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  • I watched this episode for the first time in January of 2012 and I can't help but be saddened by it. If Newt Gingrich wins the nomination Obama would NEVER have the stones to sit and intelligently dialogue with him in the way that Dodd did. He would never do it. We will get campaign adds and lofty speeches where he promises the world, but I just don't see him sitting down in a forum like this and honestly discussing ideas. Right?

  • why are to republicans so scared of newt Gingrich all except the tea partie I hope the republicans. honor the will of the people when Newt wins the leadership. this guy is brilliant

    and will shake up the white house.

  • How totally wrong Dodd sounds now. A weak minded liberal who wants to avoid doing anything that takes some courage. Obama at this time was saying the same thing as Dodd and called Irag a dumb war. This month Obama is taking all the credit for winning the war - what a great success! No thanks to him and guys like Dodd.

  • Dodd is an idiot and make silly sense.

  • Newt Gingrich is a scumbag piece of shit. If Newt wins your all fucked. But then again you guys voted in bush twice then Obama, whats 1 more lying scumbag right?

  • @icanadian18

    Canadians know nothing of much, except to whine and complain about anything that makes sense, i.e. Conservatism. Get real canuck! Newt is brilliant, and you can't admit it. So HILAROUS!

  • In the end Newt was right. This was posted 4 years ago! Because we did eventually win the war! With far less losses than most other wars we won may i add.

  • If Tim Russert knew how good Newt can debate then he wouldve never brought him on the show. He is literally the smartest politician in america! Chris Dodd dont know what hit em.

  • Newton L. Gingrich wrote the forward for a book "Creating a New Civilization" by Alvin and Heidi Tofler, who are "ex" Marxists and "futurists" whom Newton calls friends: "The Constitution of the United States needs to be reconsidered and altered.....The system that served us so well must, in its turn, die and be replaced. "

    When politicians tell you that Constitutional protection are merely quaint archaisms, what you should hear is "I want to rule you with an iron fist."

  • @DroTakesTheHits

    Hah! Newt would kick your ass!

  • CHRIS DODD

    

  • @captainjohnsoniamiam - from DNC to TLC - The Liars Club! Love it!

    If lies & hypocrisy could be converted to energy, the current Democratic administration alone could power the planet for the next 1,000 years!!!

  • so, why are we in Iraq?

  • not only did newt layeth the smacketh down on senator dodd , he has much better hair

  • It's hilarious, they use a star wars theme in this show to make them sound important. What a bunch of tools, LOL

  • Chris Dodd, a crook just like his dad was, and left under the same cloud of corruption. Like father like son!

  • That was a really good debate. Both Chris & Newt clearly made distinctions. Both sides made their case. Most importantly, neither one distorted the others positions. While they disaggreed with each other they kept it civil.

    Great job Tim

  • how bout that housing scandal Todd you shitbag

  • newt for president

  • newt stomped that guy!

  • This country is almost toast, you were right Tonygo

  • @Ihatelibs72 The reason our country is almost toast is that we are getting a left-right attack on our Constitution.

    Both parties are enacting slick, underhanded subversion of our traditional protections form tyranny.

  • Newt is the MAN

  • @MrAmrguy

    THE FANNIE MAY FREDDIE MAC SPONSORED TO THE TUNE OF 1.6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN YOU MEAN?

  • @LIBERTYALONE Newt owned a consulting firm and the fees Freddie Mac paid were not completely unusual for the DC area.

    You are a parrot sir, BWWAAAAAK!

  • Newt is a genious !!!!

  • @ledzeppac genius.. wow

  • Looks like they got their hairpieces from the same place.

  • Newt is Regan.

  • gingrich is a bitch

  • @netforce0

    What in this clip made you reach this conclusion?

  • @regelemihai his Hippocracy

  • @netforce0

    Can you point it out in the clip please? I watched it from beginning to end.

  • @regelemihai oh maybe not in this clip, but his modern day exploits. Like his claim of moral superiority of being against gay marriage (he claims that marriage is a value that cannot be messed with yet he has been divorced cheated and messed with marriage more than any gay person has)

  • Fair point.

    On other issues, though, I think he has it right; his moral ambivalence notwithstanding. 

  • Jesus, I forgot how much I miss Tim Russert. R.I.P.

  • nice to see newt debate someone with brains for a change

  • "NEWTer" The White House in 2012!!!!!!!!

  • newt gingrich is an incredible man, he needs to run for president in the upcoming election in 2012 we need to get obama out of office

  • @zidlickyfan1

    Uncle Adolf would be so proud of Führer Gingrich. If you want a Fascist state vote Gingrich!

  • @petersz98 and ucle marx would be soo happy for karl obama, if you want to pay for the illegal immgrant across the street vote obama

  • @zidlickyfan1

    Führer Adolf Gingrich wants intern people as "enemy combatents" even if it violates the First Amendment and reveals the criminality of the US Government such as stealing credit card numbers from the Secretary General of the UN, and keep them as political prisoners in the Guatanamo Bay Gulag. Führer Gingrich wants to fight endless wars against non-white people to create a 1000 year Neo-Con Reich. The USA will become the Fourth Reich if Führer Gingrich becomes President!

  • @petersz98 karl obama want me to pay for your healthcare becasue you dont have a job and i do, karl obama spics to stop working so i can work harder for them, karl obama deffinately is not what we need, ever read animal farm? thats what the u.s is going to be dip shit, good try though

  • @zidlickyfan1

    What makes you think I support the Barak Obamination? I am not even American! Fact is the Soviet Socialist American Republic is collapsing! Soon the SSAR will join the USSR into history in the graveyard of Empires:- Afghanistan with 14$ trillion in debt! LOL!

  • @petersz98 until a conservative like another ronald reagan takes office

  • Bloody good American debate... Gingrich is one smart man, it is difficult to defend those unpopular views. Dodd's voice sounds like someone out of 40's or 50's radio and it kinda annoys me.

  • Gingrich is the man with the mind. If it were my decision to make, I would put Gingrich in charge of fixing this nation on several fronts. He knows what needs to be done and he would do it with out regard to getting re-elected. He is very close to induction to my personal list of heroes of which there are five.

  • Great debate... I understood points on both sides and there was no outlandish claims or name calling. Tim Russert was a hell of a moderator too.

  • @TheRealToneZone Russert didnt get in the way of the debate. he will be missed.

  • Gingrich and Dodd are on the same team. This is all a movie. It's a joke. They're actors playing parts acting out opposing ideas, behind the curtain they are shaking hands and giggling with each other while partaking in satanic rituals. It's divide and conquer. Put the people off against each other by making them feel there are 2 different choices when it's really one political party with two sliiiightly different factions. They're both war imperial war parties. Just look at Obama, Mr. Change..

  • Gingrich is on another level of intelligence that Dodd just can't compete with. It's like watching a brilliant teacher try to teach a slow.dim witted student. Newt is an encyclopedia of history and all things political that can't be matched.

  • @vman3278 Couldn't have said it better myself.

  • Why the fuck are we still in Iraq?

  • This "debate" is another example of how little difference there is in philosophical principle between the Democrats and Republicans:

    Newt: "I agree with Dodd that we need a dramatically expanded ability to use statecraft...We are in a world-wide war...we need to win this war."

    Dodd simply nodds. The two parties do not disagree on principle; only on tactics. Everyone has forgotten the advice of Washington and Jefferson of staying out of foreign conflicts and constantly policing the world. Sad.

  • @mthaker

    It was Washington and Adams who believed in neutrality, not so much with Jefferson. Jefferson after the The American Revolution wanted to nation build and expand the United States's presence into other territories abroad but Washington, who was at the time President, saw how dangerous this was because of how young and fragile the country was at the time and therefore wanted the country to focus on developing on its current territory.

  • It is comical to watch Dodd's face when Gingrich is speaking you see his realization that he is outmatched he realizes that he is an idiot. His life as a corrupt hack splashes across his face. Wish I could get a countrywide deal like ol mr Dodd.

  • @48brianm

    Gingrich is a neo-conservative. War, war and more war!

    Iraq is just another Vietnam. You Yanks should just get out!

  • So warming to see such civility between two intelligent men with opposing viewpoints.

  • Gingrich is extraordinarily brilliant. His grasp, fluency, knowledge are breathtaking.

  • @HAZIDEAD

    Gingrich is just a warmonger. Never served in the military in his life.

    What a coward!

  • @petersz98 wow ur an idiot . u shuld be water boarded then beheaded to you anti american $^#%

  • Newt = kkk

  • @vincevince801

    vincevince80` = liberal idiot

  • Gingrich is awesome. Very very smart man.

  • Sounds like fascism .. at 10:50

  • Gingrich will be the next president.

  • I like Gingrich. Even though I'm an atheist and he's a Christian, I find him much more respectful of my position than most. He spoke at my graduation...let left politics out of it. He's got a sex scandel in his past though. That'll be hard on the election.

  • He has a sex scandal but he doesn't have perjury.

    On the religion note, a true conservative believes in personal freedom. He might advocate having a religion over not having a religion but as long as he keeps government from making choices for you, we all win regardless.

  • I agree with about his religion, that's what's one of the things I like about him. Huckabee and others are very holier-than-thou and annoying. Hannity comes off that way when he talks religion with Hitchens or Dawkins. But Newt is nice about it.

    The scandel will be hard for him once the newsmedia sticks their claws in him.

  • Just cause someone is Christian or Atheism doesn't mean anything... even if he was a true Christian, that would be good.. lately though they aren't so I can see where you are coming from.

  • i hope to god he is our next president i wonder who would he pick as v.p.?

  • What about this Senator? Is he fit to continue in office? Many in Conn think he needs the boot. His father was a Senator too and got in trouble. But, this guy appears ok at a glance. What say you?

  • Loved it, healthy debate, enjoyed every second of it,

  • We need to buy mexico and invade canada.

  • This is what's so great about Russert, he would allow two people from totally different sides to have an open debate and not be biased for either side. RIP Tim.

  • it's actually the exact opposite. when democrats spend money it builds the government and the money does not get distributed to the organization it was intended, instead it goes directly into their pockets. democrats push work oversees because of their heavy regulations and taxes on small businesses. ever heard of trial lawyers, labor unions? no wonder american jobs are getting outsourced. small businesses have no chance of making profit in the U.S. and therefore unemployment rises!

  • @tonyg0123 yes, it's common to think that much more oil money has gone into the pockets of clinton/obama than bush.

  • Yeah...I hate wasting money to keep us safe. I'm just glad we have Obama to spend our money on fruit flie studies, turtle stunnels and water taxi's for towns that are no longer populated. Give me a break.

  • What's a water taxi?

  • It picks people up and brings that from one area to another just like a regular taxi but on water. It's a good idea for a heavily populated town but not with our tax dollars for a deserted town.

  • Newt metions problems in Iran, Pakistan, and other nations, but because we are bogged down in Iraq, we cannot deal with those problems.

  • Republicans do not deal with petty things like budget numbers, projections, troop levels, and boring things like that. They want only to say words like "victory" and hope nobody does any research to find out reality.

  • Democrats do not deal with petty things like budget numbers, economic projections, massive spending, and boring things like that. They want only to say words like "change" and hope nobody does any research to find out reality.

  • You want to keep wasting billions of dollars in a hostile country to maintain MORALE? That is outrageous and idiotic.

  • gringrich is much smarter than you

  • this debate isnt even close. Leftists like Axelrod will prevent a presidental debate if Gingrich is the republican nominee.

  • This is why Gingrich will be a president and Dodd will be somebody that cannot get past first base

  • Newt it my hero.

  • Newt hammers it home

  • newt destroys defeatist dodd...

  • Dodd owns!

  • i remember 1993 bugget deficit reduction act. no republican voted for it. newt said not only would it produce a recession,it would produce a depression. well, that was some depression in the 1990's. I had a great decade in business. Newt is an idiot.

  • Newt gives explainations for his reasoning and DUD just gives talking points.

  • When was Newt ever ever considered as a possible presidential canidate?? In some foaming at the mouth republican sympathizer's we# dream?

  • Newt would debate circles around Obama.

  • The DEMs are SO defeatest. If they ever get enough control of this country for a significant part of time, we are TOAST!

  • Bill Clinton---Good Economy, Good Growth

    George Bush----Terrible Economy, Iraq War

  • Terrible economy started under Clinton. The economy is bad because of the housing crisis CRA,FHEFSSA anyone.

  • "Terrible economy started under Clinton."

    are you joking? the economy was in great shape when clinton left. we had a big surplus, and as soon as bush came into office, he started spending money that he knew he shouldnt have, and then when iraq came he put us into debt with that.

  • correction...

    when clinton left our national deficit was 6trillion dollars. dont believe me? look it up.

    iraq accounts for about 10% tops of the total national debt

    go do some research please...

  • It was Newt and a Republican Congress that balanced the budget...Clinton was a monkey.

  • Clinton had NOTHING to do with the roaring '90s. The economy in the '90s was strong because of the tech boom, not because of any of his policies.

  • youre probably right, but people that claim he made it worse or into the way it is right now are idiots.

  • Clinton only did good because people like Gingrich kept Clinton in check

  • The economy has nothing to do with the president.

    With a federal reserve and fractional reserve system, these meltdowns are inevitable. Any president that has not dismantled the federal reserve is responsible for this meltdown.

  • ummm... like it wasnt already bad enough the past 8 years? it couldnt have gotten any worse than it was all this time. with dems in control, we will be much safer. republicans just put us in more danger pretending to protect us.

  • lol i've seen your comments on other vid's and you're quite the troll

    the two party system is tearing the country apart. both spend massive ammounts of money and both have in the past 100 years done more to destroy the nation then help it.

    you are merely a symptom of the partisan propaganda america is subjected to on a daily basis.

  • oh well thank you... im glad that you recognize me and label me like that. im very touched. but trust me, there are people a lot worse than me, so i think troll is a little too much. i dont think i even have enough time in my busy schedule to be a troll. thanks anyway though.

    i have no comment on your opinion about the two party system. it is what it is, and neither are doing a good job anyway. but the republicans started it and fucked it all up.

    wow, well i dont give a shit what you think.

  • @rredhawk You predicted correctly.

  • @rredhawk lol hows that turning out for you???

  • @rredhawk hows that turnning out for you???? lol looks like republicans want to destroy medicare and social security...hahahahahhaa

  • Why didn't they pick Newt for VP? Why didn't they draft him for Pres? Hmm. So much knowledge going to waste, right? Why you don't appoint a school teacher to the general of your army...

  • Why? Too much baggage, some scandals, a liberal media vilifying him at every turn etc.

  • Chris Dodd = #1 benefactor of Fannie May and Freddie Mac! Obama #2 That's the change America needs right? Total libs trying to make a case that they have no idea about. NO Special Interests by democrats? Teachers unions, Unions, FEDDIE, FANNY, ETC ETC. Please wake up America!! CHANGE, HOPE, CHANGE, HOPE. HOPE Mcain wins, for the future of AMERICA. No MUSLIMS for president. Oh you say he's not a MUSLIM, maybe not , but when you call Bush HITLER that gives me the right to call NOBAMA a MUSLIM.

  • Yep.

  • Newt breaks it down!!! I love Newt!!! What a smart guy.

  • Is it just me, or did I miss in Sen Dodd's comments anything about actually winning the war on terror (where ever it might be).

  • Texmarc,

    That didn't seem to be of any substance to Sen. Dodd. Newt made the point so well of how demoralizing it would be to the troops currently serving in Iraq to have a timeine specified at this time. It sounded to me like Sen. Dodd was singularly riveted to "name a time" without considering all the ramifications of doing so. He, (Sen. Dodd) dredged up so many irrelevent topics, which seemed more confusing than helpful.

  • I wish Newt would run for President, he is so sharp

  • Dodd is such a dumb-ass! How does he keep getting re-elected? Hey Chris, the surge worked!

  • because he is Democrat and they are sheep who can't think for themselves without the help of Commi's like George Sorros telling them what to think they are all puppets who can't win a debate on ideals in a world of reality so they mudsling and use personall attacks to prove their nonpoint that someone gave them to have.If Obama can't win this year of all elections then they can't win!!I have no idea what they were thinking not nominating Clinton she would have wrapped it up for them.God they suk

  • Newt thinking......and Dodd spouting the party line. Great contrast.

  • Dodd cares more about hurting the President, because the President is a Republican, than what is best for the Nation. Dodd just got his ass handed to him by Gingrich. You have to have at least two intelligent people to have an intelligent debate. Gingrich is one, who is the other?

  • Newt for President in 2012!!!

  • Dodd is surprisingly naive about the nature of Islamofascism. His view is one of criminality, to be handled by international law. He would have been a supplicant to Munich in 1938.

  • Senator Dodd may be well intentioned but when faced with reason he sounds like an idiot.

  • as do all liberals.

  • They look a lot alike don't they?

  • Dodd is out of his league. A reasonably intelligent man who is a member of an incredibly partisan party.

  • Like him or not, Newt has very sound ideas.

  • Dodd is brilliant. It's really a shame that he gets no publicity.

  • Newt is a rational man, and unfortunately far left extremist democrats wont listen to what he has to say, however, I think if even semi-left democrats listen just once, they might find what he says appealing.

  • Run Newt, RUN!

  • The DIFFERENCE between these two men is that ONE of them (Newt) told his own party "screw you", while the other is seemingly unwilling and unable to stand against the wind. If you REALLY watch this video, you will see ONE man (Dodd) use "party line" rhetoric (approved and stamped by the party), while the other man essentially is saying "this is what I THINK".

  • One man (Dodd) is approaching this from - in his own words - a "PR battle" - while the other is approaching it from the notion of "how do we WIN".

    Neither man is endorsing the current strategy, but only ONE of them (Newt) is addressing it in YOURS and MY best interest. Dodd is just wetting his finger, and sticking it in the wind.

  • You're not wrong, but to be fair, Newt is not a working politician and is free to say what he likes. The system strangles Dodd into taking inconsistent positions. Either that or he's a moron if he thinks a withdrawal would bolster the world's opinion of us. Once you start a fight you can't be the one to call it quits. I think we all learned that in the schoolyard.

  • Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, we "all" didn't learn our lessons in childhood.

    My personal belief - as a former liberal - is that liberalism is like a 14 year old girl in a family. She's embarrassed by her dad, in constant fights with her mother, and can't stand to be around her brothers. Everything her family does is "ridiculous" or "unfair", until she goes off to college, and sees for herself how good her home-life was. At 22 she reconciles with her family. Liberals never reconcile.

  • Nuke Gingrich is the man. I hope he will decide to become the next president of the United States of America.

  • It's great to hear two consummate politicians arguing intelligently and without "yelling"! Nice work, Chris Matthews! Not just 30 second sound bytes!

  • How come every one of Newt's analogies are fundamentally flawed? He's smarter than that.

  • You're right. He simplifies the complex. The French did not invade the U.S. to free us from the British! Our problems with Columbia were not simple, and criticizing an ally is not the same (in that instance) as totally withdrawing support. However, on the big points he makes a lot of sense. Where he breaks down often is that he's too logical. He advocates national ID cards so that (and he's actually said this in these words) everyone can be tracked!

  • Gingrich is CFR

  • It's truely the sign of a great leader who can offer solutions to complex problems....Newt is the smartest "polotician" I have ever heard speak. He is very insightful, and speaks the truth....Here is a problem, he looks at many possible scenerios and finds the best solution! I think he is our only hope for REAL leadership. Newt, When you announce you candidacy, you will have my complete support!!!

  • Newt has sound reasoning, Dodd, however doesn't have any real answers, so does the typical Democrat debate,

    and changes the subject, without any real conclusion .

  • Wow... Dodd is pretty good in a debate, but he pales next to Gingrich.

  • What it really boils down to is many of our politicians want the money being spent in Iraq for them to spend on their pork.

  • My God, did you notice how Speaker Gingrich was polite to Senator Dodd? PEOPLE, LET'S UNITE AMERICA! LET OUR NATION RISE!

  • Gingrich 2008!

  • I consider myself bi-partisan when it comes to politics, and if anything I would be slightly left leaning. Newt is smart, Newt shouldn't be lumped in with neo-conservatives because he isn't. He is a very reasonable conservative.

  • As usual the Democrat can only point out problems with no solutions. Give up, run, they love to point out what we already know. Newt says we can... And has a plan for doing so. We need real leadership, because we can...

  • Chris Dodd is trying to pull a Biden. Not everyone can, though.

  • A BIDEN ISN'T THAT GOOD THOUGH.

  • You tell that to the women that suffered violence, to the families plagued by drug problems, to the people dying in Africa that could have been saved, to our soldiers in Iraq that would not be dying for a failed policy.

    If you talk to them and they'll tell you A Biden is as good as it gets.