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Joining us now is former speaker of the house and presidential candidate newt gingrich. great to have you on mr mr. speaker. i wonder how you're thinking about paul ryan tonight. you said in the past he was interesting with his right wing engineering in terms of his budget policy. have you adjusted your thinking? >> he reached out, worked with ron wyden of oregon, created a better version of his medicare reform which does allow people under 55 to stay on medicare, it's the only bipartisan reform for medicare we have seen. it's a very defensible proposal. i think it met every single concern i h...

Better. feathers ruffled, nontenured teachers and supervisors were laid off but the school did a 180. >> i am very proud to say this is not my achievement, it's their achievement, that in one year they flipped the school so that we were no longer in a needs improvement status. >> reporter: a 33-year-old native of new jersey, says administrators and teachers performed that turnaround with a new philosophy. >> not blaming the kids. i don't want to go home they don't have enough food to eat or a place to do their homework. i can't change that. what i can do is change the services i provide and ho...

I don't want to hear they go home and don't have enough food to eat or don't have a place to do their homework. i can't change that. but what i can do is change the services i provide and how hard i work for kids and that's what's going to make the difference in my mind. >> he has created an environment where, you know, students and teachers interact on much higher level, almost like a collegiate academic environment. >> i definitely see a change. teachers are a lot more hands on and pay attention to students as individuals. >> i feel like a lot of the teachers are more comfortable in their sk...

Three weeks ago no one on earth would have believed anything like what we have seen was possible and now we watching in this environment where, at times, it took year for revelations like this to gather hold and gather forces and now in a word where you can communicate in a dime and organize in a flash, we have gone from peaceful protests to civilian versus civilian with military on the side lines shouting we will not fire with a president who supposedly has control of the military and it is the last line of defense, if you will, with the president who now appears to be losing control of every...

Against this by members of his own national security team, by members of his own party on the hill, by democrats certainly. and the president's own rhetoric on the campaign against china was, you know, crazy. so the question is why is he doing this and why is he doing this now? is it to save chinese jobs? is it because, you know, president xi really vetted him when he went to visit and, you know, threw a parade for him or because of ivanka trump just got some new patents from china? it doesn't make sense why he's doing this and why he's doing this now while he's actually punishing our allies, ...