you talked about newt gingrich and bill clinton. think there can be good things done when you have people coming together. >> on the other hand, mike, newt gingrich knew about a government shutdown every now and again. we have had 11 government shutdowns in the past few years. generally the markets do well in the government shutdowns. it doesn't do all the damage to our economy that people claim it will do. >> david, first of all, only about 15% of the government is shut down, but you're right. newt gingrich forced clinton to the middle by shutting down the government. >> by the way, point of order here it was clinton who shut down the government. newt gingrich said you have to do it or shut down the government. clinton pulled the trigger. >> then in the late 90s we saw the deficits go away. we went into a surplus and the economy took off. more importantly, take-home pay took off. it's been flat since 1999. newt gingrich was successful at bringing clinton to the table where clinton said the era of big government is over. bush brough

newt gingrich, we'll be having you on weekly to talk about this. thanks for being with us. >> look forward to it. >>> coming up, donald trump slams hillary clinton for her husband's past scandals. we'll check in with michael cohen from the trump organization and leslie marshall will weigh in. >>> then later done tsh -- >> i don't like it. i don't like anything having to do with changing our second amendment. we have plenty of rules and regulations. there's plenty of things that they can do right now that are already there. they don't do them. >> trump slams obama's plan to clamp down on your second amendment rights. check in with dana loesch, bo dietl, kirsten powers. they're all here tonight. to debate that on this busy news night in this new year. re resea. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. withof my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... ordinary objects often seemed... intimidating. doing something simple... meant enduring a lot of pain. if ra i

paul ryan, nancy pelosi, newt gingrich, they gingrich, they have to deal with 432 other people that got elected just like they did. i think there is some built-in conflict but you put on top of that the personality, the egos, them my addiction is not as bad as your addiction, my world view is more important than your worldview. how do you harness that conflict? i think the viewers are probably turning up the volume right now to say what kind of answer are they going to give in harnessing the true conflicts that come from a body of personality and egos that you have to deal with. i say that respectfully, egos and personality, because we all have those crosses to bear. >> different geographic points of view, like in agriculture. you have to find a way to bring that agriculture together that is acceptable to the south, west and midwest. - i worry a little bit about sounding too simplistic but i would start with tolerance. there has to be an understanding about the importance of tolerance in the difference of religion, philosophy, politics -- that is so core to the value of a democracy. i t

newt gingrich four years ago, pretty much on the dime was in the cnn interview. may remember this in south carolina. and he was treated much worse, much worse than you have ever been treated by anybody. because they brought up he said/she said, john king the moderator about an ex-wife that was tawdry, disrespectful, shouldb< have never been in the debate. gingrich knew it was coming and gingrich let cnn and king have it it and the result was he won the south carolina primary by a lot. and people gained a lot of respect for him. so, you saw gingrich tested, and the folks liked what he did. and i'm tellingh= you, that's the way to go here. if they treated you unfairly, and i don't believe they would, i don't believe the three moderators would treat you unfairly tomorrow night, then you have got 60 seconds to let them have it right between the guys. that's the kind of guy you are. you stand up. you let them have it. >> well, first of all, newt is a friend of mine. i thought he did great. i thought it was a very unfair question. >> that's right. >> equally unfair was

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and for a period of time, it was newt gingrich. so now what you're looking at, who can throw red meat out there, and who can make the best argument for their policies, while at the same exact time holding the secretary, former secretary of state accountable for her record in a way that will flip pennsylvania, for example, get the independent voter to lean republican, make sure ohio goes back to being red, make sure florida and virginia go back to being red. that's balance there but as professor fauntleroy said, if you are not doing the former aspect of that, inspiring people, all you're doing is being an attack dog that somebody will use on a campaign trail when you're not the nominee later this summer. >> side by side for hillary clinton, taking the current incoming is the current president of the united states. here is senator marco rubio. >> someone said, hillary clinton will make a great supreme court justice. i don't think so. if i'm our nominee i will reunite our party and turn the country around after seven years that is the

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republicans like former house speaker newt gingrich say-- part of the debate. gingrich says his decision not to participate is-- quote-- "laughable." some analysts say-- it makes trump look petty... and like he can't handle criticism. but 9news political analyst floyd ciruli says-- trump's move is absolutly strategic... and it could actually win him votes. instead of being a debate-- trump is holding his own event to benefit vets. but a super pac for ted cruz is offering to donate "one point five million dollars" to vets-- if trump will debate cruz one- on-one. corey-- so far-- trump hasn't accepted the offer. the man shoved by a denver police officer... at a bar... is now suing the officer... and the city... more than a year later. brandon schreiber says training for dpd officers is flawed and failing the community. schreiber was at a bachelor party with his brother athte one-up bar in lodo in july 2014. he says his brother fell asleep at the bar... he was detained by police and sent to detox. whe he tried to find out about his brother from officer choice john

martha: former speaker of the house newt gingrich is fox news contributor. good morning newt.e hasn't even started with hillary yet. what do you think of that? >> well, is probably true. i can't imagine how aggressive trump would be in general election. with all the different scandals and investigations more than enough to keep hum busy for a month with hillary. i us speck he better have a plan b because he may not get hillary to play with. martha: look at quinnepiac in iowa. iowa is obviously first race, first caucus in the nation. and right now you've got, this one shows trump at 31% and cruz, this is quinnepiac, they're pretty much neck-and-neck in iowa. what is your take how that comes out? what do you think about in terms of support either one of these people gets in the end? would the party rather see trump or rather see cruz if it is between the two? >> i think alternative is sanders or clinton that the party will rally to whoever we nominate because the other side is so far to the left and so unthinkable but i think in the short run, i know, cruz probably has a better

they were rick santorum and i believe newt gingrich.y had this conversation. >> let's touch on this debate that's coming up that you're going to moderate for newsmax, with newsmax. so far only rick santorum and newt gingrich have agreed. >> not seeing a lot of courage. the republican, they need to be brave. >> do you think you're a better moderator than i am? >> no, i could never beat you. you have done a great job. >> shows there's no fundamental bias between them. the director for the university of politics from the university of virginia. dr. larry sabato. this reminds me of -- i have a sense in this situation the front-runner not going to the debates, days before the caucus. this is unprecedented, right? >> it's absolutely unprecedented. you have to go back to 1964, 1968, 1972 to find presidential candidates who refused to debate. so, yeah, this is -- you know, he said in the beginning, trump said in the beginning that he's a little bit different. no, he's a lot different. [ laughter ] >> you know, you have the situation where in th

santorum went onto win with 25% and newt gingrich was around 13.st starting to tune in. the numbers are real. a lot of people haven't made up their mind. they want to see what happens and hear from the candidates. real world events intervene. >> that's where the debates factor in so heavily. great to get the inside knowledge, thank you. >>> emotional tribute to this police dog after he died in the line of duty. hear about what some officers did while they're on their way to this dog's memorial service. >>> plus, the gloves came off during last night's republican debate. >> i was invoked in that question -- in that answer. i hate to interrupt this episode of court tv. >> senator marco rubio getting in between a heating battle. cruz calling the birther issue a tactic by the donald. >> i recognize that donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in iowa, but the facts and the law are really quite clear. listen up! i'm here to get the lady of the house back on her feet. and give her the strength and energy to stay healthy. who's with me?! yay!

he did that with newt gingrich for several years the road or the second term. that is because, essentially clinton had embraced reaganomics . it was less government, nor tax cuts, a cap on federal spending. expanding the private economy. host: greg shirley joining us. i know you're not talking about current politics, i want to read something that michael reagan, ronald son wrote about donald trump. we're talking about donald trump and the nature of the gop. he said donald trump is nothing like my father, he united people, he said donald trump is killing the rest of my father's gop. he spent a lot of time throwing people off the republican bus. is that a fair statement? guest: does open to interpretation. i agree with michael generally, specifically. the ideas that there are two things that i see that are not reagan. one is that he challenges the status quo. reagan always challenge the status quo. the second thing is that he does talk about the future and he does talk about a right future which is where much like ronald reagan. way to help women or minorities or

. >> three weeks out four years ago i was at 3 or 4%, newt gingrich was last. and newt gingrich was at 37% and he was first, he finished fifth, i was first. i'm not make predictions, that was amazing rise, but rises can happen when people look and start to make decisions and see who has what it takes to be president, and who has the vision to get this job done. >> and has the opportunity to present himself or herself to the american people as the three of you did tonight. >> appreciate it. >> rick santorum, great to have you with us, thanks so much. the moderators of tonight's first debate, sandra smith, trish regan will join us next. mike huckabee, carly fiorina will also be joining us here. we're giving equal time here tonight, senator. we're live from north charleston coliseum performing arts center, stay with us, there is so much more. >> but the biggest reason we're seeing the hollowing out of the middle of america is the breakdown of the american family. the reality is that if you're a single -- kyled of a single parent and you grew up in a single parent

newt gingrich. >> senator joe lieberman. >> fried snickers. it's like going to heaven. >> we need to push that -- this is a dumb way to do it. at the end of the day brad pitt would be in our debate. >> i think it's important because it's the first contest. >> -- [ indistinguishable ] >> gets to pick who their vice president's going to be. >>> over my shoulder here, this is the varsity theater. if you happen to not have anything to do tonight on caucus eve, trying to get people to show up tomorrow night, come tonight. we have a free screening. it's the premier of "courting des moines." it's a film i wrote and former senator tom harkin and i are going to co-host this screening and jason dick is flying in in washington, d.c. to moderate a q&a afterward. it's a free screening tonight at the varsity theater. >>> we're going to take a quick commercial break. when we get back i've got an exclusive sit-down with one of the four leading contenders of the presidency. who is it? stay tuned right after these don't go anywhere. >>> today is the day before

newt gingrich. senator joe lieberman. senator chuck. >> like going to heaven. >> waiting to push back with the rnc. this is a dumb way to do it. at the end of the day brad pitt would be in our debate. >> i think it's important >> welcome back to "roske on politics." this is the des moines international airport. here with -- you were not born in des moines, iowa. >> i was not. >> this is going to be interesting. normally if you watch this program we chat with presidential candidates or elected officials, she does not fall into a category. earlier, last month you tweeted out some stuff that caught fire. what did you say and why was it so current? >> basically i told my story of coming to america as a refugee. kind of explained the very long and extensive process that this is. started tweeting basically because i saw the anti-refugee sentiment following the paris terror attacks. upset, fearful. the governors throughout the united states started setting a sort of ban or stop on refugees for safety reason. the purpose of my tw

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newt gingrich goes "on the record.", sir. >> great to be with you. >> quite a introduction by president falwell. >> i read jerry falwell's introduction. i was blown away. he is not technically an endorsement but that could be run as an infomercial on every christian radio station in the country. it's unbelievable. >> one much my favorite parts once in the beginning, once donald trump'sh÷ limousine broke down hawaii. soon mr. trump paid off the mortgage on that couple's house. >> people trailing his limousine for the rest of his life. >> i will say this though, when we were covering sergeant tahmooressi in the mexican prison, after he got out, i got a call from trump, unsolicited, he wanted his address because he want to do send some money to help him out to jump start him in life. >> i think in that sense, there is a whole story which for some reason the trump people aren't comfortable of talking about how many different things he has done that -- whether public policy things like ice skating rink in central park or whe

was quick to note that going into the 2012 caucus night santorum was at 3 percent in iowa while newt gingrich was at 34 percent. but, as you said, he ended up winning. from national to state politics, the iowa legislature is expected to tackle k through 12 education and water quality initiatives in the session that begins tomorrow. the democratic- controlled senate and the republican- led house have long been at odds over how much money to spend on education. the 2016 session will likely continue that pattern. ktiv's matt breen is in des moines and will have coverage from the capitol on news 4. it was a cold sunday across siouxland with many of us not getting out of the single digits with many of our morning lows being between -10 and -15. only far western siouxland got in on a little "warmth" getting into the 20s anyway. that slightly warmer air will try to move east a bit tomorrow meaning neither tonight or monday will be as cold as what we've seen. with the temperatures dropping into the single digits.... and below zero in some places... there's a to prevent that from happening... let the

>> newt gingrich ran the entirety of, david of the 1998 congressional campaign in the middle of the wholempeachment process against that exact same thing. the exact same thing you just cited. for first time, ever, in american political history, in the sixth year of a presidential cycle, the incumbent party gained house seats and newt gingrich was kicked out and his successor could be kicked out, bob livingston because of sex problems of his own. i would love donald trump to be republican nominee. i would love their whole campaign to be benghazi, emails and stuff about hillary clinton. david: really? you would love that. but katie the fact so far what is happening, hold on a second. we have two people in this debate. katie, the fact is gop must love the fact that donald trump is bringing this up, particularly they see comments like ruth marcus's from "the washington post"? >> look, i wrote an entire book about this, assault and flattery, war on women narrative the left tries to pin on right. really left waging war on women for years. hillary clinton was part of that. i mean let's not forge

newt gingrich said on this program this week that you are demeaning yourself if you get into a fight in this particular case. but the polls show you winning. so do you go with the polls that it works when you go back and forth or do you say, maybe my relationship with ted cruz can be repaired? >> well, i have to go with my own thinking. ted attacked me. don't forget. he started. he attacked me pretty viciously. first he was laying back, as we all know. they said "in the wake." frankly he attacked me, sean. and i have a lot of respect for mark levin. i have a lot of respect for rush. rush has been great for me. rush has been so amazing. mark's been pretty good. mark likes ted and i think he likes me. but i have to go with my own thinking and i talked about the fact that, frankly, i think i'm doing the party a favor and i think i'm actually doing ted a favor, the fact that he was born in canada, he with a as a citiz canada until just 15 months ago. constitutional lawyers are saying he can't even run. how can you have a candidate you're going to pick as a republican nominee and he's not

martha: newt gingrich is comparing donald trump to andrew jackson type figure. think about that? >> well i think speaker gingrich who i am a big fan of is basically right. i would phrase it a little differently. i think there is such contempt for washington and such disappointment with the republican party and establishment, these arguments we've heard a million times people are willing to take a hail mary pass, make a hail mary pass with donald trump because they figure, he couldn't blow it anymore than the people in washington have blown it. i think that some of it also has to do with the fact that barack obama has had such contempt for the normal rules of the game and so when people say, well, trump has contempt for normal rules. game, they say, exactly right. we'll fight fire with fire. you know obama gets away with it. we should have a guy gets away with it too. i think it is a very risky proposition. when i see donald trump i don't necessarily see strength. and i certainly don't see seriousness. he strikes me more of a jesse ventura character than ronald r

here's a quick list of them a biography of clinton was the first one and then the next year tell newt gingricho shut up came out. the clinton enigma came out in 1988 when pride still mattered 1999 the prince of tennessee, al gore meets his fate came out in 2000 and they marched into sunlight war and peace, october 1967 that came out in july, 2003. the last hero of 2006. once in a great city this is an interactive program and we spent 45 minutes or so talking. if you would like to talk with david maraniss as you can see there's lots of topics that can be talked about

there was no more a staunch of support of reagan than newt gingrich.ve to say that i am surprised but not surprised by "national review". >> bob, you're making a good argument. those guys like you, you're really bad. but it's not just the establishment passing over ted cruz, right? it's the anti-establishment. sarah palin, of course, endorsing donald trump. even ted nugent today saying, donald trump is as close to ted nugent as you're going to get in politics. those are two people that the establishment despise. they are also picking donald trump. >> i think the difference here, erin, is that sarah palin is an o outlier and i think she's providing cover for what people have questions about while guys like myself, brian brown, national organization for marriage are embracing because we celebrate ted cruz's values and we know he's a champion for those values. those are the issues that are going to play well on caucus night. i'm not as consistent as conservative as you may think i am. that's not going to sell. i think ted cruz stays in that lane. he keeps

i would use its inclusion his inclusion finding ways to include everybody at the table so that newt gingrich was a voice and nancy pelosi has a voice and trent lott and tom daschle have voices but that this collective cacophony finally comes together so when you finally reach a common ground, the possibility here in the middle of the table everybody has another chance to get and to contribute and ultimately the consensus can be born the districts with the relationship and tolerance and the communication and recognition that we have got to find common ground. the lack of it saying my way or the highway is my idea of a dictatorship. that's how you find dictators who only get it their way. this country wasn't built on dictators was built on consensus. >> host: senator before you get your thoughts on that, you know, you mentioned relationships. i learned relationships from the football huddle and when you go to war every day with people, they would say things that would be politically incorrect but he didn't mean anything by that. i know the military tends to have that. they talked about i am a

former speaker of the house and presidential candidate newt gingrich joining us to share his thoughts> and we want to hear from you, who do you think will win the gop debate tonight? our live chat is up and running. go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and get your thoughts into the conversation. with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. try gaviscon®. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts.r? the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. ♪ ♪ jenna: fox news is america's election headquarters as we count down to tonight's debate among republican candidates for president without front runner donald trump right now. preps are well underway in des moines. with donald trump out of the mix, ted cruz will be the highest pollin

however, pundits started saying, the primaries are coming, alabama and mississippi, this is where newt gingrichill have his chance. the polls are too close to call. except, they weren't. in now them the blue is gingrich and the green is romney, -- in alabama, the blue is gingrich, the green is romney, the brown is santorum. santorum walked away with alabama, because he had gotten those appalachian votes again. the posters were blindsided, because they had done polls based on gender and income level and race, but not by regional cultures. mississippi was a bit closer, only because the appalachian section of mississippi is much smaller. posters ignored these kind of things at their own peril. that is the most recent presidential election, just to finish the pattern. today, essentially we have two coalitions. they are two weak coalitions, which explains the brinkmanship we have been in. there is a blue coalition that consists of yankeedom, and the red coalition with appalachian and deep south. if you overlaid the electoral college and senate and house of representatives, that does not give a lock

however, pundits started saying, the primaries are coming, alabama and mississippi, this is where newt gingrich will have his chance. the polls are too close to call. except, they weren't. in now them the blue is gingrich and the green is romney, -- in alabama, the blue is gingrich, the green is romney, the brown is santorum. santorum walked away with alabama, because he had gotten those appalachian votes again. the posters were blindsided, because they had done polls based on gender and income level and race, but not by regional cultures. mississippi was a bit closer, only because the appalachian section of mississippi is much smaller. posters ignored these kind of things at their own peril. that is the most recent presidential election, just to finish the pattern. today, essentially we have two coalitions. they are two weak coalitions, which explains the brinkmanship we have been in. there is a blue coalition that consists of yankeedom, and the red coalition with appalachian and deep south. if you overlaid the electoral college and senate and house of representatives, that does not give a loc

the daily beast followed that up by saying, wait a minute, newt gingrich isn't full of himself?oe mcquaid answered that by saying, "i went with the guy who knows he's full of bleep." and that was how he talks about the guy who he likes. that's how he talked about the candidate who he endorsed that year. i picked him because he knows he's full of -- that's the way that joe mcquaid and the "union leader" do politics. there's a lot of swearing. it's very rude. but donald trump, as this year's republican front-runner, for all his reputation for brashness, right? and all his supposed respect for not being politically correct, he is so thin skinned when it comes to anything about himself that he just can't take it. he cannot take that sort of thing. and so he has been on the war path against the "union leader" and its publisher by name, and he's now crowing that he got the "union leader" removed from the last new hampshire debate before new hampshire votes on february 9th. the "union leader" published an e-mail they got from abc news explaining why abc was dropping them from the debat

. >> rose: i also remember after newt gingrich had contract with america successful, bill clinton said the end of big government is upon us. >> arguably the last state of the union that really mattered was that speech. >> rose: because? because that was the moment the new democrat recovered himself and reset for the second term. >> rose: i see, after -- after newt gingrich's landslide in '94. >> the weird thing is many of these state of the unions are not memorable when you look back over history. i mean, there are some lines we remember. obviously from lincoln, f.d.r., the four freedoms, there are bad ones we remember, but it's a hard thing to do. normally, i think it's hard because you have so many policy proposals being forced on you by all the different cabinet officers and you're trying to satisfy both them and the congress and the country, and i think tonight what made it easier for president obama was he was really just speaking to the audience of the country. i mean, he wasn't really speaking to the congress because he's not sure what he can get through there, so he was going o

newt gingrich was on the committee and i had an occasion to talk to him. he told me held good she was. that's how great the campaign was. you will be treated to a lot of things the republicans said before she started running. [laughter] but anyway she knows how to do things. she knows where to do something about this black money and politics, this secret money. this is wrong. the supreme court said we cannot limit the amount of money people can spend on campaigns. i think it was a bad decision but they did not say that we had to let people give money in an undisclosed way and sneak around when they try to change the whole future of politics nationally or in new hampshire. we have got to keep working for them. [applause] i want to just say one thing about this election. again you just have to decide whether you want inclusive economics, inclusive social potties -- policies and inclusive policy. and whether you want someone who actually knows how to defend the country without giving away our values. how to build an economy or in her words a struggling -- and

newt gingrich was on the commission. i had occasion to talk to him. he went out of his way to tell me how good she was. if you nominate her you'll be treated to a lot of things the republicans said before she started running. [laughter] mr. clinton: but anyway, she knows we have to do something about this black money in politics. the supreme court said that we cannot limit the amount of money people spend on campaigns. i think it was a bad decision but they said it. they did not say that we had to let people give money in an undisclosed way and sneak around when they try to change the whole future of politics nationally or in new hampshire. we have to keep working for that. [applause] i want to say one thing about this election. you have to decide whether you want inclusive economics, inclusive politics. whether you want somebody who actually knows how to defend the country without giving away our values. how to build an economy for the struggling, the striving and the successful. what you think that'll be the model. to do it you need a change maker.

kasich was a newt gingrich acolyte, back when we thought newt gingrich was the furthest right american politics could go. john kasich still believes in the balanced budget amendment, the worst idea in american politics. john kasich, trying to be scott walker and got kicked around by his electorate basically when he took on the public employee uniform -- unions, excuse me. but at the same time he accepted the medicaid benefits. so that marks him lousy. quite frankly i don't know -- and i read that "national review" thing too. i don't know what american conservatism is anymore. it's this pile of adjectives -- it's this pile of adjectives by the side of the road. >> all delivered in a sort of stentorian tone to imply big and grand principles. sabrina, am i missing something on this barbara bush web ad? is it just -- is it just natural wasp reticence, not wanting to boast too much about your son? does the whole thing feel a little underwhelming from a mother talking about her son? >> well, you remember that she infamously said that we didn't need another bush in the white house. i think we

newt gingrich in washington. >> all right, take care. >> that is for sure. interesting to hear from newt on this. the republicans scrambling for position. the candidates in the middle of the pack are all fighting for a place in that top tier coming out of iowa. byron york is chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor. great to see you here, as always. >> thank you, martha. >> you look at the history of this, how accurate -- and let's put up that new des moines poll that we talked about earlier on in the program. how accurate is it typically, and santorum really broke the model. what can we apply to it this time? >> if we knew that the poll right now was correct, i guess everybody could just go home. in 2012, we looked back, the poll was very, very correct on where mitt romney turned up, where ron paul turned up, where newt gingrich turned up, but it was way, way off for rick santorum. rick santorum was at 15% in that last poll. a couple of days later in the caucuses, he was at 24.6%. just this much ahead of mitt romn

not herman cain or newt gingrich. howard dean? howard dean was a candidate who led right up to the eve of iowa. when he couldn't win a single contest, he never won anything. of thethe last hope possible in denial republican establishment, that that's the trump candidacy. >> if you had to narrow it down to the three candidates who have organization to last in the states that we're looking at the money and the message, what are the three on the republican side, do you way we're, the looking at it now? >> i think the situation is way volatile to rule almost anybody outal at this point. as michael said, you definitely trump in the mix. rubio nipping at their heels. on strongie is coming in new hampshire. i would say those are the top four right now. >> the other thing is that question, who has the organization, the money, is not really the pertinent question. if that was the pertinent we'd be talking about jeb bush. and jeb bush continues to sort polls.ggle and fall in he's the guy who came in with $100 million. spent 50 of it and he'

. >> when you and newt gingrich, you did leave us with the last balanced budget. remember discussing and deb e debating it on radio for a long time. we ended up with a surplus for what, five years? four consecutive years. >> we paid down a half a trillion of the national debt. they blew it all once we all left washington, they spent it all. it wasn't just democrats, republicans as well. >> you and united gingrich at the time weren't exactly viewed as establishment. i'm just being honest. >> you're right. no. we were viewed as troublemakers, refo reformers. >> and the industcountry was be off. the country got a balanced budget. my question to you is now because you've been in government longer than maybe other people that are on that stage, maybe some people in the country think we don't need these guys with experience anymore, how do you respond to that? >> because i was effective in the change i sought and took on special interests whether defense contractors, taking on the military or welfare reform or the penny kasich plan, trying to take a penny out of every d

. >> when you and newt gingrich, you did leave us with the last balanced budget. i remember discussing and deb e debating it on radio for a long time. we ended up with a surplus for what, five years? four consecutive years. >> we paid down a half a trillion of the national debt. they blew it all once we all left washington, they spent it all. it wasn't just democrats, republicans as well. >> you and united gingrich at the time weren't exactly viewed as establishment. i'm just being honest. >> you're right. no. we were viewed as troublemakers, refo reformers. >> and the industcountry was be off. the country got a balanced budget. my question to you is now because you've been in government longer than maybe other people that are on that stage, maybe some people in the country think we don't need these guys with experience anymore, how do you respond to that? >> because i was effective in the change i sought and took on special interests whether defense contractors, taking on the military or welfare reform or the penny kasich plan, trying to take a penny out of every

i was there the night newt gingrich became speaker. i was emcee in georgia. it's amazing. you didn't shut the government down. the government, you allowed it to be shut down twice. you insisted on a balance budget, and no mathematical, no -- >> no washington calculator. >> right we got it done and growing jobs but the story is important. we have not had a balanced budget since we landed on the moon and haven't done it since. it requires discipline. if you're balancing the budget, people will insist and create jobs. >> and you're not stealing from your children. >> record is important. to get to the balanced budget i had to fight everybody in the establishment. you remember what it was like. >> we'll balance it between 7 and 9. >> do you remember that? >> yes. yes. >> it did get him to sign the deal. >> but conservatism works. with you thing -- >> i would not have had the leadership to, just not had the leadership division. >> you're disappointed? >> sure i am. of course. on the spending side. >> you may have stood up and taken a stand and using the power of the purse. >> i

and joining us former speaker of the house, newt gingrich joining us right now. sir, thank you for joining us. >> that's quite a panel you have there. i'm very impressed. maria: it sure is. >> hello, newt. >> hey, guys. maria: newt gingrich, let me kick it off with your reaction, first. i want your reaction on what's going on in this economy and the stock market. hear what your reaction is to the debate last night. what are your take aways? >> well, trump entered the debate as a front runner, trump left as the front runner, if you look at the google map, every state had more commentary on social media about trump. cruz had a great debate and effective except for his new york exchange. rubio, i think, did very well and actually had this one riff of 11 different attacks on cruz, literally 11 attacks on cruz in one answer, which clearly had been pretty well thought out and the others and i've got great friends on that stage who i think are-- they're punching, but they're not getting in the ring. i think the ring right now is trump first by a big margin and then cruz

when the gentleman who i believe held the seat you hold, newt gingrich, was running this institutionin 1996, he passed the largest piece of health care reform legislation that had been passed in my lifetime, and specifically intentionally with president bill clinton decided to abolish all pre-existing conditions for federally regulated plans but to leave it to states like kentucky to sort out pre-existing conditions in state regulated plans. where we are today is that folks have said pre-existing conditions are a problem. if you lose the genetic lottery at birth, you shouldn't be penalized for the rest of your life. we care about our neighbors, and we want there to be a place for everyone at the health insurance table. is that or is that not not just the budget committee position, not just the republican conference position, but the doctors caucus position and the position of your health care replacement bill as well? >> absolutely. and i appreciate the question and the comments. and i along with dr. burgess and others in the medical profession spent decades, literally decades, carin

john: let's go back to 2012, when in the fall of 2012, when mitt romney went after newt gingrich, theyummeled him from november through december. for only about 4-5 weeks. but in the course of the time it took him from the front runner to be fifth in iowa. that was a huge example about how negative at can take out someone with negatives ads can take out someone with a lot of baggage. by and large, 2015 so positive. they are now flooding the market with pent-up negative ads. now voters cannot make heads or tails. mark: in order for these things to break through, you need to reinforce paid media or tweets with the candidate or a major surrogate driving the message. it has to be breaking through. the ads against john kerry were reinforced by tons of news coverage. these get episodic coverage for a day and a half. they talk about it on network, but they are not dominating the conversation. none of these attacks have been silver bullet. john: you have this giant field with one guy that gets most of the attention. not only do they have to be reinforced by surrogates and media, but they also