Newt Gingrich | Fox Business Channel's Mornings with Maria | February 17 2023

NEWT:

I think that first of all, Biden doesn't have a clue about the nature of the Chinese threat, I think that he is totally compromised by what he and his son – Biden himself said he said he spent something like 88 hours with XI jinping over years speech in Philadelphia said probably spent more time with XI jinping than any other foreign leader but it’s obvious he didn't learn anything. Just take a look at the example of these balloons we are told – we were told they couldn’t shoot down the Chinese spy balloon over the United States because they were really worried about collateral damage suddenly they can shoot down these other three things not worried about collateral damage. First of all, it is a huge comment about the incompetence of the senior American military. It was the job of the North American Air Defense when they first picked up that balloon outside of Alaska before it penetrated they should have shot it down then, and that system is very clear. It is directly from the – commander of the North America Air Defense NORAD to the secretary of Defense to the president nobody else is in middle. So they didn’t do anything and frankly I don't think would have ever told us, about the Chinese balloon, if the newspaper in Montana had not published a picture of it, at that point they were so embarrassed, that they didn't know what to do they had all totally phony argument if the defense department actually thought shooting down a Chinese balloon over Montana would cause collateral damage you need to replace every person in chain of command because that is a level of incompetence that makes Afghanistan look like success. So you have all of this stuff going on simultaneously and then you have Biden who I think on a good day walks around not sure, I’m not sure he actually lies I think he believes whatever he says, he just has no relationship to truth or reality. I find that very frightening when the only thing that comforts me about Biden as president is the thought of Kamala Harris as president. At that point okay, Biden maybe out to lunch but at least not totally irrational. I think this is a sobering frightening time and I think people need to realize how dangerous what we’re going through is.

NEWT:

First of al, I do agree with Mitt Romney that -- clearly the front-runner is Donald Trump, all things being even, he probably will be nominee although I think DeSantis governor DeSantis is very formidable and I think there is a large block of people willing to give a lot of money to stop Trump. So, this is not the over you have to say that president trump, is the front-runner most likely nominee. I also think what is always been impressive about trump because he is not a professional politician, he can actually look with a cold business eye, at reality at the facts. It is a fact that if we don't compete on ballot harvesting we are going to lose, it is a fact that if we don't learn how to campaign earlier since people are voting earlier we are going to lose. It makes no sense to save money till October if people start voting in early September, at least in one state, 60% of the people that voted before Republican advertising campaign reached its peak. So, I this is what you will see with Trump he has come up with a series of videos, some which have very powerful profound ideas he’s proposed, for example, parents ought to be allowed to hire and fire the principals of school their children go to. Well, I just did a podcast with an investigative reporter from Baltimore, Baltimore city schools have 23 schools where zero students out of 2000 zero could do math, now those children ought to be saved if that means those parents get to take control of the school instead of teachers union, and the bureaucrats I am for whatever it takes to save children. And Trump is providing real issue leadership in those areas I think we are at beginning a long, and a very interesting campaign.