Newt Gingrich Reveals Shocking Number Of People Who Think U.S. System Is Corrupt According To Poll

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At a House Judiciary Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) spoke to former Speaker Newt Gingrich about immigration policy and universal injunctions.

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00:00The gentleman from Washington is recognized for five minutes. Thank you

00:05Mr. Chair, thank you to our distinguished panelists for this insightful

00:09testimony and what's been a long day. Mr. Speaker it's real honor to be able to

00:13ask you a few questions when you're a freshman in this body. You see a lot of

00:17portraits on the wall and frankly you don't know who a lot of people are but

00:20I think the American people always remember you in your the mark you left

00:24on this institution. The question I have for you is is just to comment on the

00:30situation the American people find themselves in because I think this is a

00:33very dangerous and perilous time for America because I think the American

00:36people think the fix is in and you talk the average person in my district and

00:41they look at a situation where over 12 million people came into the country

00:45illegally and there was no remedy to stop that procedurally from their elected

00:51officials and now they look at a situation where after they had an

00:54election they had a president that clearly campaigned on this issue and

00:59they look at dangerous gang members who spread fentanyl that's killed over a

01:05hundred thousand Americans more than died in Vietnam more than died in the wars in

01:10Iraq and Afghanistan and they say well let's get these people out of here this is

01:14what we just voted for and yet now there's a system where the one judge or a few

01:20judges in a certain area after judge shopping can stop so they look at the

01:26situation say is there any remedy to this I mean what is the future of the

01:30republic if what they just voted for is something as egregious as dangerous

01:36hardened gang members from a foreign country in the country illegal spreading a

01:41deadly drug that is killing over a hundred thousand Americans and they say well how is

01:46this supposed to work so what would be your comment to these people well

01:49three quick things first I run a project called the America's new majority

01:55project and if you ask the American people do you think the system is corrupt

02:0082% say yes now that's really dangerous in a free society I don't care what your

02:07ideology what your partisanship is when more than eight out of every ten of your

02:11fellow Americans think the system is corrupt you have a deep challenge to

02:16somehow break through really on a nonpartisan basis second President

02:20Lincoln once said with public sentiment anything is possible without public

02:25sentiment nothing is possible and I think it's very important for every judge who

02:31thinks they want to impose themselves on the president to ask themselves are you

02:35putting the entire judicial system in disrepute because if the country sees

02:40really sort of by the standards of most Americans fairly radical positions being

02:46taken by judges blocking what there's a clear will of the American people not just

02:51the president I think that it literally puts the entire underlying system under

02:56enormous stress and leads to popular dissatisfaction in a way that's very very

03:02dangerous the stability the system ultimately requires that all of us find a way to

03:07work together to to behave in such a way that people no longer think the system's

03:12corrupt and mr. speaker just finally you know you referenced Thomas Jefferson one of

03:19our founding fathers one of the founding revolutionaries of this country and the

03:22author of the Declaration of Independence in your opening statement I was able to

03:27visit the White House for the the first time last week and got to meet

03:32President Trump there and as we came in we made exchange some pleasantries and there

03:36was a kind of a humorous moment because neither of us knew quite what to do

03:39because staff wasn't telling us and as we had this kind of moment of silence and he

03:43said well can I show you the Declaration of Independence and he turned around and

03:46and it showed it to me that was on his wall and he's very proud he just had it

03:49installed and so it was kind of a fun moment as you can imagine for any American

03:52citizen particularly a fresh member of Congress but I hear you loud and clear and I

03:57hope on what you think is the best remedy at this point is that Chief Justice

04:01Roberts steps in and brings some some clarity and some sanity to this to the

04:06craziness right now but if he didn't and President Jefferson were sitting in the

04:14White House or the president right now what do you think President Jefferson

04:19would do if Chief Justice Roberts wouldn't step in and help this issue you

04:24know the Jeffersonians as a group were bitterly anti-judge the number two demand

04:31in the American Revolution after no taxation without representation was their

04:37hatred of the British judges because they were appointed by the king served at the

04:42king's convenience and were seen as the oppressors imposing the law of a foreign

04:48government on the American people and Jefferson had grown out of that

04:52tradition Jefferson's probably the most radical of the founding fathers and the

04:57Jeffersonians ran essentially on cleaning up the judiciary this is why the

05:03whole thing with Marshall such a wonderful example of a sleight of hand

05:06because if you look at the Judicial Act of 18 in 1801 after they lose the

05:12election the Federalists passed the Judiciary Act of 1801 which creates judges

05:17many of whom were being appointed literally the night before Jefferson sworn in so

05:22they were called the midnight judges well the Jeffersonians thought we're not

05:25going to have this so they write the Judiciary Act of 1802 and they wipe out as I

05:30said at the beginning of my statement they wipe out I think 16 of them 14 of

05:34which were actually occupied I I got into this because a good friend of mine is a

05:37great lawyer said those must have been vacant because after all it's a lifetime

05:41appointment no we went back and pulled up the biographies these 14 guys had to go

05:45out and get a job I mean they were gone and so I think Matt Marshall knew you

05:52push Jefferson very hard I mean a guy who buys half a continent sends the Marines to

05:57Tripoli you really want to play this game and they didn't it's very if you read

06:02Marbury vs Madison it's a brilliantly clever device in which he says we really

06:07have this authority but you don't have to worry about it because we ain't going to

06:10give it to him so you know Marbury doesn't get doesn't get his writ well so

06:15he tweaked Jefferson but he knew if he tweaked him too much he probably he would

06:20probably have replaced the whole Supreme Court I mean Jeffersonians were very

06:24tough about this stuff I think what but I think Jefferson also was very practical

06:28and I think what Jefferson would say is you've raised the issue you've begun to get

06:33the country aware you might consider as a first step chairman Issa's bill there

06:40may be I'm not suggesting this but I'm responding to your question it may be

06:43speculatively at some point that the most radical and dumbest of the decisions

06:48could lead to interrogatories to the judges first in writing it might even be

06:53conceivable at some point that the judges might be brought in under oath to

06:57explain what's the constant how did you think of this what's the

07:00constitutional basis why are you doing this I mean there are many ways one

07:04could pursue this my hope is that the comments we've made here today will in

07:09fact move the Chief Justice to eliminate the problem and and to get back to a

07:15situation where no single district judges is an alternative president and

07:20where we can have greater respect for the court system because the court system

07:24has greater respect for us I think you all it's been a long day

07:30and although my closing statement I'll read in a

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