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Before we get to the war on terror, president elect trump seems to have in some sense reset our Nuclear Policy this week after Vladimir Putin talked about building up russias nuclear arsenal, mr. Trump tweeted this. The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. And when asked to clarify, mr. Trump told a reporter, let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all. Question are we back in an arms race with russia . I want to point out this is the same donald trump that liberal were terrified was going to sell out to putin, who has now pivoted and said, look, to quote general mattis, we can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You want to make threatening speeches, let me show you what a threatening speech looks like, and he does it in 140 characters. The russians have been rebuilding their Nuclear Capability. We have allowed ours to weaken. The chinese have been rebuilding their Nuclear Capability. The iranians are trying to build a nuclear weapon. I think for the next president to say, you know, were going to have to systematically rebuild our Nuclear Capability is exactly right. And hes also serving notice. If he succeeds economically at making America Great again and we get back to 5 or 6 real growth, we can outproduce everybody. And i think what hes telling both the chinese and the russians is you really want to be in this competition . Because if its going to be a competition, we have the potential to win it. But a couple of questions there. First of all, the manner in which he did it. I mean you say in 140 characters. Is this really any way to conduct Foreign Policy . And, second, its one thing to talk about modernizing our nuclear arsenal. He had said that during the campaign. But expanding the arsenal that flies in the face of a half century of arms control limiting, reducing our number of weapons. Right, which has failed. Weve had arms control. The chinese have had an arms buildup. Weve had arms control. The North Koreans have developed Nuclear Weapons. The russians in the last few years have increased the capability of their systems dramatically. Theyve introduced new missiles. Theyve introduced new kinds of missiles that are designed to avoid our antiballistic missile systems. There are a number of steps theyre taking to be a warfighting capability, and we have to candidly overmatch that. Its not something we want to do, but if youre going to be in the real world. And on the tweeting thing, let me just suggest if i might we might as well get used to it. This is who he is. Its how hes going to operate. Whether its brilliant or stupid, he beat 16 rivals, and then he beat Hillary Clinton, and he beat the elite media. He aint giving it up. Do you think its brilliant or stupid . I think its brilliant because first of all, hes able very quickly over and over again to set the agenda. And at almost no cost. During the campaign, mr. Trump talked about working with putin in the war on terror. Heres a clip. We could find Common Ground with russia in the fight against isis. Wouldnt that be a good thing . Wouldnt that be a good thing . So after you heard things like that and what he said during the campaign, does mr. Trump view putin has an ally or an adversary, and what happens when he sees that russias core strategic objectives, whether its in the middle east or on nuclear arms or a whole host of subjects like ukraine are very different than our own. I think right now he sees putin as potentially either or both. There are places you compete. There are places you cooperate. This has been true by the way all through the tension with putin, weve been using russian rockets to put americans up to the space station because nasa was so screwed up and so mismanaged, we dont have an american rocket right now. So the russians have allowed us to use their rockets to get into space at the same time were yelling at each other. So you can have a lot of Different Things going on simultaneously. He also recognizes the total failure of the Obama Kerry Clinton foreign strategy in this region. You now have had a meeting in moscow of turkey, our nato alley for over a half century, iran, and russia to decide to talk about syria with zero american input. That should really trouble us that weve reached a dead end of weakness, and we have got to rethink what were doing. We began this program talking about the wave of terror attacks this week in europe, switzerland, turkey, obviously in berlin. Do you have any idea what President Trumps strategy is to fight isis both overseas and in the homeland . He has been very vague about his plans. I dont think they have a strategy. I think what they know, which is important, is that theyre going to need a strategy. They have in general flynn and general mattis and general kelly three remarkably experienced war fighters. I think theyre going to be able to produce a very aggressive strategy. They have a much better grip on reality than the Obama Administration did. But this is going to be a very hard problem. My suggestion is people should go back and look at how lincoln dealt with southern sympathizers during the civil war. We passed a sedition act, for example, which changed our ability to control people who were advocating treason. So i think were going to have to really think about what are the rules of the game and how do we succeed . We found out again apparently in the last few days that the ur europeans were looking at this tunisian before he attacked the Christmas Market in berlin. Again and again we find people we were sort of looking at, and then they go kill a bunch of folks. Lets turn to the domestic side. What do you think of the president elect intervening with individual companies that are talking about moving . And this week intervening with federal contractors on planes that had budget overruns and things like that . I want to ask you about this. Heres the experience i had wch mr. Trump recently. What about the free market . What free market when they go out and move and sell back into our company . But thats the free market. They made a decision that makes no. Thats the dumb market, okay . Thats the dumb market. Should the president of the United States be telling private businesses what to do . The president of the United States should do everything he can to Keep Companies in the u. S. , and the president of the United States should be very tough on Large Companies who have been rigging the entire process of acquisition to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the American People. Trump is going to be more like a governor than like our traditional sense of a president. Governors intervene. Theyre aggressive. Theyre in your face. I think the f35 program has been a disgrace. I think the acquisition process of the pentagon has to be totally redone. And i think that serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is going to shake up washington about as much as any single thing you could do. Lets talk about the current president , president obama. This week he banned Oil Exploration on millions of acres both in the arctic and the atlantic. Theres a lot of talk that hes about to transfer as many as 18 detainees from guantanamo to other countries. But this president , who has made heavy use of executive action, had this advice for donald trump. Listen. My suggestion to the president elect is, you know, going through the legislative process is always better in part because its harder to undo. Whats going on here with president obama . I think president obama is beginning to figure out that his legacy is like one of those dolls that as the air comes out of it, it shrinks and shrinks and shrinks. And 60 or 70 of his legacy are executive orders, almost all of which will be repudiated by trump. The things hes done this week can be turned around. It takes a little bit of smart lawyers, but theyll turn it around. Ize hes in this desperate frenzy, setting up a whole series of things to distract trump, which will make his liberal allies feel good about democrats and hate republicans when trump rolls them all back. But i think, you know, hes right. The movie lincoln has this extraordinary moment where lincoln says, look, we have to have a constitutional amendment ending slavery because we have to lock it into the constitution or it can be repeal the. I think had obama understood the centrality of that to the american system, woe have passed a very different obamacare on a bipartisan basis. He would have been a more limited president. But his legacy would have lasted far longer. Speaking of president s and legacies, how transformative a president do you think donald trump will be, and how quickly will we see whether thats the case or not . He has recruited a cabinet of winners. These are very successful, powerful people who like winning and are prepared to work very hard to win. They will face a crisis probably around march when they realize how big the swamp is and how many alligators there are. And they will then reach a you were the one who said, well, im not sure i was wrong. I was totally wrong. I blew it. I talked to him the other side, and he said, newt, come on. So i had to go on and do a Facebook Live and say i made a booboo, which i then got attacked by people for saying i mad made a booboo, but i did. He said flatly, and he tweeted again, he likes the term. Hes happy to use the term. My point is this. Everybody who comes into the city underestimates how really hard to change the city it is. I say this as a former speaker of the house who did a fair amount of change. But, boy, it was all uphill, and in the end it wore us out. Theyll reach a crisis point where theyre going to say either weve got to be more reasonable and get along with the city, or we have to become even more unreasonable and break the power structure thats opposing us. My hunch is theyll pick the latter, but that will be the decisive moment of his domestic presidency. Which way do they go . If they decide collectively that they want to break thepower str resources to do it, and it will be then the kind of presidency youll love covering. I have to say i feel like a cub reporter already. Ive never seen any of this before. Timely, weve got about a minute left. I want to talk about you. You say you will be the senior strategic planner for this administration. But when reporters have followed up and asked transition officials, they say theres no such formal or informal role, so what will you be doing . Ill be planning and trying to focus on the things i think are strategically the most important for the administration. And hasnt trump, president elect trump, given you that charter . Weve talked about it several times. I suspect ill get a letter from him once hes president. But i think my access is fairly overwhelming, and my ability to reach across to the house and the senate and to governors and state legislate ors i mean we have a whole system here. Thats the nature of the american system. You know, my first big step towards this will be a series of speeches at heritage on trumpism and what is trumpism, and then probably probab problem a book in the late spring. Were going to get 4,000 federal employees. They need to understand how different trump is and its not just a personality quirk. It is a way of thinking and a way of doing business, and its learnable, but its very different from what weve seen in the past. Speaker gingrich, thank you. Thank you for your time, and thank you for joining us on Christmas Day. And have a happy new year. And happy new year to you as well. Up next, well bring in our sunday group to discuss president elect trumps plans and the team he is putting together to implement them. Plus, what would you like to ask the panel about president obamas push to protect some key legacy items during his final days in office . Just go to facebook or twitter, fox news sunday, and we may use your question on the air. 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Your thoughts about the policy and the way of conducting it. Well, i think that, you know, certainly this is one of the early days of experiencing what Foreign Policy discussions are going to be like under the trump presidency, which i think are going to be very different than they have been in the past under a lot of other president s. I think that one of the things were going to have to get used to is the idea that when Donald Trump Tweets something, its going to be followed up by explanations of what he actually meant within those 140 characters by his supporters. I think in this case when it comes to modernizing our Nuclear Program and understanding our position visavis russia, this does send a message that things are not going to be necessarily all fine and dandy when it comes to our relationship with putin or with other world leaders. I think the more important and interesting part of the discussion is another thing that you brought up in your conversation with the former speaker, which is what is our policy going to be as it relates to these continued terror attacks that weve seen play out over the past week . We have a situation now in europe where you had an individual who was on all of the necessary watch lists, who was tagged as being someone who is dangerous, who had dealt with, you know, a car robbery in tunisia, a deportation issue when it came to italy, a terror probe when it came to germany. These are all situations that should have had this individual much higher on the appreciation of our european allies as someone who resembled a threat. I think the more interesting and challenging question Going Forward sp what trumps policy going to be towards situations like that, not just in europe but here as well. On both nuclear arms and also on the war on terror, when you see what trump has been saying, when you see the team hes putting together on National Security, do you see the outlines of a strategy of a Foreign Policy . First of all, i think you have to view what president elect trump is doing as signalsending, not policy making. This is signal sending and positioning. On the nuclear question, for example, totally lost in the conversation is theres already under way a 30 trillion Nuclear Modernization program and congress ask proep agreed to a couple years ago. I think what hes saying is not im creating some new policy on nuclear arms, but im sending a signal to the chinese, to the russians, the irania