FOX News contributor and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued that “the Iranians are not going to give in” and President Donald Trump needs a military solution to prevent their ability to strike the U.S.

HARRIS FAULKNER, FOX NEWS: Newt Gingrich is here, former House Speaker and Fox News political analyst. Great place to start. Let’s start there. Your reaction to what we’ve just watched? NEWT GINGRICH: Well, in the first place, the number of things the Trump administration is doing on health care is astonishing. And in fact, it’s so much nobody can cover it. And so across the board, they’re doing things from helping have children at a certain age to dealing with diabetes, to process on progress on Alzheimer’s, to working on cost. It’s really pretty astonishing. And that part of it was terrific. I think the most historically important section was when they talked about Iran. And that’s because I think the president, when he gets back from China, is going to have a very difficult choice. FAULKNER: Really? GINGRICH: You know, the Iranians are not going to give in. And so he’s either got to decide. And then he was very clear again today. He believes the Iranians having nuclear weapons is a mortal threat to American cities. Well, then, if he really believes that, he better have the Defense Department or the Department of War figuring out a campaign strategy that allows us to stop them from doing it. FAULKNER: Speaker, having led in all different sorts of situations, you’ve seen how it can go on Capitol Hill. How surprised or not are you that the War Powers Resolution the Democrats say they’re all bullish on and they want to call the powers of this president doesn’t get by even the Democrats? GINGRICH: I think when you look at an opponent who has for 47 years chanted death to America, the idea that you’re going to in any way look like you’re pro-Iranian probably stops two-thirds of the members from getting it. It’s raising the War Powers Act. I mean, if they raise it, are they really going to vote to stop the president of the United States from dealing with what he thinks? I mean, this will become a real issue this summer. I mean, you want to risk Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington? Or are you prepared to say, yeah, this is really tough stuff, but we cannot allow the Iranians to have nuclear weapons and missiles that can reach the U.S. And when you look at polling, when that becomes, I mean, people don’t like the war, they don’t like fighting, but when that becomes the issue, you get very big majorities that say, yep, you got to do something.

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