Newt Gingrich on Fox News Channel's Hannity | June 7, 2021

NEWT:

No. Look, the train wreck that occupied the opening of your show is astounding. If it wasn't actually happening; you and I couldn't put it together. This is an administration that seems to be almost every day tearing down the United States in one form or another. The new budget he sent up is a surrender budget which guarantees that the Chinese ultimately will dominate us. The fact that they are opening the border this wide guarantees that we are going to have ultimately millions of illegal immigrants during you go through step-by-step, you know, New York has a law that there is no bail. So, you perform armed robbery, they bring you to the police station, sign your name and you go back out again. We are going to have a huge rise in crime and that affects real people. The pictures you are showing are real people, and you're looking at older women getting beaten up. You're looking at, I think a 14-year-old getting shot. And the Biden administration just floats above it all with the aid and support of its media allies. And I think this is going to rapidly become a bigger disaster than the Carter administration.

NEWT:

This might be worth an entire show sometime by you sometime. Nobody has put together a portrait of the scale of the disaster. For example, $900 million was stolen from Washington state apparently by Nigerians on the internet who are using identities they had stolen. That was from the unemployment compensation. California, there were 32 or 33 billion, not million, billion dollars stolen apparently mostly by professional organized criminals. The depth of corruption in this country, what we are seeing in New York, the degree to which Cuomo is a totally corrupt governor, all these things are going on simultaneously. And frankly the corruption, the intellectual corruption we are seeing in the public health service, Fauci being on 78 sides of the same story. We really have to get a grip as a country on trying to bring ourselves back together and trying to understand. This stuff is all real. It isn't some game.

NEWT:

Look, let me give you an example. They want no bail laws if you're a normal violent criminal but as Julia Kelly has been reporting, they have no bail, none, for the people who have been picked up on January 6th. We still have hundreds of Americans under conditions we wouldn't tolerate at Guantanamo for terrorists, and I'm shocked that the Congress has not insisted on looking at the rights that are be totally abused. This is the most political administration I've ever seen. It is deliberately distorting the law, deliberately abusing its power.

NEWT:

All I'll say, it's very simple. This country will not survive in competing with the Chinese with the kind of system that is now evolving, and all Americans of every background, whatever your ideology, whatever your party you are going to have to make a really big decision. If you're willing to tolerate this, plan to look up to the Chinese and kowtow to Xi Jinping. If you want to remain free, planter really, really change dramatically how this country is being run.