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Newt talks about his favorite Thanksgiving memories as he was growing up in Pennsylvania and some of the traditions he really enjoyed as a child. He also discusses the history of Thanksgiving and why it is truly a uniquely American holiday. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What was the first Thanksgiving really like for the pilgrims? What struggles did they endure to make the transatlantic journey from Europe to Plymouth, Massachusetts? And once they arrived, what happened to them? The first Thanksgiving is a window on the American past and was a very different experience than the holiday we celebrate today. Newt’s guest is Dr. Tracy McKenzie, Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving in 1621 to modern day Thanksgiving traditions. Newt’s and his guest is Melanie Kirkpatrick discuss why Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Kirkpatrick is the author of Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With Thanksgiving coming up this week, Newt talks with his favorite chef and good friend, Chef Jacques Haeringer, executive chef and proprietor of the legendary L’Auberge Chez François restaurant in Great Falls, Virginia. Chef Haeringer discusses his life-long career in the restaurant business, what it was like to survive COVID shutdowns and his suggestions for preparing the perfect Thanksgiving feast. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Virginia’s democrat candidate for Governor, Terry McAuliffe said during the debate: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”, his comment ignited a firestorm and parents everywhere took notice. Newt guests are Xi Van Fleet and Adam Waldeck, two people on the front lines of the critical race theory fight in Loudoun County, Virginia. Adam Waldeck is the President of 1776action.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by members of his Inner Circle membership club and he answers their questions about what the big government socialists are doing to transform our country, why Biden will never step down and how Republicans should be confident that the 2022 mid-term elections will deliver a big win. Become a member of Newt’s Inner Circle today at http://newtsinnercircle.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The price of a gallon of gas, empty store shelves, longer shipping times for merchandise we order online. What will inflation and supply chain issues mean for the upcoming holiday season? Newt’s guest is Christine McDaniel, former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For nearly 40 years, actor Gary Sinise has been an advocate on behalf of America’s service members. His portrayal of Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump formed an enduring connection with service members throughout the military community. Following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Sinise’s dedication to our nation’s active duty defenders, veterans, first responders and their families has become his personal crusade of support, service and gratitude for all those who protect our freedom and serve our country through the garysinisefoundation.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Commissioner Bill Bratton is one of the most important voices in law enforcement and policing in the last 50 years in the United States. He served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, chief of the New York City Transit Police, and Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and the New York City Police Department. Everywhere he went, he slashed crime rates and professionalized policing. His new book, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, is out now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt talks with Peter Navarro who served as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy at the White House during the Trump Administration. His new book: In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year details a behind-the-scenes account of the inner workings of the White House grappling with one of America’s worst and most divisive crises in history, the global pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt’s guest is Senator Joseph Lieberman, whom he’s known for more than 30 years. When they served together in Congress, they managed to work together on key issues that were facing the country. Senator Lieberman’s new book: The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again is available now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Tuesday, in elections across the country, the voters sent a clear message that the Democrat big government socialists’ agenda is not working. The results were seen as bellwethers of the Democratic party’s standing and they may have national resonance for Republicans as they seek to regain control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt has a new book coming out this Tuesday, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love, and he’ll be devoting the next several episodes of the podcast to cover some of the issues he talks about in the book. Newt’s guest is Hans von Spakovsky, who has been studying the issue of election integrity for years in his role as Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. His new book is: Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt shares his recent experience of meeting with members of the House Republican party, standing on the chamber floor of the United States House of Representatives for the first time in over 20 years, and how his visit to the U.S. Capitol has him thinking about the fact that America is at a historic crossroads. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt talks with Sean Spicer, President Trump’s former White House press secretary and host of Spicer & Co. on Newsmax TV, about his new book, Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America. They also discuss what it was like when Melissa McCarthy played him on Saturday Night Live, and becoming a quarter-finalist on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt talks with Bret Baier, New York Times bestselling author, award-winning chief political anchor for Fox News Channel, and the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier. His new book: To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 illuminates the life and legacy of one of America’s most consequential yet misunderstood leaders, Ulysses S. Grant, whose actions both as General and as President played an unparalleled role in preserving the United States. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What really happened in the 2020 election? Millions of Americans, who experienced the most troubling election of their lives, want answers. In her new book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mollie Hemingway reveals how the left-wing media, Democratic leaders, and Big Tech oligarchs colluded to create an election system designed to defeat President Trump. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt’s guest is John Ondrasik, the Five for Fighting Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, about his new song “Blood on My Hands” which reflects on our tragic withdrawal from Afghanistan. All the proceeds from the sale of the song are going to Afghan refugee and relief charities, as well as to the Gary Sinise Foundation. Five for Fighting has sold over 2.5 million albums. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

General Keith Kellogg spent 1,462 days in the White House serving with all four national security advisers to President Trump, longer than any other national security appointee. In that role, he was involved in every major national security decision by the President of the United States from 2017 to 2021. In his conversation with Newt, he discusses his new book: War By Other Means: A General in the Trump White House, and provides an eyewitness account of his experience behind closed doors. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt talks about his experience at the National Republican Senatorial Committee annual gathering and shares his thoughts on how we can defeat the radical American left-wing activists as Republicans look towards the mid-term elections in 2022 and the next presidential election in 2024. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The surge of migration at the U.S. southern border has led many to wonder what are the causes behind the surge? Was it a change in U.S. immigration policy? Or are many seeking asylum or just coming to America for a better life? Newt talks with Carlos Denton from CID Gallup in Costa Rica. For 40 years, Carlos has been speaking with and polling the people of Central America about the issues they face and why they want to migrate to the United States for a better life. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the COVID-19 global pandemic unfolded, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, MD, was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic industries. He has an insider’s knowledge of how level after level of American government crumbled as the COVID-19 crisis advanced. His new book: UNCONTROLLED SPREAD: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic is available now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The progressive left-wing Democrats want their $3.5 trillion Reconciliation bill passed before they will vote on Infrastructure. Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema won’t vote for a $3.5 Reconciliation bill, but support Infrastructure. And the person with an iron gavel, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is trying to unite her party to get it all through. Newt gives his take on this Capitol Hill chaos. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt has a fascinating conversation with the billionaire philanthropist, David Rubenstein, author of The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream. He is cofounder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. He is also the Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and the host of The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg TV and PBS. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by members of his Inner Circle membership club and he answers their questions about Bernie Sanders big government socialism bill, the debt ceiling, the Arizona recount and why he thinks Republicans will gain seats in the 2022 mid-terms in a town hall style meeting. Become a member of Newt’s Inner Circle today at http://newtsinnercircle.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many have noticed the cost of food and gas prices rising. Are we headed for skyrocketing inflation? And will global supply chain issues affect our holiday gift giving this year? Newt’s guest is David Beckworth, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and former economist at the Department of the Treasury. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by a long-time friend, and fellow historian, Dr. Allen Guelzo. He is Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is The New York Times best-selling author of Gettysburg, and his new book about the Civil War Confederate General: Robert E. Lee: A Life is out this Tuesday. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by Congressman Kevin Brady to discuss the Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion spending bill and $3 trillion tax increase bill. As Ranking Republican of the House Ways and Means Committee, Brady is a leading voice in speaking out about the reasons to oppose the Democrats’ tax increase. They also discuss the border crisis. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt talks with Josh Mitchell, author of The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe. They discuss the origins of student loans and how student loan debt has increased to $1.5 trillion dollars in the United States. Looking at the story from all angles; students, parents, educational institutions, federal policy and the lenders themselves. And they discuss how earning a college degree may not always pay off, and what’s to be done about it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War details interviews with people who played a direct role in the war and their stunning admissions; that the U.S. government’s strategies for Afghanistan were a mess, the nation-building project was a colossal failure and drugs and corruption infiltrated their allies in the Afghan government. Newt talks with the author and Washington Post investigative reporter, Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed SB 744 into law on July 14th. The law directs the Department of Education to review state requirements for a high school diploma. It also suspends the proficiency requirements for high school students in reading, writing and math for three years. Newt talks with Representative Christine Drazan, Minority Leader of the Oregon House of Representatives. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does the post-pandemic economic recovery look like? Now that the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation has ended, will more people return to the work? Newt talks with economist Michael Farren, PhD, research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by members of his Inner Circle membership club and he answers their questions about the $3 trillion dollar tax increase, Afghanistan, the Biden Administration’s new vaccine mandates, and what he remembers most about when he was Speaker, in a town hall style meeting. Become a member of Newt’s Inner Circle today at http://newtsinnercircle.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Flag Officers 4 America, a group of retired U.S. Generals and Admirals, have called for the resignations of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, based on negligence in performing their duties primarily involving the events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a letter dated 30 August. Newt’s guest is Major General Joseph Arbuckle. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by his friend and former colleague Senator Bob Kerrey to discuss the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Senator Kerry served on the 9/11 Commission and has an insiders perspective on how 9/11 happened, what went wrong, how we needed to make changes to our national security and what ultimately followed. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elementary school teacher Jennifer Tafuto resigned her position in Manchester, Connecticut public schools on July 14th. Teachers in her district were asked to track their daily activities as part of equity training. They were required to fill out a “Daily Racial Reflection Timeline” that included a list of choices of how individuals both white and non-white should feel about race as they move through their daily routine. Newt’s guest tells more about her experience on the front lines of teaching critical race theory in the classroom. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have entered a new period in America where the intolerance and rigidity of the left have crept into American ideology and invaded our institutions. Newt’s guest is Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, and author of The New York Times best-seller, The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a sports writer, he covered the Tour de France, and he teamed up with Bill O’Reilly to co-author the best-selling Killing series. Newt’s guest is Martin Dugard, talking about his new book about the Nazi invasion of France in World War II, TAKING PARIS: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What impact will Hurricane Ida have on oil and gas production and will gasoline prices increase? In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, gas prices soared by 18%. What can we expect this time? Newt’s guest is Dan Eberhart, CEO of Canary LLC, one of the largest privately owned oil services in the country. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last February, Newt talked with Stephen Miller, former senior advisor to President Trump, when he first left his role in the White House and was beginning to consider what’s next. Now, he’s joining Newt again to talk about the failures in Afghanistan and his new role as a board member of America First Legal. Find out more at aflegal.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The social media app Parler was really starting to gain traction, when, after the events of January 6th, it was abruptly removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Web Services refused to host the site any longer. Then, Parler had to rebuild their entire platform to deal with big tech’s censorship. Parler is now back online. Newt’s guest is George Farmer, CEO of Parler. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newt is joined by members of his Inner Circle membership club and he answers their questions about Biden’s leadership failures, the Afghanistan debacle and what we need to plan for next, in a town hall style meeting. Become a member of Newt’s Inner Circle today at http://newtsinnercircle.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In June 2019, Zach Vorhies resigned from Google and took with him 950 plus pages of internal documents and delivered them to the Department of Justice, and through Project Veritas, to inform the public about Google’s extensive censorship system. His incredible first-hand account of censorship and bias in big tech is the subject of his new book Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A combination of excess media, isolation, alienation of tradition, and the effects of COVID-19 shutdowns are creating an avalanche of issues for our youngest generation of children. Newt’s guest is California educator, Jeremy Adams, author of Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The withdraw from a 20-year-war in Afghanistan has resulted in a humanitarian tragedy. Newt was a freshman member of Congress when the Soviets first invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and having closely watched our relationship with Afghanistan over the years, he explains why the Biden Administration failed and why we should be doing more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The greatest threat to individual liberty and prosperity in America is no longer big government: it’s a new hybrid of big government and big business, far more powerful than either one alone, because each can do what the other cannot to advance its own agenda. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as people by mixing morality with consumerism. Newt’s guest is entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, author of Woke Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In August 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act in his driveway at the Reagan Ranch. The legislation brought about the largest tax cuts in American history and resulted in an era of tremendous economic prosperity and growth. Newt remembers the 40th anniversary of the three-year tax cut with his personal perspective on this unique time in American history. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Vikings, those mythic, larger than life, Scandinavians who left their homeland in search of opportunity and would reshape Europe and the United States. Newt’s guest is Arthur Herman, author of The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, a compelling historical narrative with cutting-edge archaeological discoveries and DNA research to tracing the epic story of this remarkable and truly diverse people. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Critical race theory continues to permeate our classrooms and infect our children’s minds with anti-American ideas about our nation’s history. But a growing number of Americans are standing up and demanding its removal from K-12 education. At the forefront of this patriotic effort is 1776 Action. Newt’s guest is Adam Waldeck, president of 1776action.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The only way to avoid a disastrous level of inflation that destroys the American standard of living without creating a deep recession that puts millions out of work is to cut government spending dramatically. Newt’s guest is Thomas Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.