The gavel comes down next right here on cspan. And to get us to the top of the the u. S. House, a portion now of a washington journal segment from this weekend with Newt Gingrich. We welcome back former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich, out with a new book. We will talk about that in just a moment. And your wife and her new posting. Lets talk about president george w. Bush. Politicsh, he says seems to be more vulnerable conspiracy theories or outright fabrication. He took aim at the present without mentioning him specifically. Your reaction. Guest i think there are very real differences between president bush and senator mccain, who also had a tough speech this week, and President Trump. Part of the republican primary fight in 2015 and 2016 is which of those two worldviews did Republican Voters want. By a decisive margin, they thought the past was not to their advantage, and they want to change. I can appreciate trump was not recruited by the establishment. He won a hostile takeover. I can appreciate the losing side is not happy. Host we have been talking about globalism versus america first. Where would you put the president s Foreign Policy . Guest i think there is a tendency on the part of the people want to defend globalism to not be honest about what it is. Globalism in its essence, so we can look at the john kerry, Hillary Clinton, barack obama version is the subordination of the United States to a series of International Agreements often dominated by countries that are not democracies. Nk we should be in the General Assembly of the United Nations . Yes. Should we take it seriously . No. There is some reason to believe that they conflate ring involved with the international order, which donald trump is for, with globalism, which is the domination of the United States by multinational agreements where we give away our sovereignty to countries, many of which do not share our values, many of which are dictatorships. I dont think the current venezuela government is the moral equivalent of the United States government. Host is this a dramatic shift from postworld war ii engagement with have seen from the u. S. . Guest i dont think it is a dramatic shift from engagement. It is a dramatic shift in the solution. When george h. W. Bush called the new world order, there is no new world order. The chinese are trying to become at a minimum our competitor and a maximum dominators. You have chaos in a whole number of countries. Whohave islamic radicals ambush americans and occupy cities. This is not a world order. The question becomes what is the best baseline in which to defend American Values and interests. I think sovereignty is useful and healthy. Warsaw,rumps speech in the United Nations, these are serious speeches outlining a sovereignty based International Commitment as opposed to a globalist lawyer diplomatic base, which is a failed model. Host senator robert taft of ohio, Dwight Eisenhower became the nominee and leader of your party for eight years. The circumstances have changed them up but is it similar to the debate we saw in the 1950s . Taft really did want to avoid engaging the soviet union. He wanted to revert to a preworld war ii isolationism. Trump is not an isolationist. He clearly understands there is a larger world. We are more engaged in korea. We are more engaged in syria. There are a range of places where he is trying to get congress to agree to rebuild the military. He wants to base his International Activities on american sovereignty and american interests. Im not sure i understand why people think having an american president believe their job is to worry about american interests, why is that a big shock . I understand why it is with the new york times. They live in a fantasy world. Host should the president korea . D to the dmz in guest i leave that entirely up to the president and the commander in south korea. Was is nato working as it intended . Guest it cannot be. There is no longer the soviet union. Nato was intended to contain the soviet union. It worked. One morning the soviet union disappeared, and nato headquarters was faced with a crisis. What do we do now . They have held the Alliance Together for 26 years since the soviets disappeared. Nato overall is useful. I will give you an example. Im a phd in european history. I have lived in europe a number of times. When the chancellor of germany, who is a very smart woman, smart leader, when she says it is time for the europeans to leave. I got hit with this when i was in kiev the other day. I say, the morning she increases defense spending, i will take it seriously. The germans dont have a military Strong Enough to lead anywhere. They would be lucky to get to the german order. The europeans have to decide who they want to be. They have lived on American Security and american strength since 1945. We are saying to them, george h. W. Bush said to them, Donald Rumsfeld said that you have to do more, youre not doing your fair share. Germany is one of the largest economies on the planet. They should be able to defend themselves even if they are not able to defend the rest of europe. Im happy to be there to reinforce everybody. The person who leads these negotiations, rex tillerson, is he doing so in a position of strength or weakness . Guest i think he is doing so from a position of confusion. I think he is a very smart man and ran exxon mobil, which is a giant corporation, with great capabilities. Ultimately, the secretary of state is a staff job. You are not the head of the corporation anymore. I think he has a very different job. My sense overall is that there is agreement between secretary tillerson, secretary of defense mattis, mcmaster, and john kelly, the agreement is very high. They try to present the president with serious options, most of which i think he engages with successfully. Their track record after all the noise and arguments is that they are probably achieving the strategies they believe in. Host our conversation with former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich, when was the first time you were on this network . Do you remember . Guest i think you were a child at the time. Host march of 1979. I have not been born. Guest is that true . Host no. Guest i was going to say. Ofas sworn in in january 1979. You guys showed up in march. You have to check the archives out of purdue, my guess is i was on cspan by june or july. Host lets remind our audience, we will get you post in just a moment. Out with the new book, who knew, a fiction thriller. What is this about . Guest it is about terrorists getting to tankers of oil and making dirty bombs in joining saudi arabia and israel to find the terrorists before they can set off the bonds that make the city uninhabitable. I think it is a dynamic story. I think it is very real in the sense that i think it helps Shape National defense thinking in two ways. You have to have an all capabilities analysis of your enemy. You cant save the north koreans theyre just going to build missiles. What else can they do . You cannot think of a binary korea,ith u. S. North u. S. Iran, you have to think of a networked world. Yourself, what is the enemy network doing, not just what is one single country doing . Host how much is fiction and how much is nonfiction . Guest the action is fiction, but the underlying principles are nonfiction. Anyone who reads it will understand how much we have to be prepared to stop bad people from doing horrifying things. Host your wife spoke, remember the ladies. Which ellisis in the elephant teaches fouryearolds to eightyearolds about the first lady. Forhich they dont, not another 100 years. It is a great book. Ellis is a terrific character. Little kids like the book. Susan arturo does the drawings. They leave off the pages. It is sort of frustrated because now that she has been nominated and confirmed as the ambassador, she cannot go on tv and talk about it because she is now a government employee. Host you just did. Guest im trying to carry the family torch. Host a quick question because we sat down with Hillary Clinton lastly, and in her book she quotes the john adams letter to his wife, make good and honest men live in this way has come and she says she would not what donald trump in that category. Guest of course she went, he beat her. She lost toid if mccain or romney, she would have been ok with it. Guest donald trump is a much bigger break with the old order. Donald trump was a decision by the American People, first in the primaries, and that in the general election, that they wanted a dramatically different election. They are getting it in judges. They are getting it in deregulation. Theyre getting it in policy recommendations. Reagan would have been seen the same way in 1981. In 1981, he was a very disruptive figure and an enormous shock to the republican and democratic establishments. Host peter, republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Good morning, mr. Speaker. I am an avid watcher. What i want to speak about is the molar investigation. Just ahearing from volatile, greg jarrett, no one seems to understand why attorney general Jeff Sessions doesnt appoint a special counsel to investigate uranium, fast and myious, the irs scandal, and analysis, and i watch a lot of news, is i think President Trump those guys keep saying, are attorney he can order attorney general Jeff Sessions anytime he wants. I think President Trump doesnt want to do it, why . Because he is afraid. This special mueller wash mr. Appointed to hold a sort of damocles above his head. This can go on for years. Host thank you. We will get a response. Guest i was very encouraged last week when sen. Grassley chairman of the judiciary committee, indicated he was opening an investigation into the entire deal with uranium with the russians and the potential that the russians in bribing thesically Clinton Foundation in order to affect the secretary of state. I am tweeting out today a copy of an article which really outlines in a compelling way the whole story of uranium and the russians and the scale of bribery involved at the Clinton Foundation. I think people will find it interesting. Host the will go to robert in arkansas. Good morning. Caller good morning. Running,president was he had a policy that he was going to be hard on communist china. I understood he was going to do a 45 tariff. Then it got down to a 35 tariff. Most assuredly he was going to call them a currency manipulator. In reality, he did none of that. A few years ago, i was going to hang my flag. The hardware was made by Coke Industries in communist china, the rope made by communist china in vietnam. Koch industries also owns georgiapacific. The first thing the president of the United States does is put a 20 tariff on canada. Now when we got a time when we got these hurricanes, fires in california, lumber has gone berserk. Our lumber is still coming from canada. Tell me, why is it i cannot get any of my congressman to say anything boldly against the president for this tariff on canada, and yet he has refused to put it on communist china . I think tillerson is doing a job for the present an excellent job for the president. I think the. Guest administration is getting steadily tougher with the chinese. I think the process is slow down by north korea. I think the administration leaves that the only potential short of war is the chinese, so they are conflicted between the desire to break the north Korean Nuclear program and the fact that they are increasingly angry about chinese economic activity. I think they were waiting until after the Party Congress that just finished because i think they thought it was much more volatile to take on china during that period leading up to the Party Congress. I will be surprised if they are not very tough with the chinese. I know from internal conversations they fully understand how much the chinese sheet, and i think you will see the administration taking stronger efforts. In terms of the canadian thing, we have had an ongoing since the 1920s argument about timber. The current outcome was a specific action taken as part of a very long, historic pattern. It may well be suspended as you point out as you have this skyrocketing timber cost in the United States because of the hurricanes and fires in california and need to build so much, including in puerto rico. Host listening on cspan radio or series xm, this program is carried live every sunday. Former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich out with his newest boo k he has written. 35. We have heard from paul ryan that there could be a fourth line in this tax reform plan, which by all estimates would great 2 trillion in Economic Growth over the next decade but also explode the deficit. Guest the number one goal has to be accelerated the economy. The economy this is the weakest economy since the great depression. It has been since trump was elected up until obama. At 1. 8 or we were 1. 9 . The difference doesnt sound much, but when you have an economy like ours, a one over 10 yearsnt is trillions of dollars. That is more americans have jobs, and it also means states that have a pension crisis have more revenue to deal with their pensions. There are a lot of Different Things this is why i was so much for writing. I think Economic Growth reagan. I think Economic Growth is key. You cannot take care of the social services you need. If you are not growing economically. I would rather risk the see the rest of this conversation with Newt Gingrich our website at cspan. Org. The u. S. House is about to gavel in for a brief speeches monday. Into hat theyll go recess and then return for legislative business. Which will include a bill to combat the smuggling of the drug fentanyl and another of cubas Security International airports. Work on the republicans 2018 reform expected thursday. Now live to the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the members return, we ask your blessing on all those who are discerning options about remaining in the peoples house or choosing to run for this office. May a spirit of freedom and public responsibility prevail among all the voices competing for a senate seat and the conversations and debates that ensue. Bless all members with wisdom and good measure. Press down, taken together and running over. That the legacy of great legislators of our history might be carried on with integrity for the benefit of all. May all that is done in the peoples house be for your gritter honor and glory amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers apolve of the journal. The speaker pro tempore the question is on agreeing to the approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Thomed those opposed, no. Mr. Poe mr. Speaker, i demand the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote will please rise. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from kentucky mr. Comer. Mrs. Comstock i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with iberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore the chair will receive a message. The messenger a message from president of the United States. The secretary mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore mr. Secretary. By ecretary im directed the president of the United States to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. Under ker pro tempore clause 5d of rule torque the chair announces to the house in ignition from pennsylvania mr. Murphy, the whole number of the house is 433. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. Pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 house ules of the u. S. Of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the 19, 2017, at er 2 11 p. M. Without enate passed amendment, h. R. 2989. Ith best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. Haas. The speaker pro tempore the the house a fore communication. Honorable the speaker, house of representatives. Sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2this. Of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the from the essage secretary of the senate on 3 28 p. M. , 2017, at the that the Senate Passed with an amendment house concurrent 71. Lution ith best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. Haas. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain up to 15 minute requests for oneminute speeches on each sincerely, karen l. Haas. Side aisle. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek mr. Poe mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my remarks. E speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. The e mr. Speaker, its seventh game of the American League championship. After being down three games to dedicated ros, who their season to the people of won the alcs against he powerful yankees. The win goes to the world series to the dodgers. Astros re up 40, the take the field. The pitcher is the mound throwing curves. He strikes out yankee shortstop grigareous. One out. A diving curveball. Sanchez strikes out. Two down. The fans are standing. Screaming. Face bastes are empty. One out remains. Another curve to batter greg byrd and the yankees, mr. Speaker, have rouble with the curve. Its a fly ball. Center field. Springer catches the ball. Third out. Go wild. Astros win. Astros win astros win of houston starts singing and dancing in the streets. American league champs. And thats just the way it is. Of houston starts the speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Mr. Wilson unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for one minute. Mr. Wilson mr. Speaker, last district veled to the district from and heard from constituents who were grateful for the historic progress being made by the Trump Administration creating jobs. President donald trump has led a strong probusiness team. E economy has added over 800,000 private sector jobs since january. A sumer confidence is at 13year high. And the number of unemployment claims has plunged to the lowest level in over 40 years. I appreciate the president can hare the significance of the dow soaring above 23,000 points. Points, or 27 , since election day. As you can see in his tweet on wednesday. The president s critics will never give him credit for families. Described the antitrump derangement syndrome drives critics to irrational extremes. But these critics cant dispute the facts the fresh faces, fresh voices, and fresh ideas President Trump has brought to washington is making a difference for american described the antitrump derangement in conclusion, god bless our troops, we will never forget september 11 and the global war n terrorism. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one inute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to congratulate Janet Johnson for being named educator of the by the National Extension association of family and consumer scientists. Janet johnson has worked tirelessly for the citizens of allen county as an of t for the University Kentucky cooperative extense service. Extension she works on text ending Research Technology to help build strong families. Much of her work involves around community and economic development. In fact, she helped secure 20 million in renovation and beautification unding for allen county. Johnson was an integral part of plate it up Kentucky Proud to h encourages consirmse purchase and eat local produce. Gionally she was extremely influential in connecting producers and consumers through the farble to table program. Ese accomplishments only scratch the surface of her contribution to outreach and gagement for communities and families in kentucky. Simply put, Janet Johnson is an professional in family and Consumer Sciences who has paved the way for many programs in contract c im proud to recognize her as extension as a or of the year and distinguished teacher and colleague. Thank you, mr. Speaker, i yield back. For eaker pro tempore what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Speaker, i rise today to recognize a st. Marys Area High School student for winning first place in the pennsylvania leagues annual essay contest. St. Lle bower, senior at marys Area High School, is the recipient of a 2,000 scholarship for taking home the prize at the pennsylvania unicipal leagues 118th annual summit. Which took place earlier this month at the convention center. Theme was, civics and you. Contestant contest participants were asked to aborate on this theme by writing about opportunities in the community that allows for Civic Engagement and encourage citizens to volunteer locally. I know civic involvement is something we riting about can all agree is important to the quality of life in all of our communities. The mission of the pennsylvania is to l league strengthen and empower and advocate for effective local government. Nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization was established in 1900 to advocate for nnsylvanias third class cities. I congratulate michelle on her first place finish and wish her her future in endeavors. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my time. For eaker pro tempore what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Smith mr. Speaker, a poll found ng nearly half of all voters, the media ve fabricates news stories about President Donald Trump and his administration, end quote. Its not surprising that the American People feel this way. Wake up to another barrage of negative reporting about a president hey elected. In fact, a recent Harvard University study found that News Coverage of president first 100 days was 80 negative. Recent high for any president. The news media use anonymous report illegitimate intentionally place the president and his administration in a bad light. This is borderline malicious. Intentionally place the president print stories wit one single liberal media freque rushed to biased source. The stories turn out to be false. This is the current state of journalism by the liberal media. The media should report on the topics of the day in a fair and out to be false. This is the current state of journalism by American People will continue to consider the medias coverage to be manner. Ed news. Otherwise the the speaker pro tempore the chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk to the congress of section states, 202d of the National Emergencies act provide for the automatic termination of a ational emergency unless within the 0 days of the anniversary date of its declaration the president publishes in the the speaker pro tempore the chair lays before federal register and transmits to the congress a notice stating that to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this ovision i have sent to the federal register for publication in the enclosed notice stating theling national mergency with respect to the situation in or relation to the democratic republic of the feckcompiff d in order 13413 of october 27, to continue in effect beyond october 27, 2017. Situation in or in relation to the democratic republic of been gress go which has congo which has been marked widespread violence and atrocities thattown to threaten stability continues to pose an unusual even extraordinary reat to the foreign pol sift United States. For this reason i have determined it is necessary to emergency e national declared in executive order 13413 with respect to the or in relation to the democratic republic of the congo. Jonled j. Trump, the white house, october 23, 2017. E speaker pro tempore referred to the committee of Foreign Affairs and ordered printed. To clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately