got a transcript I reviewed it I actually went out and reviewed it an
answer that I gave and I realized that there is a need for some clarification
it should have been obvious I thought it would be obvious but I would like to
clarify just in case it wasn't in a key sentence in my remarks I said the word
would instead of wouldn't the sentence should have been I don't see any reason
why I wouldn't why it wouldn't be Russian all right so there you got the
president of state say yesterday afternoon in the roosevelt room
clarifying what he had said at that press conference with vladimir putin in
helsinki newt gingrich joins us right now former Speaker of the House Fox News
contributor he's also got a great new book out it's called Trump's America mr.
speaker before the president clarified you said of the mistake you said it was
the most serious mistake of his presidency now you've heard him clarify
says did he misspoke problem with the double negative what do you think well
if you read the entire text of what he said in the Roosevelt Room he goes on in
length reinforcing his belief in the American intelligence agencies and by
the way pointing out that his critics or the people who failed when you see John
Brennan or you see other people who are Jim clapper talking on television those
were the guys who were in charge in 2016 so their hysteria and their strong
language they're the failures Trump was a candidate he wasn't in charge of
national security they were and they failed I thought that his correction was
important I frankly think he could give a major speech and put it in context
mean a lot of them stuff we've heard and I was as direct as I was the other day
because I thought it was important to get his attention he's not a guy as you
know he's not a guy who likes to correct himself or likes to admit he made a
mistake and I thought this was a big enough one that he simply had to stop
and set the record straight but but let's also look at the record
Obama was very weak in Ukraine trump has authorized the sale of offensive weapons
to the Ukrainians to defend themselves Trump has expelled 60s Russian
intelligence people in the United States he has closed for Russian offices the
United States he went to NATO to do what to get him to
increase their spending so they would be stronger in containing Russia he
lectured it's the chance so Germany about what about buying natural gas from
Russia and propping up Putin so to suggest that somehow Trump has some
Patsy for Putin requires you to deny everything that he's done and that's why
correcting that one mistake I thought was very important I just heard just
real quick Leon Panetta the former CIA director says the way Trump behaves is
clear signal the Russians have something on him do you have do you want to
counter that or you want to agree with that sure I think I'd sure I think John
Brennan is a total disgrace no I'm well that was a failure yeah
oh well and Panetta said by was Brennan had caught a treasonous in Panetta's
case I'd like to know why why when he was advising Obama they didn't provide
offensive weapons to Ukraine why they didn't do the things to increase
spending at NATO why you know I just think that all of a sudden you have this
revisionist history from the left the fact is that Obama was totally
ineffective Hillary Clinton's reset button was a joke she gave the Russians
access to uranium that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise so when I when I
look at the totality of the Obama period it seems to me that Trump has been so
much tougher than Obama was that there's no question and I don't know why Leon
would say that me Leon's a pretty balanced guy but I thought it was
Brennan just because it sounded like Brennan Wright who was pretty well
there's something to that too the Russians would not be in the Middle East
again if President if President Obama enforced his red line in Syria that left
an opening for the Russians to come back in starts taking the so-called weapons
of mass destruction that poison gas out by the way they left almost all of it in
and next thing you know they're flying their planes and that president Syria is
is where it is today you know I think it's fair to say that compared to in
terms of who was softer on Putin I think that Trump has fired about a hundred and
twenty-five missiles into Syria in order to enforce our disagreement with the use
of chemical weapons as I said a minute ago he expelled in in supporting Great
Britain he expelled sixty Russian officers who were in the United States
he closed four offices I didn't see anything like that at of Obama so but
but I'm not going to say that Obama therefore was it was a puppet of Putin
and I'm frankly very surprised that somebody as rational as Leon Panetta
would have said that yeah well the president's saying it's Trump
derangement syndrome why the left is treating in this way this is his latest
tweet he said some people hate the fact that I get along well with President
Putin of Russia they would rather go to war than see this it's called Trump
derangement syndrome well you do remember that on the left they had four
different sets of signs to oppose any of the four people that Trump picked to be
the US Supreme Court justice so it gives you some flavor
you know they wake up in the morning they know Trump has done something wrong
they just don't know what it is yet but they know that they'll be outraged
you know they know that would spend the day being outraged they just don't know
exactly what it is they're gonna be outraged by but I want to go back this
was a very important moment for this president if he had not fixed this if he
had not had that to that talk in the Roosevelt Room if he had not gone on to
reinforce the American intelligence system I think that we've been a much
bigger mess right now and I'm really delighted that he took a serious look at
it he hates to correct himself it's not who he is but I think he did the right
thing I think he did it well all right Newt Gingrich joining us today with his
perspective mr. speaker thank you very much Thanks I'm not pro-russia Pro
anybody I just want to have this country be safe I don't want nuclear weapons
even people thinking about it you know Russia and the United States control 90%
of the nuclear weapons in the world and getting along with Russia and not only
for that reason that's a good thing not a bad thing that says that before and he
said it in the past and he said it again last night
of course Tucker did his interview a couple of days ago when he was over in
Finland that's right right after the press conference Tucker got a one-on-one
with him so did Sean Hannity so we aired one the first night and then one last
night let's bring in Tommy Lehren she's out in California I assume which is
where you where she lives great to see you this morning thanks for
waking up super early what do you what do you think Tommy about good to see you
thank you what do you think about the president's comments and the way the the
media treated him well there were many on the left and of course some of our
favorite never Trump errs who were said about this press conference before it
even began because they will use any excuse to be outraged at this president
for doing exactly what he said he was going to do which was try to repair
relations with Russia and beyond that this investigation this endless
investigation has been going on for far too long and there has been no evidence
of collusion this president is fed up as are most of the American people if
there's evidence of collusion with Russia we would like to see it if not
stop wasting our time because the candidates that the Democrats wanted to
win did not win in 2016 let's move on this president is fed up I'm fed up I'm
sure everyone watching is fed up with us at this point right well Tommy the the
rhetoric from the left regarding what he said and he said he misspoke yesterday
when he clarified yesterday in the Roosevelt Room but the rhetoric from the
left has been really hyperbolic I mean some people said that what he said was
worse than 9/11 worse than Kristallnacht worse than Pearl Harbor that he's a
traitor and it's treason it's it's a complete Trump derangement syndrome
example of sometimes it happens like that on the left oh these are the final
stages of Trump derangement syndrome and you're gonna see it more and more as we
head into midterms but again I will have folks look at this and I'll have them
ask the Democrats many of the never Trump errs and of course many in the
mainstream media do you want this president to wage war against Russia
because Hillary Clinton lost the election it's a very simple question
because if you look at the outrage of the Selective outrage I might add
from the left it would almost seem as if that is what they want so that is my
question to them moving forward what would you have this president do would
you like him to work towards diplomacy and world peace or would you like him to
be aggressive towards Russia because Hillary Clinton lost the election for
example right and let's just look at the results at the tax cut was only for the
red to really look at the economy you can't argue with that North North Korea
well it's all falling apart talks aren't going well yesterday we got the remains
I understand of 50 North Korea Korean War veterans so that is on-track plus a
letter back and forth and now we have an understanding that if Russia if the
Russia deal comes forward we're going to have a series of consistent meetings
with higher-ups in Russia for the most contentious issue in the world right now
so the results and the anger will subside if the if the results are
different and they are and they are turning out the way the president says
do you think the Democrats want this president to have any victories because
I haven't seen one indication of that thus far into this presidency all those
things that you mentioned all the accomplishments it almost seems that the
Democrats are rooting against this president and therefore rooting against
this country this issue is no different all right
Tommy let's switch gears there's a 28-year old political newcomer she's a
socialist who won the Democratic primary here in New York City her name is
Alexandria Acacio Cortes and I don't know if she really has a handle on how
the jobs thing works but she had this observation about the unemployment rate
which right now is very low unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs
unemployment is low because people are working 60 70 80 hours a week and can
barely feed their kids and so I do think that right now when we have this
no-holds-barred wild-west hyper capitalism what that means is profit at
any cost capitalism has not always existed in the
world and it will not always exist in the world okay so what do you make of
her economics ideas where everybody the reason unemployment is low is
everybody's got two jobs isn't it disturbing that the quote future of the
Democratic Party doesn't know how the unemployment rate is calculated I didn't
think there could be a better face for the Democratic Party than Hillary
Clinton but then Alexander Acacio Cortez came along and I have to tell you it's
disturbing but like I told you guys a couple weeks ago if this is truly the
new face of the Democratic Party I really like our chances in November a
couple of things Tommy she's diametrically opposed to you but I like
when talented people like you and her she's got talent get into politics so I
don't think it's I don't like the way everyone's vilifying her but I just have
a problem when Tom Perez says she's the future of the party and they know of
nothing about her in fact Joe Lieberman came out yesterday and said Joe Crowley
should do what I did when I lost my primary I went back in his independent
and I went back in one might see that Joe Crowley should go try to do that you
think he should go do do that well for the future of this country would hope
that reasonable Democrats are coming forward and challenging someone like
Alexander Acacio Cortes because the things that she's saying are truly toxic
when she when she raves about socialism I wonder if she's looked at Venezuela
lately in the fruits of what socialism produces again it's disturbing and it's
deserving because a lot of young people are looking to her as the future of the
Democratic Party I think the Democratic Party deserves better because remember
people flee from socialism not to it and we don't need leaders like her preaching
the value of socialism to our young people to our citizens yeah but you
think about it during the last presidential cycle who was the red hot
on the political left it was Bernie Sanders and he's a socialist and he had
a lot of kids interested in his message yet and here she is today well you have
to also consider to where her region where she loves she lives in New York I
don't know if that message would would also work in other parts of the country
where you do have blue states right well see Tommy have a great week thank you
very much for joining us today
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