Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacts to Senators Johnson and Peters clashing on topic of Russia disinformation and calls out the media's coverage of Hunter Biden scandal on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Brian thanks Janice Dean
Janice, you are welcome,
will
Brian lets bring in Newt
Gingrich Fox NEWS, contributor,
former speaker of the house,
author of Trump and Americas
Future
Newt? How are you
im doing great?
I must say you have to wonder
how crazy Cuomo is to think that
you can rule out all indoor
dining in December and January
in New York.
It will would be one thing if
you were the governor of
Florida,
you think the governor of New
York would realize it gets
really cold and sometimes it
gets really snowy
and his orders make no sense.
Brian Newt, you are mistaking
him for someone who cares,
someone who actually talks to
business people.
I was talking to two or three
restaurant owners yesterday
and they said the worse thing is
they have no communication
and they walk around with these
hired workers
and at the drop of a hat they
will say: youre shut down,
take your license
and you could be as tough as you
want,
but when they take that license
and shut you down,
you are done,
Ainsley tell them. What RON
Desantis said in Florida said. I
got your back brain Brian,
totally different attitude.
People will never forget that
Desantis actually cares about
people.
Cuomo cares about one person,
Cuomo
Brian. Let me bring you to what
happened yesterday. I know you
have seen a lot of fireworks.
Personally,
I thought this exchange was
something I dont think I have
ever seen before. Nor might I not
see repeated Senator Johnson and
ranking member Senator Peters
from Michigan,
going at it
clearly bad blood dating back to
the whole rush hoax. Listen.
I just have to point out that
the purveyors of russian
disinformation, Hillary
Clintons campaign, the Dnc, the
Steele dossier, the ranking
member Peters, accusing Senator
Grassley, and I of disseminating
russian disinformation
thats where the disinformation
is coming.
Mr chairman, I have got it
respond to that.
Why?
Well one I had nothing to
do with this report.
You lied repeatedly.
I did not.
You lied repeatedly in the
press that I was spreading
russian disinformation
and that was outright lie and I
told to you stop lying and you
continued to do it.
Mr chairman, this is not
about airing your grievances.
I dont know what rabbit hole
you are running down.
You talked about russian
disinformation.
Brian, Mr Speaker put this in
perspective.
That was real life exchange.
This guy has had it.
This guy was a plastics
executive.
He was as mild as it. God
are a he got to see the
underbelly of government thats.
What we left with
Senator Johnson is incensed
about whats going on. He should
be incensed. The american people
are watching their country being
stolen away from ELM
this watching the Chinese become
dominant.
They are watching a level of
penetration, thats unimaginable
they are watching Pelosi put
Swalwell on the intelligence
committee after she had been
told by the FBI that he had been
hanging out with a woman who was
a chinese professional spy.
Will they are watching? The
Democrats lie about virtually
everything
you know people say: oh, we
should now make nice.
We have spent four years with
people like Peters lying about
us. Attacking us trying to
beach is the president. We have
had the fbiing commit crimes to
try to destroy General Flynn, and
you look at all this stuff and
still dealing with now in the
election. What you have a total crerpship,
what you have a total Crerpship
Bycensorshipby media and tech, Co
Von a manufacturer.
He ran to solve problems,
he ran to create jobs,
and I think he is totally
frustrated by the depth of
hypocrisy and Dismonday HUN
necessary city that is
unfortunately, now the routine
and the power structure in
Country
Steve. Well, as it turns out the
Hunter Biden story before the
election was not russian
disinformation,
there actually is now Hunter has
admitted a criminal
investigation into his taxes.
Nonetheless Newt you know
before the election. Nobody was
talking about the Hunter Biden
story except the New York Post
and this channel right here and
ever since the election. One
channel Fox NEWS has been the
only one who has gone out to his
events and asked Joe Biden
questions about Hunter.
I have a vested interest because
the reporter used to be a
dependent of mine back in the
olden days. Here he is yesterday
at the PETE Buttigieg event
where he asked the former. Vice
President President elect about
his son Hunter Biden
Watch.
Are you confident your son
Hunter did nothing wrong
im, confident,
okay,
so he thinks he is confident
that nothing happened
on the cover of the New York
Post today, the headline is
hide and reap Taps Rasmussen
survey.
Fifty two percent of american voters think
that the media ignored the
Hunter Biden story to help his
fathers campaign thats. What
you were talking about
seven. Seventy eight percent of Republicans think the
media Thrirktly hid the story
until after the election.
Seventy three percent of Republicans think Biden
profited from Hunter Bidens
dealings and fifty six of all voters
think likely that Joe Biden was
consulted and profited from his
sons. Business dealings is what
do you think about where we are
right now with Hunter and his
dad
look? I think we are in one
of the most dangerous periods in
american history.
You have a President elect who
canned even tell his truth about
his relationship with the
Chinese.
There is a story today that he
may appoint one of the two major
movie executives, who have been
kowtowing to the Chinese for a
decade to be the ambassador to
Beijing,
Brian Bob Iger.
You have a situation where I
just printed in minus letter,
Gingrich three hundred and sixty a speech by a
chinese professor who says
openly in a class in Shanghai. We
have friends in high places. Now
that Trump is gone, everything
will be great again and we will
be back to working with Wall
Street, basically to rip off
America.
I think people need to realize
how really deeply serious how
this whole problem is
its ironic that the the
Washington Post has this
democracy dies in darkness when
they are New England, the chief
creators of the darkness, none
of those newspapers. None of the
media, except Fox, had the guts
to stand up to the New York
Post oldest newspaper in the
country, the fourth biggest
when it reported accurately what
was going on with Hunter Biden.
Americans, all Americans ought
to be enraged.
They are watching their country
be taken away from them by huge
interest groups who are clearly
more comfortable with the chindz
dictatorship than they are with
the? U dot s.
You see that if you look at
Amazon, not Amazon,
look at apple, which now has a
rule at apple that you should
say nothing negative about China.
This is really a dangerous
thing,
Steve thats, where they make
their product
its, not just about domestic
politics,
its about the very survival of
America as an independent
system,
Ainsley unbelievable that they
dont see that I cant believe
they dont
lets talk about AOC, because she
was on the podcast.
She was being interviewed about
leadership in the house and as a
former speaker of the house, we
wanted to ask you about it
because she thinks Nancy Pelosi
needs to go.
Listen to this.
I
I do think we need new
leadership in the Democratic
Party.
I think its easy for someone to
say, oh well, why dont you run,
but the house is extraordinarily
complex
and im, not ready,
ha ha it cant be me.
I know I couldnt do that job.
Are you ready to say Pelosi
and Schumer need to go?
I mean I, I think,
so we need to to shift power.
We need to make sure that we
have a transition of power in
the leadership of the Democratic
party.
Ainsley Newt. Do you think its
time for those two to go?
Look of course,
but im a republican, partisan,
I tweeted yesterday, if AOC is
serious, all she and the gang
have to do is refuse to vote for
Pelosi.
Pelosi doesnt have the votes to
become speaker because Kevin
Mccarthy did such a great job.
The house Republicans gained so
many seats that she literally
has too narrow of margin.
This is why she cant take
Swalwell off the intelligence
committee.
She needs him.
If AOC and the gang says we will
not vote for Pelosi, she would
have to step down and they would
have to look for somebody else,
but I think this is a case of
you know, put up or shut up
and we are going to find out.
There is an old rule, no guts, no
glory.
I think AOC talks a lot.
She has a chance right now to
actually do something. My guess
is, she will cave and just be
like herb that she attacks and
she will be just another
compromiser
Brian. They will not have a rub:
Arer stamp.
There is a lot of people in the
house, and you know this are not
happy with Nancy Pelosi.
There was an uprising when it
came to stimulus package in the
summer. Among so called moderate
Democrats,
she has a nine seat advantage
tops judging why a couple
elections turn out
great job
weave all hear the four alarm or
five alarm fire which it comes
to China and not going to get.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-17.