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Drone war in yemen and africa and who knows where else. foreign policy hasn't been part of the discussion yet. that's much to newt gingrich's chagrin. >> i believe one of the great weaknesses of the campaign up to now, the debates up to now, has been the absence of the serious discussion about the nature of the world, the nature of the world market, the nature of those challenges we face and the nature of america's role in that world. >> america's role in the world is very important to newt gingrich. so important, in fact, that in just the last week, he's gotten a lot of attention for saying t...

Of the discussion much. that's much to newt gingrich's chagrin. >> i believe one of the great weaknesses of the campaign up to now, the debates up to now, has been the absence of the serious discussion about the nature of the world, the nature of the world market, the nature of those challenges we face and the nature of america's role in that world. >> america's role in the world is very important to newt gingrich. so important, in fact, that in just the last week, he's gotten a lot of attention for saying things about foreign policy and diplomacy and how and who should represent america in th...

And figuring out how to -- how to damage the other party. how to push his party ahead. he's obviously incredibly partisan. >> yes. >> and is like karl rove in that aspect. i think i called him recently one of the fathers of modern wedge politics. >> yeah. >> it -- i'm not sure. i can't predict what kind of president he would be. whether he would leave that behind after having won an election, or whether he would work that to further benefit. obviously you remember rove wanted to install a republican majority for the foreseeable future. that didn't quite work out. >> well, so scott henry, thank...

>> yeah. right. is there some kind of fear mongering that he is expecting to work strategically going on here? >> i've known newt gingrich since 1994, not particularly well. he was on the board of the nixon center and part of newt gingrich is a realist. part of him is tied up and distracted by exotic ideas. one of them, the notion you can have an electromagnetic pulse is actually scientifically correct. we could all go back to vacuum tubes as we once thought about during the cold war to keep ourselves from being vulnerable to that. but it's so beyond the kind of regular experience. it raises f...

They're doing fine. they're planning to stop in germany overnight to rest will tomorrow they will press on to oslo. >> that head of state made it home. and he is still prime minister of norway. and today, he is on an even more amazing journey. this one, however, on purpose. which made the staff here at the show think of starting a new segment. with, we do that when rachel is not here? we're going to do it where in the world is he? >> jens! >> the answer is antarctica. the head of norway's government is at the south pole right now. he'll hang out there for a few days to mark the 100th anniversa...