destructive. newt gingrich for the hour, piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. eyes are on south carolina. the republican primary days away. candidates are swarming all over the state. here is something you may not know about one of them, newt gingrich. the man has an absolute passion for animals and zoos. he invited us to south carolina s science center. dog eat dog on the campaign trail. all the wild things in here seem pretty peaceful to me. with exception possibly of newt gingrich. why here? it s fun. it s interesting. it gets you back to nature. it reminds you of the world we live in and the fact that life is bigger than us. last time i saw you, you instinctively cited being in the african bush, seeing wild animals at play. it wasn t entirely surprising that you chose this location, but i walked around earlier, it seemed to be an appropriate venue in the sense that right behind you is a large praying mantis, the most predatory animal on earth. think of
have you ever begun dating someone and it s going okay. not bad exactly. definitely better than being alone. maybe it even has some potential down the road. you ll see. in the back of your mind you sort of thing you can do better so you re sort of keeping an eye out for new prospects, maybe for someone else? you know what it s like to be the republican party now. at this point you might think the gop s presidential field would be mostly settled. there s something there for everyone. business types have mitt romney. tea party types have perry and bachmann and santorum. social conservatives have, well, perry, bachmann and santorum. nostalgics have newt gingrich. pizza lovers have herman cain. the party doesn t seem that happy. jennifer ruben wrote for now, many republicans are still asking can t we do better than this? in recent days speculation paul
care and wall street reform? and you want to privatize social security. you re asking me personally. the party doesn t have a position as you know. the party doesn t have an agenda. to the next subject here. he just said the party doesn t have an agenda. of course itwell, it is a fir the next few months. let s talk about massachusetts and what is happening because it is interesting, and they are moving to bypass the electoral process system by which we elect the president. we spent a lot of time as you know, you know, counting chads and hanging chads and president bush became president because of the electoral college process, and everyone learn and now massachusetts says no we want the national popular vote to decide who becomes popular, and does this pick up steam? this is funny. if that ruled applied to massachusetts the electoral votes would have gone twice for reagan and once for george herbert walker bush, because the only time in the century that the majority vote ha
it s really just gotten pushed to the back burner. you know, as most people are saying now, it s probably not going to get addressed in his first term. bret: steve, board games, playstation. gets people fired up. eclipse books, if they were forced to read them it would be tortured but they re not. bret: twilight. yeah. look. democrats couldn t be happier to have this out of the public discussion right now. this would be the worst thing for them to be reminded constantly. president obama could have handled this issue with the about acquiesce of his party. the party doesn t want to look at guantanamo and doesn t want it shut necessarily. if you look at polling afterwards, the independent voters and nearly all republicans don t want to close guantanamo bay. it s an issue on which the
oxygen out of the room. it s really just gotten pushed to the back burner. you know, as most people are saying now, it s probably not going to get addressed in his first term. bret: steve, board games, playstation. gets people fired up. eclipse books, if they were forced to read them it would be tortured but they re not. bret: twilight. yeah. look. democrats couldn t be happier to have this out of the public discussion right now. this would be the worst thing for them to be reminded constantly. president obama could have handled this issue with the about acquiesce of his party. the party doesn t want to look at guantanamo and doesn t want it shut necessarily. if you look at polling afterwards, the independent voters and nearly all republicans don t want to close guantanamo bay. it s an issue on which the