Episode 494: The Revolution with Steve Kornacki: An Interview with Newt Gingrich
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Newt sat down with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki for a Bonus Episode of his six-part podcast series, The Revolution with Steve Kornacki. The series recounts the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and Newt’s rise to Speaker of the House after 40 years of Democratic control. Newt listened to the series and felt that Kornacki and his team did a great job of capturing that pivotal moment in history. Upon listening to the final episode in which a panel of journalists who covered Newt during that period convened to debate his legacy, Newt knew that he wanted to weigh in – and he wants you to hear his interview with Steve Kornacki.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Newt. Did you know that you can listen to my Newt's World Podcast on the iHeart app? |
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| 0:15.9 | when new episodes are published. All you have to do is download the free iHeart app from |
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| 0:25.9 | Hi, iHeart discover music, radio and podcast you'll love. |
| 0:30.5 | So, I'm about to get on the M-track train in New York. |
| 0:42.7 | Last week I took a short track. |
| 0:46.6 | So, if you're wondering why I was on this M-track train to DC and for that matter, if you're |
| 0:54.5 | wondering why this episode just popped up in your podcast feed, well, here's what happened. |
| 0:59.7 | We originally taped and released the first six episodes of this series, which hopefully |
| 1:04.3 | you've already heard. And we thought that was the end of it. But then we heard from our |
| 1:08.8 | main character. We had asked Newt Gingrich to take part in an interview for the first six |
| 1:13.7 | episodes and we'd been unable to arrange anything. You probably heard that during the |
| 1:18.2 | first six episodes. But once we released all six of them, the executive producer of Newt |
| 1:23.6 | Gingrich's podcast reached out and we settled on a time for me to interview him. |
| 1:28.2 | Thank you very much. Have a good one. |
| 1:32.1 | I also agreed to be on his podcast at a later date. I was thrilled we were going to get |
| 1:36.4 | this chance because obviously Newt Gingrich is central to the entire story we told. |
| 1:41.6 | Oh, the Gingrich? Yes. |
| 1:43.6 | But it turned out he had listened to all six episodes of the podcast and he had plenty |
| 1:48.2 | of thoughts about our story and about everything that's happened in American politics since. |
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