Transcript:
Fox and Friends
02/24/20
NEWT:
Well there’s a lot of different things. First of all, there are a very substantial numbers of Indian Americans who are very successful and who I think in the economic grounds lean Republican and so the President is accepting a signal of friendship to the country that they came from. I think second, it is an offset to China. India will pass China in the near future as the most populated country in the world. It’s the natural counterweight in Asia, these are the two giant countries on the Asian continent, and I think having a good close relationship and Modi in many ways, is very similar to Trump. He’s very entrepreneurial and when he was the Governor, he did an amazing job of an encouraging high-tech companies and really raising the standard of living and so the two of them together in many ways have a lot in common in terms of their vision of the future of their countries. India is obviously very very different from us, but nonetheless, Modi is trying to modernize it, trying to bring it into a more aggressive economic stance and I suspect they will have very practical conversations.
NEWT:
No, I don’t think so. The Indians are very concerned. The Chinese have made end roads in Sri Lanka where they loaned them a lot of money and they couldn’t pay it back, so they gave the Chinese a naval base. The Indians deeply are concerned they do not want the Indian Ocean to become like the South China Sea an area that the Chinese can operate in and I think the Indians are very interested in being able to operate with us to ensure that we could, if we had to, defeat any Chinese encouragement into the Indian Ocean.
NEWT:
Well, look. I think that the number one characteristic of socialism is it fails. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to talk about it but Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, these are places that tried socialism and they were total disasters. He would like to pretend that he be a Scandinavian socialist but there are no Scandinavian socialists. Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway are very capitalist countries. They have a large welfare state, but they aren’t socialist in any realistic way and it’s a little hard to know exactly what he would do. Just take for example, his promise that he would eliminate 148 million private health insurance, I think if you’re a person who has health insurance you have to ask yourself, do you really want Sanders Healthcare rather than what you currently have?
NEWT:
Look, you have to think of Bernie Sanders and AOC as being similar people. They talk in visionary terms that have no factual meaning, but they are emotionally powerful, and they basically go around chanting slogans as though they were real. Sanders could never deliver on the things he’s promising but frankly to his followers they don’t care. He at least offers them hope. He’s exciting. They have this vision, after all imagine you could spend your lifetime living off other people, and I think that’s what Sanders is offering. A vote for me and I’ll guarantee that somebody else we pay for you for your whole lifetime. It’s not realistic, but as we saw in Nevada, when the culinary union took him on, they lost. I think he carries seven out of eight of the precincts in the culinary union.
NEWT:
Right. No, but it tells you and this is very similar to AOC. The radical wing of the democratic party which frankly, I’m working on a book that lays out there are at least 200 radicals in the house who pretend not to be but you look at the voting record, the bills they are sponsoring the Democratic Party today is a radical socialist party and the key to it is, it makes you feel good. So, it’s a lot, it’s a variation frankly on drug addiction. You can go home and sit back and say oh, this is going to be wonderful. Now, you could look at how the Democrats screwed up the Iowa caucus and ask yourself can a party which can’t hold a caucus run the entire national health system, but that gets back to facts, and what you’re seeing here is the counter- factual party, the Democrats don’t want to think about facts. They want to deal in two things. I hate Trump, and everything is possible because I’m going to give it to you and some rich guy is going to pay for it. That’s the essence of the current Democratic Party.
NEWT:
Look, this puts us in context. There was report yesterday, that one out of every three people in Venezuela is going hungry. Now they would say Reagan underestimated the power of socialism to destroy society and to destroy economies. Venezuela 20 years ago had a growing middle class, was a very prosperous country whose actually working, had the largest oil reserve in the world and socialism destroyed the entire economy, and I think Sanders is going to be very important debate this fall and in a way if the Democrats do nominate Sanders, and let the American people confront reality, and have two really big choices. Do you want an economy that works with the lowest unemployment rate in recent history, or do you want to take a wild gamble on a guy who thought that honeymooning in the Soviet Union made sense? That alone should slow them down.
NEWT:
Then the question becomes who’s his Vice-Presidential nominee. My guess is it is going to be a radical.
NEWT:
Not at the rate they are going right now. I thought they might have one, but Bloomberg was so pathetic the other night. I don’t think his ads can cover up how bad he was.
NEWT:
It could be Elizabeth Warren, it could be AOC, is she old enough?
NEWT:
By the way, my advice to Bloomberg, spend the day watching Trump’s debates in 2016, Trump would have mopped the floor the other night, and Bloomberg was a punching bag. This is why Trump always counter punches. You’re never going to get a free shot at Trump. He’s going to come at you as hard as he can, and Bloomberg was like a little kid who suddenly showed up and the playground people weren’t nice to him.
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