point, sorry, michael. as much as we talk about nancy pelosi, ultimately, what brought this shutdown to an end and i think we still would have had a shut down ongoing were it not to be for the air traffic controllers and airport workers, it was the people who had to get frustrated been suffering and working for free that up taking a stand. it will happen faster if they try to shut it down next time. absolutely. i worked in the white house when newt beginnigingrich was te speaker. this is the first time the president shut the government down i think that s so jarring to people that the person one hopes will take stewartship of the executive branch would trash it for the hell of it is really tough. all right we ll come back here it was a circus to be sure outside the fort lauderdale courthouse on friday there was groupies surrounding
responses. i think given the greatest danger in these cases is not that you did something wrong but say something and they go after something for something that was an innocent mistake. it s very dangerous for someone who has the enjoyment of talking to president trump to get that in kind of a conversation. the second he s undisciplined he sets himself up for perjury or obstruction of justice. if i m his lawyers i d say, tell us what crime you re investigating and this is the point andy mccarthy has said brilliantly. you can t just run a dragnet. sandra: former speaker of the house, newt beginnigingrich. thank you for being on this morning. eric: we re awaiting a news
attention. trump routinely goes up against anybody who pops up in the polls. the reason he goes after jeb bush, he s been an important foil from him right to the beginning to many of the trump voters, bush embodies what they don t like about the republican establishment, what they don t like about the direction of the party and it s a counterpoint to bush that s been so valuable and helpful for trump, really right from the beginning and establishing his holdover his lane of the party. in 2012, kevin, when you were working for mitt romney, his super pac did a lot of the attack ads, if you will. that was a smart strategy at that time because it kept mitt romney sort of out of it. well, i think what happened is it complimented a lot of the strategies that we had inside the campaigns as far as who we wanted to draw the contrast with. when the romney campaign had to draw contrast against rick perry or newt beginnigingrich, we did
as you heard earlier, president obama talked about allegations against the veterans administrations. specifically extreme wait times for some veterans trying to get care. in his remarks, the president said if the allegations are true, he will not tolerate it. he also said any evidence of misconduct will be punished. let s bring in two of the hosts of cnn s cross fire, van jones, and former house speaker newt beginnigingrich. the president is holding out hope shinseki can get the job done. do you have confidence? no, i think it s almost silly it obama himself campaigned on the veteran scandals in 2008. shinseki s had five years to fix it. we have an interactive map at gingrich productions that has 34 different sites, most of them based, by the way, on cnn investigations. all over the country, there are problems. they need they both need a new leader but they also need really big systems changes, which means congress is going to
restore our future jammed the air ways in iowa in september. . newt has more baggage than the airlines. ever notice some people make a lot of mistakes? so far newt gingrich has admitted his mistakes or flipped on taeping up with pelosi, immigration, medicare, health care. there were ads like this one coming here. who has the right experience? mitt romney helped create thousands of of jobs. romney res the olympics, santorum was in washington voting to raise the debt limit five times. do you believe mitt romney is