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In a couple hours, this entire interview should be available on Fox News online, rightscoop.com and/or on youtube, but let me try to summarize.

1) Personal baggage. Recommends people read his daughter’s article - Jackie Cushman Gingrich - on the “divorce papers to dying wife” tale, showing it is false. More generally, judge his my the totality of his life, he’s a 68 year old grandfather now, with good relations with his family. Very few people outside media ask him about the personal stuff.

2) Withdrawal from Iraq. We lost the “3rd Iraq war” (1 was desert storm, 2 was taking Iraq in 2003) because of civilian bungles; noncommittal as to what he would do to reverse Obama’s total withdrawal decision; future if Iraq now look bad now as Shia look to take revenge on Sunnis the minute America leaves; says we must look at both Iraq & Afghanistan in context of general war against militant Islam.

3) Greece. I didn’t understand it all, but looks like Newt is pessimistic that the latest deal will prevent collapse; looks like it just delays the inevitable. Suggests that radically different cultures Europe that resent each cannot be united under one currency, and that Greece should exit the Euro.

4) What caused financial bubble/recession? Newt says biggest cause, historically, in easy money Federal Reserve policy, which encourages crazy lending. 2nd biggest cause is firms that recommended that these bonds were OK (rating agencies? Other Wall St. analysts?)

5) Big supporter of Israel, should that country see fit to attack Iran, as Israel has the right to survive. Seeks to overthrow of Iranian regime, as a means to end nuclear threat; but should that not happens, not adverse (or at least not ruling out) a range of military options, covert & overt, by American to stop a nuclear threat.

6) No one can claim certainty either way on scientific issue of global warming; majority of scientist think global warming is real, but minority says No, and science is about truth, not consensus. In any case, opposed to government imposed cap & trade; seeks free-market solutions to environmental problems.

7) On individual health insurance mandate, admits he once supported it in the 90’s, as less coercive than HilaryCare; now opposes it on both policy & constitutional grounds. Says that Mitt still does not in principle oppose individual mandate.

Much more detailed discussion of many healthcare issue that I cannot accurately represent.

8) These are just a some highlights; maybe around 30% - 40% of the interview I don’t recall in detail in enough to summarize, or I don’t trust myself to transcribe correctly.

9) When the full video is up on some site, I’ll find it & post it both here & on a new thread.