Subject: RE: Newt Gingrich on The Kelly File
From: "Yoxall, Collin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Peterson, Kelsey" <[email-masked]>, Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 09:14:46 -0700

Hits Bob Gates for criticizing Trump. Says that Airport workers should be tested to see if they believe in Sharia and "Want To Impose Islamic Supremacism"

SMITH: Here at home, airline passengers lashing out at the TSA saying the agency security check points are to blame for hours of wait and thousands of missed flights. So, as another plane goes missing under suspect circumstances, are passengers willing to give up security for speed? That debate is next.
Plus, Donald Trump getting hit for being one of the first to blame terror for the disappearance of Egypt Air 840. Newt Gingrich is here to respond.
SMITH: Breaking tonight, they are stepping up security at LAX. Tonight, following the crash of an Egypt Air flight and suspicions it was terror. Shortly after the news broke this morning, Donald Trump weighed in by tweeting, "looks like yet another terrorist attack. When we'll we get tough, smart and vigilant. Great hate and sickness." Trump got hit for that when former Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Trump was jumping to conclusions.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROBERT GATES, FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY: It's always better to wait until you actually know what the facts are before you, before you open up. I realize that's a very unusual thing in American politics, but it ought to be tried occasionally.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SMITH: Joining us now with a reaction, Newt Gingrich himself is here, former Speaker of the House and author of "Rediscovering God in America." Speaker, good to have you here tonight. Thank you.
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Oh, it's good to be with you.
SMITH: All right, so first of all, what do you make of all of this and what's happening and what we know and what we don't know about this Egypt Air missing airliner.
GINGRICH: Well, let me start with the LAX story which is nonsense. We are in a worldwide fight with Islamic supremacists. The fight has been going on for decades. It's not going to change. The idea that all of a sudden because of an Egyptian Air flight in the Mediterranean, LAX is doing something for P.R. purposes is frankly just stupid.
They should be at a constant vigilance because every airport in the world, every airline here in the world is under constant threat from people who want to destroy our civilization. So, they weren't already doing it, they ought to be, and I say this to every airport in the world. This is a constant permanent threat. Second, I think Bob Gates had a good point expect for this problem.
Barack Obama has ignored the facts for seven and a half years, Hillary Clinton has ignored the facts for seven and a half years. Maybe Donald Trump is a couple hours early. We'll find out. I thought you had a great panel just now. I thought they made very good points, and on this one incident, I'm willing to wait a few hours to see what the data is. But the overall reality that we're faced with Islamic supremacists, that we're faced with a huge terrorist threat.
We've had a president for seven and a half years who has frankly failed to do his job. We have a Secretary of State, now a candidate for president, who has failed to do her job. Neither one of them wants to tell us the truth about Islamic supremacists and so I'm more sympathetic with Trump who at least gets the basic principle which is, there are folks out there that want to kill us.
SMITH: Are you confident in this country's ability to vet the workers at our airports...
GINGRICH: No, no.
SMITH: Are you confident in TSA's ability to monitor weapons, bombs, anything that might get through our airports?
GINGRICH: Well, with all distinction, I think overall the odds are pretty good, the high 99 percent that you can stop people who are stupid from bringing in weapons through TSA and that's pretty good. But the idea that - - we don't even have the right standards, you know -- the first test and this is very hard to do -- the first test ought to be, are we dealing with people who believe in Sharia and who want to impose Islamic supremacism (ph).
We don't have any test for that, in fact, the current administration would say that that was an Islamic phobic comment and therefore it was totally inappropriate. And they've trained the FBI and others not even to think like this. So, we have I think a number of people, for example, who had worked in the Minneapolis airport who went to Syria -- we were just very fortunate. If they had wanted to, they would have done more damage frankly staying at the Minneapolis airport than they did by going to Syria.
SMITH: Speaker, what was Gate's motivation here? Why do you think he was going after Trump so hard? I mean he said, he seems to think that he has all the answers and that he doesn't need advice from staff or anybody else.
GINGRICH: Look, Bob Gates is one of the great bureaucratic officials in American history. I have enormous respect for his commitment to the country. I think he's very, very smart but he's a total insider. And he believes in the old order. Donald Trump is a direct challenge to the old order, an order which, by the way, has not won the war. From 9/11 until today is the equivalent of going from Pearl Harbor to 1955.
Now, if we were still fighting Imperial Japan in 1955, we would have been in turmoil. The fact is, with all due respect to Secretary Gates' who's a great patriot and a very smart man, the leadership of that establishment has failed and that's why you're getting a Donald Trump.
SMITH: Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, very good to have you on tonight. Thank you sir.
GINGRICH: Good to be with you.

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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 10:14 PM
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Subject: Newt Gingrich on The Kelly File

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