'DEMOCRAT GAMBLE': Gingrich says Schumer is putting 'a lot of Dems at risk'

President Trump set to hold a high-stakes meeting today with top congressional leaders at 2 p.m. This afternoon Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will be there alongside speaker Mike Johnson and majority leader John Thune in a last-ditch effort to prevent a government shutdown Government funding set to run out tomorrow night at midnight speaker Johnson told me what to expect from the meeting tomorrow yesterday

The purpose of the meeting is so that the president can assemble the four leaders. He's going to tell Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to stop playing political games. What's really important to point out here, Maria, I'm glad you mentioned the national debt.

You know, the statutes in federal law require Congress to do 12 separate appropriations bills every year. That's the only way to ensure stewardship of taxpayer funds, to spend less money and make government more responsible. They have already voted for this exact, these exact levels of spending. We're just keeping the doors open, but they want to shut it. And you know what they're going

to jeopardize? Troops pay, okay? They're going to jeopardize WIC funding, Women, Infants and Children's Nutrition Program, FEMA services, you know, telemedicine and telehealth, all the rest. They're going to jeopardize all that for a political stunt.

Jeremy Now is the former Speaker of the House. He is Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich. Mr. Speaker, always a pleasure. Thanks so much for being here.

Good to be with you.

What is your reaction? It's going to be a very interesting couple of days. Yeah, I mean, you think we're going to see it. So government shuts down on Wednesday. That's the day that the new tariffs hit, by the way. Got 100 percent on pharmaceutical products from companies not building in the U.S., 50 percent on kitchen cabinets, 30 percent on upholstered furniture, 25 percent on heavy trucks.

Meanwhile, if they allow it, government will shut down Wednesday. Well, look, the House has already passed a clean, continuing resolution to, I think, November 19th. So the House has already said, we can go ahead, continue the government, continue to work on appropriations bills, do all of it in an orderly manner, and not disrupt things. The challenge is in the Senate, where you're facing a Schumer shutdown. And Schumer is the one person who can shut down the government, because his caucus is not going

to go past him. And so he has a real challenge. The Democrat gamble is that, if you yell health care long enough, people will not notice you're raising spending. And in America's new majority project, we just did a survey. Very clear. The American people do not want more spending. They don't want a shutdown, but they do not want more spending. And the Democrats right now are guaranteeing a shutdown unless you give them more spending,

which has got to be about as weak a position as you can have.

That is great. That is such a good way to put it, Newt. I mean, you just keep yelling health care, and people will notice. I mean, look, what they are fighting over is the expiring year-end Affordable Care Act, Obamacare subsidies for 22 million Americans, $30 billion a year. But they're also fighting over allowing illegals to get health care? You know, look, there—again, it depends on which argument you make.

Democrats believe if they yell Medicaid and health care, you'll like them. The Republicans believe when you say the reforms cut out able-bodied Americans who refuse to work, the reforms cut out people who cheat, and the reforms cut out illegal immigrants, well, the American people like that. So it's a question of which argument. But beyond that, you ask the average American, is there enough waste in government to get

to a balanced budget? Over half the country believes, just by — whether it's accurate or not, just by cutting the waste, you could get to a balanced budget. The Democrats are saying, no, we need more money. I think it's a, again, look, both the Democratic House and Senate leaders, they're both from New York.

New York's a very liberal state. It's a very big government state. It's a very government union state. And so they operate inside a world where getting more money out of the taxpayer is the natural pattern

because their interest groups all want the money. And the rest of the country, I think they're going to find it's a very weak argument, and they're putting a lot of Democrats at risk by making them the pro-spending, pro-shutdown

party. And I think individuals are reacting. I mean, look at this Republican voter registration that we're watching, which jumped to 25 percent in California. According to CalMatters, Democrats hold 46% of registration. Independents, 22%.

One historically blue county flipped red for the first time in 10 years. Republicans now have a narrow voter registration edge over Democrats in status lost county. Just last year, Democrats held the district by 1,400 registered voters, Newt. What do you think that says about the state of affairs today going into the 2026 midterm elections?

Well, I follow the work of Seth Keschel, who is the best student of voter registration. He says since President Trump was elected, we have had about 1,600,000 people switch to the Republican Party. He just said, since February in California, you have had 48,000 additional Republicans and 400 additional Democrats. I mean, think about that margin.

But he said, in Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, all these states, you're seeing a steady drift towards the Republicans, and it accelerated after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. In some of those places, you saw a really big jump as people decided they were sick of the Democrats, and they moved, I think, in sympathy with Charlie Kirk to re-register as Republicans.

Really interesting. Meanwhile, what's your take on the Jim Comey indictment? Former FBI director now becomes the first of the Obama-era officials indicted for charges stemming from the Russiagate hoax and the investigation. He's facing two counts, lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. But former House Intelligence Committee chairman and current Trump media CEO Devin Nunes told

me yesterday it is entirely possible that more charges are coming for Comey and more former intelligence officials will also be facing the music.

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He has long been a liar, a leaker. He's dishonest. He ruined the FBI. He will be lucky if there is not a grand conspiracy charge brought, which is really what should be brought against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years.

Should there be more charges against Jim Comey?

Very specific, and it's over whether or not he lied on this one part. The larger part is whether or not you can bring a kind of grand conspiracy case. And people talk about, you know, there's the law, which is, you know, lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, but there's also a term in there called misleading. And what a lot of these guys did is they made up things using intelligence that didn't exist, but acted like they knew something that actually wasn't there, and they lied and

misled the American people. The only intelligence that they had is that the Russians were very well aware of Clinton's plan and they actually not only thought Clinton was going to win but likely preferred that she would win. So going back to the cover-up of her missing emails that by the way are still missing, they all got involved in this plan. They all got the FBI exercise.

What do you think Newt? Because we all live that, and we remember that John Brennan was well aware that Hillary Clinton was coming up with a plan to hide her emails, and the plan was to tie Trump to Russia. So if they knew that and they didn't present it, that's misleading the court, misleading Congress. Is there a grander conspiracy charge to come?

Well, the most amazing thing is that there was a meeting in the Oval Office with President Obama, with the senior leaders, after the election, in which they decided to methodically undermine the presidency that the American people had chosen. I mean, it's virtually treason. And I think it should be a bigger scandal than it is. And I think that there are a number of people who should be at very severe risk.

Yeah. President Trump was asked about the investigation on Friday. He obviously did not mince words about what he thinks of Jim Comey at this point.

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Justice or is it about revenge?

It's about justice.

It's not revenge. of Jim Comey at this point. Watch. Justice or is it about revenge? It's about justice, really. It's not revenge. It's about justice. It's also about the fact that you can't let this go on. They are sick, radical left people, and they can't get away with it. And Comey was one of the people. He wasn't the biggest, but he's a dirty cop. He's always been a dirty cop. Everybody knew it

Yet to see the sound bite that we played on Sunday morning futures yesterday newt with John Brennan saying he checked his background There's nothing nothing to see here at John Brennan

Well, first of all if you you're a liar, why not keep lying? I mean, there's no advantage for any of these guys to come out and suddenly say, oh, gee, I'm really sorry that I broke the law. Brennan clearly broke the law. Clapper, who I used to admire a great deal, clearly broke the law. The FBI under Comey was lying to the federal judge in order to get a wiretap that it had

no right to get. I mean, you go down this list of things, this was a core group of left-wingers who had decided that they would overturn the judgment of the American people, and they were prepared to basically violate the Constitution, violate the law. And I do think there ought to be some kind of clear public coming to justice of these things.

This was really, when you look at all of it, it was an astonishingly sick operation and continued up through the 2020 campaign, when you had 54 intelligence officials sign a letter about the Hunter Biden laptop that was a lie. And 54 people who had been entrusted with American intelligence signed a letter about the Hunter Biden laptop that was a lie. And 54 people who have been entrusted with American intelligence signed a letter that

was a lie.

And that is exactly why Devin Nunes sees this as a conspiracy that's still going on. It went from item to item to item. Don't forget, they raided Mar-a-Lago because, my sources tell me, they wanted the report on Russia collusion, which I have, because now it's been declassified. They wanted to see if Trump had it. They wanted to destroy it.

He didn't have it. It was in a safe at the CIA. I digress. Let me get your take on the news of the morning. Incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams is out. He dropped out of the mayoral race less than two months away from Election Day. It is now a three-way race between Democrat Socialist Zoran Mondani, Independent Andrew

Cuomo and Republican Curtis Lewa. What do you think?

I think that it's pretty likely, nothing certain, pretty likely that Mondami, who is a big government socialist with very weird values, is going to become the mayor of New York. For the Democrats, this will be a nightmare. Their highest-ranked public figure in terms of publicity will be somebody who is so far to the left and so radical that it is going to drive even more people, as you said earlier, out of the Democratic Party.

You're going to see registration continuing to shift to the Republicans, as Mondami, like AOC, becomes the spirit of the new big-government socialist, weird-value Democratic Party.

Yeah. Now, does that help the Republicans, Newt? I mean, I know that it'll kill New York, but I feel like some Republicans are willing to sacrifice New York because they think feel like some Republicans are willing to sacrifice New York because they think it'll help them in 26. They'll say, look who's running New York.

We can't have that continuing throughout the country. We better vote Republican.

Well, my guess is it's also going to mean we have a really good chance to elect the governor of New York State. New York City is far more left-wing than New York State. Yes. And frankly, the totally bad government of New York has made life so expensive for young people that they're actually voting for more government because of the pain government's giving them. It's a sign that nobody's been able to effectively make the case in New York.

In the rest of the country, there's a common-sense belief that this is all just nuts. But it also goes back to your earlier question. You have Hakeem. You have Hakeem Jeffrey from New York. You have Chuck Schumer from New York. These are the two people going to the White House, and they come from an area that is

so far to the left that they're not very much in touch with the country.

Yeah. So maybe it helps Elise Stefanik in the governor's race.

Very much so. Yeah. Newt, great to see you. Not that I would wish one on me for that purpose. Right, understood. Newt Gingrich, always a one on me for that purpose. Right, understood. Newt Gingrich, always a

pleasure. Thank you, sir.