newt gingrich and his allies call it a perjury trap.hrase, michael. >> well, a perjury trap actually is a term that has a definition. it is a form of entrapment. it is impermissible and implies that the prosecutor is bringing the witness into the grand jury for the sole purpose of getting him to lie so he can charge him with that lie. that is not what is going on here. and newt gingrich is just flat out incorrect about that. what is going on here is a dually constituted special counsel is investigating a matter and he wants testimony with respect to that matter. that witness is subpoenaed or called under a voluntary process and the witness is asked to answer questions. if the witness is truthful in his answers, then there's no perjury. if he lies in his answers, then there's perjury. but it is not a trap. >> ken, i do not have the legal expertise you have, but in my 45 years of research, i always found the best way not to get caught lying is to not lie. >> well, first of all, certainly michael's correct about the technical use of the te

he's brought back into this public investigatory special counsel role, and newt gingrich said way back then robert mueller is a superb choice, he has impeccable in honesty and integrity. the media needs to calm down. you say, and obviously newt gingrich felt, and others, that he was going to conduct this investigation by the book. has he shown anything other than doing that? >> no. and, in fact, what we have seen is that he has conducted this investigation in precisely the way that you would expect bob mueller to be leading an fbi investigation. i mean, this is, in many ways, despite the unprecedented public uproar around it, a very simple, straightforward fbi investigation. they've been using the the fbi is deeply experienced at taking down organizations, you know, drug cartels, street gangs, organized crime families. and so they start off the outside, start at the bottom and work their way in concentric circles into the center of the investigation. that's what you saw with gorge papadopoulos, what you saw with paul manafort and sort of with the first charges coming in an unrelated fo

i handed the speaker, newt gingrich, the actual referral itself and the supporting documents. >> my officeright across the street from the capitol, and i went out and watched the delivery of it. >> it was a circus day on capitol hill. all of the boxes were revealed in huge quantities. i don't think any of us realized how much paperwork was coming. >> we had a very short press conference outside just announcing what we had done and that basically our role had ended. >> any further action now lie with the congress as provided for by the constitution. >> seeing on tv it was being delivered up to the hill, and then it was there. and for all of us, it felt like a huge sense of relief. >> the fate of bill clinton was now in the hands of congress. the blueprint of american democracy was about to be tested. >> i think maybe it was about that time when i realized, "yeah, this is probably going to go to an impeachment proceeding." >> it was almost unanimous, this feeling that the public should have a right to see this. >> without conducting any formal review, in a bipartisan vote of 363 to 63, the h

i handed the speaker, newt gingrich, the actual referral itself and the supporting documents. >> my officewas right across the street from the capitol, and i went out and watched the delivery of it. >> it was a circus day on capitol hill. all of the boxes were revealed in huge quantities. i don't think any of us realized how much paperwork was coming. >> we had a very short press conference outside just announcing what we had done and that basically our role had ended. >> any further action now lie with the congress as provided for by the constitution. >> seeing on tv it was being delivered up to the hill, and then it was there. and for all of us, it felt like a huge sense of relief. >> the fate of bill clinton was now in the hands of congress. the blueprint of american democracy was about to be tested. >> i think maybe it was about that time when i realized, "yeah, this is probably going to go to an impeachment proceeding." >> it was almost unanimous, this feeling that the public should have a right to see this. >> without conducting any formal review, in a bipartisan vote of 363 to 63, t

speaker gingrich, thank you for joining us this morning. always good to see you. >> bill: we're three days away from super bowl sunday. minneapolis says they're ready from bomb sniffing dogs and both government and nfl security officials say they aren't taking nothing for granted in minnesota. it will be cold, too. >> sandra: they can't protect you from the cold. >> bill: i shall be there. you have been on my back for a week. >> sandra: do you have a pick? >> bill: you have been on my back. this morning you went with. >> sandra: the eagles. >> bill: so i shall go with the new england patriots to win super bowl lii. and yet another super bowl ring in the hand of tom brady. >> sandra: i might predict a double digit victory. >> bill: let's save it for friday. >> sandra: bundle up. mike pence squaring off against west virginia senator joe manchin in a war of words on twitter. we'll get at what that is all about with manchin's republican colleague senator shelley moore capito. that's next. >> bill: larry nassar back in court facing new accusers

it might have happened anyway, but that was a huge deal. >> combine that with the fact that gingrichhrewd political strategist, who put together a contract for america. it just swept out the democratic congress. >> clinton also vowed to work with the new republicans in congress. >> i'm gonna do my dead-level best to do that and to be less partisan. >> on policy issues, it seemed to pay off. >> bill clinton had had a history of being adaptable to new political circumstances. >> you could make the argument that bill clinton did better when he had an opposition congress. he was able to find issues where he could get agreement. >> so he was perhaps better suited than many a politician would be to adjust himself to the demands of the time. >> still, the white house knew what agony could lie ahead. prior to the midterms, democrats had controlled the congressional committees and their investigations. >> we were watching, very closely, the whitewater investigation, all the other investigations. and we knew they were going nowhere. we knew travelgate was a nothing burger. >> but congress woul

house speaker newt gingrich had added demands into the government funding bill that president clintonused to accept. by november 14th, with neither side willing to back down, the government ran out of money. >> the government is partially shutting down. >> a lot of people said, "this may work out very well for the republicans. it didn't. the people hated the shutdown. >> the shutdown would have unexpected political costs for speaker newt gingrich and the republican congress. but on pennsylvania avenue, it set in motion a disastrous chain of events which would not become evident for years. a large group of unpaid white house interns filled in for furloughed staff, often working late into the night. amongst that group was 21-year-old monica lewinsky. a recent graduate of lewis & clark college, lewinsky had been raised in southern california by her father, bernard, an oncologist, and her mother marcia, an author. her parents had since divorced. monica was assigned to answer the phone and run errands in white house chief of staff leon panetta's office. it was here that she encountered the

and actually i'm going to use newt gingrich to help me out.his morning on "fox & friends" he had a different analysis of that than he did this evening with you. he actually said to the host this morning that he has done that himself. and that he has gone back to something that happened weeks before and wrote a memo. >> sean: that's not what he said just tonight on my show. he was talking about 15 days later. i don't know anybody that in the final minutes, jesse, in the white house, their final act, oh, let me say barack obama said we are going to do this by the book. i sense a lot of fear in that memo. >> yeah, i mean it's all crumbling down. she is a liar. she lied about benghazi. she lied about bergdahl. she lied about the unmasking. comey himself lied to the fisa judge and then he lied about when he met with barack obama. brennan is now a liar. he has lied did the dossier what he knew about it and whether it was used to justify the wiretapping. so the whole thing is crashing down and the dems are scrambling. they can't contain the fallout.

newt gingrich.on whether the president should declassify the democratic memo and much more with the speaker. plus there is this today. have a listen. >> president trump: today the coalition to defeat isis has liberated almost 100% of the territory. >> sandra: president trump touting major gains against isis. but now a stunning new report is raising a red flag over another terror group. also this. >> i don't know why we give up any of it. if you take 20% of our uranium reserve and allow anybody else, especially the russians, to have access to it. that's a huge concern. >> bill: new details on the uranium one controversy. fox news confirming accusations from an f.b.i. informant about russia trying to influence hillary clinton's state department. we'll talk to the lawyer for that informant victoria toensing live next. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-t

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i promise you newt gingrich has not done the math on this. it is the single most ridiculous idea that has been suggested in this arena and the white house press secretary's answer was -- >> i haven't spoken with him about speaker gingrich's plan so i'll have to get back to you on that front. >> so the white house press secretary has no idea whether the president supports a crazy idea. but that is her standard answer for most questions. the white house press secretary standard answer for most questions is i have no idea what the president thinks about that. the white house press secretary offered jibberish and lies when asked about the president's reaction to the indictment on friday of 13 russians for interfering in our election. she actually offered the lie that president trump has been much tougher on russia than president obama. now, let's just zoom in on one particular exchange on russian interference. >> is he angered by this or outraged that russia tried to interfere in our system? >> i think he's angered that anybody would try to meddl

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his experiences as a west point that, his years teaching at military colleges, and time when newt gingrich audited his class. the interview is held by the west point center for a history great it is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> today is 13 november 2015, and i am in the center for oral history with esther kenneth g carlson. how are you, sir? col. kenneth carlson: i am fine. >> could you spell your name for us. you are not the only carlson in your class. col. kenneth carlson: there is another one in the class with the same name. i am kenneth g carlson and i was a basketball player. >> did that cause any problems for you? col. kenneth carlson: absolutely, it did. i walked in with my bag, and the people who had the roster said you have already signed in. and i said no i haven't i just walked in the door. kenneth carlson, you have already signed in. and i said i really have not. and they said there were two. with getting his laundry -- which was much too small for me and he was getting mine. so now my classmates know me as kenneth carlson a large and he was kenneth carlson small. he did no

newt gingrich joined me on this program last sunday, here is what he had to say about that. listen to this mr. attorney general. >> he is not in any way recused on this information. he should be appointing an independent counsel. he should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. i'm totally mystified because he's a great guy. he's a solid conservative. he certainly in his career has been a fighter and this behavior is just totally unlike everything i knew about jeff sessions before the last six or eight months. maria: are you, sir, investigat ing the fact that the fbi used the dossier to get a wire tap against trump associates and they did not tell the fisa court that the democrat s and hillary clinton paid for that dossier? >> let me tell you, every fisa warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate, that will be investigated and looked at and we are not going to participate at the department of justice in providing anything less than the proper disclosure to the court before they issue a fisa warrant other than that i'm not going to talk about

newt gingrich wrote a wonderful article about it, one of the most articulate on this subject. second amendment, you shall not infringe but also, responsible gun ownership, gun ownership is a right but also a responsibility. some of it how our databases work, and so many things broke down and the tragedy is kids got killed because of the breakdown. everyone must agree, crazy people and prevent that from happening again. if you are 33 times what the reports say, law enforcement visit the shooter's home where we had certain indicators obviously that it was going to happen. america should agree if a person is heavily medicated, crazy, showing signs, he should not have access to weapons. neil: you are close to what rick scott wants to do which is raise the age you can get access to weapons, 21. >> i think highly of the governor and it should be on the table especially, a hunter and fisherman. in the west we have a different perspective but for semis, military style weapon, it should be on the table to raise it. also we have to balance it, 18 years old, you are eligible to fight for

. >> former speaker gingrich had put forward a proposal that he started promoting about training more teachers and having more people with firearms in schools. i am wondering if that is in the range of ideas and if you could explain a little more about how the president will run things and turns -- in terms of taking things -- ms. sanders: i haven't spoken to him about the planned so i have to get back to you on that front. in the next several days and weeks, how we will run the process, it takes a lot of information from individuals, school shootings as well as those that hope they never have to be in the same situation and talking to state and local law , and whatt officials areas we can without forward. and what areas we can without forward. >> what does trump think about that? ms. sanders: still has i think a 97 page inspector general report. until that, there is a secondary review that takes place. until that is completed, i cannot comment further on it. >> they should be an age limit for those who buy in ar-15, a teenager -- ms. sanders: i know there are currently laws in place

they also have a fair point that you don't just sit the president down, and newt gingrich, you probablyeard him so many times saying show me the crime first. you can't just sit the president down to ask him questions without providing enough evidence as to why. >> what did it satart out as? so far, we have seen little evidence. so now there could be other crimes, if you have general flynn lying to the fbi, if they were innocent, he shouldn't have done that, he should have told the truth, right? so that's what anthony scaramucci and others are worried about, now that mueller has gone through the different stories, if the president mis-remembers something, he is in a trap. >> you don't know what mueller has. >> he doesn't. it is in his interest to talk and get it over with, because once you interview the president, there isn't much else you can do, but who knows what will happen. >> i think that's why his lawyers want to know the perimeters, and you have people like newt gingrich saying they would never suggest that the president sit for an open-ended interview like that. they don't want

for someone like newt gingrich it's really easy to get on media. he's already on tv and people want to hear what he's talking about the challenge for someone like that is they want to get into the book and not a commentary on tv. it actually sounds relevant to what's happening in the news. >> host: when do you start thinking about a campaign for a book? >> guest: it depends on her imprint. something like her history books, our faith books, fiction. we need a longer lead time. we are thinking about how we are positioning it in to our target market is. the marketing job is to get retailers excited about the book. that's the first death and then returned to the manuscript and then you start thinking more seriously so about six months out but doubt is our big clinical book written up until the deadline which includes the latest news. it's a really short timeline and that's what makes us unique. that's what helps us do so well as we are able to put together a marketing plan. the website for the interactive constitution.

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i was told by two people close to gingrich but not each other that gingrich had some swell ideas. this was that he would get clinton impeached and that he would get gore impeached for supporting the president, and then guess who gets to be president? the speaker of the house. but he was having an affair on the side, so he did not get to become president. we used it rarely, we should use it rarely. there have been proposals to make it easier, i am against that. we would be a latin american country. no offense, but with the change in the political mood, we don't want to do that. dick: looking at the agencies -- sorry, it is your show. [laughter] leon: i was going to say, we brought the landslide 1972 election. in the first couple of months, your favorite topic i know, the period when reporters were writing stories, the washington post was publishing them, time, the new york times. people didn't care. they voted for nixon anyway. susan, you can go first, what lessons do you think the event has for contemporary journalists covering the administration and consumers of news? how could t

that is a move straight out of the newt gingrich playbook. many democrats will run this year on a platform of impeachment. that will be the central thing they campaign on. and is if democrats can control the senate, there's talk of denying president trump the ability to fill any supreme court vacancy just like the republicans did to obama. we worry a lot about this response. fighting like republicans, as legitimate as that is and seems, will inevitably reinforce and even accelerate the process of norm erosion. it will further weaken our country's democratic guardrails. and in our experience studying democracies in crisis in europe and is latin america and elsewhere, that sort of escalation never ends well. never ends well. so in our view, opposition to trump should be loud, it should be vigorous, it should be muscular, but it should be norm-defending rather than norm-breaking. these days forbearance is often seen particularly among democrats as a sign of weakness, as a sign of sort of backing down or giving in to the other side's bullying. bu

sarah: i haven't spoken to him about speaker newt gingrich's plan come up with over the next several days and weeks, how he will run the process and how it is taken -- yes taking information from individuals who have been affected, specifically by school shootings, as well as those who would hope will not be in that same situation, and talking to state and local law enforcement officials, state and local elected officials on what we are legally allowed to do, and what areas we feel like we can help them move forward. >> what does the president think travels? handling of sarah: i think there is a 97 page inspector general report, and until that secondary review takes place and is completed, i can't comment further on it. --does the president believe in florida, the teenager. laws in placere that restrict, but whether or not we make that a federal policy hasn't yet been determined. i think certainly doesn't is something on the table for us to discuss and we will come up with over the next couple of weeks. the weekend he tweeted about his national security adviser and he forgot to say t

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a marxist and anti- american republican leaders during the obama presidency sarah palin and newt gingrich said as a democrat they were not real americans and then the birther movement went a step further questioning his very right to be president. america always has an extremist that is nothing new. but this was not french politics fees for national republican leaders actual candidates republicans nominated a prominent birther candidate and affected him as belonging in jail so by 2000 republicans had begun to deny the legitimacy of their rifle casting democrats as the enemy. the decline of mutual toleration encourages politicians to abandon forbearance when we fuel our partisan rivals as beyond the pale as anti- american as a threat to our way of life, we are tempted to use any means necessary to beat them and that is exactly what is beginning to happen politicians are throwing forbearance to the wind filibusters are routine they shut down the government and refuse to raise the debt limit throwing the country nearly into default so of constitutional hardball just like the coup of 2016 and

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ideas from everybody and having listening sessions. >> i haven't spoken with him about peopler gingrich'swe're going to take in a lot of information from individuals that have been affected, specifically by school shootings as well as those that hope they never have to be in that situation and talking to state and local law enforcement officials, state and local elected officials on what we're legally allowed to do and what areas that we feel like we can help with that moving forward. david? >> what does the president think about secretary shulkin's handling of the travel? what does the president think about that? >> this still has the -- there's a 97-page inspector general report. until there's a secondary review that takes place, i can't comment. >> does the president believe there should be an age limit for those that buy an ar-15? the shooter was a teenager when he bought one. >> there's laws in plates that restrict that. in terms of whether or not we make that federal policy, that hasn't been determined. that's something -- >> is that something -- >> certainly something on the table

having clinton, he sort of agreed with newt gingrich. the economy grew and jackie -- and debt gdp ratio went down. i don't see that working right now. we just had a tax cut. we are talking about a lot more spending for infrastructure, building walls or fences or whatever. >> [inaudible] dr. sylla: you need a mic. >> i have a question. you started your remarks by decrying the tax cuts. we know that hamilton did not know about the laffer curve. if he were alive today, and he knew about it, would he agree with you that cutting taxes and restoring private property to the american people at a time when gdp is historically near zero, has been zero for about eight years, would he agree with you that cutting taxes is not fiscally responsible? dr. sylla: hamilton? i said at the beginning, answered that question at the first part of my talk. i said hamilton would not think it was fiscally responsible. to your point about the laffer curve, i think you are wrong. i think hamilton did have an idea about it. the government financed itself mostly by ta

former speaker newt gingrich was actually find -- fined and had to pay back money related to the book sales a conductive. but once someone leaves, the jurisdiction is over. there have been times where the matteree has referred a to the department of justice, if there is a criminal question involved. we have seen those cases. for example, jesse jackson, convicteded up being and served time for malfeasance in his campaign accounts. it has to be an egregious and willing violation to get to that level. many of these others never do. times, with the ethics committee does is cross their fingers and hope someone leaves. host: patricia on our republican line. caller: somehow, congress and ethics just does not seem to go together. my question is this. why not an independent commission? you were mentioning something about that it might not be constitutional. but i think that is the road to go on. it seems better suited than having a house committee and a senate committee investigating its own membership. that seems a little too cozy, doesn't it? guest: i would say we looked at it. if you look a

i think is one actually very interesting story because he's a man who was elected as part of the gingrich revolution in 1994, and they were seen as barbarians at the tbeat right wing nuts, and now, you know, intelligent people are asking whether he's become too much of a lefty. that tell use u something about what's going on in the country. to some extent living through political i qiflt of climate change. [laughter] some days it is hot. somedays it is cold it just all happens all at once. so no, there's no, there's no conspiracy here. this is just -- you know some smart folks. who care a lot about the country who are offering their opinions. and it shall one can turn the channel easily. such an interesting session but i want to just close by once again saying jamie and what's happen haded to this writers festival it is a festival in which we have some of the most intelligent interesting people in the audience and in the panel. lees join me in thanking -- [inaudible conversations] [applause]

>> i haven't spoken with him about speaker gingrich's plan, i'll have to get back to you on that front. over the next several days and weeks, how we'll run that process is take in a lot of information from individuals that have been affected specifically by zoschool shootis as well as those who hope they never have to be in that same situation and talking to state and local law enforcement officials, state and local elected officials on what we're legally allowed to do. and what areas that we feel like we can help move that forward. david? >> what does the president think about secretary shulkin's handling of his travel and all that thing? what did trump think about that? >> look, this is -- still has the -- i think there's a 97-page inspector general report and until there's a secondary review that takes place and until that's completed, i can't comment any further on it. i'll take one last question. >> does the president believe there should be an age limit for those who buy an ar-15? as you know, the shooter in florida was a teenager when he first bought an ar-15. >> i know there ar

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sick and frankly under newt gingrich we really focused on getting our country's financial house in order and we we saw four years of surpluses and the irony was that we started having people complain because the bond market was losing some of. their bonds to sell and they complained that we didn't have debt. it's kind of funny and they're dead serving of nearly twenty point five trillion was imposed in december after a three month debt ceiling suspension house republicans now believe that they have until late february to act on the ceiling what do you think will or should happen well what should happen is along with increasing the debt limit they should show that they can control spending and get a handle on spending but he mean even the amounts that they're talking about for national defense are are pretty extreme i was reading recently what president eisenhower said in his farewell address and he talked about the the industrial defense complex that would always encourage us to spend money it's not that defense doesn't need money but it wastes so much money i chaired the commission a wa

sick and frankly under newt gingrich we really focused on getting our country's financial house in order and we we saw four years of surpluses and the irony was that we started having people complain because the bond market was losing some of. their bonds to sell and they complained that that we didn't have debt. it's kind of funny a new debt serving of nearly twenty point five trillion was imposed in december after a three month debt ceiling suspension house republicans now believe that they have until late february to act on the ceiling what do you think will or should happen. well what should happen is along with increasing the debt limit they should show that they can control spending and get a handle on spending but he mean even the amounts that they're talking about for national defense are pretty extreme i was reading recently what president eisenhower said in his farewell address and he talked about the the industrial defense complex that would always encourage us to spend money it's not that defense doesn't need money but it.

younger folks here, the office of technology and assessment was shut down and -- >> ninety-six by gingrich. he decided it. >> how much money did we save on that? >> so much. it was probably a seat on air force carrier. >> air force one, those are not cheap. >> the sick thing is the ota in the united states became the template for lots of other countries around the world, and it still exists elsewhere. so we don't have the equipment of that now, which is why we keep having these partisan conversation about technology.y. we probably should have some kind of cdc for digital public health. so we do have something like that. it's called the us-cert. and i'm on the site but my dad isn't. my dad is a very, very smart person to he got a house full of technology and implies no more updates. great, now my dad is going to get hacked because some is watching c-span. please don't hack my dad. if we start, if we refrain the conversation of the technology that we use, and we soon, we agree digital literacy is important, then isn't it time with something like a cdc whose job it is in a very effective way,