Episode 964: Congressman Rick Crawford on Counterintelligence Reform
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Newt talks with Congressman Rick Crawford, (AR-1st) Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, about the importance of counterintelligence reform, the Iran war, and fully funding the Department of Homeland Security. Chairman Crawford explains that the United States needs counterintelligence reform to address threats from China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba, which are actively engaging in espionage and intelligence operations within the U.S. homeland. There is a need for better coordination and cooperation between federal agencies like the FBI and military counterintelligence assets to leverage their different capabilities for threat mitigation rather than just law enforcement. Iran poses a significant threat, with the capability to deliver radioactive materials or a "dirty bomb" via their ballistic missile program, in addition to their support for terrorism and proxies. Our European allies have been unwilling to adequately fund their own defense, relying heavily on U.S. protection. Lastly, they address the challenge to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and discuss the risks a shutdown poses by leaving critical security gaps in areas like border security, cybersecurity, and disaster response.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to New World Podcasts on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.8 | You know, we had an amazing opening of this week with two huge events. |
| 0:19.6 | One was the launch of Artemis II, the largest rocket ever launched, |
| 0:25.1 | taking four astronauts past the moon, not just to the moon, but past the moon. They will be |
| 0:31.7 | the furthest into the solar system of any humans in history, and they will swing around behind the moon and see parts |
| 0:39.7 | of the moon that we have never seen before. The fact that you have this gigantic rocket, and it |
| 0:47.1 | worked, and they are on a nine-day trip, I think is astonishing. And I thought it was historic by itself. But the very same day, |
| 0:57.1 | you had a 20-minute speech by President Trump putting in place his rationale for what he's doing |
| 1:06.6 | with Iran, his explanation of why we cannot tolerate a nuclear armed Iran, and his commitment |
| 1:15.5 | that we will do whatever it takes to make sure that Iran is not capable of threatening the |
| 1:23.6 | United States. I think it was one of the most important speeches of President Trump's career. |
| 1:29.6 | I think as a historian that it was a major speech that people will look at for many years to come. |
| 1:36.5 | And I think the combination of both things the same day, the launch of four astronauts literally past the moon and then circling back |
| 1:48.1 | around the moon to come back home on a nine-day trip, really the first time in 50 years, |
| 1:54.4 | that we've seen this kind of departure for not just low Earth orbit, but we're now pretty |
| 1:59.6 | comfortable, but beginning to go back first to the moon, and then, as Jared Isaacman, the administrator at NASA, |
| 2:08.1 | said last week, they have an entire new program to land on the moon, to develop a permanent base on the moon, |
| 2:15.0 | and to begin preparing to land on Mars. |
| 2:18.0 | And the difference is this. |
| 2:19.9 | We're not going as visitors. |
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