Episode 3: Spoiler And Victor

The Revolution with Steve Kornacki

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5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Newt Gingrich expands his power. He takes down a Democratic Speaker of the House and refuses to stand with the Republican president, George H.W. Bush.

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0:00.0	When I started getting these tapes, it was real easy for me because one of the things
0:11.7	I insisted on whenever I bought a car is that it had a cassette player in it.
0:16.4	Picture this, a state lawmaker commutes an hour and a half to a state capital back in
0:21.6	the age of cassette tapes.
0:23.7	It drives a big yellow car.
0:27.1	We call it the banana mobile and it was an old mobile cutlass and it had about 140,000
0:33.8	miles on it, I think at the time.
0:36.0	Not only did it have a cassette player, but it had leather seats.
0:40.3	So when I would make a trip up to St. Paul, I would pop one of these cassettes into my cassette
0:46.3	player in the car and it would run pretty much the whole trip to St. Paul.
0:53.6	The first thing you got to do is be confident.
0:58.4	On any given day, 60 to 65% of the American people share your values.
1:02.5	It is vitally important that every young Republican in America become a catalyst for 10, 15,
1:10.4	20, 30 other people.
1:12.0	This is Congress and Newed Gingrich.
1:13.2	As a candidate, you've probably been listening to tapes from GoPack all year.
1:16.8	Each one of you personally brushes the teeth every morning of the human being who is
1:24.2	morally responsible for whether this country is free and prosperous and safe.
1:32.8	In some respects, it was kind of an intimate relationship because it was just Newt and
1:35.9	I in the car and we had an hour and a half together and he talked about issues that
1:41.8	ranged from taxes to spending, welfare to work fair foreign policy issues.
1:50.8	This is Gil Gutenick, a Republican from Minnesota.
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