but the good muhnews is in two months, we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. we have the chance to flip the house of representatives and make sure the real checks and balances of washington and i cannot tell you all across the cro country, you can feel the energy. you can feel people saying oh, enough is enough. we re going to kick off our bedroom slippers, putting on our marching shoes, we are going to go out and start taking some clipboards out. and we re going to start knocking on doosome doors and we going to start making some calls. we re going to volunteer. we re going to talk to our family members. we re going to talk to the folks who have been sitting on the couch being a little lazy when it comes to their responsibilities and duties as
today his notes. the rest appeared to be conversational. but it seems he was alluded to president trump. he read from his notes there, but to pick up on cal s point, when obama speaks like this, he seems to be renewing his own faith in the brand of politics that shot him to power. not necessarily the politics that we re dealing with in the current moment. but the politics he wishes this we were dealing with and the wrap on president obama had always been that at times when democrats certainly wanted thoim fight harder, he oftentimes went, would vow for restraint. thinking that would help turn down the temperature and make things better. it oftentimes didn t, but today, you heard him say it s time to take off our slippers and put on our marching shoes and fight for health care, immigrant s rights. a government for everybody. so the president as we ve seen now, former president obama, is stepping into the fray, really
we cannot, we cannot and must not stop now. so i said to you, use this energy to organize, get people to register and vote. the next election, we must get out and vote like we never, ever voted before! the vote is precious! it s almost sacred. it is the most powerful non-violent instrument or tool we have in a democratic society. we must use it. there are some people in washington and around our country trying to take it away. we cannot let that happen. you know, i m fired up! i m fired up! i m ready to march! i have on my marching shoes, i m ready to march. let s do it! let s do it! okay. let s do it! [ cheers and applause ] all right.
sake of all those families that are struggling now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and press on. take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling and stop crying. we are going to press on. we have work to do. cbc. so, john, i wanted to show you one of our producers, todd, highlighted had last night. i wanted to show this to you. i thought it was great catch. this is the verbiage, text of that address, as reported by politico. do we have the politico one first? this is him. there it is. you see it. you have to stop complaining, grumbling, crying, we are going to proceeds. this is work we have to do. this is how the ap transcribed
and this is state of the union. four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich s troubled presidential run he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the sixth sense, everyone but him thinks he s dead. but at last week s washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we re going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we re too stupid to balance the budget any other way. former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. good to be with you. let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let s pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a