newt gingrich was a finalist. i interviewed a republican lawyer in town who did the vetting for john mccain also as we talked a bit about sarah palin, which was fascinating. and he said that it terrifies him, and those were his words, that there is no fbi process involved. and so you could have had potentially a president michael flynn because there is no fbi vetting. cabinet officials get better vetting than vice presidents do. is so he. said, you know, it's absolutely terrifying, and i just thought that was a fascinating. the t vetting process is intention. they have these white collar attorneys who do it for free, and it's kind of like being a private eye. it's a lot of fun for them. i interviewed hillary clinton's vetter for the 2016 campaign too, and he described the process and how he would dispatch attorneys all over the country to interview, you know, times kaine's nursery schoolteacher and things like that. i think vetting is fascinating process. >> host: and the lessons from past mistakes like thomas eag

trump was particularly rattled by a critical tweet monday from newt gingrich. one of the people said gingrich, long a stal wart ally urged the president to clarify his helsinki statement, saying they were the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected immediately. so the white house called the media in to a preexisting meeting he was having with members of congress about taxes and reading off a printed statement, the president said he got a word wrong yesterday. >> i said the word would instead of wouldn't. and the sentence should have been, and i thought it would be a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video. it should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you can put that in. i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> here's what he's talking about. his original comments alongside putin in helsinki. >> my people came to me, dan coates came to me and some others and they said they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's no

. >> as much as anything else this was a rally for newt gingrich, possible speaker of the house. >> we are for this contract as a first step towards renewing american civilization. >> during the 1980s, newt gingrich had had gained this reputation as someone who investigates scandal, use the media, every tool available. that's the gingrich who had his eyes set now both on president clinton but also on retaking control of the house. >> good evening. there's a seismic shift to the right in it political landscape of america tonight. >> it doesn't take a genius to see it's going republican. republican, republican. >> this is truly a wildly historic night. >> the republican victory in '94 had a shocking effect on bill clinton. because president of the united states was suddenly marginalized and newt gingrich, the speaker of the house, was the big man in town. ♪ >> last september the house republicans signed a contract with america. we signed this contract and made some promises. you elected us. and for the last 93 days we have been keeping our word. >> president clinton, republicans have d

please join me to welcome the former speaker of the house newt gingrich. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm glad you are here there is also an intern with us so we are delighted to have him here today to cover the things that we talk about. i think young america foundation plays a very important goal -- just as a test case, how many of you would say there is a liberal bias on your campus? [laughter] does anybody here say there is not? [inaudible] two that's a great school. i like that school. >> good is the largest school that i have heard from that does not have a bias. that's great. if anybody has a sense of what this is about why young american foundation matters. so we are in a long-term struggle literally a cultural civil war. those right in the middle of classes how many have a professor if you gave it directly conservative answer on your test would give you a lower grade? and then to get the wrong answer by definition. but with that university they became more liberal the news media follows that pattern although the intensity so how many of you

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the man serving up the most scathing criticism of donald trump tonight, newt gingrich. a man who has been loyal to the core to trump since the campaign, an ardent defender daily. his wife, even president trump's ambassador to the vatican, today, though, crossed the line for gingrich. he's tweeting tonight, quote, president trump must clarify his statements in helsinki on our intelligence system and putin. it is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected immediately. the most serious mistake of his presidency. that mistake, the president calling out his own intelligence chiefs, belittling them and taken vladimir putin's word against theirs publicly at a press conference next to vladimir putin in front of the whole world. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> it's hard to know what to do with that, all right? that's how a lot of people have felt about it today. let's be clear beca

newt gingrich tweeting "president trump must clarify his statements in helsinki on our intelligent system and putin. it is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected immediately." and others, like rand paul, came to the president's defense. watch. >> i think we need to take a step back and ask ourselves, is it good to have conversation with her adversaries? the worst part of the cold war prior to the cuban missile crisis, kennedy had direct line to khrushchev. that's what i would see this meeting as. renewing engagement and renewing open lines of conversation. >> martha: so, strategic advantage or ultimately disadvantaged? joining me now, jack keane, fox news strategic analyst and chairman of the institute for the study of war. always good to have you with us, general. we all watched with great interest in and it was quite something. what was your take away? >> first of all, i'm delighted they got together. it makes all the sense in the world for many reasons and given the major, major international global security issues that are really on the table between our two

one comment in particular stung him, which was the tweet from former speaker newt gingrich who called this the worst mistake of his presidency. that comment stung so much that trump made sure to speak with gingrich after his comments, his revision today, to make sure that gingrich, who is a close adviser, has been -- frequently meets with pence, he talks with trump quite a bit, make sure that newt gingrich saw those comments and to get his feedback, to see if he appreciated and thought that he had cleared things up now. >> newt gingrich responded, i'm paraphrasing, saying the president responded quickly and clarified and to move on. he was asking advisers how his appearance came off, then tuesday morning, i'm quoting your article, after the president had seen the news coverage and looked at a transcript of his press conference, he spoke with mike pence, new communications director bill shine and so forth. this was a big deal, obviously. >> there were half a dozen other people there, too. you've talked about it on your show, others have made the comparison to charlottesville, as this b

newt gingrich said this was the most serious mistake of the president's presidency and must be corrected immediately. more of the same on fox news. sean hannity spoke to the president and did not bring up the information, but many at fox news did. >> trump clearly should not have created any semblance of moral equivolancy and assurances of vladimir putin. >> this is the time for the president to look putin in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. >> he didn't. >> that's what made it disgusting. that is what made his performance disgusting. it is not a right or left thing. this is wrong. u.s. president on foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy or adversary. i don't know how we define him these days. >> abby huntsman, the daughter of jon huntsman, tweeted this. no negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus. there was this perspective from fox contributor ari flesher. tweeting that trump only sees russia interference through the lens of whether he won or lost. that should not blind him for how wrong it was for russia to interfere. i

newt gingrich has been with him through thick and thin. his mood starts to darken and change on the flight home. on the flight home, there was the tiniest bit of a walk back. a tweet said he does believe his intelligence community, but we need to look to the future. that gave you the first inkling of what was to come. he got a late start this morning, he was in the residence watching more and getting more frustrated. there was a push by a number of people both inside and outside the white house to get him to make a correction and walk it back. the white house told us these were the president's words, but it was a collaborative effort and the first draft was written by the top policy adviser and speech writer, steven miller. he weighed in and he was even weighing in up until the last minute, scribbling in the trademark sharpy, no collusion and other tweaks he read around 2:00 p.m. today. >> later on in the broadcast, eugene robinson was first to go on and witness a hostage tape. which trump do you believe as a career intel expert? the trump

. >> this is the story of the end of newt gingrich's political career. he was the house speaker and after bill clinton admitted to the affair in the summer of 1998 and newt gingrich predicted this is going to result of a gain of 40 seats in the republican's house. he had a public speech where he said that, august or july of 1998, he talked about 40 seats from this. he told congress i think i found impeachable offenses. republicans and a few democrats vote in the house and open a formal impeachment inquiry. republicans of the rare exceptions of all the history lost seats in the midterm election. days later, newt gingrich was decomposed as the speaker resigned from congress and that was it for his phase of the career. >> how, he's the husband of the vatican ambassador. that's totally normal. steve cornacki, this is a lot of fun. much appreciated. >> yeah. >> more to talk about, stay with us. we'll be right back. man: it takes a lot of work to run this business, but i really love it. i'm on the move all day long, and sometimes i don't eat the way i should.

. >> this is the story of the end of newt gingrich's political career. he was the house speaker and after bill clinton admitted to the affair in the summer of 1998 and newt gingrich predicted this is going to result of a gain of 40 seats in the republican's house. he had a public speech where he said that, august or july of 1998, he talked about 40 seats from this. he told congress i think i found impeachable offenses. republicans and a few democrats vote in the house and open a formal impeachment inquiry. republicans of the rare exceptions of all the history lost seats in the midterm election. days later, newt gingrich was decomposed as the speaker resigned from congress and that was it for his phase of the career. >> how, he's the husband of the vatican ambassador. that's totally normal. steve cornacki, this is a lot of fun. much appreciated. >> yeah. >> more to talk about, stay with us. we'll be right back. booking a flight at the last minute doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best place to book a flight a few days before my

you know, including as we wrote there was a tweet that newt gingrich sent that i believe was then aired on fox news, which the president watches, that really rattled him because newt gingrich is someone who has really been with him through thick and thin. his mood starts to darken and change on the flight home. on the flight home, there was the tiniest bit of a walk-back. there was a tweet he sent saying he does believe his intelligence community but we really need to look to the future. that gave you the first inkling of what was to come. he lands. he gets a late start this morning, which means he's in the residence watching more tv, getting more frustrated. there was really a push by a number of people both inside and outside the white house to get him to make some correction and walk it back. the white house has told us these were the president's words, but this was also a collaborative effort. the first draft was written by his top policy adviser and speech writer stephen miller. the president weighed in. as you saw, he was even weighing in in those photos up until the last minute,

please join me in welcoming speaker of the house of representatives speaker newt gingrich. [applause] i'm glad you are here. he's also an intern with us and we are delighted to have him here today. i'm delighted to have the chance to talk with you and i think the young america's foundation plays a very important role. let me ask you a question of the tax case for those that are students at the present time, how many of you would say that there's a liberal bias on your campus? is there anybody here -- that's great. anybody watching this will have the same this is abou of what tt and why the foundation matters. part of the reason i wrote trumps america is because we are in a long-term struggle that is a cultural civil war coming into those of you that are right now in the middle of classes where how many of you have a professor who you gave aid directly conservative answer under test will give you a lower grade? if you look at the news media it is an outsource of the universities. the universities became more liberal, the news media followed the pattern and that is why you en

. >> well, lindsey graham, let me just-- >> glor: newt gingrich said it was the biggest mistake of your presidency. >> i totally disagree. i think i did great at the news conference. i think it was a strong news conference. you have people that said "you should have gone up to him. you should have walked up and started screaming in his face." we're living in the real world. okay. >> glor: who gives you the best advice? when you come back and you read all these stories and you say you don't know what the fuss is all about, who do you talk to? >> i will tell you, i don't know what the fuss is all about. i think we did extremely well. i think the press makes up the fuss, look it's fake news. people understand that. i think the press largely makes up a lot of the fuss about a lot of things. i'm not talking about one thing. i'm talking about everything. it's crazy. you do something that's positive and they try to make it as negative as possible. not all. and i have to say this, some of sse most honorable people i know, some great people, are reporters, journalists, et cetera. but the level o

i think that the president -- you know, when you starts to hear people like newt gingrich, who's been pretty tough on him, but what they're saying is you need to fix this. you need to correct it. sort of like charlottesville in that way. i kind of anticipate at some point in the next few days that there will be a statement from the president. >> but the moment matters more than the cleanup. the optics after charlottesville when the whole country is watching, standing next to vladimir putin when the whole world is watching. we'll continue the conversation. >>> up next, the president's usual defenders, mostly missing in action after the helsinki summit. [music playing] across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease. but what if, one day, there was a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor? what if there were millions of them? join us for the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's. register today at alz.org/walk. gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for eve

newt gingrich belongs to the category of exceptional. we wholeheartedly agree. please join me in welcoming newt gingrich. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm glad toe hear. we are delighted to have him your today to cover the things we talk about. i'm delighted with have the chance talk to you. in theta young america foundation plays a very important role. let me ask you a question for those of you who are students, how many of you would say there's a liberal bias on your campus? [laughter] i'm serious. is there anybody here who would say there's not a liberal bias? >> the largest lie. that does have a bias. that's great anyone watching this will have some sense ofnd what this is all about and why young america foundation matters. part of the reason i wrote transamerica is that we are in a long-term struggle that is literally a cultural civil war and those of you who are in the middle of classes, how many of you have a professor who, if you gave it directly conservative answer on your test would give you a lower grade. raise your hand if you had professors th

newt gingrich had called it the biggest mistake of his presidency. earlier tonight int

and we heard that was one of the things that really got the president's attention, that newt gingrich, who has been such a staunch supporter would write an incredibly critical tweet after that. >> that's right. we heard the same thing. he was rattled by that tweet. and that was sort of what helped h him understand. he went out and corrected it. after that very negative tweet in newt gingrich, who you pointed out is always a staunch ally, he tweeted the next day saying the president has clarified. all is fine and well and trained his fire on -- >> you had this great reporting too. you have mike pence, pompeo, as well. who are instrumental in getting him to read the same. we saw in close justify photographs taken he wrote some things in the margins and crossed other things out. there's the picture of it. adding there was no collusion. that's in the president's -- he always writes in that black magic marker. i was thinking to myself. what are they thinking, if they felt like they accomplished something, he goes on this tweet storm, like seven tweets in an hour and a half. >> that's right

on the newt gingriches. newt gingrich saying the president needs to clean this up. it didn't appear the president realized yet his political situation. when he was flying in the air from helsinki back to joint base andrews, it's at that point the republicans really started to be critical. we're hearing the start, the preview, of what his clean-up strategy will be. stephanie. >> if he needs one, republicans could talk a big game. but unless they do something, he won't be compelled to do anything. what's this about his intelligence briefing? >> intel briefing was on his schedule last week. this morning, it has been scrubbed -- >> he learned everything yesterday? >> he does not feel the need to receive a briefing from his briefers this morning on the intel front, stef. >> i, and i alone. i want to bring in my panel. steve schmidt, an msnbc political analyst. christine quinn, vice chair of the new york state democratic party. and emmitt siegfried, a republican strategist. i invited a myriad of elected officials, republican, to join me on air today to discuss the preside

newt gingrich with us. she is citing the idea that a congressional source said they did expect her. but she is claiming she did not get the materials which congress she thought he would have. >> who knows what the deal is? these guys sounds like the old mafia bossed who would sit there does plead the fifth. it gave you a signal who is guilty. you are discovering at the very senior levels of the fbi and i believe of the justice department under obama you had a level of corruption that makes it very dangerous for them to show up and to actually testify. i think their lawyers under our system are saying to them, protect yourself. you cannot go under oath and start talking about this stuff or you will either reveal information that will put you in jail, or you will end up committing perjury. i think you are seeing a real example -- it sounds to me like they didn't have a lot to hide, they would not be hiding. we are seeing people who have a lot to hide. >> sean: listen, i would say and i said this about the fbi director james comey who allowed him to write the book and go the book tour

there was a tweet by newt gingrich. he didn't provide that much clarity to his aides at first which froze everyone. so a situation where the white house communication office didn't know which message to push out. no trump surrogate supporting him on air. and with nudging, the president did it looked like under duress, he did make his own notations and tweaks and flourishes in the margin. >> in contrast to the president, leader mitch mcconnell said today that congress is united and standing behind nato and offered a message of warning to russia. >> make no mistake about it, i would say to our friends in europe we understand the russian threat and that is a wide spread view here in the united states senate among members of both parties. there is a possibility that we may very well take up legislations. in the meantime the russians need to know there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016, and it better not happen again in 2018. >> i would say in all fairness and with some respect, that mitch mcconnell

newt gingrich of all people went after him. is this deserved? >> he's getting a lot of backlash from folks who have always been staunchly anti-russia in america and certainly are not fond of autocrat or republicans, but i think outside of the washington bubble, i think largely americans, i know largely americans just really don't care much about russia. anytime the spikes in one way or another. it subsides really quickly among american voters. i don't think. safety and security. they are people accused of meddling in our democracy. someone attacked someone's intelligence service. >> more or less. he had great confidence in president burton's denial, but agree with intelligence services. this is one of the places where the american people as well as many of the pundits who watch the 2016 race. they were concerned about trump standing in the world stage. as of today. and he would go his own way. they wanted him to come out strongly and he did the opposite. they want to redo the street from ex-cia chief john brennan who was attacked by the presiden

newt gingrich said it was the middle east serious mistake in his presidency. but the president still blamed it on the fake news media. but i think it was just a bad day. there was no way to spin it any other way. the publicly was not good. how could it have been. howie: do you think some of the liberal criticism went too far. we saw on msnbc it being compared to 9/11. jessica: traitor has been thrown around since he assumed office. it's a lot to stomach to see him standing next to vladimir putin who we know is a murderous thug dictator. and h -- equivocate on everythig and make him seem like the big guy in the room. we are the big dogs in the room. howie: treason and traitor go too far? it was a botched press conference. jessica: i think it's more than a botched press conference. you can't just throw impeachment around without ground. what are you going to impeach him on. we have definitions of those. i think we go too far. but this is both sides of the aisle. everyone is ashamed of this. liz: the deck was stacked against him. but he was the dealer. that was t

i was thinking about the clinton scandal where newt gingrich was a simultaneously having his own affair with a congressionally great so it's people that are outraged by one thing but practicing something different in private and there is ambiguity there. we see that same social hotspot, where there are mixed feelings about it. some people are outraged and others are kind of secretly accepting of the crisis, what is going on. the gildedu look at age and the vanderbilts and inkefellers and carnegie's, your area of research, what have you learned about the coachmen and other scandals? a statuscoachmen were symbol because the status was so important to these people. and they had very expensive delivery, fancy, liveried uniforms. they presented themselves on the top of a carriage, so a lot of people would show up to a ball and they would be preceded .iterally by their coachman and they would hire these people in part for their looks. they wanted them to be chiseled and handsome and have a good physique. so they were hiring people almost as male models/coachmen, so this was very important in

we had newt gingrich coming out thing this was the worst day of his residency and most serious mistake. everybody was kind of an agreement. he said what are we fake news media now it was just a bad day. there was no other way to spin it. the publicity was not good and it couldn't have been. >> at the same time do you think some of the liberal criticism went a little too far they can. this to pearl harbor, kristallnacht, others declared trump to be a traitor even before the press conference. >> trader has been thrown around since he assumed office. it is a lot to stomach to see him standing there next to vladimir putin who we know is a murderous, thug, dictator and not only say i'm not sure what he did but acquitted kate on everything and give him far more credit than he is due and make him seemed like the big guy in the room. like for the big dogs in the room wher we are the exceptional nation. >> i get that you are critical but does treason and a traitor go too far. >> there are definitions of these things but i think it's more than a botched press conference but we talk about impeach

if you go to lunch with newt gingrich, the table is full. three or four notepads covering thcovetingthe table, two or thre blackberries going in his mind is playing tricks. what are you working on these days? then i'm writing something about it while bushy but it's not about impeachment you need to write about the early years and that would be a great book and here is what you should call it. here is my agent's number and you should put these things together. so i met with his agent and talked and said that's fine it sounds like an interesting story and he will se we will set you a ghost writer. she was a convicted felon and raised four kids as a single mom and got expelled from high school and never went back and worked my way from a community college in berkeley in every job imaginable, bartender, the hot oil wrestling markham and yes it has a 2-dollar cover charge. what i loved about that book it was my favorite until this new one. i loved about that book is a the number of letters i got from around the world from all these people who wou

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former house speaker newt gingrich called it the most serious mistake of mr. trump's presidency and said it must be corrected immediately. president trump suggested he believes that russian president vladimir putin's denial of his own government's allegation that russia meddled in the u.s. 2016 election. russian prosecutors want to question u.s. intelligence agents and a former ambassador to moscow in their investigation of an influential rival of president putin. followsannouncement yesterday's summit. president putin offered to allow u.s. investigators to question russian military agents accused of hacking democratic party during the switch -- 2016 election. wants toge russia question u.s. officials suspected of involvement in financial crimes by british investor bill browder. mgm resorts international is suing the victims of the las vegas music festival shooting in an effort to block any potential compensation claims against it. the owner of the mandalay bay hotel is asking a federal judge in nevada to say the company is not liable. stephen paddock opened f

i was thinking about the clinton impeachment scandal where newt gingrich was simultaneously having his own affair with a congressional aide, so that is a great example of people being outraged i one thing but practicing something different in private and there is some ambiguity there. we see that same kind of social hotspot, where there are mixed feelings about it. some people are outraged, and others are kind of secretly accepting of the crisis, what is going on. stewart: if you look at -- steve: if you look at what has been going on recently -- in the gilded age and the vanderbilts and rockefellers and carnegie's, in your area of research, what have you learned about the coachmen and other scandals? carolee: coachmen were a status symbol. status was so important to these people. they often had the most fancy,ve delivery, very livery uniforms. they presented themselves on the top of a carriage, so a lot of people would show up to a ball and they would be preceded literally by their coachman. people would recognize, that is the vanderbilts' coachman, that is the carnegies' coachman. an

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newt gingrich described the comments as the most serious mistake of his presidency. late this afternoon, the director of national intelligence, dan cote, whose judgment the president went against sent out this statement. the role of the intelligence committee is to provide -- we have been clear in our assess. s of the russian meddling in the the 2016 election and their -- sources tell nbc news coates statement was not approved by the traveling white house before its release. while trump may have doubts about the investigation and the indictment of 12 russian amts, there was also this statement from putin to help. >> we can actually permit special representatives of the united states, including this member of this very commission headed by mr. mueller, we can let them into the country and they can be present for this questioning. >> putin added that in exchange, he would want russian law enforcement to be allowed similar prif privileges when it came to russians that broke american laws. ahead of the meeting, staffers provided trump with some 100 pages of briefing mate

. >> reporter: and from a stalwart trump allie newt gingrich tweeting, it is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected immediately. on his way back home the president started the damage control tweeting, i have great confidence in my intelligence people, he said. i also recognize in order to build a brighter future, we cannot focus on the past the most striking thing in that press conference, president trump actually had the opportunity to side with his intelligence agencies and instead he sided with putin. >> and area leader chuck schumer is calling on democrats to draw sanctions on russia. >> we are live in helsinki, patrick, one of the headlines in helsinki says trump o, putin 1. what is the reaction back in russia as far as you know? >> reporter: good morning. yeah, i mean overwhelmingly positive in russia. they feel that vladimir putin came away from that summit you know an obvious winner because ultimately he went there and came back more or less more than you could hope for with an american president basically agreeing with russia's p perspective and this

a lot of an usual suspects came to criticise, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house, who has famously been on his side, said he needed to clarify the remarks. will this change his attitude strategy? probably not. what could be interesting is how those republicans who have expressed doubt now, whether they will do that in the future or back away. there are some important mid—term elections coming up in the us and i don't think there will be much criticism of him in the run—up because republicans are fighting for their jobs. because republicans are fighting for theirjobs. after those elections, especially if the republican party does badly, you might see some of them turning on the president and blaming him for what has happened. the other thing with donald trump, he quite likes criticising you behind your back but being nice to you to your face, when putin was next to him he stuck up for putin, then he went and changed his mind. the same thing with theresa may, really good about her in the sun and then stood next to her in the press conference as if she is his best friend.

but let's not bury the lead on the story which as newt gingrich said, trey gowdy said in your interview. this is a national disgrace. this is unbelievable. one of the things we do know came out of this meeting was a discussion between president trump and putin about possibly interviewing michael mcfall, our former russian ambassador. to me, that's extremely troubling. i think all of the have to say, we understand president trump doesn't want to delegitimize his election, but again, to reiterate something trey gowdy said, this is about america being under attack and being under attack heading into the midterms interns of our election and democratic process. >> i think it's difficult for the president to go on twitter, easy for him but for us to digest and blaming this on the fake news. the fake news played in its entirety the press conference he himself participated in and it was a very low moment. i do think his pivot eventually to what we saw on the cnbc interview was what the administration asked to be doing. which was highlighting not just the sanctions but the diplomatic expulsions.

, he took me out to lunch and i was on time but he was early and if you go to lunch with newt gingrich, the table is fool, three or four notepads covering the table, two or three blackberries going and his mind is playing multidimensional chest. what are you working on? writing a book, going on anthropological digs and writing something about zoology. he went on and on. speaking of writing you need to write a book but not about the clinton impeachment, you need to write about your early years and that will be a great book and here's what you should call it and started titling it for me and here's my agent's number and how you are going to put this together. i met with his agent, that is fine, really sounds like an interesting story and we will set you up with a ghost writer. i told her i would like to do this myself. time out, you are a politician, forget it. no one is going to read this thing. let me write a few more. and my unlikely road from welfare to washington, the story of how i grew up as the illegitimate son of a single mom on welfare and food stamps, she was in and out of jai

. >> newt gingrich a trump supportedder tweeted this. president trump must clarify his statements and hold hesinki. and from kamala harris, trump flattered putin who attacked our democracy. it is disgrateful. >>> some protesters are calling the president a trader projecting this imagine on to building. it also hacartoons of mr. trump and russian president putin. >> we saw trump again russian. so it's important to stand up for democracy and take action for democracy. >> we've seen this sort of protest before back in january someone put an obscenity on the side of the building while speaking out against the president. also tonight a former apple employee has pleaded not guilty to stealing company trade secrets and now we know what he was allegedly after. a federal grand jury has indicted him on a charge of stealing a confidential 25 page document that is useed in the critical infrastructure of a self-driving car. he allegedly told apple that he was quitting to work at a chinese start up. apple security then reviewed his network security an

gingrich and as you can see if you look at my i have to bring my kindle up for you i read an average of a book a day or book every other day. >> what do you have? >> the bock i'm countrily reading today is preston child which is a good you learn i first learned about iranian nuclear crisis several years ago when read aring one of the thrillers and learning about their capability this teaches you a lot about some egyptian and it is a good thriller. i've got ben rhodes world as it is. john and fierce billy and bare and, of course, i have to read about trump's america but i have a ton of other books james -- one of my favorite aughts stewartwood i finished bill clinton book today it kill -- came out and books the day that it came out so i read everything including light romance to escape the world. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading sending us your summer reading list at booktv on twitter instagram, or on facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations]

gingrich who was once the former speaker a republican speaker of the house of representatives even when donald trump has made what many would consider monumental mistakes he has stood by the president but even this seems to be too much for him at the wall street journal a very conservative newspaper here in the united states as well the fact that when it comes to russia and the united states they have been adversaries for decades and even while there has been improving of relations in recent years there has been this sort of historical cautious optimism about moving forward knowing full well that there is a sophisticated.

>> strong statements from a number of people like newt gingrich. he called this the biggest m mistake of his presidency. jo t mccain sayingt the president -- mccain that this was the most disgracefupe ormance he's ever seen from an american presiden and a number of others, now democrats, saying thats republic need to back this russia investigation because the president tore it apart right i front of vladimir putin. we're going to hear more today. >>> the baby trumpmp bhat protesters threw during the visit last week, is now crossing the bond. a gofundme page to move the balloon to the u.s., raised $20,000 in three days. they want to fly the balloon esident's golf club in bedminster, new jersey. >>> more details about the murder of a marketing manager in old kswn. brad j died from multiple injuries. on friday, officers found his body inside a second-story office. the accused killer is from new jersey. investigators say after the murder, heed tri to steal a shopper's car, as she paid for parking. jackson's friends want to know what prompted a vicious

newt gingrich said the president responded quickly and clearly once he realized he used wrong language. the president put a lot of republicans in an extremely awkward position. >> yeah, he did. and i think in many ways this is the foreign policy equivalent of charlottesville when he defended white sue prpremacists. today he was reading words that were written for him to try to clean it up. i don't think anybody has faith that he will now have turned a corner, unequivocally believes that russia did in fact meddle. the other revealing thing, the limits, as in charlottesville, willingness of republicans to confront him over behavior unlike any other president. bob corker who was quite critical yesterday, he sits in the same chairman as william full bright did, chair of senate foreign relations committee in 1966, held landmark hearings on vietnam that changed the debate over the war, over strenuous objections of a president from his own party who deeply didn't want him to do it and yet he did. bob corker can complain, but the fact is that he is not and none of the other republicans that co