Newt Gingrich | Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends | September 12 2022

NEWT:

Well, look, I think that she is ignoring how much the strategies of big government socialism stopping energy development in the United States, putting all sorts of regulations on business, subsidizing people for not working, creating an artificial environment that I think is a huge problem for the economy, for the American family. Remember, this inflation is bad enough that the U.S. Army just recommended to its younger soldiers that they go on food stamps. We haven't seen that since Jimmy Carter. The inflation is bad enough the price of food is going to continue to go up this fall. And there is nothing policy wise they are going to do to turn it around. The price of electricity keeps going up. 20 million families are already behind in paying their electric bills. I think that we are already in a situation where in any traditional situation you would say this is a bad economy, a painful economy and it's likely to get worse.

NEWT:

No. I think, look, if you are in a government paid job. If you are the president with air force one, Marine one, the white house staff, you are totally buffered. You don't feel the inflation. If you are a white house staffer, being given $20,000 in loan relief by the president. You don't feel the inflation. If you are a democratic congressman or senator, you got a nice cushy job. You are not feeling the inflation. However, if you are a normal, everyday American and you are going to the local grocery store, you are feeling inflation. If you are somebody trying to fix something in your house and you cannot get the things you need even at a high price because logistic supply chain is still screwed up, you are feeling a bad economy. I think if we just talk about good and bad economies, and didn't get into technical language. The average person knows that we have a cost of living crisis that particularly effects senior citizens, and it effects the poorest Americans.

NEWT:

Well, my attorneys are working all that out. I'm not directly engaged with the committee. But I will say, there has never been a more blatant misuse of the justice department this close to an election. You know, the ground rule used to be that 60 days out they stopped all this stuff precisely to not try to influence an election. Instead, you have a deliberate targeting process underway to intimidate Republican donors, Republican candidates even Republican lawyers. We haven't -- this is as close to a police state tactic as we have ever seen in this country. And, of course, this totally, I think, inappropriate it's not really a congressional committee. It's a show trial in the Stalinist tradition. They are apparently sitting down this week with their Hollywood producer. Think about this they are sitting down with Hollywood producer to plan the next two months. This is absurdity, and Americans should be insulted that these people think they are stupid enough to fall for this kind of thing.

NEWT:

Yeah. I think this all one side. By the way managed to put Hunter Biden to one side for several years. So, this is a totally one sided partisan, I think, dangerously corrupt process that Americans should be really worried about in terms of their own personal safety from the government.