IT, GUYS.
STEVE: WE WILL INDEED.
ADAM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
MEANWHILE, LET'S BRING IN
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, FOX
NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, AND HE
WRITES A NEWSLETTER
AVAILABLE AT GINGRICH
360.COM.
NEWT, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
AINSLEY: GOOD MORNING.
>> GOOD MORNING.
YOU HAVE HAD QUITE A MORNING
ALREADY.
STEVE: WE HAVE HAD A VERY
BUSY MORNING.
THANK YOU FOR NOTICING.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA IS LAUNCHING AN
INITIATIVE TO FIGHT
GERRYMANDERING.
THE ORGANIZATION, THE
PROGRAM IS CALLED
REDISTRICTING YOU PROGRAM.
WHICH IS PART OF THE ALL ON
THE LINE CAMPAIGN WHICH AIMS
TO RECRUIT AND TRAIN
INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE UP THE
FIGHT AGAINST DRAWING
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
BASED ON PARTISAN ISSUES.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?
>> LOOK, I THINK THAT'S HIS
RIGHT.
HE IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.
HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE LINES
DRAWN TO FAVOR LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS.
I THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP
PREFERS TO SEE LINES DRAWN
TO FAVOR CONSERVATIVE
REPUBLICANS.
THIS HAS BEEN AN AMERICAN
FIGHT.
THE WORD GERRYMANDERING GOES
ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1812
WHEN ELDRIDGE JERRY DESIGNED
A DISTRICT IN MASSACHUSETTS
THAT LOOKED LIKE A SALMAN
DER AND SOMEBODY SAID NO,
NO, THAT'S NOT A SALMAN DER
THAT'S A JERRY MAN DER.
THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM.
WE HAVE HAD 200 YEARS OF
THIS KIND OF POLITICAL
GAMES.
PRESIDENT OBAMA TO BE A
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT AND BEHAVE
IN A PARTISAN WAY WE
SHOULDN'T TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY
IF HE TRIES TO POSTURE IT'S
ABOUT GOOD GOVERNMENT.
BRIAN: NEWT, HE HAS HAD SOME
SUCCESS ALREADY.
HE HAS GOTTEN SOME VOTES IN
MICHIGAN AND HE IS GOING FOR
NORTH CAROLINA.
A LOT OF THESE BATTLE GROUND
STATES.
THIS COULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS
TO THE BALANCE OF THE HOUSE.
>> SURE.
IT COULD HAVE SOME
IMPLICATION OF THE BALANCE
OF THE HOUSE.
THE PROBLEM -- THE ULTIMATE
PROBLEM LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
HAVE IS THAT THEIR VOTES
TEND TO BE VERY CONCENTRATED
IN LARGE CITIES AND VERY,
VERY HARD TO GET ENOUGH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS TO
FIT THOSE CITIES.
UNLESS, BY THE WAY, YOU DO A
DEMOCRATIC GERRYMANDER AND
DRAW A LIEU THROUGH THREE OR
FOUR OR FIVE RURAL COUNTIES.
CORE PROBLEM IN THE SENATE
ADVANTAGES, THEY HAVE ALL
THESE VOTES, FOR EXAMPLE, IN
WISCONSIN.
THEY HAVE TWO BIG COUNTIES.
WHERE MADISON IS, AND WHERE
MILWAUKEE IS.
THEY LOSE ALMOST ALL THE
OTHER COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
PRETTY HARD TO FIGURE OUT A
CONGRESSIONAL GERRYMANDER
THAT FITS THE DEMOCRATS IN
THAT SETTING.
AINSLEY: SO JOE BIDEN, HE IS
GETTING SOME COMPETITION.
HE WAS THE FAVORITE IN THE
BEGINNING AND NOW SOME OF
THE OTHERS ARE COMING UP
BEHIND HIM.
AND HE HAS BEEN OUT ON THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL A LOT.
ABOUT A DOZEN BLACK
REPORTERS FROM MAJOR MEDIA
OUTLETS IN A PRIVATE OFF THE
RECORD INTERVIEW THAT ENDED
UP BEING AN HOUR AND A HALF.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT RACISM,
TOO.
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS.
HERE IS WHAT HE SAID.
HE SAID WHITE FOLKS ARE THE
REASON THAT WE HAVE
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM.
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACISM
IN AMERICA, WHITE
SUPREMACISTS, HAS ALWAYS
EXISTED AND THEY STILL
EXIST.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> WELL, I THINK, FIRST OF
ALL, THAT BIDEN IN HIS EARLY
CAREER WAS AGAINST BUSING.
HE EXPLAINED THAT
SEGREGATING WAS PROBABLY
GOOD.
SO IN A WAY HE SORT OF
PERSONIFIES WHAT HE IS
TALKING ABOUT.
I THINK RACISM EXISTS ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
I THINK THAT IT IS A
PERINEAL CHALLENGE WHEN YOU
HAVE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
BACKGROUND.
AND YOU FIND LITERALLY IN
ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD.
I ALSO THINK WE HAVE AS
GREAT A DANGER.
I NOTICED THE FAMOUS "NEW
YORK TIMES" 1619 ARTICLE
WHICH IS SUPPOSEDLY GETTING
ALL OF US TO THINK ABOUT
SLAVERY, THE AUTHOR OF THAT
ARTICLE COULDN'T RESIST
ATTACKING ASIAN-AMERICAN
STUDENTS FOR FILING A
LAWSUIT BECAUSE THEY ARE
BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
ON BEHALF OF
AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
SO, YOU TELL ME WHO IS THE
RACIST IN THAT SETTING IT.
SEEMS TO ME THAT AUTHOR WAS
BEING A RACIST IN ATTACKING
THE ASIAN AMERICANS WHO ARE
SIMPLY SAYING HEY, IF I GET
A HIGHER SCORE, SHOULDN'T I
GET INTO SCHOOL?
STEVE: IN THE POLITICO
ARTICLE, NEWT, REGARDING
THIS PARTICULAR PRESS
AVAILABILITY YOU HAD, WHICH
I THINK INITIALLY WAS GOING
TO BE OFF THE RECORD AND
THEN HE SAID YOU CAN QUOTE
ME IN THE BEGINNING AND THEN
HE WENT ON FOR 90 MINUTES.
ANYWAY, POLITICO SAYS BIDEN
SAYS HE PUTS WHITE PEOPLE IN
THREE CATEGORIES.
THOSE WHO ARE JUST FLAT --
SORRY, THOSE WHO ARE FLAT,
JUST PREJUDICED AND ARE
SUPREMACIST TO SOME DEGREE.
FOLKS WHO ARE AGNOSTIC AND
DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT
AND FOLKS WHO THINK WE
SHOULD JUST DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT
THAT?
>> I THINK, FIRST OF ALL, I
WANT TO RECOMMEND TO ALL OF
OUR VIEWERS THAT THEY READ
THEODORE WHITE'S MAKING OF A
PRESIDENCY IN 1972.
THEY WILL SEE ALL OF THOSE
SAME ISSUES COME UP.
WE HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
PARALYZED FOR A HALF
VENTRICLE TRI ON SOME OF
THIS STUFF AND JOE BIDEN
SOMEONE OF THOSE WHO
CONTRADICTED.
I HAVE TO SAY HIS QUOTE THE
OTHER DAY QUOTE, I AM NOT
CRAZY, I THOUGHT WAS
PROBABLY THE MOST UNUSUAL
QUOTE BY A PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.
AND I THINK THAT.
BRIAN: I'M NOT NUTS.
HE LOOKED AT THE CAMERA, I'M
NOT NUTS, BECAUSE HE
COULDN'T FIGURE OUT IF HE
WAS ON A CAMPUS OR NOT BUT
HE KNEW HE WAS IN DARTMOUTH
LATER IN VORMT.
>> I COMMITTED AN BIDENISM,
HE SAID I'M NOT NOT.
HE SAID I'M NOT CRAZY.
JUST THE KIND OF JOE BIDEN
KIND OF MISTAKE.
THERE IS A DEEPER POINT
HERE.
BRIAN: I KNOW WHY IS IT
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS WE ARE
NOT ABLE TO HAVE SCHOOLS
THAT WORK NOT ABLE TO HAVE
NEIGHBORS THAT ARE SAFE AND
DISPROPORTIONATELY TO THE
DISADVANTAGE OF POOR
AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND IT IS
THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY WHO RUN EVERY SINGLE
CITY AND WHICH THIS IS TRUE.
RACISM THAT HURTS POOR
BLACKS.
LED BY DEMOCRATS WHO RUN THE
CITIES THAT EXPLOIT THE POOR
ON BEHALF OF THE TEACHER'S