[applause] host: that is from new gingrich at the fund-raiser for house and senate republicans. $14.5 million for the 2010 midterm elections. it is election day in virginia. the front page of "richmond times dispatch." a three-way race. polls showing it dead even in primary day. the winner of this primary will face bob macdonald. howie is on the phone from philadelphia. good morning. caller: thank you for bringing this up. this is the fact that the republican party is a dark horse and newt gingrich is wrong. the first time that we were under such conditions is one reason for hays was president. the democratic party took over the party. we needed james garfield. we know what happened with that. i believe that representative steve locke is for the populist republicans. nixon tried to bring back the fact that tell them to which was very successful during his presidency. that is a populist republican. host: more headlines this morning. "ginsburg stalls the sale of chrysler." because of her decision, she has put the brakes on chrysler's sale to fiat, at least for now. dee is on the phone f

pat buchanan, a new gingrich and others. i think what happens in american political history certain ideas dominates and certain political imperatives shape the landscape and over time they start to wane as new political questions arise and new players come onto the scene to change political identity. but in some ways like democratic liberalism in the '70s the republican right has run at of gas were in the drug of splintering it with a major internal fight over the future direction of the party. it was interesting to see in the republican primary you had a whole range of candidates none of them who could fully credibly claim conservative credentials but yet all of them invoking reagan over and over. >> host: what does that mean for the south? >> is very much in play the way it has not been in a generation. the last national presidential election resaw it in north carolina georgia, mississippi across the south i think black voters are playing a more rolled 1/2 and latino voters are playing a more decisive role and white voters

speakers include new gingrich and current gop leaders. the house should return in just a few minutes for a series of books with live coverage here on c-span. here's a portion of today's washington journal. -- "washington journal." with the project on government secrecy. we have just finished talking a little about the cia and their preservation of the intelligence and a secret from congress. you heard some of that conversation. anything surprise you? guest: just that it is part of a larger issue. hal information disclosure is regulated for political advantage. the government decides what it wants to disclose. it is often not based on principle, but on what serves their interests. that is a problematic approach. host: i should point out that the president has asked james jones, the national security adviser, to review the recommendations on the release of classified documents. what will happen in that 90-day period? guest: the classification is not based in law but an executive order. presidents typically issue their own version to define

. >> the highlight of our final season was the new gingrich show. the outlet for liberalism and conservatism in the country. take a look at this fascinating discussion. >> the power of the media to carry messages from the party to the voter? >> i think the media, the traditional elite media -- where it became a surprise was if you go back to the '40's and '50's and early '60s, this was an interesting phenomena. there was this belief you could go the journalism school and the value neutral. you could cover the news, the editorial page was over here, and you were different. that began to break down in the mid-1960s. it began to break down because younger reporters were anti vietnam. younger reporters were pro emigration and anti watergate. you get an entire judgmental personality that began to replace the so-called objectivity of the edward r. murrow generation. what has happened with the rise of fox and rush limbaugh, we've really gone back to a nineteenth century model. if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you we

new gingrich gave a disgusting speech, just attacking this president. i have never heard him even call president obama president obama. host: in the marketplace section this morning from "the wall street journal" a story retain to 2004 concerning digitally- produced books. this is addressed by the justice department. the escalation of its books search inquiry is the latest in a series of antitrust probes of google's business launched by the department and the federal trade commission. in response, the will appears to be stepping up efforts to press its case with lawmakers and regulators. the company's chief legal officer travels to washington today to defend the book search deal in meetings. there is a box looking at the various departments of the evil that the government is checking out. one is the book search, the other is hiring practices. the board overlap which would examine two directors serving on both apple and googled boards. and a behavioral at, whether the industry does enough to protect consumers. -- behavioral ads and whether the industry d

i urge you think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush in the new gingrich and some of the other republican leaders that i will not take the time to ". they have said that this is a critical component of our security apparatus. we all know how the legislative process works. the other body, it does so by 2/3 vote. it as legislation. the president believes it is good legislation, and many in this house do as well. what we have added it? we did not. but it is here. do not use this addition by the united states senate as a reason to say i cannot go -- votes for what 80% of this bill does. it supports this -- it supports the men and women deployed abroad in the defense of freedom in the furtherance of our security. i will tell you, my friends, on numerous occasions, as most of you know who have served with me, i put my card in the slot, i come to this well, or raise my voice on behalf of republican presidents who sought to further the security of this country. i am proud of those votes. i asked you to join me today to support our troops, support our national security

new gingrich. [applause] >> thank you all very, very much. going to thank mcconnell and john baner for inviting me on behalf of the two committees. i want to thank john corner and pete sessions for having been such gracious hosts. i also want to thank governor pay lynn and todd for coming tonight and for being part of this -- governor palin. [cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd. we came to the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years a

that allows the democrats to say okay its dick cheney, rush limbaugh, new gingrich, whoever we want to make the leader that day. it's about ideas could the pendulum swing -- one thing addictive about politics is you never know. obama could be a one-term president with the disastrous economy and a two-term president who heads the white house off to michelle after eight years. it is as unpredictable as sports. my phillies are at the white house right now. that's unpredictable. [laughter] and politics is the same way. you just don't know. >> look at the democrats who voted against the and those are the districts they are worried about. the districts, tom from central virginia. that's where the fault line is right now and if republicans can figure out how in 2010 to communicate with those voters and take back some of the districts that will be a powerful signal may i shift the balance of power but we will notice it and certainly the white house, rahm emanuel will notice and that is kind of where the battle is right now. we talk about it in this great picture but it's about that centered ar

that just allows the democrats to say, ok, it is dick cheney or new to gingrich. it is about ideas about getting organized at the local and state level. one thing about covering politics is that you just never know. obama could be a one-term president, or a two-term president that handle -- hands the white house over to michele. you just don't know. >> look at the house democrats that fought against the budget. those of the districts that they are worried about. in virginia, that is where the fault line is. if republicans can figure out how to communicate with those voters and take back the districts, that is a powerful signal. rahm emanuel will notice it. that is where the battle is right now. it is about that center ground of the population, that is enormously supportive of the president right now. >> i would add to that, i agree that probably 2010 and 2012 look like quite a pill for the republican party. they will have to develop their proposals and ideas out of areas that have become weaknesses for the president and the democratic party. one of those could end

new revolution. and a congressman from georgia would lead the way. >> this is truly in a way that very few political events ever are a historic event. >> under the leadership of newt gingrichans promised a new contract with america. sweeping reforms on a government that had grown too much. and for the first time in 40 years, republicans won control of the house and the senate. >> we're winning. we're winning. we're winning. >> this was a resounding victory for freedom. the republicans' revolution. >> mr. clerk, the speaker elects newt gingrich, aren't from georgia. >> newt gingrich pledged with passion to restore america's promise. he was the first republican speaker in 40 years. and everyone could feel the significance of that moment. >> we can find ways to reach out and break through the bureaucracy and to get every american child a better chance. >> and so began the most productive first 100 days of any time in history. we are on schedule. we are getting the job done with enormous help from the american people. >> middle-class tax relief, anticrime legislation, job creation, tort reform, small business incentives, and a balanced budget. but that's not where our story en

weddington be get winning coverage when newt gingrich led the conservative revolution in 1994, he was on the cover of news magazine that said that the gingrich who stole christmas, so i'm not buying this winning begets winning coverage nonsense for one second. and even that was the reason, even if to be generous say, well, maybe winning does begin winning coverage let's assume a congressional race once upon a time between david duke and martin luther king, it's not hard to imagine in some places at a certain time and david duke leading in the polls. does any decent person and think that if david duke were leading martin luther king, david duke should get favorable coverage in the media because of winning begets winning coverage? is just nonsense argument that we shouldn't take seriously and am only mentioning it to get it off the table. because when you get down to it, it really comes down to a simple understanding of what the press is there for. is there to give us the facts, it is there to tell us what's going on, it really is there to be the impartial referee, and let us decide. the american people are

new revolution. and a congressman from georgia would lead the way. >> this is truly in a way that very few political events ever are a historic event. >> under the leadership of newt gingrich, republicans promised a new contract with america. sweeping reforms on a government that had grown too much. and for the first time in 40 years, republicans won control of the house and the senate. >> we're winning. we're winning. we're winning. >> this was a resounding victory for freedom. the republicans' revolution. >> mr. clerk, the speaker elects newt

gingrich. thanks for being with us, newt. as jon voight indicated this new pushing hard and we've been pushing back. they may have the numbers but we've had some successes we can be proud of. for example, a couple of weeks ago, they came up to capitol hill saying they wanted to transfer terrorists from guantanamo. well, i'll tell you something, there's a better place for those terrorists than virginia or kentucky or kansas. it's right where they are in a cell in guantanamo. let me tell you something else, the administration got the message when 90 senators agreed with us on the senate floor. they've been real busy at the white house, the same folks who brought you the department of motor vehicles now want to make your vehicles. we've watched them take over banks, insurance companies, car companies, and now as jon voight indicated they're interested in taking over your health care. so americans will have to wait in line for surgery or have some bureaucrat tell them they can't get the life saving care they need. look, we need health care reform but we don't ne

gingrich has done and -- important things in his career, and serious consideration. host: "newsweek" recently took on a new design and had done everything from reading a new look, more white space and intense photography and heavier stock paper and longer format articles. what is the goal of the redesign, not only in look and content? who are you now appealing to? guest: to be very clear, we are 76 years old. the first issue of "moussaoui" came out in 1933. and people who work at them magazine -- the first issue of "newsweek" cannot and 13 -- 1933. the people who work now are in the shadow of the people who worked on the magazine and brought to this point, and for that we are for ever grateful. it is not as though "newsweek" five weeks ago was wrong and now it is right or was misguided and now it is well-guided. it is simply that, as you well know, and as your viewers know, the complexity of the media environment is an enormous and the challenges we face both economically and journalistically, are changing rapidly. so, how does one respond to a world in which people who are engaged in the news have the cap

now we are getting routed in new england, the new west, the pacific northwest, because unpeopled think of the republican party they think of newt gingrich, george w. bush, tom delay, dick armey, guys with texas twang. >> host: what is wrong with that? >> guest: well, ronald reagan and barack obama both have been able to find in the middle of american political liability -- life and maybe it is a western sensibility. i'm not exactly sure what it is, but we just can't be confined in the south. you know, why did ronald reagan at venice summit people in europe? because of the time even though he was right and was proven right and i think he freed about 100 million europeans, there was that cowboys swagger that scare them. even reagan who i ever not saw that in him, but george w. bush had that swagger. the same with delay and it just doesn't translate well in new england. >> host: let's get to the book. i have a million questions. let me process that with this, when you were a young one coming up, a young man living in florida, at some point you became political and added decision to be a conservative and a decision to be a republican or sta

as newt gingrich has rightly pointed out, and i do not quite -- quantum very often -- i do not quote him very often. [laughter] you should not have to tell every new dr. you see about your medical history or what prescriptions' you are taking. you should not have to repeat this. this information should be stored securely in a private medical records so your medical information can be tracked from one doctor or another, even if you change jobs or move. [applause] that will not only mean less paper pushing and lower administrative costs, saving taxpayers billions of dollars, it will mean all of you physicians will have an easier time doing your jobs. it will tell you what drugs a patient is taking so you can avoid prescribing a medication that causes a harmful reaction. it will reduce medical errors that lead to 100,000 lives lost unnecessarily in hospitals every year. there should not be any argument there. we want to make sure we are helping providers computerized so we can get the system up and running. the second step we all can agree on is to invest more in preventive care so we can afford -- avoid illness and disease in the first place. [appla

don't quote newt gingrich that often, we do a better job tracking a fedex package in this country than tracking patients' health records. [applause] you shouldn't have to tell every new doctor you see about your medical history or what prescriptions you're taking. you shouldn't have to repeat costly tests. all that information should be stored securely in a private medical record so that your information can be tracked from one doctor to another, even if you change job, even if you move, even if you have to see a number of different specialists. that's just common sense. and that will not only mean less paper pushing and lower administrative costs, saving taxpayers billions of dollars, it will also mean all of you, physicians, will have an easier time doing your job. it will tell you, the doctors, what drugs a patient is taking so you avoid prescribing a medication that will cause an interaction, it will prevent the wrong dozes going to a patient, it will reduce medical errors that will lead to 100,000 lives lost in our country every year. in shouldn't be an argument there. we want to make sure we're helping providers computerize so we can get the system up and runni

not quote newt gingrich very often -- we do a better job tracking effects package in this country than we do tracking patients' health records. [applause] you shouldn't have to tell every new doctor use the about your medical history or what prescription you are taking. you should not have to repeat costly tests. all of that information should be stored securely in a private medical record so that your information contract from one doctor to another, even if you change jobs, even if you move, even if you have to see a number of different specialists. that is just common sense. >> and president obama a bit earlier this afternoon in chicago. you can see the entire set of remarks that president obama made to the american medical association later this afternoon right here on c-span as soon as the house is finished debating some 19 suspension bills. the house comes in in just a moment. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe some government grants? >> donations. >> advertising for products? >> public money, i'm sure. >> my taxes? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years