Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is in Silicon Valley today talking about his American Solutions organization, which recently opened an office in Palo Alto. I spent about thirty minutes on the phone with him speaking about a wide range of issues: the upcoming elections, tech issues in general and his own presidential aspirations. The […]

Former Speaker of the Home Newt Gingrich is in Silicon Valley this day speaking about his American Solutions organization, which recently opened an office in Palo Alto. I spent about thirty minutes on the phone with him speaking about a wide range of issues: the upcoming elections, tech issues in general and his own presidential aspirations.

The podcast and transcript is below. Last night I asked Twitter users what questions they’d like me to ask, and I added a few of the good ones to the interview.

I asked about his thoughts on the upcoming presidential elections. He clearly supports Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as McCain’s running mate, and also says there’s a good chance that Hillary Clinton will end up teaming with Obama on the Democrat side of things. How will those two teams stack up? He gives the Democrats a 60% chance of winning.

I also asked Gingrich about his own presidential aspirations: “The other twitter question is, When are you going to run for president? Please run for president.” Gingrich responds that he’s looking at a 2012 or 2016 run: “All I can state is that if they look at American Solutions and they look for the senate transformation, they’ll see the early stages of how you would write a second contract with America. If you get to the point it is clear enough and powerful enough, and if that point there’s a big enough demand whether it is in 2012 or 2016, I’ll get to the point where I would run. If my mission in life is to be the instructor for the next generation of politicians, then I am pretty happy doing that too. I’m going to wait and let the American people sort that out.”

Listen to the podcast here.

Transcript:

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