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Gallup has been asking the world’s citizens the question, “How’s Your Life Going?” since 2006 and some concerning trends are starting to emerge. People are reporting more stress, sadness, physical pain, worry and anger than at any other point in the history of Gallup’s World Poll tracking.  Newt’s guest is Jon Clifton, CEO of Gallup.  His new book, Blind Spot: The Rise of Global Unhappiness and Ho...

Hardship is now equated with victimhood. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism are at the heart of American identity, and the disappearance of these ideals in our country leaves a deep moral and cultural vacuum in its wake. But the solution isn’t to simply complain about it. It’s to revive a new cultural movement in America that puts excellence first again. Newt’s guest is Vivek Ramaswamy....

Folds of Honor began when Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney was on a flight home from his second tour of duty in Iraq. Since its inception in 2007, Folds of Honor has provided nearly 44,000 life-changing educational scholarships to children and spouses of fallen or disabled military service members and first responders, totaling nearly $200 million dollars. Newt’s guest is Lieutenant Colonel Dan Roone...

In the United States, a highly organized intelligence system did not exist before World War II.  Our geographic isolation meant spying on our enemies or our allies was a relatively rare, often haphazard undertaking.  But as Nicholas Reynolds details in his new book, “Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence”, that national restraint gave way during the war to an extraordina...

In his new book, “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy”, former Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger looks at lives of six of the most influential leaders of the last century: Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher - all of whom he knew personally. Newt’s guest is Henry Kissinger. He served as national security advisor and secret...

On Tuesday, September 13, Queen Elizabeth met with the United Kingdom’s newly elected Prime Minister, Liz Truss.  Truss is the third female prime minister in the U.K.’s history and comparisons between her and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been made.  Then, on Thursday, the Queen passed away at her summer home, Balmoral, in Scotland .  She was 96 years old and had been Queen for 70 y...

President Biden’s recent announcement to forgive $10,000 dollars of student loan debt for single borrowers making less than $125,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000 a year, has made those with student loan debt grateful for the relief and those who have already paid off their loans and those who never went to college raising questions about fairness.  However, we need to better unders...

Newt is joined by members of his Inner Circle membership club and he discusses Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the election cycle in the month of August, in a town hall style meeting.  Become a member of Newt’s Inner Circle today at http://newtsinnercircle.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In April 2020, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now! Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos. He served alongside the U.S. Special Forces for over a decade. The message reached Nezam’s former commanding officer, retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann, and he sent out an SOS to a...

We’re only ten weeks away from the November midterm elections.  In this episode, we’re going through the U.S. Senate races in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Nevada and Arizona and talking about former President Trump’s impact on the races.  Newt’s guest is Matt Towery of Insider Advantage. Matt is a political analyst and pollster, television commentator, attorney and f...

In a whistleblower complaint obtained and published by The Washington Post this week, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its defenses against hackers, as well as its lax efforts to fight spam. The complaint has potential implications for Twitter’s legal...

It’s been 17 days since the FBI raided former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and there are still so many unanswered questions. On Thursday, August 18th, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled the Department of Justice must turn over the redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the unprecedented FBI search by this Thursday at 12 noon. Newt’s guest is John Solomon. He’s an award-wi...

The chief weapon deployed by the power establishment of Government, Big Media, Big Tech, and Wall Street against the Trump campaign and presidency was propaganda. Time and again, allegations from anonymous sources were disseminated by a partisan media, promoted by a dishonest Democrat Party leadership, and ultimately debunked when the facts surfaced. But by the time the truth came out, it was too...

This week, President Biden signed into law the “Inflation Reduction Act” which more than doubles the size of the Internal Revenue Service.  The Act will grow the IRS to nearly 160,000 total employees, despite a historic border crisis and record numbers of illegal aliens and deadly drugs pouring across the southern border. Newt’s guest is Mark Morgan, Visiting Fellow in the Border Security and Immi...

On Monday, August 8th, FBI Agents entered former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and seized what they determined were classified documents.  The raid was unprecedented.  In the 114 year history of the FBI, they have never gone after a former President of the United States.  Was the raid politically motivated?  What documents did President Trump have in his possession the FBI...

In August of 2021, America ended its longest war. As the world watched the shocking scene at the Kabul airport, Marine Major Tom Schueman fought—both behind the scenes and through a social media campaign—to get his friend and former Afghan interpreter, Zak, out of Afghanistan before he and his family were discovered by the Taliban.  In their new memoir, “ALWAYS FAITHFUL: A Story of the War in Afgh...

You’ve heard the “facts” before: surging sea levels are inundating the coasts. Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent. Climate change will be an economic disaster. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.  Newt’s guest is Dr. Steven E. Koonin.  He served as the Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy under President O...

In a letter dated June 23, 2022, the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School, Theodore Ruger, suggested imposing sanctions on Professor Amy Wax for showing “a callous and flagrant disregard for our University community.” Dean Ruger is seeking to ‘cancel’ her based on her opinions and views and how the University has reacted to them. Professor Amy Wax is currently the Robert Mundhe...

Grammy nominated, singer-songwriter John Ondrasik joins Newt to talk about his new single and video, “Can One Man Save the World?”  The song is inspired by the courage of President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine and asks the United States and the world to stand up for the core values of freedom and justice. The video was filmed on location on a Ukrainian battlefield with the Ukrainian Orchest...

In his new book, “The College Scam: How America’s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America’s Youth,” Charlie Kirk puts the college industry on trial with a ten-count indictment of why academia has lost all credibility. Newt’s guest is Charlie Kirk, the founder and president of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organizatio...

After the recent mass shootings in the last several weeks in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas and Highland Park, Illinois – the country has been challenged with how to put a stop to these mass shootings.  But first, we need to understand who these mass shooters are and why they decide to act.  Newt’s guest is Katherine Schweit.  She is an author, attorney, former Chicago prosecutor, and career FBI...

“The Road to the Midterms” series continues, looking more closely at what issues voters are talking about, leading into the midterm election. Newt’s guest is John McLaughlin. He is the CEO of McLaughlin and Associates, a leading research and polling firm. He has worked professionally as a strategic consultant and pollster for 40 years, winning some of the toughest elections in the United States. S...

As a businessman before being elected to the United States Senate from Indiana, Senator Mike Braun was the Founder and CEO of Meyer Distributing and he learned a thing or two about a balance sheet. He’s joining Newt to discuss, “The Braun Budget: A Plan to Defuse America’s Inflation Bomb and Unleash Prosperity,” which is his proposal to reduce our national debt of $30.58 trillion dollars over 10 y...

The new Puritans are here, and they’re coming for your lifestyle, your freedoms, and your fun. Why is the censorious left winning, and why does the future of the country rely on rejecting their tyrannical vision for tomorrow? Newt’s guest is Noah Rothman. His new book, “The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun” is out now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

After facing the White House press corps as White House press secretary under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003, Ari Fleischer has experienced first-hand just how biased and inaccurate the press can be in their reporting. And they have only become more partisan in recent years. Newt’s guest is Ari Fleischer.  His new book, “Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets Su...