Evangelical christians. Well speak with the president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell jr. , one of mr. Trumps top spiritual advisers, about the president elects appeal to evangelical voters. Plus, well ask our sunday panel to look back on a tumultuous 2016. And ahead to what we can expect from President Trump in 2017. And our power player of the week a mission to honor our nations veterans. Its the quarter century mark. I think its really, its america. Its what America Needs to be. All right now on fox news sunday. Hello again, and Merry Christmas from fox news in washington. Well, with terror attacks across europe, donald trump was talking this week about how he intends to keep our country safe, including plans to limit who is allowed into the u. S. Joining me now to discuss what the president elect will do is former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich. Mr. Speaker, Merry Christmas. Merry christmas. Before we get to the war on terror, president elect trump seems to have in some sense vet our Nuclear Policy this week after Vladimir Putin talked about building up russias nuclear arsenal. Mr. Trump tweeted, the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. 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 . Well, let me point out, this is the same donald trump that liberals were terrified was going to sell out to putin, whos now pivoted and said, look to quote general mattis, we can be your best friend, or we can be your worst enemy. You want to make threatening speeches, let me show what a threatening speech looks like. And he does it in 140 characters. Weve allowed our Nuclear Capability to weaken. The chinese have strengthened their nuclear continental capability. The iranians are trying to build a nuclear weapon. I think for the next president to say, you know, we have to rebuild our Nuclear Capability is exactly right. And if that hes also serving notice. If he succeeds economically in 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, its going to be a competition, we have the potential to win it. A couple of questions there. First of all, the manner in which he did it. 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, it flies in the face of a half century of arms control limiting, reducing our number of weapons. 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. We have to candidly overmatch that. Its not something we want to do. But if you want to be in the real world on the tweeting thing, let me suggest if i might, we might as well get used to it. Its who he is. Its how hes going to operate, when its brilliant or stupid. He beat 16 rivals and beat Hillary Clinton and beat the elite media. He aint giving it up. Do you think its brilliant or stupid . I think its brilliant. First of all, hes able very quickly over and over to set the agenda. At almost no cost. During the campaign, mr. Trump talked about working with putin in the war on terror. Heres a clip we could found Common Ground with russian in the fight against isis. Wouldnt that be a good thing . Wouldnt that be a good thing . [ applause ] so after you heard things like that and what he said during the campaign, does mr. Trump view putin as an ally or adversary, and what happens when he see thats russias core strategic objectives, when in the Nuclear Weapons and the middle east, are very different to from our own . 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 mismanaged, we dont have an american rocket right now. The russians allowed us to use their rockets to get into space at the same time were yelling at each other. You can have a lot of things going on simultaneously. I think he also recognizes the total failure of the Obama Kerry Clinton strategy in this region. Youve had a meeting in moscow of turkey, our nato ally for over a half century, iran, and russia to decide to talk about swear zero american input america with zero american input. That should trouble us. We have to rethink what were doing. We began this program talking about the wave of terror attacks this week in europe, switzerland, turkey, obviously berlin. Do you have any idea what President Trumps strategy is to fight isis overseas and in the homeland . Hes been very vague about his plans. I dont think they have a strategy yet. I think what they know which is pr important is that they need a strategy. In general flynn, mattis, and kelly, they have three remarkably experienced war fighters. I think theyll be able to produce a very aggressive strategy. They have a much better grip on reality than the Obama Administration did. This this is going to be a hard problem, and my suggestion is people should go back and look at how lincoln dealt with southern sympathizers during the civil war which controlled our ability to control people advocating trees an. We have to treason. We have to think about what are the rules of the game and how do we succeed. In the last few days, we found the europeans are actually looking at this tunisian before he attacked the Christmas Market in berlin. Again and again we find people that 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 to moving . And this year intervening with federal contractors on planes, budget overruns and things like that . I want to ask you about this heres the exchange i had with mr. Trump recently what about the free markets sir . That is before free market when they go out and move and sell back into our country. Thats a free market. They made a decision that makes you know, 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 incumbencompanie have been rigging the system to their advantage and to the disadvantage of American People. Trump is going to be more like our governor than our traditional sense of president. Governors intervene, theyre aggressive, in your face. I think the f35 program has been a disgrace. I think the program at the pentagon has to be totally redone. 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 it could do. Lets talk about president obama. This week he banned Oil Exploration in millions of acres in the arctic and atlantic. Theres talk that hes about to transfer as many as 18 detainees from guantanamo to other countries. This president , who has made heavy use of executive action, had this advice to donald trump my suggestion to the president elect is, you know, going through the legislative process is always better because in part its harder to undo. Whats going on . I think president obama is figuring out that his legacy is like one of those dolls that is as the air comes out of it, it shrinks and shrinks and shrinks. And at 60 or 7 0 of his 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 legalized smart lawyers, but theyll turn it around. Hes in this desperate frenzy. What hes actually doing is setting up a 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. I think hes right, the movie lincoln has an 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 could be repealed. I think had obama understood the centrality of that to the american system he would have passed a very different obamacare in a bipartisan basis. He would have done many other things. 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 when thats the case or not . Hes recruited a Westminster Abbey net of of a cabinet of very 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 crisis i have to ask because you said, well, im not sure i was wrong. I was totally wrong. I blew it. I talked to him the other day. He said newt, come on. I had to go on and do a Facebook Live and say i made a booboo, which i then got attacked for people saying i made a booboo, but i did. He clearly he said flatly and tweeted again, he likes the term, hes happy to use the term. My points this, everybody who comes into the city underestimates how really hard to change the city is. I say this as a former speaker of the house who did a fair amount of change. Right. Boy, it was all uphill. All hard. In the end, it wore us out. Theyll reach a crisis point where they look in a room, theyre all learners, and say weve got to be more reasonable and get along with the city or become more unreasonable and break the power structure thats opposing us. My Space Shuttle launhunch is h latter. That will be the decisive moment of his presidency, which way they will go. They can the resources to change the existing power structure, and it will be the presidency you love covering then. I have to say i feel like a cub reporter already. Ive never seen in before. Finally, a minute left. I want to talk about you. You say you will be the senior strategic planner for the administration. When reporters have followed up, transition Officials Say theres no such formal or informal role. 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 has president elect trump given you that charter weve talked about it several times. I suspect ill get a letter from him once hes president. I think my access is fairly overwhelming. My ability to reach across the house and senate and governors and state legislators i mean, we have a whole system here. Thats the nature of the american system. And you know, my first big step toward this will be a series of speeches at heritage on trumpism and what is trumpism and probably a book in the late spring. But thats because there are 4,000 federal employees, new, eager people, they have to understand how different trump is and its not just a personality quirk. It is a way of thinking and way of doing business. Its learnable, but it is very different from what weve seen in the past. Speaker gingrich, thank you for your time and thank you for joining us on Christmas Day. Have a happy new year. 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 . Go to facebook or twitter twitter, foxnewssunday. We may use your question on the air. You have known my plan all along. Its 100 correct. Whats happening is disgraceful. President elect trump saying hell stand by his plan for extreme vetting of people trying to come into the u. S. From countries with a history of terrorism. That after a series of attacks this week in europe. Time now for our sunday group. Syndicated columnist george will, gerald seib, the wall street journals Washington Bureau chief. Julie pace, who covers the white house and the transition for the associated press. And the cofounder of the web magazine the federalist, ben domenech. Ben, lets start with the president elects comments late this week about lets have a new arms race with russia flying in the face of a half century of arms control and doing it as Newt Gingrich said in 140 characters. Your thoughts about the policy and the way of conducting it. Well, i think that certainly this is one of the early days of experiencing what Foreign Policy discuss u discussions are going to be discussions are going to be like under the Trump Presidency which i think are going to be very different than they have in the past under a lot of other president s. I think one of the things well have to get used to is that the idea when donald trump tweets, its going to be followed up with explanations of what he meant with 140 characters by supporters. I think in this case when it comes to modernizing our nuclear 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 danced weather it comes to our and dandy when it comes to our relationship with putin or other world leaders. It 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 will challenging question Going Forward is what trumps policy is going to be toward situations like that. Not just in europe but here, as well. Jerry on both nuclear arms and the war on terror, when you see who trump has been saying, 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 as signal sending, not policy making. Signal sending and positioning, not litter policy. On the nuclear issue, totally lost is the fact theres already undera a trillion dollar 30year Modernization Program that the republicans in congress and president obama agreed to a couple of years ago. This is happening. What hes saying is not im creating some new policy on nuclear arms but im sending a signal to the chinese, the russians, the iranians, that were not going to fall behind in a Nuclear Arms Race if theres going to be one. I think people tend inner loop there was a rap in the campaign, dont take him too literally. I not theres still an admonition, dont take him too literalli. Do you agree, george, dont take him too literally . Its hard to know what hes said. He set hes going to expand and improve. We know that Nuclear Weapons decay. They have to be brought up again. Jerry said, this is baked in the policy. 108 billion not the expansion part. Ed modernization is. When he talks about expansion and says were ready for an arms race, that is different that is very different. In fact, thats alarming. It could be things change. 40 years ago we had this policy. Maybe now with new nuclear actors it ought to be changed. Wh whats disconcerting is what mr. Gingrich considers a virtue its done in 140 characters. If were going to change National Policy on the most awesome and frightening aspect of national essence, these weapons, it would be these weapons, it would be good to see something rather than what was said a few hours earlier by mr. Putin. I want to continue with you about president obama and his moves this week to Ban Oil Drilling on millions of acres in the arctic and the atlantic and very serious talk about transferring as many as 18 prisoners out of guantanamo. We asked you for questions for t