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2016. jeb bush went out of his way on a number of occasions to separate himself from the republican congress, gingrich then dennis hastert on issues like the earned income tax credit. he really wanted to show middle of the road voters im not them. this time the party is so focused and particularly the conservative parts of the party that its not as easy for jeb to disentangle himself from the party. so instead of saying we should pass this and fight the president on this at another time he felt ...

To go away until we confront the threat. >> this president has taken a very dangerous course with regards to cuba saying were going to relax relations, were going to open up travel to cuba. this is the wrong time for that with this kind of heroics going on. we want to stand with people of cuba that want freedom. a gingrich president will not tolerate four more years of this dictatorship. >> thats why you heard strong condemnations today from 2016 candidates like marco rubio, and ted cruz. >> thi...

To go away until we confront the threat. >> this president has taken a very dangerous course with regards to cuba saying were going to relax relations, were going to open up travel to cuba. this is the wrong time for that with this kind of heroics going on. we want to stand with people of cuba that want freedom. a gingrich president will not tolerate four more years of this dictatorship. >> thats why you heard strong condemnations today from 2016 candidates like marco rubio, and ted cruz. >> thi...

Cuba that want freedom. a gingrich president will not tolerate four more years of this dictatorship. >> thats why you heard strong condemnations today from 2016 candidates like marco rubio, and ted cruz. >> this is yet another manifestation of the failures of the obama, kerry foreign policy. for six years we followed the pattern of alienating and abandoning our friends and allies and at the same time coddling up to and appeasing those who are enemies of this country. >> thats not exactly what ap...

Reliance and civic which would help the neighbors and help each of our communities so were not dependent on washington bureaucrats to send us a debit card for food stamps or for weight watchers classes. john is onto something, we want it local but more local than government. >> reminded me of a cartoon i saw recently. what should we do with people that rely on handouts and refuse to work, kick them out of congress. >> you know, going back to bill clintons time. >> rick liked that. >> newt gingri...

I think itd be kind of post-partisan ironically. when i think about back to the mid-90s, for example, theres a lot of parallels here. gingrich had done a contract with america. then it sort of tea party like, then evolved to the government shutdown and monica and all of that very similar to recent activity where republicans suffered the consequences. and at that time in the mid-90s along came a governor in texas that started talking about immigration reform and education reform. which attracted ...

Then we had more close elections. >> right. >> we had the ed whitfield victory in the first -- >> that 94 special. >> the first district was not the special. >> oh, the second -- >> the -- it was a wide margin. it was ten points. because you had low turnout and a morphed the democrat -- >> bill clinton. >> bill clinton. and mcconnell and gingrich worked together on that election. and that was an example of how mcconnell find ways to win by working with who have looks out for opportunities. they ...

Because of the decision in citizens united and other factors like that. so theres been a lot of concern. and, in fact, newt gingrich said that he believes the candidates should be able to raise that kind of money and that billionaires like addlesons participation in the process could actually be a problem. and gingrich is, of course, the person who benefitted from addlesons millions of dollars in the last election. >> yeah, okay. just want to make sure the clapping -- so you can hear. can we ass...

Dramatically slash these social safety net programs, so again, if the past is prologue, they are planning to make major cuts to very important economic security programs, but lets wait and see. >> lets look at another aspect of this, because the presidents plan would give a total $60 billion in tax breaks to americans and plans to pay for it at least in part by closing tax loopholes, the so-called gingrich and kerry interest provisions that let high income individuals avoid taxes that other work...

Capitalism. >> theyre saying now, whether they got their funds, theyre saying the hell with you, eat it. >> i dont work for them and they mean nothing to me. if i had my way theyre gone. ive seen leaders and worked for leaders, and leaders change evens. leaders affect the future, and they have arguments. they dont stand there and talk with marbles in their mouth, trash their own party and so follower. look, its a party right now. we need a new republican party. new leaders. ive seen it. ive seen...