The Choice 2024: Newt Gingrich (interview) | FRONTLINE

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[@jessetorres8738]

I once saw a KZbin video where the host explained that the stalemate & ultra partisanship we see in the Congress today really began in 1995 when Newt Gingrich became the House Speaker. Prior to 1995, we saw a lot more compromise between the parties in the Congress, especially if the President was from the opposite party as the 1 that controlled the Congress. But once Gingrich became Speaker, as he himself once admitted, his primary goal was to prevent Clinton from passing anything to hurt his chances of getting re-elected & led a bunch of (mostly non-serious) investigations into Clinton & other high ranking Democrats. Whenever the President is from 1 political party but the Congress is controlled by the other we have seen this happen with all 5 Presidents since 1995.

[@yourlastchance_]

If your not smart enough to know that when Trump came down the escalator the thing you're supposed to say is, "Hold my beer and watch this." You basically know nothing about Trump. And I just spoke over your head. If you don't vote for Trump, we will be Communist.

[@mbk1487]

So rich for a guy who’s been in politics for my entire lifetime to criticize “the establishment”. 🙄

[@A38]

Gaslight, obstruct, project(

[@panoptos4163]

History should not reflect kindly on this man. He is largely responsible for where our politics finds itself in 2024.

[@Lerian_V]

He paved the way for Trump. I like the guy.

[@louislinsley3128]

Yup. Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for MAGA in 1994!

[@onomatopoeia162003]

nah. On certain issue's. That would be Nixon. Then Reagan and so on just accelerated it.

[@DS_P8]

​@@Lerian_V So you're on board with leaders who call upon our adversaries to interfere in our elections? and you support leaders who go around the world praising dictators and denigrating our allies? And when Trump did nothing for 4 hours on J6, did you think that was "leadership"? MAGA is shorthand for I'm ignorant as hell and I love liars.

[@David_Best]

Newt's "Contract with America" was the start of the divisive wedge issue politics that lead us to the divisions we experience today.

[@louisbee7923]

Thank you PBS for showing us again what a traitor looks like. When they say there's no justice in america, just watch this clown still walking around free as a bird.

[@NeidlichesSchwert]

America, not america.

[@4greendeep6]

Lighten up, Louise. Quit clutching your fake pearls.

[@rosenelzor1210]

Yes free as a bird, wrapped thoroughly in delusion.

[@websitemartian]

this is your brain on CNN ... 😂 ... pathetic

[@JoG-c7e]

A true Political intellectual who drank the Jim Jones' Cool-aid. Newt shall be forgotten & missed.

[@Rubin4749]

The VERY SAME Man who tried to get PBS taking of the airwaves, and PBS gives him a platform. PBS can you spell "We are dumb-asses"??

[@thomasw.5344]

I think they're doing a great job. Every other second I want to ask N.G. "well if that's true, then why did he do this or why didn't he do that?". But I'm still glad I can listen to the other side.

[@speedwagon7562]

@@thomasw.5344I think the interviewer must have a really hard time, staying cool..

[@thomasw.5344]

@@speedwagon7562 Absolutely 😂

[@NeidlichesSchwert]

Mind of metal.

[@Rubin4749]

@@NeidlichesSchwert I don't know waht you meant friend, But I don't how people who were neaqlry destroyed bey a man, can interview the SAME man , Mr Schwart

[@nav1pi983]

The founder of divisive politics right here.

[@carrietobey6091]

This guy is the worst

[@donhello7522]

why?

[@jerrybuzzard8147]

I won’t listen to this man. The damage he caused to the party is immeasurable.

[@gregbors8364]

…yet the Republicans remain viable and their presidential nominee has solid chance to win again

[@roberthakchin8520]

The channels you subscribe to show your political persuasion much more than your insincere and obviously false narrative of how Newt is damaging to the Republican Party, that is unless by the party you mean the Communist Party then your statement is truthful.

[@jperin001]

Clearly important though, to help understand and counteract, the method of deceit with which has successfully altered the political landscape.

[@chuckhall5347]

Sounds like Newt it applying for a job. I'm sure he would fit in well with a fascist organization.

[@brieingram3636]

You should know fascist.

[@LagoLhn]

@@brieingram3636 Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition. Sound Trumpy enough for you?

[@catbb1000]

Aww somebody got their fee fees hurt. Boo hoo drumplikin.

[@Working4UNOW]

Kind of doubtful Trump would want Newt around.

[@Working4UNOW]

​@@brieingram3636if the shoe fits you got to wear it even if you get a blister on your foot.

[@Mrchickenwing74]

This dude is the reason America is so divided

[@Lerian_V]

I'm sure that's what you heard on the lamestream mefia. Go and learn real history.

[@Mrchickenwing74]

@@Lerian_V I read and learned about his actions in the early 90s in a political science course. What are you on about? Also, why bring up straw-man arguments? I didn’t mention the media.

[@dbarker7794]

​@@Lerian_V I lived through this history. You are so wrong. Gingrich's whole politics was about dehumanizing opponents and pitting Americans against each other, along with serving only the wealthy class. He also went after Bill Clinton while Gingrich himself was having affairs. He should be banished.

[@websitemartian]

@@Mrchickenwing74dude the leftists didnt have to completely meltdown when confronted with trump .... have you heard of trump derangement syndrome?

[@track1949]

Kind of, yes.

[@lazymp9046]

Newt Gingrich's opinions, on any topic, are worthless. He is as addled and as dumb as Trump. He's also a compulsive liar.

[@michaelRay2576]

AGREED ,💯💩

[@09rja]

There are a lot of ways to describe Newt.....but "dumb" isn't one of them.

[@MrPoncho1965]

Tough crowd. But you all ready to vote for Kammie I guess🙄

[@shamone711]

@@MrPoncho1965100%

[@nikita-dh5je]

@@09rjaHe’s a smart guy, but he looks and sounds awful, he’s really slowing down.

[@edengineer48]

LIAR LIAR. YOU are an awful human being. He belongs in Jail.

[@roberthakchin8520]

TDS. Get some help.

[@zyntolaz]

You say all this with NO evidence, and have no sense of irony.

[@DS_P8]

@@roberthakchin8520 Trump Approval Syndrome... that's where you approve of a man who is a convicted rapist and fraud and have such profound daddy issues you are enslaved to him.

[@edengineer48]

@@roberthakchin8520 lol, you really should.

[@edengineer48]

@@roberthakchin8520 LOl you really need to look in the mirror.

[@tomsparks6099]

I'm amazed this wicked man is still speaking.

[@mikederucki]

Not very well, sounds a bit short of breathe

[@rosenelzor1210]

There's a interesting picture of him 2022 in Wikipedia

[@balaclavabob001]

@@mikederucki Let's hope it's nothing trivial .

[@gracelloyd3758]

Barely lol

[@dene7063]

Tired of the same old Republican sanewashing of Trump, and his chronic narcissism, racism, and divisiveness.

[@websitemartian]

most people agree with trumps policys .... harris plan is crazy man ... tax on UNREALIZED GAINS???

[@DrewRobertson1]

Go push daisy's, newt.

[@jabbermocky4520]

Poison ivy. He can go push up poison ivy.

[@tammiepulley7167]

When Newt talks about policies trying to force us into electric cars it’s nonsense. There are incentives to help buy electric because electric cars are so expensive so let’s make them available to average people. That is not forcing them. The more I listen to this the more I disrespect Newt. Sewing seeds of division. This is demonic. Yes I used a word from “them” to describe, because it’s a fit.

[@margiehankins-jerde6094]

You are really stupid. Biden wants everyone in a electric car by 2030 banning gas cars. You don't know what your talking about. He isn't lieing all. And yes you will be forced.

[@Lerian_V]

Electric car mandate is a bad policy.

[@zyntolaz]

How are those in North Carolina devastated by the hurricane doing with their electric vehicles? EVs are NOT the panacea that some would pretend. So whyizzit that Henry Ford made his cars "available to average people" WITHOUT government subsidies?

[@mistahcoughdrop]

Should have asked Newt why he divorced his wife as she lay dying.

[@muliyechuula9098]

What????? Who does that????

[@speedwagon7562]

@@muliyechuula9098,well maybe kinda like joking publicly about Pelosi’s husband’s attack…

[@arthurswanson3285]

​@muliyechuula9098 he did. She was dying of cancer and he wanted to marry his 1st mistress.

[@mistahcoughdrop]

@@arthurswanson3285 Newt's a shit head. And some kind of devout Catholic. Want to know what a liar sounds like? Listen to this PBS interview.

[@tammiepulley7167]

I don’t think Donald was captain of the cadets. I think he borrowed the captain jacket for the picture taking. Classic Donald.

[@NancyBurt-jk2ss]

I also heard that from a reliable source

[@Secretary.of.Education]

Couldn't think of someone with a more deserving name. Newt: A semi-aquatic salamander

[@user-hs7ry4nx7l]

Hey, that's an insult to newts.

[@HopenDoyle]

LOL

[@gp1683]

If his mouth is moving Newt's lying

[@GK-up6xz]

Oh, he’s still with us….

[@phunkboxx]

Trump is middle class. Wtf. Do these people hear themselves?

[@SS-lj6dr]

They hear themselves perfectly, They think we’re just that dυmb…

[@catbb1000]

It applies to where in New York he came from. You need to learn about NY culture. No one is elite unless they come from Manhattan. No matter how much money they have or make.

[@Working4UNOW]

​@@SS-lj6drI remember when they said meant the government. NOW? They is political parties.

[@gregbors8364]

@@catbb1000You’re trying to argue that someone who inherited over $400 million is “middle class” 🤦‍♂️

[@catbb1000]

@@gregbors8364 No I'm trying to explain that NYC is a different world.

[@tammiepulley7167]

Trumps ghostwriter has come out to dispute Donald’s image as fake.

[@jessetorres8738]

I once saw a KZbin video where the host explained that the stalemate & ultra partisanship we see in the Congress today really began in 1995 when Newt Gingrich became the House Speaker. Prior to 1995, we saw a lot more compromise between the parties in the Congress, especially if the President was from the opposite party as the 1 that controlled the Congress. But once Gingrich became Speaker, as he himself once admitted, his primary goal was to prevent Clinton from passing anything to hurt his chances of getting re-elected & led a bunch of (mostly non-serious) investigations into Clinton & other high ranking Democrats. Whenever the President is from 1 political party but the Congress is controlled by the other we have seen this happen with all 5 Presidents since 1995.

[@joelhenderson4450]

Charlatan #1.

[@timdaniel4147]

Incredible.

[@nelsonfrench4884]

Poor newt. He thinks he's relevant.

[@christinevr7698]

The decline of civil debate about policies in government across both aisles lies squarely at his door. He was the Trump trail marker for crude bullying tactics in government. Why you are giving him any more air time is an appalling lack of journalistic integrity. Shane on you PBS.

[@Working4UNOW]

The right could call PBS biased. Keep in mind this is not news but instead a perspective from a, like him or not, kind of person who helped set the crazy town stage for the Mar-A-Lago shit show.

[@evanmechify]

I'm interested in perspectives different from my own... in part because I already know what I think.

[@Working4UNOW]

@@evanmechify lol 🤣😂😆🤎👍

[@kurtbyars766]

This has to be the BEST description of Donald Trump I've ever heard !

[@KimCarney]

This liar is unwatchable

[@donhello7522]

and yet youre here

[@reginafris6822]

This is the guy who set the standard for being a total hypocrite.

[@mikeoveli1028]

Why ask this criminal anything? We can point to Newt as one of the founders of the current nightmare we live in.

[@mathtrixmusiclix4248]

See, the thing about about these “new” republicans, is that everything is game…a competition, where the only winner can be them. And the losers are the rest of America. 😞

[@tammiepulley7167]

Lastly, a lot of non college educated people are very smart and well read and speak proper English. It’s sad to keep hearing Newt say Trump can speak to the average person. Sadly if that is true it means the average person never or rarely reads anything. Most people who make it through 6th grade reading level have the skills to become quite informed on their own, without even a high school education. Sadly many don’t.

[@SS-lj6dr]

The only people he appeals to is a morally bankrupt simpleton…

[@michaellong6002]

Very powerful and insightful interview. Respect to Newt.

[@brandondixon4292]

I can't believe Front Line allowed this. They went from non biased, to hiding bias, to completely bias. So to see them let a guy like Newt Gingrich on here talking positively about Frontline's opponents is like wow

[@gregbors8364]

Journalists aren’t supposed to have “opponents”

[@brandondixon4292]

@@gregbors8364 I know, but thats the world we live in🤷‍♂

[@gregbors8364]

@@brandondixon4292 Assuming you’re a liberal (as I consider myself to be), do you feel that “our side” has a monopoly on “truth”?

[@brandondixon4292]

@@gregbors8364 I think it is clear that the democrat party lies a lot, but they have more media attention and funding to make Trump look like more of a liar than he is, in addition to making themselves seem more truthful than they are. Essentially "well funded deceivers" fits perfectly in defining the democrats. That said Trump lost 2020. 🤷‍♂ Regardless though, politics is an elite party, and you and I are just not in it. So why not vote for the party crasher. Generally its sad that Trump crashed the political circus in 2016, and instead of the Polticians learning their lessons they just changed the act

[@rosenelzor1210]

Umm. kinda?

[@billriling2908]

"Work at the margins."

[@zombiespock4512]

One minute thirty seconds in, I'm out. Newt is a B.

[@TimSmithutahcamera]

I have to get this book!

[@Nevernowaynope]

Just had to stop by quick to GAG 🤢

[@tgzhou]

How about Jan 6?

[@zombiespock4512]

Grandma Newt.

[@robertrinehart9036]

So incredibly full of beans.

[@A38]

Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife while she was away being treated for cancer. She would eventually die aware of his infidelity. That's not even half the story, either. Thanks for the interview Gingrich! Your words weren't particularly valuable, except that we may "study" you so to speak.

[@ricksilverstein8848]

Baloney- he was flat ass broke and then got a break on the Apprentice cause other guys didn’t want the job. He’s a cheat and a liar and so is Newt.

[@followyourbliss973]

Great interview! Great questions. No interuptions! Good job. The PBS documentary wasn't so good. Trump '24! Let's go!

[@johncarter1150]

Yes go away...

[@fenreer01]

Newt still lying and making things up on the fly all these years later...

[@janettesancroft2965]

This guy is as nutty as Trump. A success?

[@rosenelzor1210]

Narc-siccess

[@Normanx964]

Go Newt!!!

[@jonw5547]

Oh boy…Newt is writing fiction again.

[@ellenmyers8672]

Gingrich is as delusional as trump.

[@cynthiaschofield715]

Two peas in a pod

[@catbb1000]

Yeah he's anti establishment.😂 I want to know how much insider trading he did while in office. He's just an obstructionist.

[@nelsonfrench4884]

From the get go Newt doesn't say why Manhattan didn't accept drumph.

[@Kevin93m3]

Because he was from Queens duh. NYC is super elite, if you’re not from Manhattan you’re no one. Nothing gets by you. You’re part of the elite class that can’t see or understand how Trump won in 2016 and can’t see how Trump is in the position to do a Grover Cleveland in 2024.

[@HopenDoyle]

Ugh! Even the PBS questioner refers to political opponents as "enemies." God save us. Also, how about some follow-up questions...

[@ahwien]

Mr. Gingrich is very knowledgeable, many years at the very pulse of Washington. He shares important insights.

[@Working4UNOW]

This manh? WOW! I recommend you read his opinions on food stamps and family safety nets as well as the legislation "they" passed capping welfare to families at a 2 year maximum! In the 1990s a lot of children went to sleep hungry because of him and his Republican colleagues in the house.

[@zyntolaz]

And Democrat Bill Clinton signed into law. Or do you wish to continue pretending that only one side is "bad"?

[@davidsessera1337]

Yes, and Clinton was on their side on that issue, happily signed that Welfare Reform Billl Congress presented him.

[@Working4UNOW]

@@davidsessera1337 Yeah Clinton did.

[@joancooney7724]

Shame on PBS for allowing this Liar to air his opinion, he’s a disgrace to journalism

[@anshdeshwal7004]

that's why hate left ....i don't like the right either but lefties try to suppress the free speech ....you may not like someone's opinion but that doesn't mean they can't express their opinions

[@Working4UNOW]

He, Newt, is not a journalist. A journalist has a responsibility to look at both sides, truth and lies. A journalist then delivers that in an unbiased way. PBS should have left Newt out of the equation. Plus side? You got PBS recording their LIES for posterity.

[@margiehankins-jerde6094]

​@@Working4UNOWreally. Who is a journalist anymore? None of them are because they work for the government covering up the corruption. Spreading lies. All of them.

[@donhello7522]

i agree...as a liberal i ONLY want to hear people on my side

[@julianyway]

Ugh I don't think I can watch this

[@ggates5859]

Love him or hate him, Gingrich gets Trump, as do democratic insiders. Gingrich is hardly the first person to note the Democratic Party has lost touch with a large chunk of blue collar workers. Why do you think the Ds have Tim Walz is doing YT videos in a camo hat talking about carburetors?

[@remidiligent197]

Congratulations to the journalist 👍

[@W_Bin]

If you want to clean out corruption you don't lie.

[@georgejones-sg8cf]

ALL HE DOES IS WRITE BOOKS!!

[@johnnada.]

I’d rather watch Dick Cheney praise Harris.

[@anthonytownsend366]

Agreed 👍

[@thesilkpainter]

I know, right...that was hard enough to swallow, already.

[@yvonnefarrell1029]

Prayerful apologies but I don't need another peep out of this man.

[@jackiebang4717]

Come on. Comparing Trump to Soltzinitzen? That’s like comparing Hitler to Mother Teresa.

[@johnbaker5958]

Kamala recently was confronted by 60 Minutes on if allowing illegal immigration to quadruple on her watch was a mistake. Gets asked three times, responds with nonsense. This interview is ending her campaign

[@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣΤΣΑΝΤΑΚΗΣ]

he doesnt believe what he is saying lol , his eyes movements , his body language loooooooooooool ,,,,,,

[@TheMauf]

Holy hell. I made it to 28:30 and had to stop. These Frontline interviews are great and so important. They usually get the guests to speak more honestly. But geeze Newt…….don’t do these if you’re just going to BS and pat yourself on the back

[@Pilgrim812]

What a great shame has come to the Republican party.

[@ericaashforth2768]

I was really interested in listening to this interview however to call Trump metal class is ridiculous. Getting $400 million from your father driving around in limousine going to military school is not that middle class. He also doesn’t hang out with blue-collar workers. I’m an educated Republican woman who does quite a research and the fact that he doesn’t even know the relationship between him and Roy Cohn but he has written three books on him is astounding.

[@benrarick803]

I don’t like Trump but I think this is brilliantly insightful in terms of his appeal and media savvy

[@gracelloyd3758]

Yuck

[@BLW888]

What’s wrong with his breathing?

[@W_Bin]

Thanks to the commenters who explain this man. You can't tell from the interview. Very dangerous, PBS.

[@davin1287]

What a ghoul

[@lornapedersen5869]

He is SIMPLY a grifter. Period.

[@rainbowsky119]

This is a good interview. The massage from Republican is load and clear!

[@mikederucki]

This guy… he will go wherever and say whatever he needs to stay in front of a camera or reporters microphone.

[@letstalkaboutit7734]

What’s bizarre about this interview is he keeps giving examples of Trump taking leadership over problems and every example is where he’s using city money to build something with his name on it and makes money from it. Leadership in these guys ideology is using taxpayer funded projects to create personal wealth.

[@Noms_Chompsky]

Yeah, the guy who abandoned his wife when she got cancer and remarried; his perspective and judgement is something I'm going to credit as valuable

[@cameronmurie]

One of American society's most significant problems is that so many Americans sincerely believe that America has a Class System. Of course it does not, and it could never have. The belief in a fictional Class System leads to a special kind of neurosis and a paranoia which Trump seems to suffer from in extreme. It's highly amusing to watch him so desperately aspiring to join this fictional Class; and even funnier watching the ones who believe they are in it; denying him. Funnier still; the rapt and devoted attention from common folk; themselves similarly deluded, wishing and hoping for his imaginary success.

[@midcenturygail]

A great deal of projection, here- just like Trump.

[@suesandlin-plaehn3565]

This is the worse! He is only dealing with politics not with what is best for our DEMOCRACY.

[@stratman006]

So Newt is a expert on Trump but knows nothing about Roy Cohn? Right!

[@michaelkalinski5061]

Newt is talking nonsense!

[@PAULWATERLOO1815]

The mad hatter in Alice

[@leonardbechler1867]

I am encouraged that he is breathing heavily. Maybe his time is short.

[@thesilkpainter]

I know. It is mean...but I had to giggle.

[@rosenelzor1210]

Born in 1944. Edit: 1943 June 17th, 1943

[@VidaMace]

What about January 6th 2020

[@Peterson1451]

Nothing happened lmao

[@Steve923]

My guess is Newt knew he couldn't defend Trump on election denial & Jan 6 - so told PBS they couldn't ask him.

[@MarkNasuti]

Yeah but what are moral compass I mean his wife is dying of cancer and he divorces her exactly what Jesus would do

[@JoG-c7e]

A true Political intellectual who drank the Jim Jones' Cool-aid. Newt shall be forgotten & missed.

[@lizhall2961]

If the GOP had chosen a honest Republican as its nonimnee, they would be ahead by a good margin by now.But they chose a narcissist convicted felon. I will never forgive Trump for what he did on January 6. Neither will I fogot his hateful and bullying remarks, his love of dictators, and mental decline as evidence by lack of vocabulary, constant repeating, and simple syntax. I would have considered Haley.

[@Kevin93m3]

You need to get with the times. The old guard was stiff and without imagination. Haley was another stiff politician in the wrong decade and would’ve faired worse than Romney did in 2012. People like yourself would’ve stayed in the horse and buggy business when the combustion engine was invented.

[@cocktail_dad85]

I can't. I tried. I really did but I can't handle this much effort being put into softening Trump and people's worship of him.

[@randomboris]

Gingrich is as much as a con man as Trump himself.

[@Gordian1095]

I have three master's degrees and will vote Trump over any democrat demagogue.

[@Steve923]

Jan 6th? Refusal to return boxes of secret documents? My assumption is Newt doesn't have answers to those questions so told PBS not to ask.

[@enlighenme11]

~ ~ Wow. Wow. He's tough and enviable because he's a jerk and a user. Maybe that's why the upper elite didn't let him in - his personality. I do agree he can't be anyone than himself and therein is the problem.

[@michaellynn7166]

This man has caused serious damage to the body politic. There’s very little he has to say that’s worth listening to. Vote BLUE TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY! 💙👍

[@ChrisBachmannHoCoMD]

Such a loser

[@JoG-c7e]

Did Newt seriously just say Trump is bc of "Genetics." ? TF has happened to GOP?

[@benjaminrobinson3104]

that thing is still alive?

[@mindfulobserver1314]

Gingrich delights in the chaos he helped create - he probably prays for a MAGA dictatorship in America. Gingrich forgets that Trump - the chameleon - was once a Democrat - Gingrich talks about Trump like he is a true conservative but he has shown he would do anything for power - just like the pessimistic Gingrich. Trump doesn't like his supporters, he's uses them and calls them 'basement dwellers'. Listen to him talk with Elon Musk - the two laughing about how Elon crushes his workers or how Trump joyfully bragged about giving his wealthy chums huge tax breaks. That's not the ingredients of a healthy leader or supporter of a healthy society. Ronald Reagan was nothing like Gingrich and Trump - not at all - he was a real Leader - Reagan respected democracy, the rule of law, the constitution and so on. He never fondled the flag like Trump does, he accepted his lossed and owned his mistakes, he didn't put America down or attack the military or the Capital and he would have never stacked the Supreme court. No Gingrich and Trump are nothing like Reagan. Like Trump, Gingrich only sees Trump as golden, can do no wrong, only sees him as a victim, never a pathalogical liar. But when you look at Trump's disgraceful behaviour, his crimes, transactionalism and distain for American institutions you can see what Trump's America will become - diminished, deceptive, weak and hollow just like the dictatorships he loves.

[@martink2953]

"Newt. My name is Newt. Nobody calls me Rebecca except my brother."