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

the issue was entirely different, as speaker newt gingrich, my great friend newt knows very, very well. the issue was the two sides couldn't reach an agreement on a budget resolution. and the president and newt gingrich, particularly were at loggerheads, the public blamed the republicans. but the most important issue there was about what the budget was going to be. it was not about a piece of legislation already on the books. once you open the door to the kind of extortion that the republicans are now wanting to use, that is, we have got a piece of legislation already passed both houses of congress and approved by the president. it has been sustained by the supreme court as constitutional, once you open the door to the republicans using a shutdown and a threat to basically default on the nation's debt as a means of getting their way to change that legislation, or to delay that legislation, or to repeal that legislation then no piece of legislation is safe. >> let me bring -- >> our legislative system -- >> he is a terrific person, a great scholar, but this is nonsense. in the 1970s, un

the issue was entirely different, as speaker newt gingrich, my great friend newt knows very, very well. the issue was the two sides couldn't reach an agreement on a budget resolution. and the president and newt gingrich, particularly were at loggerheads, the public blamed the republicans. but the most important issue there was about what the budget was going to be. it was not about a piece of legislation already on the books. once you open the door to the kind of extortion that the republicans are now wanting to use, that is, we have got a piece of legislation already passed both houses of congress and approved by the president. it has been sustained by the supreme court as constitutional, once you open the door to the republicans using a shutdown and a threat to basically default on the nation's debt as a means of getting their way to change that legislation, or to delay that legislation, or to repeal that legislation then no piece of legislation is safe. >> let me bring -- >> our legislative system -- >> he is a terrific person, a great scholar, but this is nonsense. in the 1970s, un

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

because she's all out talking her book and coulter writes in her new book about you she says that newt gingrich you are ripping off the republican party for your own self aggrandizement she loves you with liz cheney todd akin and mark sanford as enemies of the g.o.p. how do you react. well that's kind of weird. i help leaders to the first republican majority in the house in forty years i helped develop with bill clinton the first four of the only four balanced budgets in her lifetime we helped pass welfare reform how to thought all those when it counted against the number of books she sold but you know people got to go out and say something to sell books and she's found her schtick and it's attacking conservatives and being sort of the odd person out so you know life's like that i don't know i don't worry about it much i worry about how do we develop ideas to break out from where we are today not how do we argue with people like that and speaking of books your wife calista wonderful lady has a new book out called yankee doodle dandy and i'm going to relate this to the current situation

on the right, newt gingrich.e, democratic congresswoman sheila jackson link who wants the government reopened without conditions. and republican michaelly who wants the president to negotiate. keep the government closed or shut down the politics. tonight on "crossfire." >> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> and i'm stephanie cutter on the left. joining us tonight are democratic congresswoman sheila jackson of texas and republican congressman of pennsylvania. tonight i can make a republican make my case. >> talking about the tea party caucus? >> not tea party caucus. not at all. it's a lemming caucus. it's guys who meet privately. they're always conspiring. it's mostly just about power. and it's just gotten us nowhere. >> congressman kelly, now i don't know if he's talking about you. but i do have a question. you know, the writing is on the wall. i agree with congressman nunes. this isn't about anything but political power. and republicans are jumping ship because they know they're losing o

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

the office bill clinton in 1995. >> newt, please.sident has been one of the most conciliatory negotiators over a period of time. and i have to correct my good friend. i was here during the passage of the affordable care act which went through regular order, which both houses, the senate and the house asked for republican input. asked for amendments. allowed them to have it. it went through what this has not gone through. the hearing process and as well, the mark-up process which technically, if you look at the morning show that's on abc that talks about how you do a bill cartoon. we went through the regular order. our speaker, speaker pelosi was an excellent leader. one, because the 111th congress was the busiest, most successful in terms of bills that helped the american people, including the g.i. bill that hemmed our returning iraq soldiers. >> what you call a successful agenda, this president -- >> it was enormously successful. i let you speak so let me say this. newt has made a point and who sets the agenda for different houses.

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

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

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

on the right, newt gingrich. in the "crossfire." bill richardson, democrat ecformer governor of new mexico, and bob you recallic, the former rep gove you recall lick. 7 happy halloween. >> i'm van jones on the left. in the crossfire, two former governor, bill richardson and bob urlich. on this hall oweek, the worst trick that nobody is talking about is what republican governors are doing to their own people. millions of americans get up every mork, work hard all day long, don't make enough money for insurance, and they make too much money to qualify for medicaid. that's why obama care includes federal dollars for every state to expand medicaid to help those working families. to me there is nothing more ghoulish than republican governors rejecting that money and denying their own citizens life-saving health insurance just for political points. that's my happy halloween to you, newt. >> i know this is a very difficult concept for our friends on the left to understand, but a lot of governors actually believe that being bankrupt would b

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

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

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

newt gingrich, a few days into the 1995 government shutdown, told reporters the story of that snub on the plane as his way of explaining why he had to play such hardball with president clinton on that year's budget. quote, i think that's part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher budget resolution, mr. gingrich said. this is petty, and i'm going to say up-front it's petty, but i think it's human. look at this from the baltimore sun. "gingrich links stalemate to perceived clinton snub," as he has done repeatedly since returning home from the rabin funeral, mr. gingrich railed against mr. clinton's treatment of him. at a breakfast, he said he was insulted and appalled that mr. clinton had refused to invite republican leaders to the front of the plane. mr. gingrich said, where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy? and thus was born one of the most famous newspaper front pages of all time. this was the cover of the "new york daily news," three days into the 1995 government shutdown. "cry baby -- newt's tantrum, he closed down the government because clin

was also a big congressional delegation that went along, including the then speaker of the house, newt gingrich. and that trip to israel for the funeral of rabin in november of 1995, that trip, not the events that precipitated it, not the assassination, but the trip itself, specifically the flight, is in part how we got the 1995 shutdown of the federal government, which is the last government shutdown before the one we're in right now. quote, gingrich had been invited aboard air force one to fly to the funeral. with a budget crisis pending, he expected that president clinton would take time out during the fight to talk to him about a possible solution. but president clinton, who seemed to be genuinely grieving over prime minister rabin's death stayed up front in a cabin with former presidents jimmy carter and george bush on both the outward-bound and return trips. then when the plane landed at andrews air force base outside washington, newt gingrich and senate majority leader bob dole said they were asked to deplane by the rear door. so three presidents out the front door, everybody el

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

i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm stephanie cutter on the left.ler heads are prevailing, the dulles are stepping in. they're trying to prevent the company from defaulting, and newt, i'm sor

he is and newt beginning -- he and newt gingrich had a secret deal at one time about how to sort of, you know, get rid of the national debt and to begin to end the culture wars that were plaguing, still continue to plague washington to this day. i mean, liberalism, i would argue, is in the best position it has been since the kennedy era because of the institutions and because their opposition so absolutely just flailing. they don't understand that the american people, generally speaking, are not interested in their solutions. they talk about ronald reagan in 2013 exactly like democrats talked about franklin roosevelt in 1980s. the problem is it's not 1980 anymore, for the democrats in 1980 it was no longer 1936, you know? and so they're stuck in the past. they're looking to a political idol and a set of political answers that answered questions from another generation. and so, you know, if i put my -- i mean, i put my money on liberals dominating the national landscape, because they are the ones at least, they may not have all the right answers, but they are looking at the right ques

i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm stephanie cutter on the left.r heads are prevailing, the dulles are stepping in. they're trying to prevent the company from defaulting, and newt, i'm sorry that it has come to this, but i'm glad we're on the verge of a deal. there's a report out earlier today by an economic forecasting make rho economic advisers that these self-inflicted wounds, cause crises in washington, has cost the country about 900,000 jobs. >> first of all, it's a pity the president hasn't shown leadership and tried to bring people together, but, hey, anybody who thinks john boehner has been bypassed continues to misread the constitution. if the senate doesn't pass something that boehner can pass in the house, it's just a press conference. but second, after all the week you and i have been here, debating about whether or not the president should negotiate, the number one things happening today is they're negotiating. now, i think that's good for america. i'm delighted that finally we are seeing some negotiation, and i hope they will in the n

former speaker of the house and presidential candidate newt gingrich shares his insights.gating and we have some of the top tailgating foods to keep you and your friends screaming for more. david miller from hard rock cafe joins us this morning with more. - what foods should we enjoy while tailgating? - what drinks should we enjoy? - what's new at hard rock cafe? to learn more log on to fox baltimore dot to learn more log on to fox baltimore dot to learn more log on to fox baltimore dot com slash morning. the least you can do.. is laught at it. a look at the government shut down... that might make you chuckle.. or at least smile. you're watching fox 45 good day baltimore. shutdown have in common? jeanne moos compares 2013 to 1995. it's deja vu all over again. --reporter pkg- as follows-- the clock was ticking... "tick tick tick tick...." "with a ticking time bomb..." sometimes two clocks....people seemed to be getting ticked off. "...with a compromise position." "congressman that's not fair, don't you dare put this back on me, you know full well you, no no, you know full w

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

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this man is the biggest flirt of all, newt gingrich.s newt gingrich who 20 years ago spearheaded the right-wing's virulent crusade against the norms of democratic government. as speaker of the house he twice brought about shutdowns of the federal government once, believe it or not, because he felt snubbed after riding on air force one with president clinton and had to leave by the back door. it was also newt gingrich, speaker gingrich, who was caught lying to congressional investigators looking into charges of his ethical wrongdoing. his colleagues voted overwhelmingly, 395-28, to reprimand him. pressure from his own party then prompted him to resign. yet even after his flame-out, even after his recent bizarre race for the presidency bankrolled with money from admiring oligarchs, even after new allegations about his secret fundraising for right-wing candidates, gingrich remains the darling of a fawning amnesic media. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> on cnn.com the other day he issued a call to arms to his fellow bomb-throwers, "don