Gingrich: Speaker battle showed ‘openness’ to American public rather than McConnell, ‘Pelosi dictatorship’

Newt Gingrich discusses last week’s public McCarthy-Republican Speaker battle, and why this type of “openness is really good”. The former Speaker of the House says that, “compared to the Pelosi dictatorship, this kind of openness is really good. And if we can sustain it, the challenge for Kevin McCarthy and the leadership is that trying to keep this open. Just the management process when you run the kind of program that Mitch McConnell likes, and Nancy Pelosi likes, when it comes down to four leaders sitting in a room, with their senior staff, and they make all the decisions and magically produce a 4700 page bill, that’s pretty easy to do. But when you go out to all 435 members, and then you start getting the committees involved, and the subcommittees, and you go through the actual process, that is exhausting. And I think that's part of what we're up against, is that people are going to now learn, this is what a real free country looks like.”