberal celebrities gathered last night at the oscars all patting themselves on the back and predictably bashing donald t

. >> i've been calling him honey since newt gingrich. >> in june 2003, he married dr. crowley, a professor of public policy at rutgers university. another major milestone just four months later, his debut, nonfiction book, "red, white, and a liberal, how left is right and right is wrong." never one to back down from controversy, his hearted to get a view style made him a greatly admired from stand-up comic, to author, to radio host, to television, he lived to entertain you, the american people. telling the news how he sought and taking his audience through some of the most significant moments of our time. today, the fox news channel lost a very dear member of our family one of the nicest, kindest, friendliest people come a dear personal friend, alan colmes. d >> tucker: that is all true by the way. whatever you thought of his political opinions, he was a deeply nice man and gentle. we will miss him. good night. >> kimberly: welcome back to "hannity." i'm kimberly guilfoyle and for sean. ban and once again called the media the opposition party. watch this. >> look at th

these programs have been on the chopping block for republicans for years, if not decades since newt gingrich'sn revolution in 1994. so this would be a popular act for donald trump's base and would be a way to sort of gain support from wider conservative budget hawks on the hill. the question is about this is that these may be eye catching issues, but the wider issue of the budget is that donald trump and the white house are proposing to greatly increase military spending at the same time as they're going to introduce big tax cuts which could hit revenues, so that's the big budget issue. these things are eye catching. the question is how can you cut revenues, increase spending on issues like the military, at the same time donald trump said he will protect entitlements like medicare, something that's very important to core supporters in places like the industrial midwest. that's the big budget issue. these things are eye catching and probably will get done because they're supporting congress to do it, and the republican majority, maybe it is somewhat of a side show. >> amanda, let me come to you

. >> sean: my friend newt gingrich has been giving trump speeches on trumpism. what are your thoughts if any on the nuclear option, mitch mcconnell, and the senate, a precedent has been set for harry reid's, what are your thoughts? >> i'm not sure we are headed in that direction, we just learned that there are seven democrats who already said they will not filibuster and support a vote. this is becoming a very different process than we thought. i think part of it, the president's resolve in the nomination that he made, part os it is his extraordinary nominee that we have. in judge gorsuch who i think is just very hard to lay a glove on. >> sean: mr. leo, i hope that is in fact the case. i think it may have a lot to do with politics. i would bet those are states the democrats are serving in that donald trump probably won. just political thought on myar part. after what democrats did to good people like robert bork, good people like clarence thomas, the process they put them through. the smearing, it was so unbecoming. >> thank you so much. >> sean: coming up, jay

decide i want to leave the house because it was getting too partisan and it didn't like it newt gingrichitics of destruction. i wanted out. i want a more bipartisanship, which is how it used to be in the senate, whether you believe it or not. so there's anita hill, and she tells her story, but the hearings are shut down. so do you remember that photo of the women members of congress marching overcome some of you remember that say open up the hearings. the picture is in the book and cost us $250, so please buy the book. just kidding. online, we march over, knock on the door -- bottom line -- with the democratic leaders are sitting because they had shut down the hearings. jill biden was the chairman of the hearing. knock on the door and a staffer pops out, what do you want? we want, we are seven names of the house, we had 100 years of experience between us. we want the hearings open, just to have her to get a chance to tell her story. no. not happening. why? because the hearings are over. the hearings are over but now you have this information, and they said you can't, the staffer said you

he had strong personalities, newt gingrich, chris christie, rudy giuliani. strong personalities. his cabinet. scott: it is hardly the first dust up with his eventual pick. then governor pence tweeted that trump's idea of muslim ban was defenseless. james mattis disagreed with his boss on the need for nato. and he cited ben carson's biography. >> he says he has pathological disease. if you are pathological there is no cure for that, folks. >> as he perceives someone who is useful to him, who is not a threat to him he will make use of them. scott: will they continue to speak their minds even if at odds with the wh will the bitter tirades make them hold your tongues? >> you have to know when to hold your tongue. you don't leak things in the donald trump team. scott: president trump has been quoted he wants his cabinet to say what they want acknowledging, "i may be right, they may be right." live on capitol hill tonight, scott thuman, abc7 news. larry: thanks. well now to a developing story from arizona where activists are rallying in support of a woman who was just deported to mexic

been thinking here that the last time it happened was haley barbour and people were looking to newt gingrich and bob dole back in those days. and people will look to nancy pe low si and chuck schumer not necessarily to the chairman of the dnc. and jamel, i'm fascinated that the mtv guy is leaning towards the establishment. showing you how far the tv has gone. >> you have the wrong impression. it is not leaning towards the establishment, but the democratic party is larger than bernie sanders' wing of the party that has created so much quote, up quote energy a., and there is energy on the other side, too. >> and as somebody who is a close observer of this, ja meal or anybody, and is that more than bernie sanders versus the wing versus the establishment wing or bernie sanders' wing further divided between the bernie sanders' wing and the elizabeth warren wing? >> well, it is an excellent question, and there is certainly that i can do more report on that. >> you can have your show back in a moment, jonathan. >> i have no problem with really good questions, and that is a good one. >> from what i

of these programs on the list are programs that reagan wanted to get rid of in the '80s then newt gingrich of in the '90s. reagag once they build these political constituencies and even when their mission is long over, we still spend a lot of money on them. going to be interesting to see whether trump can succeed where others have failed. one exam pm. we spend 100 billion on corporate welfare programs. we don't need to spend money to subsidize american corporations. >> that's all disputable, isn't it? that's what's going to bring some real consternation there inside the beltway. meantime, trump has been vocal this week and inheriting a mess. tweeting this morning, don't believe the mainstream fake news media. the white house is running very well. i inherited a mess and in the process, of mfixing it, this is what the country's unemployment rate looks like over the past eight years. it's remarkably low. people have been celebrating these very low numbers. so, what is the mess? >> first of all, that unemployment rate number is a little bit misleading. i think most americans have kaug on. beca

>> newt gingrich has been very interested on the reforms we put in place and the civil service reformshat we did. of course, federal employees don't have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. that's what we did at the state and local level. work roles, some things are just as important. in wisconsin, we no longer have a requirement by law to have seniority or tenure. we can hire on merit, pay-base to performance. put the best and the brightest in our position. that's exactly what the american people would love to have at the federal level. they love to have people more effective, more efficient, more accountable to the american taxpayer. >> neil: what is remarkable, private worker unions are down considerably from the influence they once had. picked up under president obama. the overall percentage of union workers in private industry has continued declining. public unions are a little by the way stronger and a little more resistant to the kind of changes that you orchestrated in wisconsin. hence, they're gearing up for a fight nationally and says if this guy, scott walker is in

it reminds me so much, brooke of the first hundred days whenever speaker gingrich took over in 1995. which is it's a lot. first of alling you have got three dynamics at play. one is you have the peter principle, which is everybody wants the bring their people up. but congressional staffers don't always work so well in the speaker's office and staffers a the rnc don't always work so well in the white house. second of all, what you have is a constant battle for turf. a constant battle for this kind of building alliances. and i thought that it was a great comment to say, yeah, that's what's going on. finally, you also have a little battle fatigue going on because it is a lot in 24 days. this presidency -- you have to agree with me, brooke, seems like it's a lot longer than just three weeks. >> that's -- thank you. that's randy what i was going to say. is that we are just 23 days in. i mean, i understand the turf issues, and the loyalty factor and every administration has personal shakeups. but it's just been 23 days. >> that's right. and so i am actually rather surprised that there have

use something called the congressional review act which was something that was palszed under the gingrichicans probably have no idea it exists because it had only been used once before to repeal a regulation. and what it says if you pass a majority vote in the house and the senate and the president signs it, you can repeal a regulation. >> yeah. as long as it was passed within the last 60 legislative days. paul right. >> now, barack obama was quite busy with his midnight regulations as he was headed out of office, so what you saw in the house this week was republicans already taking aim at about six really important ones that were passed in the last 60 legislative days, voting to disapprove them, making them go away. and these are big things like the blacklisting rule at the labor department, the streams rule which was designed to shut down coal mining. there's now talk too, turns out one little quirk of the law, that 60-day calendar doesn't begin until legislation, there's a report filed with congress about it, and some people are realizing that some obama regulations never had the repor

newt gingrich we've conducted a search, we're not looking for anyone else. the individual we believe is responsible for the earlier incident is in custody and we're not looking for any additional suspects. >> did he say anything while he was firing? did the 9-1-1 call led up to this. did he say anything while he was firing? >> i'm not wear of any words said by him while he was firing. i don't have any information about anything that translahapp shots being reports in the neighborhood. this is still fresh and very new. as we >>> what we can tell you right now, that is a suspect who is in custody. he was taken away in an ambulance under guard after walking around the neighborhood with what appeared to be a rifle with a scope. it appears at this point that that suspect is the only one who was injured, though one oakland police officer did fire his service weapon. >> that's right, a second ago saying there was a discharge of a weapon. the man suffered a injury of some kind, nonlife-threatening. kris, we watched this happen in real time. unnerving because it's bl

in november of 2015, i was having breakfast with joelle liss and speaker newt gingrich at mt. vernon, my very favorite place in america. we were lamenting the fact that most colleges and universities in the united states are no longer teaching founding american history. and in fact most high schools are no longer teaching our founding american history. in 1898, when seniors and colleges and high schools were asked who is the greatest hero, they unanimously said george washington. in 1988, when they were asked the same question, the answer was michael jordan. we were discussing my dream of building a future for the past right here in palm beach, florida. what some might think an unlikely location. but i told them about this incredible organization, the society of the four arts. and its generous benefactors and members and both historians were enthusiastic. the goal was to attract renowned founding history experts here to palm beach to educate and re-educate adults and students and to reach a wider audience through television to stimulate discussion about our unique founding. i

to, you know, i see, i think trump is a -- is the outcome not just of the tea party, but of what gingrich, i think. i think he started, he started a fire where they're willing to burn a village down to inherit it, and also politics that wasn't based on substance. >> emotional politics. >> it was -- it's more emotional and if they did have substance, they were largely advocating for policies that didn't help working class people who they counted on to vote for them. so if you're bankrupt of ideas and you're fostering anger, does donald trump hijack your party? yes he does. a lesson for democrats is to make sure that along the way, and even -- an upside at least engaging with the public while trump is president is there are things you can literally do in your own life to be supportive to resist him to -- and i think that's empowering for people. >> what do you do to make sure you don't -- the movement doesn't allow of the hijacking of the democratic party. >> i don't believe -- i actually think the real energy is not just with the base. this is -- these are a-political people turning out. t

and it was in part for that reason that newt gingrich chose to challenge his leadership.n a statement house speaker paul ryan called michael, quote, a happy warrior revered for his decency and commitment to what's right. president george h.w. bush said in part, quote, bob was a masterful legislator. there were some who thought he was too easy going with his friends across the aisle, but no one accused him of being soft after the invasion of normandy. back in 1992 just after bill clinton won the election michael was on "meet the press" and spoke to tim russert about being in the minority party. >> as i look at it on the republican side during the carter years we only had 143 members in the house and we were a force enough to really make some people be accountable on some of the issues. now we got 175 members, so we'll be a force to be -- to contend with. but i want to make absolutely sure that we're pulling together as a unit because in unity there's strength. >> well, he did unify that caucus in those first couple of years. words of wisdom there possibly for the democrats

. >> douglas brinkley, people are excited, this was similar to the '90s, newt gingrich and is that amparison? >> no. what this reminds me of is 1952 when president harry truman tried to interfere with steelworkers strike. steel mill strike and he signed an executive order saying that the federal government could take over the steel mills. you had youngstown sheet and tubing company versus truman and truman's executive order was deemed invalid. since 1952, presidents don't willy-nilly ginn out executive orders without proper vetting. the trump administration blind siding people out of gate, pushing this forward, it created protests all across america and now it's just been deemed invalid. now it's going to be challenged. trump already has only been president days and has us in a constitutional crisis because he didn't learn the lesson truman learned in '52. he didn't study his history properly. >> don, there's no constitutional crisis here. there's a good constitutional debate. we're seeing the constitution in action if anything. you see the judicial branch, the first amendment, the r