ken newt gingrich with the republican presidential nomination? and can he beat barack obama? >> he could win at the republican nomination, and i don't think he can beat barack obama. it was set ap -- it was said a british politician, "truth was to him a second home. he lived there occasionally." he constantly makes statements that approver wrong -- that are proved wrong and he is at an awkward position of having to qualify. >> charles? >> unlike politicians -- unlike other politicians, who only speak truth in their first and second homes. he has a long shot for the nomination and he has a lot of baggage. as a presidential candidate, he would also be a long shot, a general election. >> evan? >> newt is a wonderful political figure in many ways, useful gadfly, but he thinks he is charles de gaulle, and he is not. >> nina? >> baggage? they would not let him on a plane. the press has been generally kind to him in the sense that they don't discuss this i did tell a lot, but that cannot stay that way. i don't see -- he is an interesting intellectual conservative, but i don't see th

newt gingrich called and said he had a home work assignment. he said, you know, we don't know what's going to happen with this special prosecutor ken star was working in secret. we didn't know what he was putting together. remember, judge star for three or four years, he was investigating white water, travelgate, all of these different hush money to pay to former staffers that went to prison and, you know, renting the lincoln. there were all of the things that judge was investigating. and now he had to pick up the lewinsky issue as well. speaker came to me, he said i need somebody to draft the protocol. what do we do if a report recommending impeaching the president comes? we don't know what he's got. we don't know what to do. he said i want you to go out and track down and interview former members of congress, democratics and republicans who were involved in previous investigations of a president. and find out what worked, what didn't. what are the mistake that is were made, how do we avoid them? i said we'll do that. as long as we let you introview last. you have to be the last interview. i agreed to that. i interviewed 10 or 12 people. i talk ab