reasons that newt incorporated it s simpler than it looks is basically all of newt incorporated is headquartered in this one building in d.c. gingrich communications, the gingrich group, gingrich productions, gingrich foundation, gingrich holdings. all of newt inc. is in this one building in washington, d.c. one portion of the gingrich empire that was based there is something called american solutions for winning the future. that s the newt gingrich founded deal that you may remember us reporting on the last couple of years where they spam fax you that newt gingrich wants to give you a prestigious award and you call to followup about what you have to do to collect the award and it turns out what you have to do to get the award is send them $5,000. that s the one. after i talked about that, when we were highlighted they had a shared address the other day i played the cash register sound effect but i should have played
okay. a couple of corrections we need to make. earlier this week in reporting on the seemingly complicated but quite simple network of newt gingrich-related money-making schemes, i noted one of the reasons that newt incorporated it s simpler than it looks is basically all of newt incorporated is headquartered in this one building in d.c. gingrich communications, the gingrich group, gingrich productions, gingrich foundation, gingrich holdings. all of newt inc. is in this one building in district of columbia. one portion of the gingrich empire that was based there is something called american solutions for winning the future. that s the newt gingrich founded deal that you may remember us reporting on the last couple of years where they spam fax you that newt gingrich wants to give you a prestigious award and you call to followup about what you have to do to collect the award
i m glad you asked about that. you nowkhah list that. we ve spent time together. like you she is a cheesehead from wisconsin. like you she bowls. i want the american people to know that calista graduated as a piano major. she has played in the city of fairfax band on the french horn since 1989. she sings in the choir. head of gingrich productions and has helped make seven dock machine trees, one about pope john paul ii, picked as one of the top three films about the pope. she chairs an organization that gives $800,000 to charities. and currently writing a children s book. i said that as background. i thought nbc this morning, in a program that had nobody on camera. nobody quoted by name. quoted reporters talking
entire senior staff quit. gain sources are telling nbc new details about what led to the exodus. campaign insiders say the problems circle around the role of his third wife, calista. publicly supportive wife, but aides say, privately, a demanding one. gingrich s aides felt his wife was making unreasonable demands on his time. she was very particular about the way she wanted things done. reporter: gingrich advisers say she even dictated the campaign schedule, refusing to allow early-morning takeoffs for events, so she could have her hair done. the sources say she also demanded the campaign help arrange screenings of the couple s movies, produced by gingrich productions, a for-profit company. there is even a link promoting the movies on the gingrich campaign website. but the conflicts escalated memorial day weekend when his staff wanted him campaigning in north carolina. instead, gingrich flew home to
demands. one example the campaign plane couldn t take off early in the mornings because calista gingrich insisted she had to have her hair done, which pushed back the time when the plane could take off. but more substantively and seriously, these persistent demands that the campaign help arrange and make time for screenings of their the gingrichs movies made by their for profit production company, gingrich productions, and the campaign aide said that s incompatible with running a presidential campaign. seems like there are competing interests when we look at this with a mageny scope. the money for the campaign itself how is newt gingrich looking compared to some of his other republican rivals that have already put their hat into the ring? not well. this has had a devastating impact on fund-raising, of course, and one of the things the campaign aides were saying is that newt wasn t taking the time to do the fund-raising.