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2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich on his campaign for president.
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Well -- a number of missteps they're Gingrich is named a new Georgia leadership team as he works to rebuild his presidential campaign.
It now includes former backers of governor Mike Huckabee campaign organization.
Joining us now the former speaker of the house presidential candidate.
They're -- -- great to have you with us.
-- to do if you.
Let's but let's go through some of the Livni and then moved to some of the more substantive issues I mean you've had your finance people walk out your campaign folks want to your wife Alyssa has been accused all sorts of whatever.
-- over the course of time.
You've got to have rankled some of your financial supporters where are you right now.
-- what are you where are you looking to make your move now.
Well mostly by focusing on substance and talking about how to create jobs.
How to get back to a balanced budget.
How to control the border.
How to deal with health care after we repeal obamacare.
There a lot of things have to do as a country.
And -- a country worth fourteen million unemployed.
With housing having dropped deeper than it did in the Great Depression.
With three wars in the Middle East -- no strategy.
I think there are a lot of substantive things we can focus on a presidential campaign parker and I've had basically have shrugged off.
The usual political gossip which by the way Ronald Reagan had to deal with -- thirteen staff resigned the morning of the New Hampshire primary in 1980.
Nobody knows ahead of things analysts he was ahead in the polls when he did that.
You were out and and and let's turn to the polls let's get to the substance including.
Horse race.
Right now you're at 7%.
In the most recent poll conducted by the the Moines register.
The leader is -- need -- 122%.
What are you gonna do to to move up -- those polls are what your strategy.
Our first saw this point in 2007 the two leaders were Giuliani and Clinton.
So the polls right now are not exactly definitive about next year second I intend to focus on.
Eliminating capital gains tax so we have hundreds of billions of dollars in new investment.
Going to a 100% expensing so businesses can write off.
All their new investment in one year reducing the corporate tax rate to twelve and a half percent to bring home an immense amount of money is locked up overseas.
And you actually a big corporations paying the tax.
Because would be cheaper to pay at the narrow all the lawyers they currently -- -- and finally abolishing the death tax so that family firms can focus.
On creating jobs and hiring people rather than on dealing with tax lawyer.
