Newt Gingrich on Fox News Channel's the Ingraham Angle | March 18, 2021

NEWT:

This has been a very weird week for the Biden foreign policy. Not only in Alaska did he have the Chinese break the agreement, go on a 15-minute tirade when they had committed that the opening statements would be 2 minutes, I think it actually shook Secretary of State Blinken because he thought he could rely on the Chinese to follow the rules which is totally naive. At the same time you have Putin pulling back the Russian ambassador of the United States and publicly challenging Biden to debate. If you have the Russians and the Chinese confident, they can be an offense against the United States, those are very dangerous signs about how bad the world could get in the next five or six months.

NEWT:

No. We know they didn't pull it because President Trump operated from a position of both moral strength, economic strength, and military strength. He basically followed the Reagan rule which is that if you're strong enough, then the other person is going to negotiate with you because they have no choice. But if you're weak, particularly have to recognize China is an expansionist nation. They say it every single day. Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist party, is very clear that their goal is to replace us by 2049 as the leading country in the world. At the same time, Putin has a KGB agent has said publicly the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. You have on both fronts people who deeply deeply disliked the United States and when they sense weakness, they look at a Biden administration where his son was getting money, where all sorts of things are going on. The contempt they have for the American governing class is beyond our understanding.

NEWT:

The great crisis for Biden and the left is in immigration and other areas. Their core policies are so crazy and out of touch with reality, so deeply believed by their most intense activists that they have to pretend that the world can work with totally insane policies. Gallup warned us two or three years ago that up to 65 million people would like to come to the U.S. if the border was open. 65 million. Not just from Central America or Mexico. To think that you could take down everything Trump was doing, all of the common sense steps keeping people in Mexico while you verified whether they were allowed to have asylum, having a wall that really worked. You take all those things down. And by the way, notice the total hypocrisy that the Biden administration will not allow reporters to visit any of the detention centers. There is really an effort here to lie systematically to the American people.