Newt Gingrich: Can Trump get a fair debate on ABC News? | 8-26-2024

[Music] it's a common sense recap of the big stories it's cats and Cosby on 77 WABC we've got former speaker of the house uh new genrich new we're so thrilled to have you here what do you make first off about uh the debate and now Camala Harris changing all the plans saying no I want to do it this way I want to I want to do it that way what do you think's going to happen well I I think Trump ought to be cheer full and calm um there's no reason for him to go on ABC Uh I have never liked debates in which the news media sets the agenda um I think they ought to go on C-Span and let each candidate ask the other candidate questions and have no no reporter I mean nobody you know all these guys are rigged you can't have a situation when the fix is in yeah it's crazy uh and I think he ought to cheerfully say I'd love the debates you you know Lincoln did seven debates with Douglas uh they did not have a single reporter U each of them got a chance to speak and they're the most famous debates in American history uh and I think that you know we wouldn't follow the same style they did because it was a different era and they they got to speak for like an hour and a half each or something just amazing but but they were debates that defined uh the Civil War and defined uh the end of slavery ban they were extraordinarily important I think if if they had just a Time moderator only who just go back and forth and then let each candidate have an opening comment and then you know flip a coin and one of the candidates gets to ask the other a question and that question that candidate answers then they get to ask other and let the two candidates decide what matters I think that would be dramatically better than the the kind of totally biased propag Banda media effort that we have underway now you know what was amazing uh nuke inrich over the weekend I brought up how Senator Tom Cotton I don't know if you saw this but here it is Jonathan Carl with ABC interviewing him and you might as well I thought it was almost like a surrogate uh for literally for the Camala Harris campaign he was challenging everything he said saying that's not true that and he's like and he was bringing up some of these points that you know look uh how could it be fair a and yet uh you know he didn't seem to want to accepted and now Trump is saying wait she's changing the rules I agreed to a debate with Joe Biden they switched it out to kamla Harris I agree to the same terms and now they want to switch it again well I I will say this I I don't believe Trump needs a debate I mean I think I think it'd be nice if they could arrange one if it was going to be fair but I don't think he should give an inch and he should certainly not allow uh the propaganda media to Define his future um she is going to find in a few weeks that she needs the debate because as people get to know more about her she's going to collapse she hasn't made a single a single press conference uh to she's always only spoken to the Press through uh the ch prompters right that's because they do not trust her uh to be out in the open and they think if they don't fix everything in advance this she'll look like she'll look dumber than Joe Biden used to look no who's the Puppeteer well I mean if there is a not sure there's a puet per se but if there was one it would be Barack Obama I mean he's he's Far and Away the most influential person in the Democratic party know this is Pete King first I I agree with your analysis my only concern is could the media again gang up in Trump have already but say he's ducking the debate and make him out to be the villain here how would you count that if you were running Trump's campaign I I'd say let's meet on C span Tuesday I'm eager to debate one onone one onone you and no no no no no W no no ABC television where you know they have the same people there that uh uh fed uh the uh questions out to Don Brazil down to Brazil yeah and the and the executive the one of the top Executives at ABC network is good friend with Camala Harris I mean that to me already should exclude them I mean I mean Trump could also say look you you don't like cpan fine let's get let's get an an auditorium and we'll have you and me in a timekeeper and I'll be glad you I'll debate you every day from now to the election you know absolutely he's not running any place he just wants a fair and square debate and he deserves it yeah absolutely and the American public deserves it I don't I do not believe I I watched him this morning uh at Arlington National Cemetery do what either Biden or Harris should have done and that is honor those who died defending America in Afghanistan uh and I watched him and was reminded how presidential he's capable of being and I don't I don't think if you said the average person you know do you think that Donald Trump is afraid they would laugh at you uh given everything Trump's been through he's proven how tough he is he's proven how committed he is and I think you ought to say cheerfully look I I'd love to do it we we could emulate Lincoln and Douglas I think you see sp's a great idea you know but I ain't doing it with your friends hiding you and your friends setting it up so I'm going to be double and triple teamed uh it ain't G to happen yeah judge country would rally to him Mr Speaker it's good to talk to you again sir so let me ask you a question how do we expose the real kamla Harris as an empty pants suit and get the record out her phony record and how she's trying to walk away how do you do that when you have the biased media closing down everything and not letting the record come out oh I think you know if if the election was next Tuesday I'd be worried but the election even even in the early voting stage is weeks and weeks away the American people talk to themselves all the time and I said before the the Biden Trump debate I wasn't worried because two days after the debate people would go out and buy groceries and remember how mad how mad they were about the Biden Administration I feel the same thing right now I just I just had a friend call me from Detroit who was in a a drugstore uh two uh African-American women clerks they got to talk in politics and both of them said to him we not voted for that crazy person and he assumed that that they were talking about Trump no they were talking about Kamala they just said we can't afford her you know we can't afford groceries we can't afford gasoline we can't afford to buy a house uh why would we why would we put her in office I mean me new me and you spoke on Sunday on the Sunday show and uh we uh we came to a pretty good conclusions that uh this Democratic National Committee uh gig in in Chicago was one big con game to the uh United States public yeah that's all that's all it was and and uh the Challen you know Lincoln once said you can fo all the people some of the time some of the people all the time that you can't fool all of the people all the time and he was basically saying that he had enormous trust in public sentiment because people over time are smart the Joseph napalan who's a democratic consultant wrote a book called the election game and how to win it and the the the quote at the beginning of the book is never underestimate the intelligence the American people nor overestimate how much information they have information is going to keep getting out there I'm just writing a piece for Gish 360 will be my newsletter tomorrow or Wednesday uh about you know the space station I mean you have two astronauts up there J guess who was the chair of National Space Council oh it turned out to be the vice president right the borders are she can't stop illegals from coming across the border and she can't get her own astronauts back from space now how many more examples of her incompetence do we need it's horrible I mean I can't believe uh we're going to call well I think they're going to call the Chinese for help I saw that movie one time it's not a good movie well actually going to call on SpaceX which will which does the job less expensively and is more reliable new king rich thank you and keep fighting for America we're there next to you and God bless you and God bless America thank you n thank you n