of clarity about our foe and the soviets, kennedy s message was that unity in our american ethos can launch us to the stars. the american spirit is still there. it still beats in the heart of this great nation. but we need to honor it and unite around it again. and that will require more than just a fine speech from a politician. it will require something of you as well. it will require you to wake up. i m ben domenech and this is the american crisis. joining me now, newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. he is the author of trump of the american future. it s always great to speak to you, speaker gingrich, someone i consider a mentor and who as you can see i ve been following around since i was 13 years old. [laughs] ben: ! oh, my god. ben: dear member that? i don t think i d ever seen that before. ben: yes. that s amazing. ben: i want to talk about
central intelligence agency, we created the modern air force, we created nato to protect europe, seco to protect southeast asia, we were deeply engaged in real things and xi jinping is not stupid. until we do real things that have a real impact, he s just going to think it s just a bunch of politicians over your prattling until figure that he can influence most of them. ben: i think, mr. speaker, that we have a situation now where unfortunately we have someone of politicians who are asleep at the wheel on this and are not paying attention to how important it is for the future of the country. thank you so much for joining me this evening. thank you. ben: coming up, what s the biggest threat facing america in 2021? our inherent racism, of course. president biden: terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat in the homeland today. not isis, not al qaeda.
within a decade, we would be a dramatically different country than we are right now. ben: speaker, i feel like we need to be on more of a cold war footing when it comes to our relationship with china. they have undertaken a war against us in terms of sending fentanyl over that has killed so many americans. we see their support in alaska of the type of race-based politics that are designed to split us apart internally. what can we do to achieve more of a cold war mind-set about our relationship with china in a time when so many people seem to be compromised by it at the highest levels of corporate america and of government? well, we are right now exactly where we were between 1945 world war ii, we didn t have to ought to have a cold war. we didn t want to have the soviet union as an adversary but they give us no choice and over
fists and human spirit. who knew this could happen? well, we did and we tried to make noise about it. joining me now the author of that piece. thanks so much for coming on. thank you, ben. ben: i m c furious about the kinds of things i m seeing her across social media today and fueling this type of violence against jews in america. how should we react to that for those of us were not jews in order to support our friends in this moment and also push back against the acceptability or tolerance of this type of violence against our fellow americans? yeah, i mean, what we are seeing right now is a historic pattern in which anti-jewish hatred, anti-semitism is risen again, it s not just on the rise, it s risen in the conflict between israel and hamas has given anti-semites the permission to attack jews in the streets in cities around the world, regardless of their
elevated most importantly above claims of emotional safety, harm, that might be defined as harassment by activists, so that puts a very strong signal, they are really breathing down the neck, proactively applying the law, not waiting for people to sue. you need that back in, you need that proactive investigatory powers in order to keep universities from bending to the winds of these activists is not going to happen with a hands-off libertarian approach. it can only happen with an interventionist approach from government. ben: i think that unfortunately i wish it didn t have to be but i think you are unfortunately correct about this. professor, your work is excellent, it s essential and it s the kind of thing people need to pay attention to and i m glad that you re out there saying this. i worry about those who are silent at the same time who might be doing this type of research. thank you so much for joining me this evening. thanks, ben. ben: up next we have an exclusive interv